No forceful reasons (i.e., do what you want), but they're basically social media style parasites for people who haven't yet discovered pre-print repositories.
the argument seems to be basically that if Google hadn't had a dominant position they would not have had the money to make a new technology that was important for the current AI wave, and they should have the right to exploit this technology that they helped create - disregarding that in the American system this is what patents exist to enable.
Iran might be a sensible adversary in some reasoning, so that's out. How about exactly what they've said - a multi front war with Greenland, Panama and maybe Canada?
Leaving that aside, the US is hugely more powerful than Denmark, Panama and Canada combined. If could walk over all three right now - no need for increased military expenditure.
Iran has been preparing to fight the US, and will probably have fanatics who will fight on after defeat of the military creating an Iraq like situation - but AFAIK the direction of expenditure is wrong for that as preparing for that would require spending on counter insurgency and boots on the ground. There would also be lots of support from other countries in the region for that.
The ONLY country that is a peer rival to the US is China.
Other nuclear powers are probably able to deter the US, but only China can actually fight it in a conventional war.
this reminds me when I was at a course from a big software company in the late 90s, and we had problems setting up the system at first because some executive in Germany had named his machine localhost.
I think you misunderstand what "paradox" means. While it can mean "self-contradictory" it can also mean "contrary to one's expectation." Math uses both, but in very different contexts.
The contradiction is used in proof formulation, specifically to invalidate some claim. I don't think this is what you're implying.
The latter is what it contextually sounds like you're stating; things like the Banach-Tarksi Paradox. There's no self-contradiction in that, but it is an unexpected result and points to the need to refine certain things like the ZFC set theory.
I'd also stress that there are true statements which cannot be proven through axiomatic systems. The Halting Problem is an example of what Godel proved. But that's not contradictory, even if unexpected or frustrating.
part of why I'm asking is I've seen this spike on the last of the month before. It seems weird unless there are some crawlers that use the last day to gather everything up.
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