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> It’s not like Brazil doesn’t have its own FDA, which is much more strict than the US one, from what I know.

Unless we are talking about pesticides, where Brazil is effectively dumping grounds for substances banned in EU. Every time some pesticide is forbidden in Europe, brazilian regulators are happy allowing local agribusiness import it by the ton in fire sales: https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/10/14/export-grade-pois...


> The Dollar is antifragile.

Apparently the guy that invented the concept disagrees: https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1914633020671246352


Ok, good for Taleb, he made a good investment potentially, but gold increasing in value relative to the dollar doesn't make it the reserve currency. Being used in transactions makes it the world currency. Otherwise, nvidia stock would be the new world reserve currency.

> Long after humans spread out across the stars, maybe the perfect human consuming predator will emerge.

It already emerged. Corporations.


> It already emerged. Corporations.

It's more like people are corporations' gut bacteria that are always in dire health because the organism loves junk food of all kinds so much and sometimes is doing drugs too.


> How many IPs have they stolen from universities and companies across the world?

As it's often said, "There is no honor among thieves":

https://www.nber.org/digest/mar18/confiscation-german-copyri...


> Let's hope those chicken never come home to roost.

Bare minimum it gives chinese tech suppliers a great pitch to convince buyers to choose their products over US suppliers. Even if theirs are also full of backdoors, at least they have no history of taking advantage of them to kidnap heads of state far away.


> at least they have no history of taking advantage of them to kidnap heads of state far away.

Ha. Someone else wrote:

> USA is only willing to fight very asymmetrical wars.

I say:

> China is only willing to kidnap defenseless people


I recently installed and spent some weeks testing the past release, Mageia 9. Nice system. I'm currently learning R, one thing I noticed is that mandriva-derived distributions are some of the few that have RStudio packaged in the repositories. When LMDE 7 was released I installed it instead, as the package versions in Mageia 9 were quite old, but once Mageia 10 is released I intend to go back.

With RAM prices skyrocketing, I wonder if we'll see a ressurgence of 32 bit operating systems as mitigation against LLM-driven scarcity.

> mypy won't make your Python faster

Mypyc will do. See https://blog.glyph.im/2022/04/you-should-compile-your-python...


> I installed Mandrake Linux (Now Mandriva? if it’s still around)

Mandriva doesn't exist anymore, but it left descendants, OpenMandriva, Mageia and ROSA, IIRC.


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