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I agree, it shouldn't be. Particularly as I can't imagine them removing reviews if it praised a feature that was subsequently removed or changed.

It will be. The best case might be valve turns into some form of co-op, it might keep some of that culture going.

I don't see MAGA surviving post Trump.

I'd say it will morph, and elements will remain in the republican party but not intact.

Trump is a huge magnetising force but without him, it doesn't really have anyone else. Sure people like Vance will try to further their own ambition but none of them will succeed in taking on the mantle and keeping it as the force is today.

Tokyo is one of the new cities, interesting. Is this the first non-US city waymo has tested in?

A few here have commented on different aspects, and they have their part to play but I agree with you, market fragmentation is the scale killer.

From an outside perspective it might appear like Europe is a true single market like the US but it isn't. Scaling to a European level isn't impossible but it is difficult. Some of that will just be difficult to do anything about, language, different cultures, etc. On the political side I'm sure there is plenty more the EU can do but I don't see the will.

I don't know if this is the answer but Fiskars is an old company, founded 1649, which is publicly listed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiskars

There is the expression in English, rubbing your/their hands with glee. All context dependent as for the physicality. Someone holding their hands tightly and rubbing them might be nervous for example. Someone fast moving them but not cold could be more joyous.

I don't agree with that framing. It reads more as saying what Google did was worse than it appears, not waving away.

Whatever your own opinion, Google did it out of what they perceived to be good intentions (and very likely business sense given a global audience for their products). Yet their intentions directly lead to unintended consequences. Google is being a baby with a gun in essence. Like he says, what if they decide to ask it to solve climate change and it decides to wipe humans out?

Obviously it's still very theoretical and can't do anything like that, but the point is more that perhaps Google doesn't have the culture necessarily to truly interrogate their actions.

While I'd say so, I don't think in the medium future it would have made much difference.

China wants ensure control over strategic elements anyway. I suspect that the west has started betting on China intending to primarily rely on domestic production. Possibly to preempt the future, avoid companies getting entangled further, and slow China down even if just marginally, the west has settled this policy. I say west but this is more a US thing, Europe was more reluctant to follow it.

And misery if done wrong. I have to temper my perfectionist temperament to avoid the self flagellation that comes with small failings.

I wouldn't classify that as wholly accurate. Yes there is a substantial rural community but that's quite true for lots of Ireland. Letterkenny in Donegal has a sizeable tech sector for a small place although one with an unfortunate road network far too small for the traffic it gets. Internet was pretty standard when I lived there, nothing to write home about but not slow. Amenities aren't going to be extensive of course so if you're used to a city you'd find it sparse.

The other aspect is, while Donegal is more remote to the rest of the Republic, Derry in Northern Ireland is a city right beside it and is generally considered part of the overall area. North west that is, it's not within Donegal itself.

I can't speak for the islands though.

That appears to show that the volume has returned but not its price.

"The revenue is still down 43% from a year ago, the IEA said, as Russia is forced to sell its barrels to a more limited pool of customers who can negotiate greater discounts."

But they aren't selling at their original price, Russia is now selling to those partners at a reduced price.

At the very least it reduces the amount of funds Russia has at its disposal for the war.

While it might not have been communist, Korea certainly was oppressive when it built the chaebols which did involve a fair bit of government management.

Being from Europe, my perspective might be as biased as American fatalism but as the article says I think the key most important aspect is lacking a true single market and I'm sceptical of us ever achieving it.

The more we fall behind the more we'll cling to tradition and avoid further integration, a continuous cycle.

I took a look at toolbox just now and seen they've only just got symmetry and stencils last month, which would make me worried about what other aspects they are currently missing.

There is a perpetual license for substance painter on steam, which although updates are only for that years version, is still permanent. Not ideal I know (I'm stuck with a minor bug) but it's half the price of toolbox for an industry standard tool.

I think the democratic aspect can be overemphasised. The Weimar Republic lasted only 15 years and lurched from crisis to crisis. It was rife with political violence, several attempted uprisings, military with questionable loyalty to this new government, economy in taters, so politically unstable that rule by decree had effectively become the norm.

Democracy didn't prevent his rise, but democracy was barely existent.

What is more disappointing to me is the amount of general unpleasant comments under this tweet. I know there will be a bias in that this will be mostly those that follow him but even still, it doesn't give me much hope.

There is an demo example that someone released recently of machine learning used to mimic ray tracing. https://immortal-ray.itch.io/ai-path-tracing-tech-demo

Fuchsia was announced around the time of the Google Vs Oracle case if I remember correctly. They said it had been in development for years but I guess the assumption of the public announcement was that it was directed at oracle.

Even customisable like your character's appearance. This was one of my criticisms of Fallout 4, the voice actors weren't bad, it just didn't fit very well some player characters.

Tech naming has become a pet peeve of mine. Too many common nouns are being used.

Something like coffeescript is at least distinct but then you get a hundred things that will be called something like apple juice, based on some in-joke connected to a stack that will be called orchard.

Let's see

1. I think the electronic component shortage will not be as bad but still not normalised. 2. Europe faces another severe heat wave in summer 3. Russian-Ukrainian war will have Russia attempt another breakthrough in earlish 23 but largely face another standstill, both start easing their language around requirements for peace. 4. Europe will continue rearmament, possible some nascent attempts at more unified supply buying 5. Twitter is going to slow it's pace of policy changes, Musk will eventually move aside but with tight reins, Twitter will more or less look much like it did prior to his take over. Maybe attempts at an everything app, but unlikely and expect failures in it anyway. 6. Meta will face disappointing sales of vr headsets at Christmas. Zuckerberg will be facing greater pressure to act on the losses, possibly spin off the VR. 7. The Microsoft Activision deal will face serious threat, will be a general horn for increased action by regulators across the board on mergers and acquisitions. 8. Increased competitiveness between OpenAI, Google, Facebook and Microsoft towards creating a viable AI product, good for us, it should keep prices reasonable.

He was but he wasn't a front line soldier, as far as I know his role was initially bureaucratic, then later operations planning.

It seems odd then that nothing has changed. They've had 12 years governing (yes some in a coalition), likely for another 2 years.

I could buy not doing something for a year or two but at this point I'm more inclined to believe that it's deliberate. A nice way to stoke up a bit vote galvanising, "oh look at what the woke lefty is doing now, look over there and ignore the economy".

Why would they be cutting the up-close footage of people in the crowds not wearing masks if it was just about assembly?

You can still see that crowds are not being spaced out from normal angles of the match, they would still know that restrictions aren't in place for those abroad.

Does a sermon instantly make it bad? Is Captain America: Winter Soldier a sermon? To me its a pretty clear stance against drone strikes and general over-securitizing(?) Of society, and I thought that was fantastic movie and message.

Let's go further back to any of the old Disney films, came from fables, moral tales of old. In fact what piece of media outside of the most boring and bland ever are not a tale to learn, think or expand your thoughts? Is that not a sermon?

I'd say the hate is proportional to his own PR. Musk is clearly someone who likes the limelight. Plenty of CEOs fly under the radar of the public, any negativity or mistakes also fly under the radar or get rolled into "Company X did this bad thing".

In essence, the sell off and loosening of financial regulation expanded the credit but where do you go from there. You can't resell off, there is limits to how far you can loosen regulation. In fact her tax cuts meant more borrowing, especially given she ruled out budget cuts (perhaps not in real terms as inflation was essentially cutting it anyway). Even the remnants of Thatcher's government considered it ludicrous.

Is the usual suspects her party colleagues? Feels like it's almost becoming a tradition in the conservative party at this point.