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All the air defense and much of the artillery aid has been state of the art. Ukraine benefits from the massive surveillance and targeting capabilities from air and space - also state of the art. The long range missiles given have been current generation.

Not to mention that cutting-edge drone based warfare has quickly become Ukraine's most effective staple.

Sure, some of the tanks and IFVs are older, but overall it's not really fair to say Ukraine is mostly using old weapons or that it's fighting Russia alone. The total financial value of external aid to Ukraine per year has been rivaling Russia's total annual defense budget.

Ukraine to this day still gets most of its gas and oil imports from Russia and also continues to transit Russian gas through pipelines to Europe.

As a tool people will use it as any other tool, by experimenting, testing, tweaking and iterating.

As a scientific theory for fundamentally explaining the nature of the universe, maybe it won't be as useful.

>these are anti-competitive practices

So why can't the solution be that the DOJ files antitrust lawsuits? Like every other antitrust issue. It really doesn't make sense to create a new set of rules when there already exists antitrust regulations.

There exists already anti-trust laws to deal with monopolies.

Why does there need to be another new law that, instead of punishing the monopolistic companies, gives them the right to maintain their monopolies as long as they promise not to discriminate on filtering their traffic?

Why can't the government pursue these literal monopolies using the DOJ with existing laws?

If anti competitive corporations are the problem, why not pursue these monopolistic companies using the existing anti-trust laws? Why does there need to be a new law with the FCC involved?

And if the producers from other highly polluting countries don't pay, we send in the military?

Businesses benefit because they can find customers.

Responsive email frameworks are a thing, like MJML.

>Globally, trust in AI companies has dropped to 53%, down from 61% five years ago.

This trust survey doesn't really make sense given the fast-moving pace of AI development.

There was no OpenAI and LLM proliferation five years ago, so at best this survey is only talking about very surface level generic sentiment regarding unspecified/undefined AI.

No, you see, only the bad parts of our current society are attributable to capitalism. /s

The bulk of the short article is a set of performance benchmarks comparing Magika to TrID and others.

>Google should in theory have the same play store revenue motivation to hide PWAs, right?

Google in theory has a financial motivation to make their competitor Apple look like the bad actor.

>Are you sure this isn't a tech industry viewpoint? I don't know anyone who knows what the difference between an app and a PWA is. I don't think I've seen anyone outside of the tech industry with a PWA active.

The more important context is the legal one, not what laypeople think.

Apple is presenting PWAs as viable alternatives to the app store in a legal context: https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/Apple%20Pty%20Limited%2...

Tables only ever "worked" when compared to the poor implementation and browser support of the alternatives of its time.

In today's web landscape using tables to center categorically fails to work in many scenarios that will work with flexbox.

OP referenced North America, not California.

Exactly the point I was hoping to read. Well said.

Rampant fraud and scams are what's at the root of the "negative discussion".

>fires are more and more common and more and more devastating

Maybe some individual fires are more devastating, but the statistics don't really bear out the "more and more common" narrative.

According to the US forest service, the 5 year average for both number of fires and acreage burned is lower than the 10 and 15 year averages.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/fire/wofambrief/firest...

Same story in Canada where the number of fires and total burned acreage has been decreasing slightly over the past four decades.

https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/ha/nfdb

The network effect is very strong.

>The eye tracking driven input method which was seen as holy grail turns out to be annoying after a while because people don't naturally always look at what they want to click on.

This has always been the case and this technology has been around for a while. I'm surprised Apple would have chosen to use it for user input.

>an economic crash that corrects this kind of stuff

This is exactly how Bernie Madoff was caught.

That doesn't really fit with my experience in Canada, especially given that Canadian law has robust freedom of expression provisions in the charter of rights and freedoms.

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl/chec...

>Let's invert it - why should I just make my boss more money forever while I get the same cut?

It sounds like you're assuming OP is getting a small cut. What if his salary is generous and there's a profit sharing bonus pool every year?

The idea that in every career one needs to be continuously promoted to new positions doesn't make a whole lot of sense in my opinion.

I guess the financial analysts saying similar things are also dumb?

>This is all "a potential nightmare situation for GM and Ford," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note to clients this month. Any threat to supply would also inevitably diminish year-end production and inventory, chipping away at holiday season deals.

>Tesla, which does not use union labor, is situated to benefit from any work stoppage at competitors, especially at a time when the industry is pushing harder into electric vehicles, Ives said.

>"Tesla does not face similar issues which speaks to the complexity both GM and Ford face going up against the EV leader Tesla, while trying to satisfy rising union demands," Ives said. "If a strike happens then ultimately production and the EV roadmap could be pushed out into 2024 and delays would be on the horizon at this crucial period for GM, Ford, and Stellantis."

https://www.businessinsider.com/uaw-strike-gm-ford-nightmare...

From Wikipedia - Tesla is paying below-industry salaries.

>Despite allegations of high injury rates, long hours, and below-industry pay, efforts to unionize the workforce have been largely unsuccessful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_and_unions

Analysis of recent UAW strike.

>This is all "a potential nightmare situation for GM and Ford," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note to clients this month. Any threat to supply would also inevitably diminish year-end production and inventory, chipping away at holiday season deals.

>Tesla, which does not use union labor, is situated to benefit from any work stoppage at competitors, especially at a time when the industry is pushing harder into electric vehicles, Ives said.

>"Tesla does not face similar issues which speaks to the complexity both GM and Ford face going up against the EV leader Tesla, while trying to satisfy rising union demands," Ives said. "If a strike happens then ultimately production and the EV roadmap could be pushed out into 2024 and delays would be on the horizon at this crucial period for GM, Ford, and Stellantis."

https://www.businessinsider.com/uaw-strike-gm-ford-nightmare...

The parent asked for a correlation.

It's a fact that the large automaker unions like UAW are not present in Tesla operations. It's also a fact that BYD has no North American operations and obviously UAW doesn't operate in China.

Do you think the presence of UAW makes a car manufacturer more or less cost efficient?

>Tesla, BYD, and others don't have these issues because they built their EV manufacturing from scratch and have been optimizing how that works for the last ten years.

The fact that Tesla and BYD don't have large, entrenched, auto unions to deal with is the biggest factor in keeping costs low.

Van rentals are basically the cheapest vehicle to rent.

Any so-called "hits-based" industry, like entertainment, is at the make or break mercy of consumer whims. Technology is not going to change that anytime soon.

TechCrunch doesn't mention the interest rate hikes, but I'd say that's the primary underlying reason for the layoffs.