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I don't see Apple giving users the option to upgrade their Mac Minis to third party storage solutions.

Unrelated comment.

I've seen the M1 Mac Mini teardown, and this new model has retained the same footprint as its Intel predecessor despite it looking like much less space was needed. I really look forward to a much smaller mac mini version in the future.

I'm an energy investor (primarily focused on renewables), and I couldn't disagree more. I could go on an on with examples of how government intervention has created busts across the renewables space for the past 20 years, and has thrown down the drain billions of tax payer money. I'd like to keep governments out of something that works without them.

That $5bn will get amortised either way, used or not used by employees.

What I can assure you is that with ~$200bn in the bank account, this a drop in the bucket, and has not affected any remote work decision.

Thought:

- Companies that now realised that remote schemes works for them, will push for that scheme to remain, with the aim of reducing their fixed costs (office rent, utilities, insurance, etc).

- This eliminates a big chunk of fixed costs... as most are shifted to the employees.

- If authorities/employees start demanding that part of those costs are covered by the company, companies will push to get avoid work-from-home schemes, as they will want more control over those expenses...

I'm sure that there are other unintended consequences, such as higher rents, but who knows.

Many of Google's recent market practices feel very much like those of Microsoft in the late 90's, early 2000's. Producing unappealing products, and trying to use their influence to (unsuccessfully) deter users from switching to comeptition.

Search is to Google what Windows was/is to Microsoft then, their core business, but all other efforts/products/services seemed fringy.

It's the Greek politicians who put the country in a life or death situation. Greece has had +100% of debt to GDP for decades, spending that debt on god knows what.

It's 2012-2015, Greece is about to default on that very debt, and asks responsible countries to guarantee Greek debt... and they want the Eurogroup to guarantee it because they want to issue more debt! Issue more debt! A country that is unable to repay it's current debt!

Varoufakis, playing with people's lives and futures...

You're mixing your views and opinions with facts.

All I can tell you is that our legal/compliance team did reach out to authorities.

As you can imagine, I won't entertain your ideology discussion when I'm refering to facts.

We did.

The Mondragon Group already had some history of financing terrorism(1), but we didn't know affiliates outside the Basque Country could be involved. Ecotecnia was based in Barcelona.

(1): http://www.interior.gob.es/noticias/detalle/-/journal_conten...

Comment history? Left wing groups terrorists? Please enlighten us with your research.

I wouldn't hold Mondragon Corporation to a very high standard. Back in 2005-06 the company I worked in was intending to acquire Mondragon's wind turbine business (Ecotecnia). This was finally acquired by Alstom.

During the due diligence we saw the high level of political corruption, and terrorism financing Mondragon was involved in. Very distrubing. Once we saw this, we stopped looking at the acquisition.

Deceiving headline, here's the real transaction:

   > Berkshire is lending Lee $576 million at a 9% annual rate for the purchase and to refinance other debt.

Indeed, and remember to add to that the additional £350 million a week to the NHS. It'll be better than living in Shangri-La

Your're mixing a non-GHG emmitting technology with waste. Apples and oranges.

If the EU doesn't the UK will

Vilaweb... one of the many propaganda outlets for the pro-independence Catalan government.

Next on Hacker News, articles from Fox.com, Breitbart News, and more...

It will simply be refinanced, like all other debt with sizeable balloon payments. The underlying problem is not the so much the maturity, which can create liquidity issues, but the continued use of debt to finance government deficits.

Page 6.

Page 9 is central administrative costs, and then, if we put your private expenditure figure into perspective: in 2010 (highest of the series) private costs were €82m vs €69,000m total healthcare costs in 2010. That is a 0.12%

Feel free to share with us another official source that shows that this increase in expenditure is a result of capital going to private players. There is a big difference between "seeing a pattern" and "believing in a pattern".

There is an argument made towards "rampant privatisation", i.e. a transfer of a business from public to private control. However, data shows that government expenditure has increased above CPI, the driver of prices (not an output like "GDP per capita", which for some reason you refer too as an economic driver of sorts). I cannot observe, from official data the I link to, a slow down in public healthcare investment by the Spanish government, and definitely not an increase in expenses due to the Government paying private healthcare players. Feel free to dive into the data and indicate otherwise. I'm not here for armchair politics.

Please refer to the url provided, it's there for a reason

Please be a bit more serious, change rate between 2002-2016 is closer to 30%. If you want to make up numbers and conclusions be my guest. I'm not here to play Trump-mathematics

1. the numbers are government healthcare expenditure, not private healthcare expenditure

2. CPI won't change a the bottom line take-away. Feel free to run the numbers.

Rampant privatization?

Spain's public healthcare expenditure[1] was:

    38.552 €bn in 2002, and
    66.678 €bn in 2016 (latest official year),

this is a 73% increase in 14 years.

On other hand while population was

    41.31 m in 2002, and
    46.48 m in 2016,

A 13% increase. This is a 53% net increase in expenditure per capita. I'm curious to know what "rampant privatization" to you means, as government/public expenditure has by no means slowed down, quite the contrary.

In my opinion, healthcare expenditure is out of control. But that is a completely different debate.

[1] http://www.mscbs.gob.es/en/estadEstudios/estadisticas/inforR...

Just look at WeWork's WEWORK COMP. 18/25 REGS bond. Total junk. Can't wait for an economic slowdown in 2019/20, and see WeWork default on its debt holders.

That is because your are looking in the wrong place. Please refer to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. In the JCPOA sanctions are regulated.

As long as Iran agrees to nuclear restrictions in exchange for the financial benefits of sanctions relief (as agreed in the JCPOA), the other members should be safe from a legal standpoint.

Additionally, the EU Blocking Statute [1] came into force, mitigating any sanctions that the US might impose due to companies trading with Iran.

[1] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-4805_en.htm

You said it: non-arbitrary

RoW: Good luck defending arbitrary behaviour in front of a court

In my book 135 km/h for a car designed for the city is fast

I agree. However, from the reviews I've been reading from all three Tesla models is that their built quality is far from their Audi, BMW and Mercedes equivalents.

I guess that what I'm trying to say is that the Model 3 value proposition is that it is an EV, but quality/finishes it is yet to match others. So then, if I want an EV, I'd go for a Zoe from a value for money perspective.