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A lot of people do though by looking at the current stock price.

When the updates are boring people complain that they don't change anything. When they take risks (touchscreen on laptop, foldable phone) people complain about the new stuff.

I like that they do this. If it doesn't catch on, they will change back, like with the touch bar.

Thanks. So the GPU is worse! And the memory bandwidth is smaller.

Ah good point. Is there somewhere a comparison between M6 and M1 Pro?

Mine has a broken fan so I have to run it in slow mode and it's still working fine.

And it's still $1999. That's impressive. I paid the same for the M1 Pro in 2021.

> Mines and oil and gas wells are huge wealth concentrators.

Only if the oil price remains high. If the world, um, situation stabilizes we will go back to having a glut of oil and hence low prices. Lower than ever I would guess because of the current massive transition to EVs.

Asphalt shingles. As usual the US is building cheap and light and these things don't last.

Same in France. You also sign that whatever excess you're producing goes to the grid for free.

We're getting further from the subject, but who cares.

I keep explaining to boomer members of my family that things were not good during the communists. It just seems bad now because of the news and social media. They are better off than 90% of the people in their country, but they don't perceive it.

Anyway, I think people who have been "civilized" for a long time would also take a long time to turn uncivilized. Which might mean never, since they would also do their best (as a tribe) to get out of poverty quickly.

> If the rich countries were to become suddenly poor, the crime and violence situation would also get worse.

I don't think it's that clearcut. There's a cultural DNA. Folks behave a certain way then when they grow up their children behave the same because that's how they saw at home. Principles and basic morals are not enforced at home etc.

I'm basically arguing that nature is less important than nurture, even if nature might indeed be worse than we think.

Google has an army of salespeople.

Incident is an understatement. I haven't had mobile data for at least 5 hours. And Orange is supposed to be the better provider.

The healthcare is quite good and cheap but you have to be in the system. This means you have to have a family doctor and to have already seen the main specialists that you need. Then you can get an appt within days (usually by calling the secretary directly rather than on doctolib).

But yeah dermatology is in particularly high demand for some reason.

> AI as a business will be 10x larger than it is today within the next 20 years.

I would argue it will be 10x in 2-3 years the way things are going.

Turning right seems hard.

Yes you get a 3rd, 4th, 5th opinion! Until you understand what the consensus seems to be. This is serious stuff.

Do you get any discounts on parking?

The Ami is very popular around here. Lots of high-schoolers driving them since they can do it without a (proper) permit.

This is the main thing of Jessie Inchauspé. One of her many videos on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEEUrIQ_3O4

It sounds like that's besides the point. High res scans already exist. They just wanted to make a point it seems.

Doesn't load at all for me.

Is he running for office in November?

Had to read it twice lol. The syllable that is stressed makes a huge difference in some words.

Judging by other comments here this model has been available internally for a few weeks. So the public release is likely imminent. The timing of the announcement might have to do with end of quarter for some obscure reason.

Jevon's paradox is the most likely answer. Tons of stuff to do.

They are playing a longer-term and more enterprise-oriented game.

I don't live in Romania so I don't know the details but that probably makes me more objective. I think the situation is better for the future than it was in the 90s. In hindsight, back then it took many years for things to get better. Whereas now with so much upheaval in the world Romania is well-positioned to keep growing.

> I lived through the 1990s here in Romania, the future does not look bright in the slightest.

Why? Inflation was much higher then. There were almost no highways. Very little foreign tourism. Towns were ugly. Industry was barely functioning. Etc. Things are way better now. Just because Romania has high debt is no reason to be pessimistic. Everybody has high debt.

A cultured bureaucrat.