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I was in India in December 2024 and visited three states. I experienced no problem in using my credit card. For smaller amounts I simply used cash. Altogether I spent less than Rs 1,000 in cash mostly for tea. In all other places a credit card was fine.

How is the "Multiple" column calculated? Is it wealth created "For Others" / "Self"? I can't get to that number for anyone if this is the formula. And Elon Musk's mutliple looks downright wrong if he created $357B for others and $917B for himself with a multiple of 1.4×

It sounds more like they were kept in check at Apple and when they left they showed their true color

I know the US gets a lot of flak due to the current administration's policies and actions. Despite that it is still the best country for immigrants with the caveat 'Assuming the immigrant makes every effort to integrate (learning the language, respecting local people/customs etc)'

Here is my anecdote. I was in Germany recently and met with a South American woman. We briefly talked about our immigrant experiences. She is now a German citizen married to a German man. However, she said she can't identify as a German because nobody made her feel like one. By contrast, when I became an American citizen, my American friends (white and hispanic) insisted that they attend the naturalization ceremony.

The best deals are always in shithole places /s

There was an episode of Fixer Upper where Chip and Joanna helped their carpenter buy a house for 15K. The neighborhood was dystopian. Presumably people were using the house for shooting practice as its one side was entirely bullet riddled.

Fable has been a hit or miss for me. It fixed a couple of my Github repos with specialized R packages for uncommon econometrics methods where Opus 4.8 had failed. However, for many apparently mundane requests, it just reverted to Opus.

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Just to be sure, even Meirro is available only through Click Clack

Reminds me of another knock off Apple Studio Display by Kuycon.[1] This is pretty much a China play. There are a lot of reviews of Kuycon display on YT and people seemed to be happy with it. I think the only issue some people mentioned is that the brightness is quite low (500 nits). Meirro has a peak brighness of 750 nits. If that's acceptable to you, it looks like a good monitor.

[1] https://kuycon.us/monitors/G32P/buy

Edit: One Reddit thread mentioned that kuycon.us is not their official website. They sell it through Click Clack.

https://clickclack.io/collections/kuycon-monitor?srsltid=Afm...

I mean he will switch sides and vote with Republicans. Just to be sure, it's not my opinion.

Let’s see if he wins and then hold the line. A lot of people on Bluesky are worried that he will be another Fetterman

Is any prominent Democratic politician calling for the SCOTUS reforms?

Maybe the county could just ask its employees to work from home so that its office electricity bill goes down to zero. A win-win solution!

I love California and occasionally think about moving there. But the cost of living considerations bring me back to reality. Despite all its problems, it's difficult to leave Texas due to the low cost of living (and HEB!)

It's unfortunate indeed.

I've said this before and I will say it again. I don't see any problem in allowing Chinese cars in the US if China manufactures them here under a 49:51 joint venture with an American company.

Also, I'm not sure how long CCP will keep on bankrolling their car companies. They are now competing with each other pushing the profits lower. Over the last year BYD stock is down 40%. Take a look at their auto manufacturers index. It peaked in November 2021 losing about 47% since then (https://www.solactive.com/index/DE000SLA0CA9/)

> China increasingly resembles the competitive capitalist system Americans were taught to admire, while the US appears to embrace the controlled “kickback” economy we were told to fear.

Spot on

> Look at the AWS Prime ssds available

Where?

> Haugh was fired in April of this year after far-right activist Laura Loomer met with President Trump.

What kind of sick joke is that

Your comment reminds me of a techbro blog I came across a few years ago. He was an influential "data scientist" on Twitter with CS rather than stats/econometrics background. In this post, he literatlly used linear regression on a categorical dependent variable. He just relabeled the categories 1, 2, 3, etc. Worse, when people pointed out the problem to him, he couldn't understand what was wrong about it and started pushing back.

It's been a while so I don't remember any details. I don't go on Twitter/X as much as I used to in those days.

Thanks

That's great. Thank you!

Can you recommend any US based cloud providers?

I couldn't reproduce this issue so maybe they have fixed it.

On a related note, could you include screenshots in the post?

I find it funny that on some of the ICE trains they have a quiet cabin. To me that’s basically the entire train!

The author is from Germany and still complaining about Americans interacting with each other less in public? I've been to Germany so many times and almost never seen anyone speaking to strangers on trains/buses/trams. Once I was on a train from Cologne to Frankfurt with a colleague and we were talking nonstop. After a while we realized it was just us talking and probably disturbing everyone else!

People go to extreme lengths to avoid talking to strangers on public transport even in developing countries. Earphones are just so effective.

Good to know!

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