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Honestly not sure those are great examples. E.g. Impossible Foods is not an innovator in any sense, just a 'startup' with an average vegan product that got $$ for marketing and pretends to be premium. I'm happy that they got mainstream attention and (again) showed that vegan/vegetarian food can be diverse but I don't see them applying any revolutionary tech - everything they do has been standard food industry practices for decades.

I don't know enough about the others, but there are many e.g. cosmetic/skincare startup that take advantage of cheap production facilities to produce basic creams/whatever with standard ingredients and add marketing spin to pretend it's something special.

My big mistake was to use 2FA - more precisely authenticator.

Around the same time my old phone broke and i had to change the password.

I must have mistyped the password while changing it in both fields and since then have never managed to re-access the account. I have old passwords, backup email, previous contacts, phone, ... But i cant restore the password because i hadnt yet set up authenticator on my new phone.

My fault? Probably. But that there's no way out, no option beyond the horrible restore wizard - that's Google's irresponsibility. How many millions must have lost access to their gmail accounts by now?

If you can't prove the other stuff (easily) you have to have a means to get them on a formality. That's why there's so many questions on the immigration form.

See the difference of partners in Afghanistan vs Iraq.

You have some good points on your list, but there are also vast misunderstandings and you clearly have preconceptions of what is 'best' based on your own preferences. To just mention a few

- the RMB is indeed in use in a number of Asian countries as an informal second currency.

- USD as global reserve currency is strong but on a downward trend. In some parts of the world the Euro has become more important and the largest holder of USD is China. If they truly wanted to harm the US they could dump these in big tranches - without this unique advantage a lot of US politics (in particular the eternal debt growth) simply don't work any longer.

- from a European perspective I have to say it does not look like the US is very democratic. A two-party state effectively run by the wealthy for their own profit, with a hundred million in an economically precarious condition with not even real access to healthcare.

I do think the last years have shown that the US too is extremely fragile, just as you diagnose for the PRC.

Maybe a stupid question, but do you know whether it is really true that it only got publisher due to his relationships? I can imagine some professors also have an interest to convince students that they are 100% in their power (or at least that the student needs them). It might well be that you got published for quality and he wasn't really needed but lies/makes a bit of a show so that you will add him as co-author or similar.

Can someone explain to me how this works? Weeks ago they had a backlog of several thousand orders, getting a plane takes years of waiting.

Airbus says they still habe a queue of 7000(!) planes to deliver, with only a few cancellations.

https://www.airbus.com/aircraft/market/orders-deliveries.htm...

How is there a need to fire people if there is still so much demand?

TL;dr the European Commission proposes a 750bn Euro rescue fund - bigger than the GDP than Poland, Sweden or Belgium - to help countries finance the recovery. Many have described this as Europe's 'Hamilton Moment' as it's the first joint debt issuance for the EU countries.

This sounds great for the kids. Does anyone have experience of the combination Wacom/similar with a (cheap) Chromebook?

It's more nuanced. If it's in a public place and not invasive (eg taken through a street window) you have little case to get anything taken down. So no stranger appearing in your Disneyland pictures can force you to delete them.

Then the other group members will wonder why you get stuff free while they have to pay, or they might doubt why you chose that particular pub. If you really need a physical reward for doing something you enjoy it would make more sense to agree a deal with the pub, like "second drink on the house" for the whole group.

I guess they expect the big money in being either the host of all that or the trusted point linking hosts and clients.

I'm not looking forward to the future where Microsoft knows when I read which email and puts content (and later ads).

The thing is the developer already knew they were stolen and resold. So this is likely just a tiny sample of what might be much higher numbers that go undetected. The burden of proof in their model is basically on the developers.

180b/0.5 = each user (including inactive ones) worth 1$/day?

i see four scenarios:

1. insanity 2. lies about numbers 3. massive invasive data siphoning and thats actually the basis for the valuation 4. tiktok now has a license to vast raw video and personal data that users granted them the right to use and resell in perpetuity. They obviously don't just keep edited but also raw data, videos never published, maybe even entire camera rolls. So much data held by a company sheltered behind the Chinese state's protection from legal repercussions.

or of course all of the above.

Different times and rules. Britain robbed it's colonies and exploited their people. Doesn't mean the British museum would still do this today (but I'd also not exclude it). In contrast some countries like Germany have started actively bringing cultural heritage back to its home (often against the institutions currently holding them).

not Germany specific, but 'universal jurisdiction' is a thing:

https://cja.org/what-we-do/litigation/legal-strategy/univers...

I can't find much information on this in English, but I believe it was Spain that also put in place an explicit law that you can use Spanish courts for human rights cases that have no very direct link to Spain.

Just got "girlfriendtape.com", can't decide between revenge porn and amateur porn.

The article is not about domain trading. It's about letting yourself be inspired and pushed by a domain name to try some new venture.

no they just anounced this today

It does not seem as if they will give others access to the data, rather advertisers can go directly to NYT and choose which segments to target.

this seems like a more than reasonable approach - actually relevant ads, not pedsonalised ads.

Have a look at the concept "self-compassion”. A good book is e.g. " The mindful art of self-compassion".

But what are those based on? Do you really need to reenter/recalculate them each year?

Countries like Estonia prefill the tax filing and they say somewhere above 90% of people don't need to make any changes when they file. Most people file within the first day and get their rebate within less than a week. If you had no significant changes (eg opened foreign bank accounts or sjmjlsr) you likely have no need to change anything. There's little fraud possible as data gathered is good and even less mistakes are possible. No one spends a day on their taxes and few need tla tax advisor for regular filing. This is increasingly common across at least Europe but sadly in few countries does it reach such sophistication yet.

Are you sure the US system works that well?

Yes 5G masts are the cause of covid and need to be all burned down. Vaccines causr autism. Bringing your kids to the doctor is harmful, give them bleach anemas.

No harm in spreading lies and absurd conspiracies, right?

Wait until you get into the dystopian world of clips on YouTube targeted at children.

The problem is that they have to act across borders.

Examples:

In the EU you don't need to filter pornography the same way as in the US. In the US you don't need to filter personal information (eg individuals' faces) the same way as in the EU.

Or does Google need to ban insults of the Thai king?

Which legislation should apply? Already now China has split the global internet in a China and non-China part...

What should strava do? Ask each country in the world which areas they want censored?(nuclear power plants, parliament buildings, boarding schools for rich kids, ...?)

fundamental difference between a business being co-opted by an autocratic state (do x or we take you over/arrest your families/...) and a business choosing to create a certain product that they could simply not have created.

A better analogy might be a weapons company that chooses to make cluster grenades or chemical weapons knowing that they are not ethical even as far as weapons (machine learning) go, but it pays well..

so they have two possible endgames:

1) find a sucker (aka retail investors) that buy a loss-making stock

2) become a monopoly and squeeze everyone to get higher margins (kind of how booking.com pushes hotels to increase their standard prices so that booking can offer a discount; which you also get if you call the hotel itself).

You can't make up for it in volume if each order makes a loss and you get no benefit from having more orders (they still pay each time the full price to the restaurant!)