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They already allow uncensored web browsers that will happily open up web pages about making bombs.

> I find it very difficult to believe that Apple is going to incorporate AI hardware into their device and then open it up to everyone freely.

The Core ML API for using the neural processing features of Apple's chips has been in there for a while and plenty of developers are using it.

> It works very, very well.

I had always assumed that search box in Photos.app would be useless, but once in desperation I typed something in and it found exactly what I was looking for (a photo of one of my kids' passports I knew I'd taken but could not for the life of me remember where).

Now I use it more and more, it makes my tens of thousands of photos dramatically more useful to me. That time we at at the restaurant with the big shrimp platter? The airbnb we stayed at where I took a picture of the cool coffee table? All right there.

How expensive is this bus, that it's actually worth people's time to drive them in a car instead?

My lazy kids are terrible status symbols but they are excellently suited for their actual purposes which are to laugh at my dad jokes and keep me honest about snacking.

Seriously though I don't know anyone who has kids as status symbols. That seems quite weird.

Even if they aren't spying on people's TOR traffic, it's still useful for spies. The more people are using TOR, the easier it is for them to hide their own traffic alongside it.

People from many countries can enter Hong Kong without a visa. It draws tourists and helps with many export businesses.

For this reason people in Hong Kong have not passed the stricter scrutiny applied to people who visit the mainland, so they have to be re-checked at the border.

Because if you buy five of that item, you pay €4.95. Few people go into a store and buy one €0.99 item.

And if you pay with your debit card then it's still €0.99.

In many eurozone countries totals are rounded to the nearest 5 cents at the register if you pay cash. If you pay electronically then the exact amount is debited.

There are some weirdos who decide how to pay based on whether or not the rounding is in their favor (e.g if the total ends in a 2 they'll pay cash but if it ends in a 3 they'll pay with card). But I don't think these amounts are enough for stores to care, especially considering how much they save by not having to deal with 1¢ and 2¢ coins.

> The union/employer relationship is inherently hostile.

Definitely not how it works in Europe. Unions make it easier for companies to have predictable relationships with their workers, and sector-wide unions mean that a company doesn't have to worry about a labor agreement putting it at a competitive disadvantage.

From our limited sampling, it happens with some measurable frequency.

Going from zero to one of something tends to be a lot less likely than going from one to two or more.

> America is a country made up of immigrants from other countries, so when they are here making the foods that they used to make in their home countries, we call it "Chinese food"

Ok but nobody in China makes "crab rangoon".

> I understand why this can be confusing

That sounds a little patronizing. Obviously I am familiar with the concept of migration. I was simply surprised by something that is so wildly different from any reasonable notion of food that originated in China. The line from China to chow mein or general tso chicken is much more clear than the line to crab rangoon.

> Saying "Chinese food" does not literally mean food from China, it means food made by Chinese immigrants to The United States.

But now we're getting into the territory calling pizza Mexican food because most people in the back of the house at pizzerias in the USA are of Mexican origin.

I really do not think that applies to all-you-can-eat buffet rules about leaving plates full of uneaten food.

If the buffet restaurant hadn't bought it for someone to leave it on their plate, then the ingredient cost would have been lower and a poorer person would have been more likely to be able to afford it. Or someone in the supply chain could have donated it as part of their CSR program.

There were, and probably still are, restaurants where you pay for the meat item and then get access to the unlimited "salad" bar which includes a wide range of other stuff.

The article doesn't say the buffet is a place to get rid of old food items, it says that buffets have worked out strategies to get incorporate their own old food items.

Anyway, if you don't want to pay for wasting things you don't like, make your first plate a grazing/browsing sampler platter, then come back for the stuff you liked.

> I literally had never had any form of Chinese ... They had the best Crab Rangoon

What the hell is that stuff? I lived most of my life in Asia, but went to a Chinese buffet on a visit to the USA. Crab Rangoon sounded exciting... but it was full of cream cheese or something? Absolutely shocking. I'm very confident that's not a Chinese (or Burmese) dish.

I mean sure, if that's your style. Personally I carry a universal remote for when I'm doing this.

Is it smart business though? Once disclosed it provides future purchasers with a strong reason to avoid your products. Who wants to spend millions on trainsets that could become unserviceable in the event that the seller goes out of business or makes some mistake in authorizing service centres or gets into a dispute with us over another matter?

Translation is the only reason I still break out Chrome now and then.

Firefox finally sort of has it, but it's not that good. Often it won't believe you that the page is in another language, so you can't translate at all, even by trying to force it. The translations can be weird and miss parts of the page.

I'm sure it'll get better, though, and once it does, I can delete Chrome entirely.

Cool. Then you can use Firefox which will support Mv3 extensions without castrating ad blocking.

Never heard of those and I doubt 99% of the population have either.

Not being compatible with those sites is definitely not the barrier to widespread adoption of Firefox.

You may personally think that, but traffic safety data is unambiguous. The higher the front end and the heavier the vehicle, the more likely pedestrians are to die.

Sure but that's not an argument for letting the person who is putting others at risk, decide how much safety they want to pay for.

Only for the children in the car. It's gotten dramatically worse for the 99.9999999% of children who are outside the car.

I'm not sure exactly what the scope of that is, but I was hit (lightly) by a Tesla in a crosswalk earlier this year.

They could have a minimum interval between changes, while still allowing it to change quickly if enough time has elapsed since the previous "walk" signal.

I always hit all crosswalk buttons, even if I'm not crossing, because it's nonsense that pedestrians have to ask permission to cross the street while the lights always change for drivers.

The world will be fair when drivers have to get out of their cars and push a button to get a green light, while pedestrians automatically get a walk signal every cycle.

After 50 years of that it'll be even, and we can go to a system where everyone gets their turn automatically.

I assume there are different competing priorities at play that converge in particularly dumb ways sometimes.

Some stakeholders latched onto the idea of churning some % of staff each year in an effort to, I guess, eventually filter the entire human population for the best possible employees.

Some people want to make it look like their HR team is doing a lot of useful stuff.

Some people want to boost their own department's metrics.

Some people want to work with a team to achieve actual business goals.

I'm in the Netherlands and it gave it to me in English.