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And all of Apple's products are much more expensive in the EU. In Austria, a MacBook Air starts at EUR1199, and the same device starts at USD1099. At today's exchange rate, that European device costs USD1360, or nearly 20% more.

We can argue about the consumer friendliness of the regulations in the EU but they also add demonstrably to the cost of tech products (and likely other categories).

I would posit that many EU citizens are still living with the idea of their historic economic outperformance even though it has not been true for many years.

I dont get this at all...how does the administration or people within it get a "money pump" from headlines?

What bribery are you talking about?

You mean like when the Obama administration wasn't petty and didn't jail a journalist for not revealing sources on a story with no real importance and merit?

Every administration is made of people. People are petty. This is why the government should be as big as necessary and no bigger.

This does not restrict messaging platforms like iMessage, which are the first "social media" most kids really use, and on which they can be bullied, groomed, etc. Parents still need to involved.

I'm going to get flamed for this, but I think this is one less-focused-on benefit of buying a single family home. You're responsible for the maintenance but if you want to or have to do a retrofit or big appliance replacement (hvac, kitchen appliances) you get to keep them for as long as you want.

Yeah, it sucks that I had to replace my furnace months after buying my home, but I got to pick the replacement. Yes, I chose to replace single-pane glass windows from the early 1900s in my home with newer double-pane and pay for it. But it was my choice and totally under my control to make the house the way I wanted it.

Commence flames about how not everyone can afford to do this, but my point is that SFH living can be superior since it's all in your control.

At least for meta, its employees, and its customers (advertisers), and its users, you can infer easily why they are involved. Researchers have other motivations like currying favor via an opinion or paper with a particular benefactor, or the tenure game, or 1000 other hidden things you cannot reason about without disclosure on their part.

PS I'm not a fan of Meta.

I think the EU would prefer wars not happen and that they never have to think about defending their borders or themselves. This is fantasy land, but the cafes and museums and old city squares are gorgeous.

Dont make the assumption that the laws and regulations in place respect human rights and are a 100% good. They also entrench EU bureaucratic power (and thus the power of the ministers) without regards to future technology.

State regs often fail to grapple with the future, and at best slow it down and at worst smother it.

"The choice is rarely "comply or quit." It is often "comply here, and do the fuller thing somewhere else."

Unless the platform is iOS, in which case it's "comply here or gtfo".

I don't like needless surveillance either but we have people (and kids!) getting shot all over the city, and juries and judges that won't do anything without video or photographic evidence of the crime. I am literally willing to trade some of my liberty for safety in this case. When crime is under control, let's discuss getting rid of them (which I know is farfetched).

You think tax incentives are what makes VC work in California but not other places in the US let alone Canada?

It's concentration of nodes in the graph that makes SV unlike any other place on earth.

Other places that want to be SV need to solve the cold-start problem to build up their local node set, not emulate what SV is like today.

"teachers should be paid more" isn't an argument, it's a statement. But perhaps I've made your point for you.

if you can also figure out how to have the cars automatically detach and park themselves in the owners' driveway, you're on to something.

Public transit only works if you live in the densest of the dense part of a city. If you live out in Beaverton or Gresham these bus lines lose money hand over fist, not to mention farther-flung places.

Even more likely is those using saunas and tracking metrics with wearables are self-selected to be healthier/more active/etc. Correlation and causation...

regular capitalism works but now that the means of production are not factories, the workers have to become more entrepreneurial. Then they will control their destinies.

The strings attached by the US to deep partnerships are things like trade/commerce, militarily mutual advantages (bases on euro soil from which we will help protect you), not to mention the close cultural and ancestral ties we share.

The strings attached by the Chinese govt to deep partnerships are not so benign.

Um, dismissing the tech as "the local LLMs are dumb" seems shortsighted. I can run some pretty impressive models on my local Mac, but it has >64gb of ram and an M3 Max.

Given the privacy benefit I wouldn't dismiss them so fast. I'd suggest picking one or two that your prompts will work well with and treating it as "we let you run with local models too, if you have a computer capable of that." This will (a) quiet the people who complain about everything and (b) get more people to try the cloud model knowing they could move to a local model for real usage.

Rideshare drivers

Arabella Advisors is about the farthest thing from MAGA you can imagine.

Any argument that attempts to sound serious but includes "Moreover all fascists vote for Trump" has disqualified itself.

Whether someone agrees with your politics or not, this comment doesn't really help the discussion.

There's simply no way to look at the governing going on in California and think this is what the tech industry or movie industry or (formerly) oil industry wants for one of its traditional homes.

The government there has suffered since it went to basically one-party rule. There's no counterbalance for any bad policy ideas.

Used FrameMaker to write my PhD dissertation. It was waaay ahead of its time.

Probably contractually disallowed.

I think it's more likely they want to leave the impression that this is all caused by "far right" anti-vaxxers and not a religious group with roots that go back hundreds of years.

By "his kind" you mean human beings?

H&H is next door, yet for years Zabars got its in-house bagels from Columbia Bagels on 110th and Bway (sadly now gone). Anyway next time skip H&H and just start and end your trip at Zabars ;)