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For anyone outside the US this is a clear statement that either models are open or they are controlled by an erratic and hostile US government.
Being a US ally has become meaningless, and using a company that’s not targeted today does nothing to protect you tomorrow.
If those running backs played soccer they'd all be asked to slim down. Soccer requires a mix of strength, agility and endurance.
The European Data Centre Assocation is expecting the highest growth rate in Europe to be in Milan and Madrid.
"The selection of tier-2 metropolitan areas shows that overall, they are growing faster than market average. Madrid and Milan are clearly taking the lead and are both able to attract the biggest additional investments. It can safely be said that they are on their way to becoming additional tier-1 locations."
https://www.eudca.org/documents/content/ZlZXb4bRSRefaEVqya2I... (downloads a pdf)
> Trust in me
No, because being Italian doesn't mean you know anything about this. Most Italians think the primary Italian exports are mozzarella and tomatoes.
> You might as well blame the entire US population for certain problematic actions of the president.
The equivalent would be blaming those who chose the current president. Which would be an entirely reasonable thing to do.
Absolutely. The US has shown it is happy to threaten allies and weaponise everything it can in international relations. It would be madness to leave critical payments infrastructure dependent on the US.
At this point it seems EV economics will make the EU government mandates irrelevant. Electric cars will be cheaper to buy and cheaper to run. The only remaining question is how quickly rapid charging infra will be deployed which will make electric the default choice even for those of us who cannot charge at home.
> whatever AI cost restructuring happening today
Is it actually AI-related cost restructuring, or did they simply hire too many people? They will obviously prefer to tell a story about AI rather than bad management.
Doesn’t that already exist within the Find My app? It’s not perfect, but it’s always worked fine for me.
How is that relevant? The US can reform its healthcare system whenever it decides to do so.
For the EU, Visa and Mastercard dependence form a duopoly controlled by a hostile foreign power. An alternative is essential.
You can't just learn a few words and expect to follow a train announcement, particularly when it's not obvious from context (anything other than announcing the next station).
This reads like an attempt to pass the blame to others. Per capita CO₂ emissions in the US are one of the highest in the world, and significantly higher than those in China or SEA. This is despite the US/Europe moving some of our dirtiest/cheapest manufacturing to that region.
Personal choices matter. See the amount of energy used on air conditioning in the US compared to areas of Europe with comparable weather for a banal example. If we want to significantly reduce emissions it will happen through a combination of personal choices, corporate action and government policy.
Do you have a source for that? Google returns nothing of the kind.
Source?
Looking on Google the closest I can find to your claim is the NTSB chair saying it might not be related after she gave out the details of the previous warning lights (as you'd expect in her position before the investigation has completed).
Not fly the specific aircraft which had three pressurisation warnings in the days prior to incident until they've carried out some checks? They were serious enough that they decided it wasn't safe to fly that plane over water.
Maybe the actions of Alaska Airlines were absolutely fine, but the CEO passing all the blame to Boeing before the incident report is understandable, but a little off to me.
"Alaska Airlines placed restrictions on the Boeing plane involved in a dramatic mid-air blowout after pressurisation warnings in the days before Friday's incident, investigators say."
Boeing absolutely deserve every single bit of the criticism they get for the Max, but it's worth keeping in mind that in this instance Alaska possibly share some of the responsibility for flying an aircraft with known issues.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67909417
It’s just the reality of a mature platform which is what iOS and the iPhone (and android) have become. The upside is we can run >= three year old devices and feel zero desire to upgrade.
This thread is really strange for me because you're describing the experience I've always had with Apple. The longest wait when buying has been waiting for someone to arrive with one of the items they keep in the back after I've already paid.
Either there's some weird geographic variance or Apple operate differently on extremely busy days (I've never bought an iPhone on release day) or something else entirely.
> What will people talk about if Instagram is friendly
Anything that's not the current American culture wars? The same things most people talk about in their lives when not throthing at the mouth on Twitter. (i.e. comedy, sports, tech, food, animals, jobs, cars, etc.)
And, of course, culture wars will still be discussed, but it doesn't need promoting to those not interested in arguing such things on social media.
> Trump is also on both Twitter and Threads. As long as he and other Instagram users are on Threads, then the outrage town hall will continue and will be no better than Twitter.
I don't know, I'm in Europe, I follow zero explicitly political people yet US politics dominates my Twitter feed. I don't get that on Instagram which is all I need to make the service more enjoyable and to feel less toxic than Twitter. The outrage town hall will of course continue on Threads, but hopefully with only those who are activley seeking it.
I thought the quotes on the BBC article were quite revealing:
> Mr Zuckerberg said keeping the platform "friendly... will ultimately be the key to its success".
> But Mr Musk responded: "It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram."
If Threads is a fractionally less toxic version of Twitter, it’ll do quite well.
Why wouldn’t it? At least a third of the menu in most pizzeria’s in Italy will be white pizza with no tomato sauce.
Selling content to OpenAI and anyone else building a language model is a potentially large revenue source for them.
This is very different though - it completely covers much of your face and there is no comparable device that is used in public, whereas AirPods are more or less the same design that we’ve seen in earphones for decades only without a cable.
Depends on a case by case basis. There was an article posted recently which said that 1 in 4 people earning >$200k live paycheck to paycheck. It's very easy to succumb to lifestyle inflation and not improve financial security despite higher pay.
> outside of the USA if they piss off Mark Zuckerberg enough they can lose the rest of the world because who would want a phone that doesn't have WhatsApp?
We use WhatsApp by default because of the network effects. FB have no power over Apple here because removing it from iPhones would kill the only reason people use it. The switch to (most likely) Telegram would happen overnight.
Shifting all responsibility to producers is about as helpful as shifting it all to consumers. Clearly there is responsibility on both sides. Burning gas for cooking or heating is bad for emissions, so it is reasonable for people to avoid doing so for longer than necessary. Same goes for producers burning fossil fuels for electricity, etc.
The idea of Twitter as the world's town square always seems odd to me because the level of discourse there is consistently horrible. Twitter is a digital theatre, not a town square.
The alternatives would depend upon what you’re trying to get from the platform, but they would range from other social media (for the more fun use cases) to traditional news websites (following political events) to HN/newsletters (tech news).
Surely the redeeming thing about the new design is that it led to 40% higher sales?
By the only metric that matters this design is significantly better than “perfect”.
> I'm also not sure why you'd declare functions for each type of pizza; that's data.
Yep, had the same thoughts reading the code. What you suggest even seems a purer implementation of the DRY principle, rather than what is proposed in the article which would result in copy and pasting the make_pepperoni_pizza() function as soon as you decide to sell a third type of pizza.
Of course, the DRY principle used without considering other factors could produce bad results, but all the code in the article is bad for reasons unrelated to the principle it attempts to criticize.