Of course they are. You don’t just marshall hundreds of thousands of people to harm others for a paycheck if they believe they really are harming others. All corporations I’ve worked for do this. It’s corporate culture building.

In October, Stella Li announced that BYD would build the majority of the EVs it sells locally in Europe following the enforcement of import tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles. BYD is working to establish a new supply chain in Europe, will assemble battery packs in Hungary and Turkey, and will only need to import battery cells from its home country.

That’s the way you do it. Tariffs working as expected. Next, bring a battery cell supply chain in the EU as well. Would be nice if the location wasn’t union busting Hungary, but oh well. That’s a solvable problem.

He said a bit more than that:

“We guard against the pressures that exist for unsafe care or for unnecessary care to be delivered in a way which makes the whole system too complex and ultimately unsustainable,” Witty said.

He added that employees should “tune out” criticism of the insurance company, saying that it “does not reflect reality.”

Witty said the company is going to “continue to make sure that we put patients, consumers, and members first, as we always have done. The mission of this company is truly to make sure that we help the system improve by helping the experience for individuals get better and better.”

“There is nobody who did more to try and advance that mission than Brian Thompson. And there are very few people in the history of the U.S. health care industry who had a bigger positive effect on American health care than Brian,” Witty said. “We are going to make sure that we not only acknowledge and honor that legacy of Brian, but we’ll continue it.”

Wait, doesn’t AMD have in-firmware TPM?

When installing on unsupported hardware, Microsoft will push a small disclaimer that effectively cancels your warranty in case of compatibility-related mishaps.

I had warranty?

Err, you could firewall an app from your data in Private Space or Shelter for older Android versions. That should work on any Android device.

Makes sense. I suspect they’re selling more of those overall so they like replacing them more often. The only reason they’re providing longer support for the S-series is because someone else does too. They have made their own SoC (Exynos) for more than a decade and there wasn’t anyone stopping them supporting the models with that SoC for longer. They didn’t.

100%. Qualcomm is the piece of shit you’re thinking of. They refused to provide more than 3 years of driver updates for their SoCs for more than decade, despite the heavy work Google did to make updates from vendors dramatically easier with Project Treble. Now that Google have their own SoC and began providing longer support, Qualcomm magically began offering longer support too. The Galaxy S24 that ships with QC in NA has 7 years of support. With all that said, Google is only doing this because they’re a minority player and offering support makes people like me buy their stuff for this. If they grow to a significant market share, you’ll see them stop extending the support or even shorten it, in order to increase sales. Just like Qualcomm.

Yeah. Pixel 8 and 9 series have 7 years by spec. I think Samsung matched it with their latest Galaxy S series. It’s one of those rare and fleeting moments when competition works to our benefit.

Or perhaps himself dying of a treatable disease they refused to pay for. He’ll be a hero either way, the question is how much.

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Who came up with this ideal? Why did they define it like that? Are there better ways to define broccoli? Why do we call it broccoli? What’s the meaning of politics and therefore political? Who… Fuck.

The financial support is there so I think it’s a matter of time for local manufacturing to catch up. It’s happened in pretty much every area they’ve been in. Restricting chip imports puts higher pressure on iterating faster towards homegrown capabilities.

It would be interesting to see whether China will undercut ASML on the world market once they have competitive EUV, or wherever they’ll keep it for themselves.

Nope, you subscribe to communities like subreddits.

Subscribe to communities that you like, subscribe to similar communities from multiple instances. E.g. there’s News in more than one. Then set your feed to Subscribed and sort by How, Active or Scaled (perhaps best). When you want to see what’s going on elsewhere, switch your feed to All + Top, or All + Hot / Active. If you want to discover small communities you don’t know about - All + Scaled.

No we get to become the 51st state.

There are differences between oil trade and less ubiquitous materials.

In a shared 2.5Gb scenario as you describe, would fully pegged upload/download be 1.25Gb each? Could it do 2.5Gb in both directions simultaneously? Assuming no compute bottlenecks.

Of course. But this one comes with WiFi onboard and a case with antennas if you go for the clothed option.

WiFi

Yet another externality of the neoliberal system. Who knew free flow of capital can also flow to individuals in or running for office.