Not free, paid for by large corporations. The Inflation Reduction Act raises $300 billion over a decade by requiring large corporations to pay a 15 percent minimum tax on their profits and by enacting a 1 percent excise tax on stock buybacks and redemptions.
All I see there is a reason to regulate crypto bullshit, if not ban it entirely. Can't afford to be wasting that much energy on fraud.
In any case; No, "it" can't happen... assuming by "it" you mean a return to coal as the dominant power source in the US. That ship has sailed.
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My former company wanted to expand to China. Guess what? They could not without a JV with a 100% Chinese company. That was in 2015, so maybe things have changed now.
GM doesn't sell a single car to the Chinese market. A subsidiary of GM, of which GM owns no more than 50%, does. The rest is owned by a Chinese company.
The version I heard 20 years ago had Microsoft stealing source code from Digital Research, not "copying the look and feel of the DRI software"
Which is strange because the "coal plant next door" is more than likely decommissioned. The share of electricity generated by coal in the US is about 16% right now annual average, down from roughly 44% just 15 years ago.
Guess it's time to get a new snarky comment!
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There are other more welcoming places to build our stuff, if it comes down to that.
I do not understand, to this day, how we let Chinese products flood our western markets. If you are a western company, you *cannot* sell your products in china. You need at least a joint venture with a Chinese company to be able to do so.
Letting them sell their crap on our soil feels to me like a rape. If they don't want our stuff, fine, it's their own right. But then they should not be able to sell theirs on our countries.
We're getting fucked like never before. And we all watch it as if it's normal.
I don't know about real Macs, but I have a Hackintosh that's
If a version of OSX however-many-years-old is that bad with 8GB, I can't imagine current-OSX being pleasant.
Outside of the
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Sometimes I wonder why this particular website bothers to cover issues related to that particular crowd. They're such an insignificant minority!
Can you give me a bit more infos? They have thew same battery life? And performance while unplugged ? What's the CPU of the Acer?
Israel's business is far more profitable than having your head cut off by Hamas for the crime of usury.
As of today, any competing laptop that has comparable performance has 1/4th of the autonomy, weights twice as much and delivers incredible fan noise when pushed into performance. Ah, and also it lowers its performance when not plugged in.
So I'd say that from a hardware perspective, today, Apple trounces 100% of the competition on metrics that actually *do* matter a lot.
What I've noticed more than that... over the past year or so, a vast uptick in the number of auto-generated videos. These drag together a lot of readily-available text and images on the nominal topic, so pass for "real" -- but the giveaway is that the narrator is text-to-speech, not a human. (It'll make mistakes like saying "one, six hundred" for "1,600".)
All such channels I've encountered have MILLIONS of subscribers, MILLIONS of rapidly-acquired views, but very few comments. (Like, 12M views in a week, but only 30 comments.)
I've concluded that these videos exist so that the channel owner can use another bot to generate millions of views and a whole lot of the shared ad revenue.
Which is probably starting to bleed Youtube beyond what they're used to.
And yes, probably because of the high view counts, those channels occasionally dominate my recommends (which are otherwise pretty good).
Criminals? That might have something to do with the fact the SEC isn't a law enforcement agency and has no arrest powers, they're a regulatory agency. Anything the SEC discovers that looks criminal is passed to the FBI.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
