Dipshit alert.
If you want to go to that granularity, there's no Black culture nor Asian culture, etc.
Literally, if there is a society of people that's a) uniformly a single ethnic group and b) collectively acts in ways that are identifiable and predictable to the group, it would be Scandinavians.
I'd recommend you read something by Geert Hofstede, if you can read.
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Who do you believe of two amoral organizations?
Rockstar: giant corp, obviously has a vested interest in painting the employees as shits
Union: ALSO a profit-driven organization just from another direction. Has a vested interest in showing the employees were sainted victims of corporate fascists.
Answer: neither, I simply don't give a shit and would happily see both Rockstar collapse and all of their organizing workers immediately unemployed.
you have to admit is effective.
Define "effective". Musk is great at self promotion but if you looked at the details, he just made everything worse.
With a team of unpaid (??) minions and unfettered access to quite literally everything, he spent weeks on end tearing everything apart to find inefficiencies.
No he did not. What he exposed is that he does not understand basics of things. For example, Musk claimed there were fraud in the Social Security Administration because he found "duplicate SSNs". What he exposed out is he does not understand basics of data and a fact table can have duplicate foreign keys . . . because it is a fact table. It would be like me claiming there is "MASSIVE FRAUD" in my companies sales data because there are duplicate Customer IDs.
He singlehandedly proved, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the US government is AT LEAST 99% free of Fraud. 99%+ free of Waste. 99%+ free of abuse.
What he proved is he is an idiot. What you proved is you believed him without looking at details.
This is going to be their own private backhaul connecting regions in North America and Europe.
Will it have excess capacity that Amazon will lease? If no, then this cable has zero effect on Europe and North America. That was my point. I simply did not understand why the OP would have objections to a private companies building something that affects no one else.
The monopoly is not that "nobody can offer an alternative", its that there are no real alternatives for whatever reason.
Except there are alternatives. A developer can sell their game on Epic Games, Steam, GOG, Microsoft, etc. Now Steam is the behemoth and if a developer decides to ignore Steam, that will greatly affect sales. Developers that feel they need to sell on Steam because it has the largest majority of potential customers is very different than "nobody can offer an alternative".
Your ability to find an alternative doesn't make something less of a monopoly.
It literally does. One of the characteristics of a monopoly is lack of substitutes:
Some of the major characteristics of a monopoly market include the presence of a single seller, high entry barriers, price inelastic demand, and lack of substitutes.
Common sense would dictate that if a consumer can get a suitable alternative then there is less of a monopoly. The keyword is "suitable". If there is a butter monopoly, can consumers substitute margarine or other products? Most of the time yes. In this case, a consumer can buy the exact game somewhere else.
A monopoly is defined by its market power.
Market power is not the one and only criteria for monopoly.
Steam is definitely not literally a monopoly. Most people don't seem to know either of the most important things about monopolies, which is 1) what one is and 2) that it's not necessarily relevant whether they are, because antitrust doesn't require a monopoly. It only means you're abusing a somehow dominant position in a market.
By definition of their share and control of the market, Steam is a monopoly. However, people seem not to differentiate legal and illegal monopolies. Many monopolies are allowed to exist as long as they do not engage in illegal behavior which would warrant antitrust action.
I think 30% is a lot, but I don't think Steam is really doing anything to prevent anyone from releasing anything else anywhere.
The only thing that might garner scrutiny is the price parity clause that Steam allegedly imposes so that games are not cheaper on other game stores. I however do not know the details or whether this clause even exists. I do know that Steam imposes price parity when it comes to Steam keys since it is their keys that 3rd parties are using and selling.
Republicans end individual mandate.
Republicans let the subsidies expire.
"Why would the Democrats do this to the American people??"
One of my state's Republican senators is all-in on chemtrails and "Solar Radiation Modification" lunacy. It's curious how these are the same people who think humanity isn't capable of affecting the climate by burning fossil fuels and pumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Oh I get it. Whites and their culture are to be despised when possible, lauded when useful. Seems pretty straightforward.
That's pretty much what I finally decided on too. Shrug. I work for a EU firm in the US so we even have a corp car policy that if you get an EV they'll pay for installing a charge station at your house which I suspect I could finagle (or end up paying only an upcharge for) into a decent home-size battery-storage that I've wanted as well.
Maybe my next car-buying cycle.
What people on
- yes, I'm a cutting edge tech guy; I would LIKE to drive an ev for all sorts of reasons, some of them irrational
- at the same time, I recognize the shortcomings and have to recognize REAL LIFE calculations of time, value, etc.
Initially, yes, I thought so too.
I don't know what universe you live in but it's rather often that I drive MORE THAN JUST to/from work in a day? I live in an exurb, so while I figured I could get by with 40mi/day on elec to cover the occasional run into the nearest shopping center, parts story, Costco, or Microcenter...well yeah, if most of my driving is going to end up being gas-powered (on an overweight, overcomplicated, under-engined vehicle as well) then...why waste my $/time on a PHEV?
Take your pick.
Would someone, please, think of the children?!
designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials
I love, that it is a prime number!
People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't.
