> Apple builds the handset, the OS and the store
Remember, when iPhone came out there was no App Store.
That was a separate business that came later, competition was prohibited, and by prohibiting competition rents were extracted.
This is called "illegal tying" in the law.
They're gonna install malware on your device but heaven forbid your website sets the wrong cookie, then they're fining you 6% of annual revenue.
When did East Germany win?
More and more money inflating the AI bubble.
Someone needs to pay for the government's need to analyze everything about all of its citizens. Don't worry citizen. Everything will be perfect soon.
I say political system, because Islam is a political system masquerading as a religion.
No less so than Christianity. *shrug*
Try listening.
Try acknowledging.
Try reflecting.
Try redirecting.
Try doing the work of actual empathy, not just the performative convenient pseudo-empathy that people talk about on social media but only apply to those who already believe like you.
All of those are fantastic suggestions; however, I would add another suggestion that is likely to trigger everything you are suggesting: Go live in a politically stable foreign land for a while. Meet the people. See how they do things. It will be vastly different than what you are used to... and yet, you will still see that they value family, integrity, etc no less than you and your country do.
If you are a hateful shithead... don't even bother. You will find nothing but confirmation of your biases.
with the deep throated support of at least a third of the populace
Fuck off with that nonsense. The consent is manufactured. Sure, there are a lot of shithead people here, but no more (or less) than anywhere else.
Every time crypto comes up why is this exact same thing posted here?
"The chances of someone being born with excellent skills is equal everywhere"
This is a nice rhetorical assertion, and one I'd like to agree with, but it's (unfortunately, for both the skilled and those in less advanced areas) provably false.
Skill directly correlates to IQ at a population level. The IQ of European-native peoples, Chinese, Japanese, and Jewish peoples is in the 100-105 range average. Africa, India, and the Middle East (to a lesser degree)? Not true at all. A full SD or more different. You've got a huge problem with inbreeding throughout India and the Middle East, for instance. This means that your average person is not going to have the same chance of being "born with excellent skills".
Of course, this is also not without discounting things like upbringing and environment, and it undoubtedly has some play in the matter.
As for this policy, it has absolutely nothing to do with letting the best and brightest immigrate. It's clearly reactionary due to unfettered refugees and other unskilled immigrants who can't speak the language, don't want to speak the language, and bring obscene levels of crime to what would otherwise be an idyllic socialist utopia.
In what ways do you find it superior?
For me, Grok has been pretty consistent at making some pretty wild code recommendations and not following specifications.
It's not like Gemini, which will get stuck implementing things and then get into a histrionic panic loop, but it's not nearly as good as gpt5.1 in implementing correct, complete code per specification.
It's over.
Is something like YouTube, except when they show a clip from something, or a slide, or anything, I can click on that and it opens in a new tab as the video continues to play. That would be nice.
Aren't you glad you're not getting all the government you pay for now?
