Because the rest of the world wants to invest in the US much more than the other way around. This causes the dollar to appreciate making importing in the US cheaper and exporting from the US more expensive. Hence the trade deficit.

https://paulkrugman.substack.c...

Exactly!

>> Somehow our ability to reason is an emergent property of weighted connections in a network.

Our weighted network has been honed by hundreds of millions of years or evolution, it's not just random.

But even more importantly, the ability to reason is also an emergent property of years and years of the network _actually interacting with the environment_ through seeing, touching, hearing and so on. That is VERY different than just seeing and predicting words.

Well, let's say its successor: VMS runs on VAX, which was the predecessor of WNT, of which W200X and W1X are successors.

From the car-rentals terms-of-service: "Force Majeure: Liigu is not liable for any delay in meeting its obligations due to causes outside its reasonable control, including acts of God, riots, war, malicious acts of damage, fires, or electricity supply failure."

So Crowdstrike ist considered as God? What else is out of their control? ;-)

and i'm never going back to Fitbit.

Oura has much better technology and a much more usable app. WHich by the way integrates with your iPhones much much better.

The problem with a keyless-solution is multilayered. You are dependent from:
- the mobile phone working
- the mobile phone being charged (is there a power-connection nearby?)
- the app on the mobile phone being up2date and working
- ther authentication working (finger-print readable?)
- the internet connection being available
- the cluod-service being accessible
- the crowstrike-software used by the vendor
- the servers and software used by the vendor
- the bluetooth-receiver in the car functioning too with all ist software and connections

The people cannot even open their rental cars because the app cannot establish a connection to the cloud. Stupid idea to make everything dependent from the cloud of a single company. Where are the good old keys?

I live in Italy, and it is well known, that the coldest days are when in the night before the sky had no clouds.
Clouds not only reflect part of sunlight during the day, but also reflect thermal radiation from the soil day AND night!
So seeding more clouds will actually lead to higher temperatures on earth. This is a fact that can already be observed.

Good analysis. Cory Doctorow arrives to many of the same conclusions here:
https://locusmag.com/2023/12/c...

Without defending things or ideologies I don't believe in, it's really uncontroversial that Russia, China, and company have always been, and currently still are, workers HELLS, not paradises (eg. China has none of the protections for workers that are typical of western, more capitalistic, countries).

So, sorry but no, your last sentence is false and a flamebait.

"The main issue is that housing was turned into investment vehicle."

yes, but that became a great investment because housing is chronically undersupplied, and this happens because it's a nightmare to build hew houses, which in turn happens because old "environmental" regulations that have been hijacked by NIMBY groups.

At the end of the day, you need to build houses. And you must do it in two ways. First, get rid of stupid regulations so the market can actually do its part and build houses without having to jump through regulatory hoops for 10 years. Second, leverage the local and federal government to actually take control where it can and freaking build houses. Won't hurt.

Huawei had a larger market share globally than Apple or Samsung. When Donald Trump decided that Huawei was controlled by the Chinese secret services and banned the import of their products and forced Google to not supply the Android-OS to Huawei, Huawei lost a lot of market share. Even in Europe, where there was no embargo on Huawei products, the market share went down because the new mobile devices had no longer Android installed and existing devices no longer received updates. This led people, out of fear, to avoiding buying Huawei and other Chinese products, such as those from Xiaomi. An iPhone seemed to be a safe product for many, since support will not be excluded in the future many are convinced. It's not technological superiority or price (both would put chinese products on the top), but political decisions that shifted market share in favor of Apple.

are 40% of workers working in a call centre?!?
That's the only job I see can be fully substituted by AI.

Most of those privacy policies are identical. The smaller the company or owner of the website, the smaller the budget to hire a consultant, or the interest in adapting the privacy policy to own circumstances. Many website tools provide ready-made terms and conditions and are adopted without the slightest adjustment. Even the placeholders for the company name remain often untouched. Incidentally, the longer a privacy page is, the more complete it appears to the webmaster, who then adopts and copies it blindly. Therefore, the "standard" privacy policies are getting longer and longer - but the content is usually completely out of place. When told, the webmaster replies: "Who cares? Nobody will read it!" - and he's 99,99% right.