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Yes: https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-leo-tells-catholic-bishop...

Are they successful?

I'd say so. Not on all the branches of the cooperative, but it generates over €11 billion in annual revenue and employs more than 70,000 people with a very stable business. It might be a bit tricky to gauge success when the rewards and incentives aren’t quite the same as in your typical capitalist company, though.

It makes me wonder(i'm korean): how would a Westerner react if they saw me romanticizing the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain? They’d probably find it strange and out of touch with reality.

In his science fiction novels, Kim Stanley Robinson frequently incorporates the Mondragon economic model to explore post-capitalist, worker-owned, and cooperative societies. I'd say KSR is a decently well-known S/F writer, so at least some westerners (and I'd assume many in this site) have already some idea of it. But I'd say it's true that it's easy to romanticize these kinds of singular situations and brush over the problems they might have.

As the law is written, the latest iPhones, for example, would be compliant (battery is replaceable with commercially available tools under the self-repair program), and they are completely waterproof and dustproof. Some manufacturers now use glued seals for their phones and would probably need to change their approach in design, but I think the majority would be okay with minimal changes.

Like others have pointed out, if phones can certify using batteries with 1000 cycles of charge above 80%, they'll also be exempt, so this will likely only affect very cheap models.

Define "budding system that was working". Before the ACA, the number of uninsured Americans was around 50 million and insurance companies routinely denied coverage or charge higher premiums based on pre-existing health conditions. ACA is not perfect (due in no small part to the concessions that had to be made in congress to get enough votes) but i'd say it's been a net win.

Going back to a pre-ACA system won't lower premiums that much. Medical costs have risen in the last decade, same as any other goods or services, and the way US healthcare is structured, with hospital and doctors negotiating with a profit driven middleman (insurance companies) makes it almost impossible to change the rising premiums.

US healthcare will continue to be a mess until there's a universal healthcare system or single payer system similar to any other developed country on earth.

To be fair, Meta is also not the first company to launch smart glasses with a display.

But the reality of it is that it's probably still to early to say if these devices will have mainstream appeal. I see a lot of people saying "well, i no longer need to take the phone out my pocket", but that has been the case for a couple of years with smartwatches, for example, and it has not meaningfully changed our dependency from the smartphone or the smartphone market dynamics that much.

I've heard employees use the measurements app in their iPhones sometimes to adjust in the mornings, but having a sensor in the laptop lid seems like a much easier way to do it and you don't need to carry anything with you.

I'm assuming so. Apparently it's an angle that "invites" people to use the computers, but I don't think there's anything specific about 76 degrees that makes it better than, say, 73 or 82. As long as you can see the content from an average height, it should work. Most likely they just settle on that angle because it looked good to the store team that was staging the first store, measured it, turned out to be 76 and kept it the same across stores since then for consistency.

At Apple Stores, laptops screens have to be opened exactly at 76 degrees. I wonder if they use this sensor and specific software for adjustment (I'm not implying this is the only reason it's there)

the majority of them.

It is iffy but serviceable. In this case, seems like Octopath Traveller 2 Windows version works well with GPTK. I haven't tried but Whisky, or Porting Kit should be able to handle it. Reddit has some people running it at good fps.

If it runs on Linux, it should be fairly easy to run it on MacOS through the Game Porting Toolkit. Crossover (or Porting Kit if you don't want to pay for Crossover) should handle it.

Argentina and US are very different countries, starting these cuts with very different economic realities. For example, 55% of all registered workers are employed by the government in Argentina. Although not a directly comparable metric (since in the US you also need to account for state and local civil workers), the US federal government employs around 3 million people. That's just 1.87% of the entire civilian workforce.

Again, DOGE operates from the premise that the federal government is bloated. Although this is a very popular message, I'd love to see some more objective data to support this and I doubt that CDC or USAID are the agencies where the bloat is. Like I said, their actions seem vindictive and careless. Also, likely to result in legal cases that will drag for years and end up costing taxpayer more than the supposed savings.

The main con is that once you fire the workers that you thought you didn't need (but that you did indeed need) hiring them back becomes more expensive and a lengthy process. Some of the firings are already causing chaos in vital teams among several agencies and have forced DOGE to try to reverse course (bird flu monitoring, nuclear response...).

And that's not to mention the dire situation you put the people you are firing in. Laying off people from their jobs is never "an experiment" unless you are willing to suspend every trace of empathy.

I don't think that's what DOGE is doing. Seems extremely vindictive and ideological in the way it's acting and time will tell but I would not be surprised if it ends costing the taxpayers more in the long run.

There is fat, but I'd venture not much on the CDC, FEMA or USAID. A big part of this mess is that fat is concentrated on areas that are very unpopular to cut, like military expenditure, or in legacy processes and systems that will take years and a lot of upfront investment to streamline (and that DOGE won't touch).

If you meet an average government worker in the US, you quickly realize how little they make and how understaffed their departments tend to be. People underestimate how complex government work is and how different it is from what you do at a regular business.

Seems like at least USAID was:

Alleged USAID Probe Into Starlink Raises Elon Musk Conflict Concerns.

https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-musk-starlink-probe-ukra...

DOGE has also very specifically targeted the CFPB and, according to The Verge, the team within the organization specialized in understanding Big Tech’s entrance into financial products (Musk is supposedly about to launch X's banking services).

https://www.theverge.com/policy/612933/cfpb-tech-team-gutted...

I wish that was the case. Coincidentally, I live in Atlanta, also within the city (ITP, close to Piedmont Park) and all my neighborhood has above ground power transmission. Coming from Europe, it's infuriating. Not a year passes that we don't get two or three blackouts and a fair decent number of brownouts. That includes the past two years.

The links actually cover this, since EIA tracks major events in power disruptions and separates them in the graph. US network is still orders of magnitude worse than Germany.

U.S. electricity customers averaged five and one-half hours of power interruptions in 2022

Source: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61303

In 2023, German households experienced an average of 13.7 minutes of power outages.

Source: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Power-supply-13-7-minutes-of-po...

Not sure if the metrics are 100% comparable (they seem to be?) but points to a huge difference in reliability.

Ollama is pretty clear about it, it's not like they are trying to deceive. You can also download the 671B model with Ollama, if you like.

No the same case. Donald Trump's account was banned due to his role in inciting an insurrection but you could still find republican content posted by other users with hashtags. I'd expect the same treatement if a democratic leader tried to incite a violent mob to assault the capitol.

This is a very unlikely scenario, given how many hashtags were blocked and how specific they were.

But as an American who has been a little sick of Europe mooching off of our military overwatch

As a European (now living in the US) I think this perspective might be an oversimplification. Access to EU soil has been incredibly important for US military strategy over the last 50 years. Having bases in Germany, Spain and Italy is instrumental in US campaigns in Middle East or Asia. Not to mention the amount of European lives lost in conflicts initiates or led by US interests.

You pay well, but not so much

Don't really see much of a contradiction. A good salary is not necessarily the highest salary.

You require linear algebra but ok with technical writer.

I'm a tech writer but went to engineering school. While I assume it's not a fairly common situation, it's also not unheard of. The original comment seems to imply that they'll frown upon a candidate that will expect to be taught linear algebra at the workplace but will be ok with one that has only a basic grasp and it's willing to attend engineering school to improve.

More decorative than functional but beautiful nontheless and could be iterated to make it a better chess set. Maybe mixing different types of sand as a finishing coat on the pieces? (vocanic and coral for the pieces and quartz sand for the board)

I see the semiconductor industry becoming a bit like the auto industry. A geopolitical pawn, heavily dependent on subsidies and in turmoil due to market forces (switch to electric in cars vs. switch to ARM/RISC in semiconductors)

I don't think Berkshire is particularly bearish on Apple. It's just they made good money out of the investment and it's a good time to cash out and keep cash for future buys. The fact that they kept half of it tells you they still consider it a solid position but if there's a downturn ahead, having cash on hand to buy other companies makes sense.

Electric vehicle routing is an option in Apple Maps and I'm assuming in Google Maps as well. A Rivian app could handle the rest. I'm pretty sure Apple would be extremely happy to figure out a way forward.

(https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-electric-vehic...)

Important to note as well that you can technically support CarPlay and Android Auto just for the infotainment and keep the map function in-house running along with it.

Apple is reportedly building M2 Ultra and M4-Powered AI servers. We will see what this end up looking like, but I'd say that the M2 Ultra is a very competitive product. Even if it's not really the same kind of architecture, it might very well be a better approach, or a good enough alternative.

Apple's all products can easily be replaced.

Interesting. I perceive it exactly the opposite way. Apple products are hard to replace due to ecosystem advantage while everybody (Apple included!) is already working on building hardware to avoid using Nvidia's H100s.