@Transportist the M&Ms do. definitely.
the ethos of the discourse has hardened; these days it’s “by any memes necessary”.
@Hyolobrika @Nerdfest @admitsWrongIfProven @fraying from what Zeus’ ear?
@fraying @Nerdfest i want entirely to agree. and perhaps i am letting myself just be fooled by the tails of a distribution. there is always some probability a rich and entirely talentless asshole gets three-times lucky in his vanity purchases and the people he hires to run them. still, i have to concede that it's unusual, whether due only a statistical artifact or more than that.
@curtosis it's a great mystery to me how despite all the predation in the world and the bursting balance sheets it yields, our most gargantuan masters manage to leave the most basic aspects of their most basic (therefore unsexy, undifferentiating i suppose) products egregiously flawed when rounding-error levels of investment could correct them.
@admitsWrongIfProven @fraying @Nerdfest good point. though it is an eternal mystery that Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX exist and have sometimes done remarkable things, much as I don't like to credit their founder and under his influence they sometimes do awful things.
@curtosis (i have a terabyte "free" since I pay for Office 365, and i had similar not-great issues with sync.com (path length restrictions that blocked the whole sync). so I quit sync.com. but i do kind of wonder if i'm an idiot to actually use OneDrive, given the level of attention to privacy and security consistent with barfing on question mark and quote chars.
@phillmv eventually it seems you ensure the two groups merge into one.
billionairehood is a kind of diseducation. it slowly turns grown, intelligent, capable people into toddlers. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-story-elon-musk-mass-100216178.html ht @fraying @Nerdfest
@Alonely0 @inthehands i suggest a compromise:
--> '.'
i find it rather pathetically amateurish that sync services offered by trillion dollar companies are unable to sync files that are legal on my filesystem because their name contains an arbitrarily forbidden punctuation mark. #OneDrive
i still don’t understand.
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@inthehands i didn’t want to be pedantic.
@inthehands perhaps you should include a period before that last quote.
@kentwillard yeah. China has engaged in a lot of demand-side EV subsidies (regulatory relief, outright kickbacks to buyers) as well as a lot of supply-side subsidy. China, to be fair, also does control and quite directly limit foreign manufacturers' market access when it deems strategic to do so. 100% tariffs are perhaps a foolishly transparent way to do this, and it's foolish to isolate domestic manufacturers from competition, but it's not "playing dirty" given prerogatives China asserts.
@kentwillard China is very wise to insist domestic producers compete for export markets, which helps counter the ill-effects of domestic market protection.
@kentwillard yeah. i prefer subsidy-based protectionism, gives a leg-up but leaves competition in place.
abuse as directed.
how does litigation culture compare in China vs the US? do businesses sue one another as much?
@djc so take Michgan’s “uncommitted” (13%) x 28% (nationally) registered Democrat gives 3.6%, which can effect a 7.2% point difference if they tell pollsters Trump rather than Biden as protest. Plus there may be voters who skipped the primary but who would have voted “uncommitted”, who might make the same choice if a pollster calls. Yes, I think the magnitudes are material relative to polling gaps.