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That list is ranked by sale volume / valuation.

There are plenty of franchises with more than the 2225 of panera bread in the rest of the list (including elements 21 to 27 of said list).

Declared or actual?

There is a huge difference in most countries.

Sweden may well be one of the few countries where being raped isn't shameful/your fault for dressing too lightly/punishable by death.

Given that travel hadn't recovered from covid in 2022, that 45k to 55k increase mean even less.

Has the % of people searched actually decreased?

I don't trust the current U.S. gov (or any U.S. gov, really), but the figure isn't actually increasing in a significant way. The US. remain as unwelcoming to visitors as they have been since 2001. Nothing to see in this report.

I would argue that sled dog racing at least is heavily impacted by the participant weight, but fair enough.

That doesn't look good, and that's before you filter by proximity to a large river (that doesn't run dry in summer).

I would say near Pisa, on the Arno River.

I'm a bit curious about the rationale behind splitting the category by gender for rubik's cube. Is there a difference in dexterity to justify it?

Sound about as useful as splitting rubik's cube champion by weight class.

Video looks impressive, though the resources poured into that training seems excessive to me. Maybe I'm too poor and don't understand how rich people raise their kids?

That is only true if you only look at the market value of an asset.

One is a tool, the other is a speculative financial asset.

The point of exploiting ressources in space is not to bring them back to earth (to the ground, specifically), but to use them in space.

The ability to manufacture in space, when the price to orbit is about 3000 $/kg can be very lucrative.

Just refuelling in orbit for long-range missions, with the fuel coming from the moon (aluminium-oxygen for exemple) would be a game-changer, and the ressources to make it happen are not that out of reach.

Starship hasn't even reached orbit, why are you putting it on a list as a viable solution for a mars mission?

Because he can't string together a coherent sentence?

I try not to take anything Trump say too seriously, but we have to remember that the USians chose him... twice.

Iceland said no because they are afraid of overfishing in their water.

It isn't an unreasonable fear, especially given their dependance on that food source. Their "No" was perfectly reasonnable from what I can see.

Britain's "Leave" campain was drowning in lies, exageration, and british-empire nostalgia.

Those two situations are very different.

You seems to be arguing that a U.S. style single-market would be an improvement.

But for whom, people or companies?

I personally don't trust elements provided by U.S. agencies and foundations since the Irak war and the "proof" they delivered to justify it.

Proxy at work is stopping me from reading most of grandparent links, so it'll have to wait for home.

Or maybe they do realise it how close it is. It is not a certainty yet, but we can see russia circling.

No idea when it would start but there are only two outcomes I can see:

* Russia doesn't use nukes and get flattened. They don't have the troops, material or finances to deploy on even half the frontline.

* Russia use nukes and get flattened (and so does a chunk of EU). French doctrine when it come to nuclear warfare is quite agressive. Not idea how london would react, but major russian cities and/or ressource hubs would see retalations on kind.

I don't know how much support or opposition from the population such actions would have, but people are getting fed up with external threat burning so much of our governments time and attention on external issues (brexit, babysitting trump, russian threat) that internal issues get further pushed to the future.

water pollution can be a global issue too.

Both, it should be brought down, but it should be the same rule for everyone.

Big Tech doesn't get to ignore copyright law just because they have deeper pockets.

Mistral is a Sovereign LLM Company, it's their main product and has been from nearly the start.

They don't actually need to offer the best models, they need credibility on the tech front and the security/strategic front, and institutional clients will keep coming.

He IS a specialist.

heat, too.

The client receiving the package (who is in the U.E.) could get fined I assume? Or the package sent back to sender for not being compliant.

So the clients will either ask for compliance from the sender or stop ordering there.

Doesn't work well for one-time orders, like artisanal novelty items, but it can still have an effect on the rest.

Those fricking european migrants that came from europe over the last 5 centuries sure have messed up North America.

> Iceland Foods' managing director Richard Walker said the supermarket will "vigorously defend its intellectual property rights"

Some people have no shame at all. This is so absurd it read like a comedy sketch.

Using AI to help you write an article in a language that you have not mastered does not mean the subject of the article is worthless.

I do not know if Claude was used, but I do appreciate the perspective regardless.

My understanding is that the point is not to hit iran, but the oil market.

The US has stocks and production, but EU and china, trumps favorite economical targets, do not.

No proof to offer, but it fits with his other move when it come to economy.

Is there a dissonance?

There is a difference with accepting a "feature" in a product you sign-on to, and having it added behind your back.

On one side, gravatar never talked about feeding your profile to AI when he signed up, and never amended TOS or announced change in that direction (that he received at least).

On the other, the new service he use are upfront about it; though I don't use either service, so no idea on the whole package.

I personally find value in that.

I think maybe there is more than one way to quantify authoritative.

Just looking at the percentage of the population in prison, or murders by cop per inhabitant, that are also good indicators of "repression", and the US might rate first worldwide.

> The unbearable cheapness of open weight models

So the closed model try to get client with their model by saying it's cheaper than employees, and then turn around to lawyer-out cheaper alternative?

Truly the american dream.

True, I suppose it is also useful for video editing and other uses.

The article describe it as a gaming chip, though. Might be because of the site's target audience? I don't know them.

I understand where you are coming from.

But as a gamer who hasn't been able to make a significant upgrade to my rig in 6 years due to memory price and redirected processor engineering funding (all of it due to AI), it really bother me.