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Out of all the major tech companies that you could “break up” doing that to Apple would probably make the least sense.

Integration between devices/software is their entire selling point.

Regardless it will mean that Safari will lose a significant proportion its market share.

There will be less incentive for developers to make sure their stuff works on anything but Chrome forcing safari devs to just play catch up all the time.

> or else they wouldn't have explicitly said it was obvious to them (speaking as an engineer)

I’m sorry but you might consider patenting your mind reading device.

It seems pretty easy to imagine engineers spending week/months/etc. solving a specific problem the solution to which might seem pretty ‘obvious’ to them when they actually manage to arrive at it. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s actually obvious ..

> wouldn't work to just provide that context to resolve the matter

Why take the risk? And even if you end up winning at the end having to prove something like that will still result in additional costs and/or delays.

Your reasoning seems to be based on vague assumptions based on a very vaguely described situation. I find it hard to understand how can someone feel so certain about it with close to zero real context.

I never said that’s the reason why they do that. It’s possibly one of the reasons why they can, though.

Also I was almost exclusively talking about a specific group in Israel:

50% or so of ultra-Orthodox men in Israel do not work (instead they spend their days studying religious texts or something…). They have massive amounts of children and are supported by the state and/or their wives (78% of whom do have jobs).

> most ludicrous wall street craziness I've ever heard

I have heard many more ludicrous things. Japan is already heavily indebted and as relative per capita productivity will decrease significantly while while taxes increase there won’t be necessarily that many incentives for young people to stay in the country further exacerbating the problem.

> their pyramid scheme isn't the only way to do things.

Any suggestions?

> better position than those continuing to push unsustainable growth to defer the inevitable.

Or far worse.

> without ever increasing population

Who said anything about ever increasing population? Why are you even saying that?

The problem is a severe decrease in population accompanied by a similarly severe increase in average age.

Yeah, it’s interesting that many US companies are still only willing to hire people in the US for remote positions when they could probably get more for less if they extended it for Europe.

> account for unexpected healthcare costs which are already accounted for in Europe.

If you’re a software engineering you’re likely to already have good enough insurance and can save at least 20-50k for any unexpected costs anyway.

> WSJ is US media

Yeah but I don’t see how could I disagree with this article too much.

> whose bias in owned outlets is also renowned

I’m not sure. High degree of bias seems to be the standard (with a few exceptions) regardless of ownership.

> Wages aren't really something you can compare directly

You can still account for all of those thing.

As far as schools are concerned it’s highly variable in the US. There are certainly some very good public schools just living expenses are also likely to be much higher in those areas.

> It's just about which tradeoffs you are willing to make.

So a country with highly accessible social services must also have a stagnant economy and unaffordable housing? I don’t really see the link..

It was the Social Democrats and the Greens back in 1998 who decided to stop all nuclear development and close all the existing plants over the next 10-20 years.

Nuclear was already long doomed by the time Fukushima happened

Not sure US media is somehow significantly worse at this (assuming we’re talking about at least somewhat semi legitimate news outlets)

Also maybe because Europe has deep economic issues and growth has been slow or non-existent pretty everywhere outside of Eastern Europe over the last 10 years or so.

Back in the 1990s and early 2000s productivity wise Western Europe and the US were almost on the same level. Look at the gap now..

> universal health care and strong worker's rights

And generally low wages and high living costs. e.g. real estate is about 2x cheaper in the bay area or SF compared to Paris for instance adjusted by median income, while London, Munich, Rome and some other major cities are only 40-60% more expensive.

Not so much in the US or in Finland (which effectively didn’t take part in WW1 at all)

This seems to be a big issue. e.g. it seems Israel has permanently shifted to the right because of the excessive growth of the (societally/economically) useless ultra-orthodox population.

While other people have to spend their lives working they can spend their reading their boom and having dozens of children because of government subsidies.

Expecting to bring up your children in better (or at least same) conditions as you experienced as a child seems reasonable.

They didn’t burn that many witches back in those days, it was more of a renaissance* and reformation thing.

*Romans really liked executing/punishing people for witchcraft too compared with medieval Christians

> bore no resemblance to the English system.

Except the Bill of Rights being based on it’s English equivalent and multiple other documents and customs in the English constitution.

People might tolerate some inconvenience if there are rational reasons for it to exist.

Sitting on a road is a publicity stunt. If it doesn’t have the imagined effect isn’t wouldn’t it be counterproductive?

I think the context should be pretty obvious to most people in the engineering field.

> why not just provide the context?

Because lawyers might find ways to dismiss/challenge it?

The pool of professional officers was very small and completely insufficient for the needs of the expanded military.

Being a semi-competent officer with some experience basically guaranteed that you’d be fast tracked to a senior command.

e.g. Grant left the military in 1854 and was just a captain when the war started. In about 4 months he was already a brigadier general

> I've never seen any law specifically targeting straws

Well.. come to Europe.

But to be fair yeah, I think they banned most non biodegradable single use utensils.

Straws just turned out harder to replace compared to plates and forks. The plastic coated paper straws which are just as bad (if not worse) in most ways are just a perfect illustration why this policy wasn’t thought out that well.

You definitely have a point and more or less agree.

However this is one of the many reasons why there are housing shortages in many areas.

Why would they buy it in the first place then?

The entire point of this is to decrease the oversupply of wine. If anything this would make it worse assuming some proportion of the wine they bought would’ve been exported.

> the people have paid for the wine

Yes, it’s definitely unfair. So are gazilions of other subsidies paid out by most governments.

A lot of other countries are doing something similar with diary or other food products.

You don’t want to lose the capacity to produce vital products like wine or cheese in case some unexpected event happens.

What if 30% of all wineries close and you have a severe drought in a few years. It would result in a extreme humanitarian tragedy…

Those people then will buy less wine negating the entire point of this whole thing.

That would being down the market price which is exactly what they’re trying to avoid.

Maybe they could send/smuggle it to others countries (e.g. Scandinavia) and sell it at 50% of what they paid though.

The proselytizing angle in many of these offtopic comments take doesn’t help.

I feel similarly when I see RISC-V mentioned (at least 4 times out of 5) for instance.

Was anyone attacking not drinking in this thread?

> Every person not drinking is a benefit to society.

I think your personal experience is perfectly valid but that quite a jump. I would say moderate drinking is a net benefit to some societies in multiple different ways.

While everyone is different I personally find that I generally become less violent when I drink.

You have to say/do something extremely egregious for your parents to be affected in the same way.

I’d say their price gouging for RAM/Storage is even more egregious since lightning was way better than micro-USB back in the day. But yeah (then again you seem to be blaming Apple both for adopting USB-C and not adopting it at the same time?)

Some linguists argued that English is essentially a creole language which would explain this.

> isolated

I would say the opposite. Frisian etc. were much more isolated and therefore developed more conservatively.

> a dialect continuum

You do a bit, e.g. Scots which developed somewhat independently/in parallel to English.