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Most things go out of business. That's why the franchising model exists. Local owners know their local market best and they take a calculated risk on it.

From what I understand, McDonald's franchisees can make 5-15% of gross revenue of their location. That's a decent return, along the lines of other investments. As with all investments, you may lose too.

Maybe? It's how McDonald's runs things too. They make the food centrally and ship it to franchises. They take on brand risk, food logistics at scale and so on. Franchisees deal with local demand, operations, hiring, local laws and so on.

It's not an exact 1:1, but that seems to be the model here. Tesla does the things that can scale (FSD, manufacturing, etc.) and operators do the things that can't.

They could, but running local operations isn't his forte, preference or interest, it seems. Even if he had a massive fleet of these, he'd have to navigate local laws, demand, operations and logistics.

His revealed preference is to run things centrally and at massive scales.

If McDonald's was profitable, they wouldn't try to franchise it.

That's what this is. You take on operating costs and you understand your local market. They own the brand.

And East Asia, especially Hong Kong since 2019.

For now anyway

He's been right this entire time and caught a lot of flack for it.

Unrelated, but you just reminded me of an old blog: Groklaw. I can't believe it's been over 10 years since it was active

As is git. I think it's intentional

Fellow Reason subscriber here. They're more balanced than most.

It's interesting to see them go after others for copying gameplay when they have done exactly the same: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/15/connections-ne...

What is echonewshub? Is this a reputable source? Their Privacy Policy seems incomplete and the T&C pages seems to have been generated by GPT

Daniel Rensch and others have said that Magnus has not seen chesscom cheating algorithms or lists. It had been a rumor in the chess world for a while that Hans has cheated before

I'm not sure what you're suggesting. This is the comment:

> FIRE has done way more for campus free speech issues this last decade or two ...

> You mean conservative speech? Or has FIRE actually defended speech they despised, like the ACLU used to?

It seems to imply that FIRE has done way more for conservative campus free speech issues. I supplied examples of times when FIRE supported non-conservative campus free speech. I'm not quite clear how else to read that comment, but would love your take.

I'm not sure why you're implying that FIRE "despises" speech; perhaps you see them as conservative. That said, here's are some recent situations in which FIRE has taken the side of what would be under the general progressive/liberal umbrella:

* https://www.thefire.org/cases/new-york-university-administra...

* https://www.thefire.org/cases/catholic-university-of-america...

* https://www.thefire.org/cases/suny-brockport-event-featuring...

There are more, for sure, but hopefully this points you in the right direction.

Zombocom. Anything is possible at Zombocom

Thanks for sharing. One thing caught my eye in that report. It says that 57% of Black and 61% of Hispanic respondents claim to have been fully vaccinated. The totals across 40 states in the US are 36% and 41% respectively [1]:

> Less than half of Black and Hispanic people have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose in nearly all states reporting data, including a number of states where less than a third have received a vaccine

I'm aware that polls have a skew, but I can't figure out how those numbers are so different, especially since the latter numbers are about people who have received at least one dose, not the full dose.

[1] https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-...

OP was talking about someone making the argument, not that it would be affirmed. That's what I was referencing, fwiw

This happened last year. The Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) hosted a discussion about this[1]

[1] https://www.news.com.au/sport/more-sports/john-adams-slams-a...

I don't find this so convincing.

Most normal usera may not be able to secure things effectively and they can still use the existing iCloud / Google Play infrastructure. That doesn't mean that other users, who want to manage their own data for one reason or another, shouldn't get the opportunity.

It's far more likely that building and maintaining this feature is not worth the development time for Apple and Google product teams at this point, since the possible market is small

No, the government did not remove the extradition law until September 2019, after proposing it in February 2019.

By then, many Hong Kongers had been protesting, arrested, beaten and worse. The reason we Hong Kongers did not and have not stopped is because there has been no justice for them.

That's the principle behind 5 demands, not 1 less.

The former Reddit employee in question accused the Green Party in the UK of transphobia, after they discovered she hired her own father as an election consultant, under an alias. At the time, he had been charged with rape and child abuse, and has since been convicted.

This is all public information.

The post was removed after a few hours, not immediately. It was also removed because Challenor was referenced at the bottom of the article, not because of anything in the Reddit post itself

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

AWS too. A large portion of it is written in Java

Wall Street punishes companies that are not profitable or are losing money. Consumers can make that happen by walking away when companies are anti-consumer. If they do, profits fall and Wall Street would hold that company accountable.

Why do you think Zoom hired security professionals and bought Keybase? Why do you think Facebook reacted after the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Why do you think TikTok separated itself from ByteDance in China?

Even with the most federal oversight, US banks and financial firms tanked the economy and then got paid for it. And it's not a left-right thing; it's a them-us thing. And if you don't believe that, you only need to take a look at the Panama Papers scandal.

Whatever the government decides, they rarely, if ever, provide an explanation or recourse either: the Patriot Act, Ahmad Arbury, TBTF, the assassination of Awlaki, snooping on Americans, Operation Fast and the Furious, the Pentagon's missing billions, Epstein's death, etc.

I'm as pro-democracy as they come, but the belief that the government is somehow (and always) more accountable than companies strains credulity. Companies are accountable to Wall Street, which implies they're accountable to their consumers too. Shake Shack did not have to return the funds they received recently, but they did, because of media attention.

If that's all that needs to be done, Google should update their boilerplate responses to include that.

Right now, for multiple developers, they're appearing to be obtuse. For Google, it just adds to their reputation as being robotic and unfriendly, and it's gaining traction.

The quote is here:

> 这次我们的疫情其实各方面对我们信息的披露是不满意的，我们既有披露不及时的一面，也有我们利用很多有效信息来完善我们的工作不到位的一面。前面这个披露的不及时，这一点大家要理解，因为它是传染病，传染病有传染病防治法，它必须依法披露，作为地方政府，我获得这个信息以后，授权以后，我才能披露，所以这一点在当时很多不理解。

Google translated:

> In this epidemic, all parties are not satisfied with the disclosure of our information. We have not only disclosed the information in a timely manner, but also used a lot of effective information to improve our work. The previous disclosure is not timely, everyone should understand this because it is an infectious disease, and infectious diseases have infectious disease prevention and control laws. It must be disclosed in accordance with the law. As a local government, after I obtain this information, I can only disclose it after authorization, so This was not understood at the time.

This has already happened in HK, as Hong Kongers use masks to protect their identity and to express themselves during the protests