Yeah, that’s the problem. In my estimation a large part of it is because Christianity, especially as practiced in the United States, is a cultural phenomenon. Evangelicalism has won the popularity contest, and it’s not moored by anything. There’s an uptick in new Catholics and Orthodox converts though, which are more “moored” if you will by tradition and at least some kind of doctrinal constraint.
Yeah, when the president starts a television network, gets a broadcast license from the FCC (under which he must meet “public interest” requirements), spins up a late night program, and then begins deliberately spreading misinformation to score political points, then yes, threaten to revoke his license.
Does this get us closer? Pretty uninformed but seems that better functional predictions make it easier to pick out which variants actually matter versus the ones just along for the ride. Step 2 probably is integrating this with proper statistical fine mapping methods?
Does it work? Sure. You have to ask more questions. How much does it cost to keep it working? How much would it cost to upgrade? If we do nothing, along what sort of timeline can we expect it to stop working, or become cost prohibitive to maintain?
Low quality clickbait article. “I like my editor because I’m used to it” ok man, do you want an award? The claims about the limitations of vscode and cursor’s code navigation abilities aren’t even accurate. The author just doesn’t know how to use them. There’s a reason it’s popular, and it’s not “everyone is dumber and less talented than me.”
This all seems like obvious byproducts of an ephemeral photo based platform. Beyond these, there's also the shitty "explore" feature that pushes sexually explicit content that can't be disabled. Surprised that's not mentioned here.
Surely behavior of children on a busses plays _some_ role in this decision. Not sure how they would even gather stats on this but busses in my youth were total zoos.
Further, schools near me won't allow many children to walk home even within a safe walking distance with parental consent for (and I quote) "liability reasons". Absurd.
The multiple daily submissions about DOGE are getting a bit tiresome and are offtopic for HackerNews IMO. Unless they're doing something technically interesting I'm not sure why it has to be posted here. Judging by the fact that they make the front page daily I seem to be in the minority though, so whatever.
This is hilarious. The US and Trump can continue down this path and force the EU to the table, and there’s precisely 0 anything anyone can do about it. No need to bother with any international bodies.
Yeah kinda. The article is right, core issue is no ability to reclaim production-side VAT costs like EU competitors can because of how taxes work in the US. My position is the EU should bend a little and help the US out here by either lowering their tariffs to match ours (2.5%) or creating a special mechanism for US companies to reclaim production costs similar to how EU companies can reclaim VAT. It's unreasonable to expect the US to completely restructure its entire tax system just to get 'equal' treatment, especially when we're supposed to be close trading partners. The current system effectively punishes us for having a different tax structure than the EU prefers.
When EU manufacturers sell products to other EU countries, they get their domestic VAT rebated, pay no tariffs, and then charge the destination country's VAT. When US manufacturers sell to EU countries, we have no VAT to get rebated, must pay significant tariffs (often 10%), and then charge the destination country's VAT. The end result is US products face a significantly higher total tax burden in EU markets compared to EU-made products, while EU products entering the US face much lower tariffs (often just 2.5%). You can explain the technical mechanics of VAT all day long, but it doesn't change this basic mathematical disadvantage for US exporters. Telling us we "just don't understand how VAT works" is condescending and deflects from addressing this real competitive imbalance.
> Sprint and T-Mobile – which have merged since the investigation began – face fines of more than $12 million and $80 million, respectively. AT&T is fined more than $57 million, and Verizon is fined almost $47 million
This seems fundamentally unserious. To scope it, Verizon's gross profit for the twelve months ending December 31, 2023 was $79.087B.
I have heated portions of my home with S9s for a while. I know a guy who heats his pool with ASIC miners. It's not hard, but it is more expensive than conventional methods (additional cost not totally offset by proceeds). You should do it if you're interested.
Disclaimer: A lot of his stuff is pretty out there, and some of it may be outright wrong. I don’t recommend following his advice, but a lot of his writing is at least interesting.
I don't buy this. Customers needed no convincing from Apple. Even where iOS isn't dominant they saw their dropped and expensive SMS/RCS messages and picked up whatsapp.
Apple only has dominant marketshare in the US. Everywhere else in the world people use Whatsapp. Why didn't they all hop on the RCS train? Because it sucks to implement and is a black box to use. Google was stuck with SMS because of their inability to implement a cohesive messaging app, despite owning and distributing an operating system. So what did they do? Pitched sob stories and got the europeans to threaten to regulate. Shitty move. They should have just built something good.