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by qwytw 2y ago
> can't afford the services, so they don't have to be serviced at all. If that's true how could: > The USA generally has higher 5-year cancer survival rates Still be true? Not providing any services to a significant pro
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by qwytw 2y ago
> compared to the EU's 81.5 years with that kind of difference in obesity levels is actually surprising It's probably considerable higher in EU15 i.e. if we exclude all the poor (currently or previously) ex-socialist Central an
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by qwytw 2y ago
I think it applies only to aids for specific companies? e.g. if all companies that satisfies some requirements (e.g. N number of employees/new jobs , specific geographic area, industry etc.) cam receive the aid it's legal.
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by qwytw 2y ago
> so-called tax havens, which generally tend to be poorer countries Smaller, not poorer. Unless you think that current or historical "tax havens" like Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland etc. were/are poorer than
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by qwytw 2y ago
Aren't they already getting 22% of it?
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by qwytw 2y ago
> Is that why the average suicide rate is lower in majority Muslim countries? Awareness presumably increases suicide? Either you think that the majority of the population in Malaysia or the US identify identify as LGBT+ or you're re
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by qwytw 2y ago
Did they? Can you share the text of the indictment instead of asking meaningless low effort questions?
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by qwytw 2y ago
> "filling up your car with electricity gets you money back". (rare, but more common last year) At home? Sure. Public chargers can have pretty significant margins, though.
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by qwytw 2y ago
I mean in normal markets you'd expect price-to-rent ratio to up to 20x. If it's higher buying probably doesn't make a lot of sense unless you expect prices to continue growing at a very fast rate (which of course makes it too
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by qwytw 2y ago
> Is a market where housing supply meets demand, housing is a depreciating asset. How so? Supposedly house prices increased by 50% in 5 years there. So obviously it does not meet demand... > Why would you want to buy if renting is che
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by qwytw 2y ago
> Taiwan is full of very nice new high-rise development that contains units with lots of bedrooms But presumably you'll never be able to buy and will have to rent forever? Real estate is significantly more expensive in Taiwan relati
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by qwytw 2y ago
> Owning a constant 70% of a market that’s growing consistently each year is not saturation - was the portable music market stagnant by 2007? iPod sales grew by 18% in 2006 and 17% in 2007. It was 140% 2006 and 373% in 2005. So yeah they
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by qwytw 2y ago
> He shows real data, you use ChatGPT To be fair using only Q4 figures was a mistake, since iPod sales were always the highest in Q1 because of the holiday season (not as noticeable for Macs). > ChatGPT to pull up (false) info we all
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by qwytw 2y ago
Yeah picking Q4 in my previous comment wasn't fair (Apple didn't seem to release FY revenue by segment which is a bit annoying and iPod sales were generally much higher in Q1 No argument about what happened after the iPhone (speci
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by qwytw 2y ago
> MacBook belies that you seem to not realize how insignificant those sales were to Apple’s revenue Unless we look at the actual data (i.e. Mac revenue was always bigger and was a actually growing at very fast pace unlike iPod by the tim
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by qwytw 2y ago
> The first iPhone was so bad that “the Google phone” It was prototype though. A lot of people could see the potential but the device itself was pretty bad.
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by qwytw 2y ago
> Apple was always going to own its own fabrication capabilities I'm not sure that was a foregone conclusion back in 2005-2007. If anything Apple was forced to design their own chips because nobody else was able to offer what they w
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by qwytw 2y ago
> So it seems like Apple was looking to build their own processors even before the iPhone became huge So but possibly only because they had no alternatives. After all building your own chips is a huge long-term investment with all of ris
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by qwytw 2y ago
Yes, but that's just an outcome of Intel's/Otellini incompetence (in that specific case) rather than anything else. He used bad data to make an (arguably) bad decision.
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by qwytw 2y ago
> There's "cutting prices" and then there's selling BELOW COST, Otellini himself later claimed that they miscalculated the cost regardless of volume.
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> In 2006, Problem is that they had already decided to get rid of XScale due to "reasons" by that point.
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by qwytw 2y ago
> There wasn't a world where Intel pays for an ARM architecture license, designs Apple's cores, They had an ARM license and they had their own high-end cores that pretty much all PDAs used. In the early 2000s if you wanted a hi
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by qwytw 2y ago
Pretty much all PDA's (even devices like the first gen Kindle) were using Intel's ARM chips. There is no reasons to believe that whatever Apple needed would somehow have been extremely different from what their other clients used
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by qwytw 2y ago
If Apple went with Intel from the beginning I doubt they would have ended up developing their own chips and they'd probably be just stuck with x86 on Mac XSScale/whatever on mobile. > ARM chips when they don't own an archi
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by qwytw 2y ago
How could Firefox as a company afford to compete with Chrome or do anything without any revenue? Unfortunately Google's money is almost the only reason why Firefox is still a thing...
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by qwytw 2y ago
> The reason they lost the mobile market is to a large extent because their chip design was bad. Or more directly because they scraped XScale since they didn't want to compete with other ARM designers. Wouldn't this be the op
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by qwytw 2y ago
Isn't Meteor Lake made by TSMC (at least some parts like the GPU)? Which would explain the capacity constraints.
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by qwytw 2y ago
> Intel didn't have big fabs 20 years ago, They had leading edge ARM chips though. If Apple used XScale (i.e. the default choice had Intel not decided to get rid of it due to "reasons") for the iPhone that would have signi
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by qwytw 2y ago
Is this sarcasm? Only way the ROC could do that is by declaring that the ROC no longer exists and that they are now an independent state of Taiwan. Even if they didn't frame it exactly that way from PRC's perspective any attempt b
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by qwytw 2y ago
So you're saying that Russia has some inherent, indisputable & permanent claim over all theory territory of every single country that surrounds it? And attempt by the people living in those regions to do anything about that is an u

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