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It didn't impact that small island inhabited only by penguins, so it's not technically a "global" recession, ok?

"it drove right through my kitchen wall. And I hadn't even ordered one!"

I like it a lot but I need two physical SIM slots so it doesn't work for me, unfortunately. But great idea and love the price drop

Thanks, I understand better now.

On a related note, I wish I had known of the "just because I said it and I did it, doesn't mean I succeeded" line of defense when I was a kid

Meta argued that "the FTC’s case rests almost entirely on emails (many more than a decade old) allegedly expressing competitive concerns" but suggested that this is only "intent" evidence, "without any evidence of anticompetitive effects."

Not sure I understand the argument. if I write that I'm going to buy another company instead of competing with them, then I go ahead and I do buy that exact company, are they arguing that the two things are not necessarily related?

That's true but at least one of these things needs to happen:

1. the forklift costs billions and consumes tons of energy, but it can lift a whole mountain, which no group of humans can do

2. the forklift helps a team of 10 do the work of 50 and, while still relatively expensive, it costs less than the 40 people it's replacing

3. the forklift becomes an inexpensive commodity and it augments human capabilities and creates new possibilities for society as a whole

This is roughly what happened with mainframes to personal computers to mobile devices. LLMs are stuck between 1 and 2, they are not good enough forklifts to lift a mountain and not cheap enough to replace 40 people and save money. There are some hints that they could at one point move to 3 but the large players that could make it happen are starting to be scared by the amount of investment to get there.

On a related note, lot of people are being fooled by this hype machine mixing GenAI with good "old" machine learning and you now read about all these "AI wins" like "student discovers new galaxies with AI" or "scientist discover new medicines with AI" that make it sound like these people just asked ChatGPT "how would you go about discovering a new galaxy?" or "could you make up a new drug for me pretty please?".

yes, but with at least $100M of additional VC funding

"organic AI"

seems like he learned his negotiation skills from the scene in Blazing Saddles where the black sheriff points a gun to his own head. "Do what he says! Do what he says!"

Apple is going to become a US company? This is yuuge!

Brain damage,just moves hands and can barely speak coherently.... Wait, did he acrually have a stroke?

More likely, they have been discussing about maybe starting official talks about what it would take to prepare, hypothetically.

But that doesn't mean there aren't alternatives to most big tech services that could be setup quickly. I personally ditched Amazon (shop and video... AWS doesn't depend on me personally) Meta and most of Google without sweating too much. Also, while convenient, none of their consumer tech is critical; we've lived without any of it until recently enough, so we could probably adapt to do without it for a while if we had to.

The parts I think (and I'm not an expert by any means) where Europe is completely vulnerable are payment/banking systems and advanced electronics.

On electronics, there's also China, which isn't a great alternative to depend on... But if Trump decided to weaponize SWIFT or the major credit cards, could he switch most of our banking system off?