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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz 3 Dec \ on: The EU single market’s elephant in the room - FT econ
I'ts also ironic for anyone with a memory before the EU existed, that there was probably a lot of easy access to trade and tourism from all the same countries, including to and from the UK. All you needed was a passport and you could happily fly or drive from country to country, get a stamp in your passport and enjoy the local specialities of each country and bring much back with you, up to a certain amount.
Hypermarkets were invented for the purpose and everyone benefited enourmously from the simplicility and commonsense of rules and regulation on import, export and trade.
The Euro really brought nothing of benefit to the region to my knowledge.
I reserve a large dose of skepticism for the genius of the Oracle of Omaha, and not being from the US, I'm pretty ignorant on this history between them. But seeing Dell put there money where their mouth is reinvigorates my hope for humanity.
Europe and the UK seem pretty close to circling the drain of civilization, and I'm not aware of any examples of companies that would dream of similar initiatives. The dialogue between government and industry doesn't even seem to exist.
Benefitting the future of a nation, shows the world that corporations can straddle the fence of self-interest and at least invest back into itself through future generations. My hat's off.
For some reason when I read this I wasn't surprised that it's Dell that's doing this. Can't say I know much about them, other than they are nowhere near the size of some of the largest in tech, and makes me wonder why you haven't seen similar industry leaders that grew in the US to 10-100X Dell's market cap, make a similar gesture.
Beyond pure entertainment, what do you think the underlying meaning of an alien predator finding companionship with a Wayland-Yutani synthetic was all about, if any?
I had to re-examine the concept of reflexive qualatitive research. After that, I couldn't understand why any intelligent researcher would expect a language model to be reflexive.
The statement continued, “Reflexive qualitative research is a distinctly human practice, undertaken by humans, with or about humans (for example, through interviews, focus groups or textual data), and for the benefit of humans.."
Surely, reflexive qualitative research is undertaken by humans and directed by organizations and corporations?
We could simply summarize this as observer paradox.
Whenever you're not sure what to do, build another tower on Canrary Wharf.
Surely, this is what London needs.
Very true. Every one left London a long, long time ago for safer and affordable areas, then life in the safer and affordable areas became unaffordable, so they moved to the less safe, more affordable, and it goes on, all the way throughout the nation.
Add in some population expansion, you have an unfordable nation with no jobs, no growth, just a culture of capitalism on the way up, socialism on the way down.
The only deft or apt deployment I know, albeit rarely, is as a rhetorical hypthetical device, as in: Could you just f*** off?
Then again, I'm not much of an engineer. ; )
I'd recommend anything by zhangkejia (with subtitles)
I'm not sure whether it's your bag but if you felt like trying something different. Subject matter is quite ordinary with original story telling. I hear that's he's criticized for painting less glamarous view of societal change with his lense, and that this favors foreign audiences. I feel he's just an uncompromising director.
I salute my neighbor, Brussels, for destroying their regional economy.
I came here to sell the same racket.
ahhh! The old cherry pick police data and swap out one form of violent crime for another game.
1990/2003 Hmmm.
I was in a store that sold Lego packs and model kits yesterday. How can printed pieces of plastic cost that much?
Maybe it's also a great thing to not to have to attempt to project prowess and lead in every aspect.
Separate AI ecosystems with different standards and regulations will fragment global technology development. Innovation and interoperability will suffer from competing systems.
Not sure about this either.
Wouldn't fragmentation (alternative approaches to technological development) also benefit global innovation, as opposed to developing in lockstep? Sure, there are benefits to joint sharing of technology, but that doesn't seem to be reality in many areas.
My take is that leaving a meeting after chewing through key areas and allowing other members to continue discussions is a sign of maturity and realism. There's obviously a lot of areas that might be important to represent. Somehow I don't imagine that all nations of the globe were represented. That's significant in that we should consider all nations equal.
Interesting rant.
Well, you anticpated that I couldn't make much sense of music theory. Oddly though, it all made logical sense in terms of already knowing basics of how chords are formed on a fretboard. In terms of scales and musical notation, not sure I know much beyond that you are talking much about resonance. What do you use in music theroy if not your ear?
I don't really get your critique of contemporary, but I wasn't sure if that is a juxtaposition to be considered in light of classical music. Contemporary is post 1940's? Electrified?
Did Beethoven say (paraphrasing and translating) 'all music is frequency over time'?
In my mind, classical needs defining:
- Classical music = tradition / geography (scales, tunings, rhythms, instruments etc.)
- Classical = The use of elements of a classical music orchestra (as in classic rock.)
- Classical as in pre-modern tuning, as A = 440Hz became IEX/ISO standard in music technology, diffrentiating non-standard tunings to a modern contemporary / classical standard.
Interesting how DEEPSEEK3.1 and GROK4 seem to share a very similar strategy.
huhh.
Maybe not the same, but from looking at performance.
I have a general question. Hopefully it does not come across as ludicrous to an immunologist.
If both recombinant and live vaccines were studied (but not live-recombinant as I understand from the article) and were both found to have significant outcomes on the likelihood of stemming the onset of dementia, does this indicate that contracting shingles in its naturally occurring state would also presumably have a similar outcome?