You could buy Hollywood movies on iTunes before Netflix streaming even launched, and iTunes wasn't first either. Movielink launched in 2002, and it was literally a joint venture of Paramount, Sony, MGM, Universal, and Warner Bros. The studios built their own digital delivery platform years before Netflix got into streaming. It flopped, but 'getting Hollywood on board' had already happened.

Netflix pioneered plenty of things. This wasn't one of them.

So any scammer will just use some stolen keys or id & creditcard info and gets easy access to your phone, and legit users will have to jump through stupid hoops including a 24 hour wait period.

They haven't added a single worthwhile feature to android in 5 years and yet their enshittification programme is working fine.

I would say the Neo looks great for this price range, I agree with that, but you are kind of underselling the PC a little.

N150 laptops are usually wayyy cheaper than that. At the 599 range there are decent options with Ryzen CPU's, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD and reasonable build quality. Especially HP and lenovo have some pretty decent build quality devices in this range.

And really with apple repair costs and quality issues you should include applecare+ for $140 as a necessary addition for any macbook.

In my experience it's really hard to review AI generated code though. The problem is that LLM's whole thing is that they generate tokens that 'look correct'.

If I see a junior's code with a ton of mistake I can spot that from a mile away. LLM generated code looks really good initially, then when you get into the nitty gritty you find out that it can be absolutely riddled with mistakes that are completely non-obvious.

Then the second issue is that it can generated absolutely enormous amounts of such 'visually good looking' code and it will make sure to pass any tests.

LLM's basically are writing review-resistant code and it requires extremely good knowledge of the codebase and company to properly review such code.

I find it really hard to understand how this is going to end well.

The ability of shitty engineers to generate enormous amounts of vibe coded lines vastly outstrips the ability of seniors to review it.

You will just end up tying up all of your senior's time if you want to review properly.

Trademarks are pretty much dead anyway. First hit on google is all that matters.

The thing is, if it ever comes out that there was any coordination on that based on police actions that's a crime for everyone involved. Potentially a very serious crime.

You are literally risking prison to prevent some fine on microsoft that has unlimited money, and prosecutors and judges are no idiots and it may very well end up working against your company.

This is not like the mafia either where microsoft will take care of you for life for taking the fall. Microsoft will just throw you under the bus and that is that.

Isn't that what got Travis Kalanick kicked out of uber? They had this global data kill switch that made french authorities angry and they put up two french Uber execs facing charges of up to 5 years in prison (not for obstruction but for a laundry list of things), after which suddenly Uber lawyers came up with the requested documents and Uber suddenly found itself able to comply. And they were saying it was just a temporary glitch and no files were ever deleted.

It would be a hilariously dumb strategy because microsoft japan is a japanese company. Imagine trying to argue in a US court as a multi-billion dollar US corporation that you have no access to your own email that you were happily using until a day earlier but suddenly since there is a subpoena you magically lost access. You'd be going to prison dude. Doesn't matter if you are 'following orders' if it's a criminal matter. These execs owe nothing to microsoft and are going to throw anyone at microsoft under the bus to prevent going to prison.

Probably not really bribes. In general the abuse of a monopoly is illegal in many countries - even without bribes and such. In their communications they can find things like evidence of deliberately using one monopoly to strengthen another or even straight up confessions that they know it is illegal.

Very unwise to turn a civil matter into criminal obstruction.

Consumer surveys show people perceive conventional meat as tastier and healthier than lab-grown alternatives.

The perception is just nonsense, given that practically nobody has tried this stuff yet, and there are potentially many thousands of variants with different taste and structure coming.

The article really glosses over that key fact: It is effectively impossible to buy right now.
Even in this thread you see people thinking that soy burgers (like impossible burger) are the same thing, but they are quite different.

Lab-grown meat is real meat. It might be a type and consistency of meat that is different from any other meat on the market now, but it is very much meat.
Lets see what happens when it actually reaches store shelves in any kind of volume.

You pay your cashier at Walmart a lot of money too. Just she never actually gets that money. Unless you hire sole proprietors, which most people don't, you don't pay your electrician directly generally. Usually you pay the company that hands them a much lower amount.

Attorneys of any quality typically cost 300+ though. And they often stretch hours, hand off hours to interns and double book clients.

For both electricians and attorneys there is still the issue that they often don't fill up 40 hours per week though.

By the way, Nexperia was hardly a very profitable company, it was just a spin-off of the 'uninteresting' parts of NXP. Sold.to make some cash. This basic component manufacturing was going to china eventually anyway and nobody really cares about this. However they need to operate within dutch law and what mister zhang did was not. That's all. Not sure why you are so stuck up about defending some corrupt chinese businessman that even china put in prison for that.

As for chinese consequences, china did nothing against netherlands in response. US and Germany are much harder affected because their car industry doesn't have components to easily switch to.

You said "Dutch already admitted publicly that they didn't think this grab through." and that your source is the minister himself. Show us the quote.

They already did. Turns out that when you're not a shit tier eurocrat who thinks that people can't just do things without his bureaucratic approval... you can just do things.

If you read your article, it just states they sourced 'wafers' for one type of product and even that one is far from production state. They are nowhere near being ready to just switch to a different supply chain. As I said, you can manufacture these products (and get them certified for global care manufacturing), just it isn't just 'lets order some new wafers'.

Yes, Reuters and the relevant minister in Netherlands are Chinese.

I listened to his talk (Karremans) in Dutch in front of parliament. Show me the exact quote what you are referring to.

Most of product development was in PRC as well.

Oh Hamburg and Manchester are in China now? You are flat out wrong mate.

Just a little correction: NXP is the original company where Nexperia was split out of. Zhang Xhuezheng was CEO of Nexperia, not NXP.