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Does not look Roman.


Hard to tell the size, but based on the tree doesn't seem all that giant either.


It looks barely 2:1 scale, IMO big but hardly giant:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebr...


> In the post, captioned "Bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife"

The "Roman" aspect is the tradition not the style I assume.


The population of EU is roughly 450 million compared to 330 million in the US.


Yes, however due to how homogenous the US is in comparison to the EU it is a lot easier to market products there.

I definitely don't expect Apple to come to the conclusion that they should pull out of the EU, just suggesting that the US 330M population is easier to target than the EUs 450M, and that therefore the US market (rightfully) probably weighs higher than the EU.


Funny to use that homogeneity of the market as an argument here. The EU is the very institution that is working to make the market more homogeneous in Europe, and the DMA is part of that same goal.

The US is easier to target because the EU has stronger consumer protections and stronger laws against monopolies (and other forms of market distortion). The reason Apple has a harder time targeting the EU is because the US is weak, not because it's more homogeneous.


> Funny to use that homogeneity of the market as an argument here. The EU is the very institution that is working to make the market more homogeneous in Europe, and the DMA is part of that same goal.

Regardless of EU efforts, the EU can never be as homogenous of a market as the US. Even if all laws become uniform across the whole of the EU and there are no longer VAT, legal incorporation, etc. differences (probably ot happening in our lifetimes) if nothing else, any company has to translate all their content, apps, websites, etc. to the respective language(s - yes, there are countries with more than one official language, a few of them in fact) of each EU country to be able to cover the whole EU market.


I’m not sure why companies think it’s okay to not translate products in my language just because I could possibly know some other.


Money


Marketing campaigns also often reference culture, which differs heavily across the EU.


“Extra charges based on income” - does this mean that if you earn more, you pay more for electricity?



So you're now required to share your tax documents with the local utility company, and they will charge you a monthly fee just for earning more money?


No, the plan was changed to have a fixed monthly fee in addition to the cost per kWh for all, but lower income households will have a lower fixed monthly fee.


How do they distinguish those lower-income households without referring to tax documents?


I have no idea about this particular program, but similar programs already exist for other utilities, you can look at how they do it (open the "What information do I need to provide..." section): https://www.att.com/internet/access/


Previous proposals would have required everyone to provide income data to their utility which the utility would verify “somehow” (never fully articulated AFAIK)

The latest proposal (which has been accepted by the CPUC) has fixed charges applied for everyone (much lower than previously proposed fixed charges) with discounts available based on existing low-income programs ( https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financ... )

So yes in order to get the discount low-income customers need to declare income and may need to verify that income with tax documents (depending on how much fraud these program plan to tolerate) but other customers do not need to provide income information.


Yes. But put differently "if you earn less you pay less." It depends one what you call the "normal" price.


Still gives incorrect code to the following prompt - the description is correct but not the code. I have yet to find one LLM that gives the correct code. This is the prompt:

“Write C code to calculate the sum of matrix elements below the secondary diagonal.“


This feels as much likely to be a prompt problem as a 'bad answer from a model' problem.


I wouldn't know what "secondary diagonal" refers to myself, but if the model correctly describes the problem and then follows it up with incorrect code I would still say that's an issue with the model not the prompt.


Americans call their ICBM “peacekeeper”, while renaming Russian ICBM to “Satan”


NATO reporting names use common starting letters for different categories of weapons. For surface-to-surface missiles all begin with the letter S. Most of the names chosen wouldn't raise eyebrows: Sapwood, Sasin, Sibling, Stone... Some of them seem to have an appreciative "cool factor": Skyfall, Saber, Stiletto... But generally there isn't a derogatory theme to these code names. For instance, codenames for fighter jets include Foxhound, Firebird, Fencer, and Felon. Some of these are really cool names that could have been given to western jets by marketting while others seem derogatory. There's not much of a pattern here.


I've always thought the worst thing about ICBM's is the hypocrisy of the name too!

But seriously these names are pretty much random, sometimes 'cool' sometimes not, just sequential NATO designations like Falcon, Felon, etc.


Pulse oxymeters exist for at least 30 years. What kind of patent does Masimo hold?


https://patents.google.com/patent/US10945648B2/en?oq=US-1094...

It's fairly specific about an arrangement of sensors with specific capabilities.


If they make a version with only three photodiodes this patent will not apply.


This is interesting? Can you share more information on that?


So the rumors that she has strong ties with the CIA are not unfounded?


I think it's pretty safe to assume by now that US state-side counterintelligence has full control over AI safety circles, and given that everything is a nail when you're a hammer, the spooks probably consider these people domestic terrorists and process them accordingly, including active and passive prophylaxis. I mean, what proof do you need when people like OP lose sleep and brag about meeting the spooks a handful of times like it's the most important event of their lives! I guess it must be both empowering AND embarrassing for the spooks to have this situation turn into shit.


If there wasn’t COVID pandemic, and mRNA vaccines did not become widely used for another decade, ms Kariko would never get the deserved recognition.


* Dr. Karikó


are we in the 1700s? being a PhD does not mean I have to use your honorific every time you are mentioned


When someone is a PhD, and you know this, and you choose to use ms/mr/mrs instead of dr (or omitting an honorific altogether, the most common, unobjectionable choice), it can easily be interpreted as condescension.


Dude, PhDs give a fuck about PhDs. At least in the States. I would find it odd to be addresses this way. When I addressed my phd supervisor the first time with professor doctor XYZ, he just said, I am Bill. My name is Bill!


Also like the one time you most typically use the Dr honorific is specifically when you are speaking about the person in reference to their profession.


How do you know if someone is a PhD? They'll tell you.


female version of the napoleon complex


Ms?


As someone living in the EU, I can say your comparison between Lysenkoism and EU grants is fantastic.


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