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This is how you fight greed-flation Pepsi products are being removed from Carrefour’s shelves in Europe over “unacceptable price increases,” including Doritos and Quaker cereals as well as the company’s famed cola.
Yesterday I posted about how sanctions against China are very very dumb. Here is another good example of why. Elon Musk dismissed BYD in 2011 by laughing at their products during a Bloomberg interview. “Have you seen their car?” Musk quipped. “I don’t think it’s particularly attractive, the technology is not very strong. And BYD as a company…
Now think about what the data’s telling us. Macro indicators, micro indicators—things are just fine. Well-being—things are crushing, terrible, people are in despair and ruin. This is the Great Divergence in action. How can this be, though? How can these statistics all disagree? Remember, well-being data was invented because GDP and its ilk faced a…
Just like the ESP8266’s popularity exploded when it was added to the Arduino IDE, we’ve got high hopes for the CH32 family in the coming months.
The leadership of ASML had resisted these sanctions because they said it wouldn’t work: what would happen is that China would learn how to make the machines themselves. What he didn’t say, but it is true, is that ASML would not just lose the Chinese market, they would eventually lose the world market anywhere that…
The team overcame a longstanding obstacle that has caused grief for graphene researchers for decades. Semiconductors require a band gap, across which electrons might or might not be able to jump. Graphene’s lack of a band gap meant that many scientists expected graphene electronics to be doomed – until now. “We now have an extremely…
Yet there’s potentially a more sinister angle. California Forever aligns suspiciously with a cultish dystopian movement to build so-called “network states”—private zones where tech zillionaires can abandon democratic society to live under the rule of their own private micro governments. The secret plot to assemble vast swaths of land and build a new city fits…
If you’re not happy with the spec, change it. But once there’s a spec, goodenough is good enough.
Add these factors together: how do you run a society with a constantly, rapidly increasing subset of the population long-term ill? Frankly, it doesn’t make any sense. It’s not only a moral issue; yes, I believe it’s wrong to forcibly infect everyone with a vascular disease with unknown long-term health effects over and over again.…
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