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"Amazon representatives were invited to attend an employment committee hearing on "Working Conditions in Amazon Warehouses" on Jan. 23, but did not show up, claiming that the notice of about a month had been too short."

“It is unreasonable for members to be lobbied by Amazon while at the same time being deprived of the right to represent the interests of European citizens and inquire about claims of breaches of fundamental rights enshrined in EU Treaties and EU labor laws”

The ban seems very reasonable!

It boils down to

- Labor relations (unions in Arizona pushed back agains Taiwanese workers build the factory)

- Local partners (Denso/Sony and Toyota investing in Japanese project, TSMC on its own in the US)

- Subsidies (Japan delivered on promises, US didn't)

- Ambition (12nm-28nm in Japan, 4nm in US)

It seems the US gov is not very serious about it while Japanese gov surely is. It sounds self-inflicted.

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Anecdotal evidence from France and UK doesn't agree with "isn't generally true outside of the US". When a diverse group of people is involved it's way more likely to use WhatsApp (or Signal to a lesser extent) outside the US, but iMessage is still used a lot IME.

I don't think it's a new form of discrimination either, brand awareness and social position via brands is incredibly prevalent in teenagers and has been for a while.

It's not a great piece from FT.

It argues that "the root of maths chauvinism is a childlike craving for certainties, or at least probabilities, amid the flux of adult experience", which I kind of agree with. Certainty is indeed one of the appeal of mathematics.

Using Liz Truss as an example - she studied PPE at Oxford, not exactly a math heavy major - is beyond weird.

I don't understand the broader point Ganesh is trying to make.

At first I was surprised the economist would talk about the networking stack, but this is about social networking. The introverts bit makes much more sense.

Regarding the article it says "because they bring you new information, more infrequent and distant relationships (or “weak ties”) are more useful than close contacts." Mark Granovetter studied that in 1973 in The Strength of Weak Ties.

It's all WebKit on iOS and iPadOS

It's just The Times, not "The Times of London"

The Times != The New York Times

Looks really good! Maybe add in the title that it's MacOS only for now. There's options for local and cloud-based AI - which is nice. I'd be cool to see what's the compute cost of requests!

Well, it's a great example as Dr. Earl Haas patented the first tampons in the early 30s and nobody cared. He then sold the patent to a business woman that made it successful. So effectively a man invented it but failed to market it and sell it well.

"Funding/Support: This study was partly funded by the CCSA as a subcontract for a Health Canada grant to develop guidance for Canadians on alcohol and health."

BUT

"Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Stockwell reported receiving personal fees from Ontario Public Servants Employees Union for expert witness testimony and personal fees from Alko outside the submitted work. Dr Sherk reported receiving grants from Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) during the conduct of the study. No other disclosures were reported."

Where "Alko Inc is the national alcoholic beverage retailing monopoly in Finland."

> "Of course adding poison to your body is unhealthy and will affect mortality."

This is in contradiction with the basic principle of toxicology: "dosis sola facit venenum".

A "systematic review and meta-analysis of 107 cohort studies involving more than 4.8 million participants" cannot simply be shrugged away the way you do.