The legal right is for all of Tesla's suppliers, service providers, partners, etc are allowed to "sympathy strike". This effectively exiles the company from doing business in the country. Tesla is not a particularly large employer in Sweden and does not seem to be particularly loved.
What they are doing (strikebreaker) is "legal" - but when they are removed from market by the sympathetic population, it will be an obvious outcome.
The surprise is that normally logical employers do not work this way in these countries. However, we've seen that emotional responses are often how Musk's companies operate. I expect it to end poorly for him in this case.
Sweden is not a large market, but events like this contribute to Tesla's reputational decline. The Nordic countries were some of the first and fastest to embrace Tesla. But a brand can be ruined faster than it can be built.
Oh, it's not an "interesting idea" that we're teetering on the edge of not being able to differentiate between machine-generated and human-generated content. It does seem that our AI learning models simply mimic our own thinking processes, absorbing and combining experiences to create results that sometimes outshine their origins.
The real question that'll soon dominate is, "How can we even tell the difference?"*
As an example; =maybe you have a family/friend group chat of 8 members and you're planning a birthday party or an event. If everyone is in the ecosystem, you can seamless share notes, todo's, hi-res pictures, videos, locations, etc.
Since for whatever reason your family has no idea what Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp are - you take the one person that's not on iMessages (and so preventing the group from using the tools) out of the group and say "Make sure to update so and so on the Notes here" or something. It's a practical decision. Often, that one Android user is the only one on Signal or WhatsApp. So to share pictures, you make a group of everyone on iMessage and send the videos and album over, and then send a separate WhatsApp to that person.
And sometimes you accidentally forget to send that seperate message.
The right answer is to all agree on a fully featured messaging app (For most non-US that's WhatsApp), or for the default messaging to be upgraded.
Then you get to RCS - which Google is now pushing, after going through a dozen (or two?) of their own attempts to lock users in with a bewildering array of conflicting messaging apps.
Apple should support it, although it's a bit rich to see Google try to "shame" Apple into it only because the failed at their execution.
> Since for whatever reason your family has no idea what Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp are
The reason is lack of interest in the details of their very important daily-use tools, instead defaulting to what they are handed.
Happens for many reasons, but none have ever been compelling enough to me to not care about what goes into my vehicle, communications, housing etc and then complain afterward that I didn't know.
There's no moral hazard if we pay out depositors and let the bank fail. The big "problem" in 2008 was that the bailed out banks were made whole with equity injections and then continued to grow. (Although the government did quite well on those investments).
SVB is dead. Shareholders are getting zero. The losses are not being socialized. But because we don't want a bank run on every regional bank, let's make depositors whole.
Why even bother with the fiction and payroll of the FDIC and a $250k limit and FDIC insurance premiums if there is always an implicit taxpayer bailout?
Obviously that insurance costs something, and the moral hazard is that both bank owners and depositors of banks with lax standards get to financially benefit from lower costs due to all federal taxpayers subsidizing their risk.
Anytime taxpayers give money, they are tilting the incentives such that the risk of the loss being bailed out is now going to be underpriced, because it will be assumed a bailout is coming.
If the goal is to have no depositor in the US ever lose any money, then the government should just give everyone an account they can transfer money into and out of. It will earn no interest, and no bank owners will profit from the taxpayers’ subsidy.
The moral hazard is that if depositors know they'll always be made whole then they'll keep their deposits in riskier institutions and therefore executives who are taking on undue risk will win at the expense of the insurance provider. (I think this is probably what lotsofpulp was saying in a different way.)
The general public doesnt care about the shareholders. For the public, a bailout is a bailout. By lending money to that bank, depositors took a risk and participated in the bank's business. It was NOT a state bank. It did not pay any taxes, fees, or anything else to the public's treasury more than the $250k per account insurance. If it did, you would be right - everything could have been rescued to the order of that insurance. But there is no such insurance over $250k.
> make depositors whole
It seems that the big money people affected by this chose this nonsensical, archaic term to use in place of 'bailout' so that people wont react. It really doesnt work and it looks way, way nonsensical.
There is zero precedent for clawbacks from on demand accounts at a regulated financial institution. This isn't even a "capital B" Bankruptcy, so I have doubts clawbacks would be legal.
That would also throw gasoline on the fire as people cease to trust even withdrawn money as whole. It's now in your interest to get your money out of any bank showing any weakness as early as possible.
Clawback SVB money Monday and we'll have a run on First Republic Tuesday and possibly 20 other institutions by the end of the week until we get to Ally and that will empty the FDIC piggybank.
Which is why the cooler heads at the FDIC try to make all depositors whole. Hopefully they can find someone to take SVB's assets on in HTM valuation and maybe some government equity in exchange for ownership. (Remember the government made money on its equity deals in 2008).
Return for an Iphone 14 Pro or just Iphone 14. My partner did the same thing. If you don't want the big screen and fancy triple camera system, get the cheaper options. They will still be rocketship fast with long battery life and beautiful screens.
Caught a medium severity case of omicron almost exactly a year ago when I was triple vax'd.
Took the bivalent booster about 2 months ago then went on a cruise and directly after to re:invent.
Since then had multiple exposures with people around me getting week long fevers. So far I had something in my system that made me feel "slightly off" - but nothing worse.
Yay antibodies.
I'm a big believer in "more antibodies the better" - but I am also on the side of "COVID amnesty". The pandemic was an immensely scary time for everyone, and got co-opted by politics of all stripes. We need to forgive each other and move on.
I now support everyone's choice - with the standard exceptions (Childhood vaccines, don't go out when sick, respect others).
> The pandemic was an immensely scary time for everyone
I was in a truck fixing heavy equipment at mines, construction sites, oil & gas pads, and the only thing that changed was I could calculate drive time based on mileage because most everyone was at home. I didn't get fake safety gear or a big bonus check for sitting at home.
Not everyone was scared. Mine sites were great because behind the gate everyone was normal. Unlike the OSHA scaremongers, MSHA eventually released guidance which said roughly, "Policies to stay home when sick are always in effect and miners are always safe and keep being safe. And safety."
One mine site had their yearly pig roast with tables under a tent that Spring, and everyone was shoulder to shoulder, no masks, no gloves, no gel stations. It was awesome.
Wastewater facilities are almost always run by local government. I expect it takes time to get buy in for a project like this. I didn't see if there was a grant to cover the testing, but you at very least need a worker to package up samples and mail them to a lab.
Still, this is tremendously useful where there is coverage, and looks like enough data to make sampling type of conclusions. Hopefully we'll eventually see some kind of network effect.
For example, I'm in the NYC area - and Newark NJ has coverage. There is enough overlap that I expect flu and covid curves (including strains) to be close enough to be interesting.
With fewer people commuting to work there's less overlap, but enough new yorkers have family in NJ and vice versa that I suspect suspect Newark should be pretty accurate for NYC +/- 5-15% with a lag time of a week max.
What force feedback in addition would you have in mind?