I'm in Seattle at AWS and haven't encountered this attitude towards AI at all. All of my coworkers pretty much love using Cline and Kiro.

The US is not perfect by any measure, but your argument that the US doesn't have innovative nor "high-value" jobs is absurd beyond belief.

Playback is 100% handled by the device. The primary (and essentially only) benefit of H.264 is that almost every device in the entire world has an H.264 hardware decoder builtin to the chip, even extremely cheap devices.

AV1 hardware decoders are still rare so your device was probably resorting to software decoding, which is not ideal.

He's a director not a "in the trenches" researcher anymore. He's being paid for being a highly technical leader who enables and recruits researchers he employs to do great work, similar to Oppenheimer in a way.

Nina Teicholz is a bit of a controversial figure in the nutrition world so I'd advise people to take this with a grain of salt...

If I don't do any of the dodgy parts of that story but move to another EU country with children they'll also get free school, Healthcare and so on. For this to be "fair" you'd need some global EU contribution scheme OR nobody can move.

But then do the same people making the argument it's not fair to have paid zero taxes believe that welfare isn't "fair"?

it's not, but it's not the general case and also you realise this is the very opposite of the US: you get taxed when overseas (unless your a large corporation) and then get no benefits when returning because that would be communism.

That's a bit of an exaggeration, social security (state pension) and medicare (state healthcare for retirees) are not perfect but they're not terrible either.

If you were outside the U.S. for most of your working life, it’s unlikely you’d qualify for social security (requires 10 years of work paying into it).

You are correct, but this only applies because:

> Unlike the UK, the US levies capital gains tax on proceeds from the sale of a main residence.

I understand why it can feel unfair but by definition this is not "double taxing". The gains on the house were not taxed by the UK which is why he had to pay US taxes.

Phoenix has extremely wide and straight roads, with very few pedestrians, and very little rain or snow.

Compared to the entire world this is VERY anomalous, so I think we're still pretty far from "most people" using self-driving cars.

To be fair to Nintendo, they're very much still in the former category of making good products every few years. The switch was originally released 7 years ago, which is ancient in the world of consumer electronics.

While I don't fully disagree, I think Nintendo is slowly heading in that direction. I hope I'm wrong, as they're my favorite console company, and I'd hate to see them stop innovating and instead just release a slightly-beefier Switch for the next 5 years

Did you forget the Game Boy era or even the DS days where 3-7 models of each were released?

There’s 2 versions of the NES (plus two versions of the Famicom)

The SNES saw a smaller version released later

The Gameboy saw Pocket, Light, Color variants.

The GameBoy Advance had a flip model and a later variant with a better lit screen.

The Wii saw a few cost reduced models that lacked GameCube and WiFi.

The Wii U was released in two different versions with less storage on the white model.

The Switch has the Switch Lite and the newer OLED Switch.

The DS line had DS, DS Lite, DSi, 3DS, 2DS, 3DS XL, New 3DS, New 2DS and I think a New 3DS XL.

Plus they have partners who release console variants like the Sharp TV with built in console, the Sharp Famicom with built in disk drive, the GameCube that plays DVDs from Panasonic.

Nintendo releases a lot of versions of its systems.

Some of those devices you describe were different consoles and not just variants.

Gameboy color had games exclusive to it that wouldn't run in a gameboy, the DS/DSi/3ds were different consoles, even if few DSi exclusive games were released.

Yep, but part of the same line often and I’m sure I missed some devices out. The 64DD for example.

The point is that Nintendo has basically always done this.

Normal

Not really. No airplane was ever grounded by the FAA since the 1970s, when they grounded the McDonnell Douglas DC-10.

Since the merger, the FAA has grounded both of Boeing's new planes (The 787 Dreamliner and the 737 Max).

Boeing's safety record is objectively declining. They are shipping out airplanes with safety issues that are being found "in production". This is why their planes are being grounded (something that never happened to Boeing pre-merger).

The fact is that very people have been killed by Boeing planes, and you won't be killed in one either.

The FAA's job is to prevent that - to stop it before it happens. I don't at all object to them grounding planes.

Number of groundings depends on the subjective judgement of FAA employees. It's not useful as an objective measure.

Christ, Boeing planes used to just spontaneously explode back in the 90s, and the only reason more people weren't killed was that two of the three had the good fortune to happen on the ground.

Modern airplanes should be compared to what is possible in modern times with modern safety standards. If you want an objective measure then compare the Boeing Max planes to their Airbus equivalent: the A320neo.

The A320 neo has had zero fatalities. This is an objective measure that Boeing should be compared against.

AFAIK there have also been zero manufacturing defects at the scale of missing bolts on a door panel.