I'm not on Italy's side but I can't say I respect @eastdakota's rhetoric...
> "The crazy stat is that Europe makes more from fining US tech companies than they do from taxing their own technology companies."
That's one way of saying it. Another way is that US companies are so extravagantly huge and violate EU laws so much that the fines are correspondingly huge.
> That's one way of saying it. Another way is that US companies are so extravagantly huge and violate EU laws so much that the fines are correspondingly huge.
Another way of saying it is that because of transfer pricing, basically nobody knows what money was made where (and the notion of profits per country in a world of multinationals with no capital controls is meaningless).
If you had access to the twitter feed (and I did at one point, as our company got the firehose from Twitter), it showed the Lat/Long of where it was posted from IIRC.
I still remember looking at that tweet when the helos went in for OBL, from someone in Abottabad PK, saying something like "helicopters hovering at 2AM... this is a rare occurrence" (or something like that).
It's still there, they just stopped showing it in the UI. If you poke about in the React state of the Twitter UI, you can see it in the `tweets` entity cache (everything else is still Twitter under the hood too).
Also, were tool calls allowed? The point of reasoning models is to delete the facts so finite capacity goes towards the dense reasoning engine rather than recall, with the facts sitting elsewhere.
I gotta call out this comment. I never said 'stop them!' I said I worry about space x being a gatekeeper. This is a valid point since it is obvious that they are building the gate. Please don't put words into my mouth.
That argument doesn't hold for basically any industry on the planet. Early access often, by design, leads to lock-in in critical areas. SpaceX has a massive advantage (rightfully deserved) in an industry which takes massive effort to break into. It isn't hard for them to out compete any competitor into oblivion making it very hard for realistic alternatives to space. Do you know how much they took to orbit last year compared to everyone else? It is easily possible that it will be SpaceX and a few government providers and nobody else for a long while.
NASA and the federal government would trip all over themselves to hand a reasonable competitor huge amounts of money as a second source of launches. The fact that the second source doesn’t exist isn’t because SpaceX has some natural monopoly on space.
There are plenty of other space companies building launch capability, even projectile/kinetic based methods where you accelerate as much as possible on the ground, IE Spin Launch.
The only gate is 28,000 km/hr and you can thank mother nature for that.
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