I currently go to the USA about once a year to visit friends.

If this comes to pass I'll probably not do that anymore.

He's saying people at Google use iPhones.

I don't know if that's true, but the times I've visited silicon valley I didnt see many android phones.

You're typically issued a corporate phone, it's the only phone that can open work email. You have a choice between an Android (something like a Pixel and a Samsung) and an iPhone, with some companies incentivising Androids with things like a faster upgrade cycle or more premium trims. The culture is split between having just the one free corporate phone and having two phones - one personal, one corporate.

There are lots of examples of Android team employees who are proud of using only Apple phones.

Check the "socially inept tech roast show" - where people from those teams demonstrate their ignorance and hatered towards own products and users.

Since they dont use them, they dont see nor care about bugs.

Meanwhile if you work for a cola company and they catch you drinking competing product you will get fired (your contract bans you fron that). Same for many other products.

I understand using an Apple phone to learn what it does / its featurs, but those Android employees dont use Android at all. And it shows

Forbidding Chinese cars to cross the border is a little much.

The way the USA us conducting their international relations is very worrying.

But oh well. They do what they want.

Makes sense though, having the general population aware of the rest of the world is challenging for governing.

The news here though is that Canada is now rest of the world rather than close trading partner.

I was wondering about that - there is no border really - you seem to drive across and the border patrol folks just asks you nicely - What is the nature of your business?

Chinese cars in the US - oh dear.

The way China approached their internal market for EVs is very different.

They didn't just put tariffs on foreign EVs, they poured a lot of money into their own industry to produce a lot of different companies that became fiercely competitive in their own local market.

Once they got a few big players they stop a lot of the subsidies which led to a lot of companies falling under but at the same time the process produced some really good, competitive and profitable companies like BYD which then were ready to take on the international market.

America, on the other hand, hasn't done much to increase the competitiveness of their own internal market for EVs. Hence, the protectionist measures will have the consequences the poster above described.

Tariffs are not "good" or "bad" they're an economic tool countries can use. It's how you use the tool and in conjunction with which other tools that can have negative or positive consequences for the industry they're applying it to.

It's like "america uses a scalpel to peel oranges" versus "China uses a scalpel in open heart surgeries". The scalpel can cut, but context matters to say if it was used properly or not.

Ok but this thread is about “all tariffs being rent seeking”. Now tariffs are sometimes ok - gotcha.

What has china actually don’t different than America? Was a 10-15 percent subsidy not enough? Were the carbon credits not enough? We’re the limitations on gas cars dependent on ev sales not enough?

As far as I’m aware both china and the us have heavily subsidized ev sales. What’s different?

they probably dont train on inputs from testing grounds.

you dont train on your test data because you need to have that to compare if training is improving or not.

a lot of these projects were cancelled though.

imo, that's the worst thing about Netflix. its not that they don't produce good series, its that when they do they have a high peobability of getting cancelled.

I feel like people who say this never watched a lot of TV before Netflix. Every popular show overstays its welcome and gets cancelled once people get bored. That's just how TV works. Netflix isn't even the worst offender.

I would rather a show go on too long and let me decide when to stop watching, like how my Simpsons DVD rips are only seasons 1 through 10 (including season 11 holdovers, so my set ends on Sneed lol)

Corollary: I really miss Inside Job

Netflix doesn't wait for people to get bored. It canceled Kaos the same month they released it! It had good reviews and a lot of binges but that didn't save it from the axe.

Dead Boy Detectives was canceled less than 5 months after it was released.

With so much competing for our time there's no way everyone is going to jump on every show immediately after it gets released and watch it several times over so whatever bullshit metrics netflix is using look impressive enough for them to give the show's fans a satisfying conclusion.

If you watched TV before netflix you might remember that sometimes it took two or more entire seasons before a show became popular. Some extremely popular and successful shows were like that and would never have happened if netflix had put them out.

I don't watch Netflix anymore. If a shows on Netflix I just skip it mostly because of two main reasons

1. It's going to get cancelled, so why invest my time. 2. I won't be able to find it.. discoverability is the absolute pits in that app.

If you unsubscribe for more than a year then Netflix will delete your profile data entirely and discoverability gets so much worse. I signed up for a month to watch Star Trek: Prodigy S2 right when it dropped and was so offput by the "vanilla" recommendations of a fresh profile I really didn't see any point but to cancel it as soon as I finished that one exact show I knew I cared to watch and could find only with the search feature despite it being a new release.

Discoverability is getting worse too. Netflix's position is that consumers hate having choices and that their customers just want netflix to choose what they're going to watch for them. That was the goal behind their last UI change which was supposed to guess at "your moods and interests in the moment" and only show you a small number of things netflix thinks you want.

In an impressive bit of gaslighting they actually said "With bigger boxes, we’re showing more information up front to help you make a better decision," because nothing gives you 'more information' like giving you barely any information on the screen at all. They also spent a fortune infesting their product with AI, but you still can't use it to get basic features people have wanted for ages like a list of everything leaving netflix in the next month.

In reality this just lets netflix hide more of what's avilable from you so that they can aggressively advertise what they want you watch instead of what you'd rather be watching and as a bonus they can charge companies extra for visibility/not hiding their shows from subscribers.

Netflix has shows that absolutely overstayed their welcome.

Stranger things should have been one maybe two seasons.

Far more shows go on too long than get cancelled too early.

well we don't know exactly how involved Gabe Newell is with the actual running of the company now a days or how do they going about their governance.

From what I see it seems like the culture of the company is shared between the leadership roles so it might be possible for the company to continue doing as it has been doing after Gabe.

I think the people at valve are smart and they understand their business and the company very well and that this issue is being taken seriously too.

Good governance exists, it's just that for most companies there's not really an interest in having that because it gets in the way of personal interests of people that are already entrenched in power.

The steam machine has a bespoke wireless connector for the (new steam) controller so it doesn't pollute the Bluetooth network and cause lag.

Yes, the controller is charged through usb-c, but you can just use any charger around to charge that. I mean, the battery should last for 30+ hours so you only need to charge it on a weekly or biweekly basis with heavy usage.

Its a linux computer, if you connect it to a 4k monitor you could use that.

The one issue I see is that it only has one HDMI port, so you couldn't connect two screens without a dongle.

But for all intents and purposes, its a prebuilt pc in a tiny form factor.

> The one issue I see is that it only has one HDMI port, so you couldn't connect two screens without a dongle.

Stretching the definition of a "dongle", but the page does specifically say "Ready for all the peripherals and monitors you can throw at it" so I'm assuming some amount of USB-C daisychaining is supported

Given that the frame runs steamOS on ARM hardware, I could see something like a phone in the future.

But also, phones don't seem to be the best hardware to play PC games which is kinda the whole deal.

I maybe would see first a smaller ARM based device (like those retro consoles).

Or.. just a better experience for mobile games, if they have porting tools.