It's funny you can take something that every major multinational company does and slap "Tesla" on it and then write a whole news story.
> The practice, while controversial, is a common maneuver through which multinational corporations use loopholes in tax law to save money by moving profit from one jurisdiction to another with more favorable tax rules. “It’s not the way the international tax system should work,”
Yes but that is how it works and it can be changed at any moment in the US Congress. There seems to be bipartisan support for it working this way, in fact.
> It's funny you can take something that every major multinational company does and slap "Tesla" on it and then write a whole news story.
What's your alternative? Never write about these practices after the first instance gets an article?
IMHO, it's newsworthy that a particular company does this, and the exploitation of tax loopholes is an evergreen topic until those loopholes disappear or cease being controversial.
> There seems to be bipartisan support for it working this way, in fact.
Is there actual affirmative bipartisan support for this, or a lack of sufficient support or ability to push a change through our dysfunctional congress? With the filibuster and Republican attitudes about taxes, I'm sure any change would have to clear a super-majority.
That was kind of my take... not only that, but you can be against a practice, but still use it while it's there... There's a certain amount of fiscal/fiduciary responsibility the heads of companies have that could get them into trouble if they didn't take advantage of any loopholes they're aware of.
That said, like you mention... It would be easy enough for Congress to change the law and even add incentives or fees for trying to shift financial profits or exfiltrating currency/value altogether.
I'm very surprised at the quality of the new Gemma 4 models. On my 32 gig Mac mini I can be very productive with it. Not close to replacing paid AI by a long shot, but if I had to tighten the belt I could do it as someone who already knows how to program.
love hearing this. and think about it, if the 2B is already doing this well on your mac mini, imagine what the 4B, 26B, or 31B can do on 32 gigs. with lower quantization you can fit pretty much any of them. if you want full precision you still have solid options at the 2B and 4B level. you're sitting on way more capability than you're probably using right now. the coding block on just the 2B scored 8.44 and caught bugs most people would miss. glad you're getting real use out of it, thanks for reading.
Google is not creating a replacement for anything.
Apple is getting a base Gemini model (not a Gemma), and it will run on Apple private compute. Apple foundational models will remain the on device model
From Project 2025[0], published by the Heritage Foundation:
Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it
should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be
classed as registered sex offenders.
If I had a dollar to bet, I would say that such global effort would highly benefit Microsoft that is loosing grounds in high proportion in the area of desktop OS and is trying very hard to impose mandatory microsoft "cloud" accounts to be able to use computers.
Criticism of Israel and its agents will be outlawed by all means necessary and anybody who questions it will be black bagged. That is the end goal. This is total war.
If the page is lazy loading content then the local ctrl+f is not going to work, obviously.
If you’re hinting at an argument about whether lazy loading content should exist, that’s a separate discussion. In my experience, pages that override ctrl+f do it for a good reason
I think I've seen one page override ctrl-f for good reason -- it was a page that lazy loaded literally millions of lines of text that wouldn't have fit into RAM.
Every single other page that does it just wastes my time. It's always a super janky slow implementation that somehow additionally fails to actually search through all the text on the page.
Even in those cases I'd prefer to just be able to natively search the content that has been lazy loaded. I've run into more than one website where the search functionality they bound to control-f is horrible.
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