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patrickmcnamara commented on Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time   washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
firefax · 21 days ago
I got the impression they have a different cultural definition of "late" -- they'd get as mad about a 15 minute delay as folks in the states would get about an hour plus delay.
patrickmcnamara · 21 days ago
6 minutes is late for DB. But trains are often much later (or cancelled).
patrickmcnamara commented on UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/azalemeth
pyrale · a month ago
They are forcefully pushing for whatever the position of US companies is in conflicts between US companies and EU regulators.

The position of the US executive on encryption is well summarized by the Lavabit case.

patrickmcnamara · a month ago
The UK is not in the EU.
patrickmcnamara commented on Plain Vanilla Web   plainvanillaweb.com/index... · Posted by u/andrewrn
hliyan · 3 months ago
I think of something similar every time I use the Uber Eats 'track order' screen. All I need is a simple textual history:

    7:40 - Bob was delayed by 5 minutes. ETA 7.45
    7:35 - Bob is heading your way. ETA 7:40
    7:20 - Bob has picked up your order from Pizza place

patrickmcnamara · 3 months ago
Having a live location of the delivery person makes total sense here though.
patrickmcnamara commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU   bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
ddouglascarr · 5 months ago
Do you have a reference for this? If they’re requiring substantial transformation, how is this assessed and enforced?
patrickmcnamara · 5 months ago
It's pretty complicated and case-by-case, and I'm no expert.

https://www.trade.gov/rules-origin-substantial-transformatio...

patrickmcnamara commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU   bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
seydor · 5 months ago
for starters, countries will sell to the UK , which will resell to the US at the lowest tarriff rate. Great for the UK, but stupid.

I try to sympathize with trump's deglobalization agenda but it is probably exactly what it seems to be : a colossal stupidity.

patrickmcnamara · 5 months ago
Just shipping goods through the UK does not make them UK-origin. They have to have a "substantial transformation".
patrickmcnamara commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU   bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
topspin · 5 months ago
> They've benefitted from it.

They benefitted from it so hard they voted for the exact opposite with eyes wide open. Twice.

> Because now most Americans don't slave away in unsafe factories 7 days/week for dollars an hour.

Now they're collecting disability in their unsafe neighborhoods, getting morbidly obese while their substance abusing kids play vidya games in the basement into their 30s.

Yes, it's really like that. People want their factories and incomes back. I don't claim that anything happening here is going to deliver that, but that's the pitch they're voting for. To their credit, at least they're pursuing that in lieu of some UBI ideocracy made of fantasy money.

As for you: it's fine to point out all the ways they may be misguided and/or misled, but unless you have an alternative that doesn't amount to expecting everyone to somehow earn an advanced degree, and then discover it's next to worthless (even before "AI",) your really not contributing much. So what do you have?

Anything?

patrickmcnamara · 5 months ago
> They benefitted from it so hard they voted for the exact opposite with eyes wide open. Twice.

People vote against their own interests constantly. This is literally evidence of that.

patrickmcnamara commented on Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act   techcrunch.com/2025/03/13... · Posted by u/mrkramer
seydor · 5 months ago
The outcome of the dma is better served by breaking up the companies so that google cannot share data with YouTube or facebook with Whatsapp.

The EU regulations so far did not achieve much (other than eradicating EU ads market) , and the YC knows that.

They want to distract the government away from breaking up bigtech and towards an anodyne (but annoying) regulation.

patrickmcnamara · 5 months ago
The DMA does make it so you can unlink your Google account from your YouTube account, or your Facebook account from your Instagram account, and that they can't share data. Or what are you meaning?
patrickmcnamara commented on Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another   support.apple.com/en-us/1... · Posted by u/james_pm
sbuk · 6 months ago
Depends on what it is. Apps absolutely shouldn't be geo-blocked. While I agree that other media shouldn't be geo-blocked, it's more to do with distribution rights and licensing deals and isn't really something Apple can solve for directly, save to support banning the practice in the EU. The EU needs to focus on Hollywood for movies and the music industry to deal with that.
patrickmcnamara · 6 months ago
Yeah, I'm more talking about the credit card discrimination specifically. I have an Apple account for Ireland that I can't add my German credit card to. Although I would love the EU to enforce a singular EU media distribution region / market somehow.
patrickmcnamara commented on Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another   support.apple.com/en-us/1... · Posted by u/james_pm
sails01 · 6 months ago
Now it would be great if Apple allowed associating more than one country for my purchases to my apple id, i.e. based on having credit cards issued by banks in different countries. Seems that for Apple does not exist the concept of living between to countries (expats, dual citizens, etc)
patrickmcnamara · 6 months ago
The EU is somewhat trying to kill this at least. It is very annoying.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/es/ip_24_...

patrickmcnamara commented on Operator research preview   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
aerostable_slug · 7 months ago
"Operator, I need to purchase 78,000 widgets for my company. Please find the best deal among suppliers who ship using carriers and ports who meet or exceed US EPA guidelines. Please ensure at least 50% of the product is sourced from post-consumer waste, and order your responses by price per unit."
patrickmcnamara · 7 months ago
I wonder why they didn't put that in the press release. Huh.

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