Can't confirm this.
I'm a native German working for a company in Munich and as soon anybody joins to the meeting that is not German we switch to English.
90% of meetings are in English.
When my Russian colleague asks me to speak German because he wants to practice then I speak some German with him. Otherwise all our conversations are in English.
The experience might be different in "older" companies.
Science and progress are not a one off thing.
The scientist are not used up after 10 years.
They keep working and keep the advantages going.
The advantage attracts even more intelligent people from every corner of the world.
They have a 30 day time frame to leave a review. That's why so many reviews just say "Everything arrived on time" and none of them say "this thing broke after 31 days".
AliExpress highly encourages leaving a review. They also encourage taking pictures. As a result, loads of random pictures in reviews.
You can do an additional remarks later, but I often don't bother. It's drowned out anyway.
What I often do is read the reviews. What's usually done is a critical review and still 5 stars. The fake reviews are pretty easily spotted. It shouldn't be this way, but in my experience it's still better than Amazon. With Amazon more effort is made to fake a review.
It's probably an employment law. My wife's from Tunisia and over there all employment is basically contractual. If your employer lets you go they owe you some kind of fee, and I actually believe the amount might be the remainder of the contact, I'm not sure.
Germans are so expensive to hire and maintain that companies have offshored German manufacturing to the United States.
(... And God bless Germany for it. Trickle-down theory doesn't work in general in capitalism but it does work in labor negotiations: every right Germans secure for themselves is a right an American company employing Germans and other countries has to abide by when doing business, and it incentivizes the company to minimize their paperwork by treating everyone to the German standard).
Prices will very likely go up for products that are not 100% local.
Some resources for end products are currently mostly imported.
The new tarifs also affect resources and unfinished products.
New trade routes and spinning up local production will take time (likely longer five years) so the consumer will pay a price.
Question is how high it will be.
To purely imported goods (a lot of tech for example): cost will go up substantially.
To Russia:
They are currently in a war economy.
You will likely not really see a collapse coming until it is to late.
Banks have been forced to give far to cheap loans to the arms industry complex which are unlikely to ever pay them back.
This partially masks the true cost of the war.
New trade routes and spinning up local production will take time (likely longer five years) so the consumer will pay a price.
The main issue I see is that in 3.5 or possible 1.5 years, a new president ( or laws passed through congress ) will just vacate all Trump executive orders, tariffs in included. So that $100 million you invested in a new factory that is 3/4 built? Sorry, tariffs are gona and now you are out $100 mil. Why would any corp assume that risk?
> Trade deficit is effectively a migration of capital inflow, so tariffs should reduce not increase investments.
That seems backwards. A trade deficit (more goods coming into the country) should be balanced by a capital outflow (money leaving the country). We've sustained that for decades by printing more money and sending it around the world.
Some people think that's a good deal, because we get real stuff in exchange for money we create for nothing. But what will have left when other countries no longer want our money?
Edit: As the comment below points out, I should technically ask what happens when they no longer want U.S. government debt?
Money in this context is just a representation of value. You presume the money for foreign goods is leaving the USA when we import the goods, but that is actually not necessarily the case.
Make no mistake, these countries are getting something in return for the extra goods and services they give to us. It is not for free. One of the big things trade to China to make up this deficit is an investment in the US government (treasury notes) or assets. That is, they are taking the dollars they get and then parking it in the US as investment . The deficit is they're choosing us to invest in rather than themselves!
>The U.S. trade balance has been in a deficit position since the 1970s. This means that the
total value of imported goods has been greater than the total value of exported goods.
This means the U.S. is a “debtor” nation, running a merchandise trade deficit. However,
the merchandise trade deficit refers only to imports and exports of goods and services. It
shows that imports are greater than exports, hence the “deficit.” But, think about it for a
minute, why does the world keep giving us goods, without getting goods from us in
return? Is this a good deal or what? Well, clearly, this can’t be the whole story.
>What is happening is that the people from whom we buy goods abroad are taking our
dollars investing in the U.S. economy. They may buy U.S. government debt (securities
issued by the U.S. government to finance past federal budget deficits) or other assets in
the U.S. For example, they may invest in U.S. companies.
If an investment is profitable with 30% tariffs, but not at 10% tariffs, the risk of changing policy means your profitable investment has a risk of being unprofitable, and thus you are less likely to invest in it.
> The main issue I see is that in 3.5 or possible 1.5 years, a new president ( or laws passed through congress ) will just vacate all Trump executive orders, tariffs in included. So that $100 million you invested in a new factory that is 3/4 built? Sorry, tariffs are gone and now you are out $100 mil. Why would any corp assume that risk?
If I were to be as generous as possible, I might say that's why Trump is being so chaotic with the tariffs? If you turn everyone against us and no one is willing to trade with us, it may force people's hand to build locally and then 4 years from now, there's still no appetite to resume our normal trade patterns.
Trump is ha-ha-only-serious joking about a third term and has said that, if people voted for him, they'd never have to vote again. So... in case of Emperor Trump, the tariffs wouldn't go away. I wonder if somebody is already working out how to tell "the economy" about that without being too obvious about the seriousness of his third term plan.
If Biden is anything to go by, it's not really a given that a Dem president will necessarily undo Trump's international policy. He didn't get back in the negotiation room with Iran, he didn't back out of the Afghanistan pull-out, he made zero progress on climate change, he didn't undo much of the immigration policy changes that occurred... One of the few things that he DID pull back on were Trump's first-term tariffs (EDIT: Wait, he did pull back, didn't in he? I thought he did, I might be wrong.), and come 2028, if there's been substantial domestic change taken with the assumption of their longevity, I personally don't trust Democrats to back off on them.
As soon as the AI models run on an external server a buy once model does no longer work (or atleast not with an acceptable one time price).
The constant server cost is just to high.
> As soon as the AI models run on an external server a buy once model does no longer work (or atleast not with an acceptable one time price). The constant server cost is just to high.
Tell this to Rabbit and their R1 device, which comes with unlimited LLM usage. I guess they just rate limit through having a bad UX though. /s
But yes, you're right, this is what I was getting at, LLM usage is expensive enough to need a subscription model.
Had the same experience in Namibia in 2022.
First I should sent them my credit card stuff via mail.
Then via a website which looked like it would automatically write my data to a mail and send it to them :D.
I used a freshly generated virtual credit card with payment amount +20$ as a limit (just to be sure).
The sad thing is, that at some point they truly get exposed (big leak) and your name might come up because they have nobody else to blame.
I wish you the best and hope you have lawyer insurance.
