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State owned enterprises are run like corporations but pay dividends to the government as shareholder. Eg, Kiwibank, NZ Post, Kiwirail, what’s left of the power companies etc.
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It's no worse than anywhere else to be honest and mostly limited to older people.
Counterpoint: The more revenue the government earns from state owned enterprises, the less of a burden there will be on taxpayers.
Notifications etc I can understand if you don’t know how to use tech properly.
What I don’t understand is how every older person seems to have loud speakerphone conversations in public. They had landlines most of their lives so why do this?
That desktop app really is super hot garbage.
There’s not much room in the Mac Mini for additional LPCAMM modules, or the MacBook Air.
The SSDs Apple use lack a controller (that’s built into the M series SoC). That drives down Apple’s cost of materials but surely it wouldn’t be that hard to support a standard NVMe M.2 interface?
The M4 Pro memory is quad channel, so I assume 256 bit.
The two LPCAMMS required for this would require a lot more space.
I give them a pass on memory packaging (but not pricing). SSDs are indefensible though.
I’ll hold out for the Pro Max Ultra
Linus is really, really shitty at responding to criticism. I don’t think it’s malice, it just didn’t occur to them.
He should just be upfront and say “you know what? We should have done better here”. That’s it.
It must be weird being so old. I'd presume once you hit 80 you'd sort of stop planning for the long term. To still be around almost 30 years later..
Defence force staff are currently working to rule which is causing all sorts of problems. Eg taking their allotted breaks which leave critical parts of the org offline for 30 minutes or so (so they're having to pull in officers to cover the gaps). It's hugely disruptive and I assume very effective as a negotiation tool.
BUT. If the organisation can't function with the staff taking their legally mandated breaks, the understaffing is just being exposed by the workers who have been plugging the gap, unpaid, until now.
That work to rule can see your pay docked is utterly insane.
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Seymour is saying the government is useless at owning things.
I’m saying the government owning state owned enterprises provides an additional revenue stream for the government coffers that doesn’t rely on taxes.
The fact that SOEs are run like any other corporation, just with the government as the shareholder, means they’re just as effective as any other corporate entity.
So Seymour is wrong.