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mostly handled by insurance. Payouts are also a lot less, and typically standardized.

How is this different than, for example, the US fining TikTok? https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-ftc-record-fine-childrens...


Simply put: The US has the ability to enforce or to cause enough pain to cause self-enforcement </realpolitik>


Which will ultimately push alienation towards US for good.

Trump is merely a huge accelerator of an existing trend.


People keep saying this and it a profound misunderstanding of how the world works.

Nobody likes USA. Nor is that required. It is irrelevant. International politics do not run on emotions. As long as USA is capable of enforcing its will, USA's view will be the one that matters. You may dislike it, but that is what it is.


Or one can say enough and decide to cut off doing business in or with US.


Not a realistic option in today's world, sorry. I can suggest some literature


I’m not sure you’ve been reading the news lately. Hundreds of billions of trade dollars are being routed around the US.

It’s extremely realistic to cut them out.

Genuinely what does the US sell that a country like Brazil or Canada or Australia can’t get elsewhere or live without?


You don't need to, I have worked with multiple clients that faced this very option.

And yes, the choice was still to do business with US in every case, but I can tell you 100% it was far from a crystal clear easy decision and that the camel is breaking.

You can only push so much.


I mean, first and foremost, Tiktok has offices in the US and employees thousands of people here.


> but it's a privacy nightmare.

I've gone the other way from Denmark to UK. And I've often had to mail copies of my passport or other identity documents via email. And my bank requires me to regular scan my face to check that it aligns with the picture in my passport.


It's the same in the US. We're really lucky that it's technically impossible for fraudsters to email pictures of stolen passports (or stolen pictures of passports) to banks and other companies for fraudulent purposes.


Weird, I'm in the USA and I've never emailed my picture or passport to a bank, or provided it in any other way. I suppose they might have a very old scan of my driver's license, certainly nothing newer than about 20 years. If they have any other photo of me it's without my knowledge.


The important thing to remember is that this is the banks problem.


Unitree has plenty other industrial robots. https://www.unitree.com/ -> Click Robots


I wasn't trying to say that Unitree is somehow deficient. I'm sure they could build Atlas if they wanted.

My point was that BD could probably build a robot with the shown acrobatic capabilities, but they choose not to because their goal is to build robots that carry heavy loads for industrial applications.


They also wouldn't be getting any funding for doing such fun demos, even if they wanted to.


To best understand the speed of progress right now, take a look at the show from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIq_AM4q534


It looks like the difference between the Boston Dynamics robots 2016 vs 2021

The Spot dog (which inspired the Black Mirror "Metalhead" episode) in 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng

Atlas doing backflips in 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FByY3tSx2Ak

So 5 years of progress within a year.


spot dog is hydraulically powered junk, unitree is motor driven from day one. Boston Dynamics was forced to switch to a motor driven architecture after it is proven by unitree.

Boston Dynamics is the follower here.


I look after one at a University that gets used for teaching & outreach & there's definitely no hydraulics on the thing.


They moved to motors from their older high speed hydraulics. I don't know if it was after unitree or not.


why is hydraulics junk?


Perhaps because of the potentially slower actuation speed, but you also generally get a lot more power from hydraulics so im not sure one can claim it is junk. Far less acrobatic, but also far more sumo wrestler.


Less fit for impressive youtube videos. I'm sure they have other boring utilities for the technology.


Irrelevant?? Millions of obese Americans will disagree.


At first I thought you meant bacon. But then remembered decent bacon like from Denmark is illegal in the US. Then I realized what you mean. But Lilly makes the same drug so probably not a practical issue.


Really no reason to speculate. Could be a life crisis, ill health ect.


It has really been a great success in Denmark.

In the 1960s, more than 900 people were diagnosed with cervical cancer each year, corresponding to more than 40 cases per 100,000 Danes.

Today, that number is below 10 per 100,000 nationwide – and among women aged 20 to 29, only 3 out of 100,000 are affected. This is below the WHO’s threshold for elimination of the disease.


She is not a household name in Denmark. But we do have a big mural of her, here in Copenhagen [1].

[1] https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/99...


I had to look twice, and then check Wikipedia, when I saw "1888-1993" there.

* 13. Mai 1888 in Kopenhagen

† 21. Februar 1993 in Kopenhagen

That's 104 years, 9 months, and 8 days!


Google Street View link showing the murial: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nfSzrb3CFPKowZ4p9?g_st=ac


32 could easily be aligned with parenthood


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