As always with debates on the internet nuances get lost and things get painted more black and white.

And they still deserve credit for having invented the concept and designed the bulk of the bricks.

No idea if the other comment that they stole it is true, but looking at the wealth of the owner family I’d say they got more than enough credit. They are set for many generations to come. At some point ideas have to become common good for others to also build upon.

Thanks.

It sounds like the entire industry is fragile at this point.

Things are definitely shifting and it’s not clear how they will play out. And considering leading edge semiconductor manufacturing is one of the most complex processes invented by humanity, while being crucial to our economy, calling it fragile might be accurate.

I’m not sure why Intel can’t just keep making shitty laptop processors though.

Interestingly enough laptop processors might be the one area where Intel is still decently competitive. Their Luna Lake processors (Core Ultra 200V series) are quite competitive and some of the best offerings on the market. Solid performance, good efficiency and strong battery life, and great integrated graphics. However they are using TSMC to manufacture them rather than their own fabs and similar to apples M series chips they utilize integrated memory, which does reduce margins and laptop manufacturers don’t like it as it reduces their ability to differentiate their models.

Intel in it’s current form can’t, because as explained above it is so much more than just the designer of laptop processors. Split up into parts a small fabless design firm for x86 client processors would probably survive, but that wouldn’t be Intel anymore, adress a much smaller market, and also not completely “make”, but only design them.

the client market for desktops and laptops is just way to small to sustain leading edge semiconductor manufacturing on its own. On that note one of the recent comments of Intels current CEO Lip-Bu Tan was that they will only pursue 14A (the process node after the upcoming 18A), if they can at least win one major external client as customer, since otherwise it wouldn’t be economical to scale up. Which basically puts them on a timer of like a year considering the leadup times required.

You only need to be so fast to use the Internet and write papers.

If that were the benchmark we’d have passed it a long time ago. Although it should be noted that progress not only means better performance, but also better efficiency.

Lego as a brand does imo substantially benefit from positive associations such as heritage, sentimentality, and other positive attributes. Otherwise how would they be able to demand such premium prices.

So I would see it less as them being “dinged” for this action, but more as them losing some of those privileges. Something they are not inherently entitled to.

Imo the title falsely implies that Lego not being a US company means they are completely independent and unaffected by US actions.

Lego presumably does substantial business in the US and thus is beholden to US jurisdiction and the whims of Trump to some degree. Them dropping diversity and inclusion from their reports just shows their priorities. However on that note Lego still being family owned lets us pin this decision more squarely on some particular individuals, rather than the usual vague mass of shareholders.

I think for businesses that deal with physical items, rather than offering services, and are not drop shipping, selling something 3D printed has to be one of the lowest inventory options. You need to have the printers, some filament, and maybe some accessories like packaging boxes, but otherwise you can just make your product whenever you get orders (or have a small stock for faster fulfillment).

Using a spare system that isn’t in active use anymore to mess around and learn is definitely a good idea. However for long-term use I would keep an eye out for energy consumption. Depending on electricity prices it might make more sense to get a newer system with lower power draw, especially for something with high uptime.

Ich bin Mal gespannt welche Auswirkungen das langfristig auf den Markt haben wird und welche Ziele sie damit verfolgen. Die meisten hier auf Lemmy (mich eingeschlossen) werden wohl zu einer Generation gehören, die praktisch alles online kaufen.

Mich hat die Meldung an diese Podcast Episodevon “Masters in Business” erinnert mit einem Interview von Hubert Joly, ehemals CEO von Bestbuy, was denke ich das equivalent zu Mediamarkt in den USA wäre. Unter seiner Führung zwischen 2012 und 2019 lief es zumindest für die Aktie von bestbuy ziemlich gut, auch wenn es seit dem Peak wieder 30% nach unten ging.

Wenn ich mich richtig erinnere war ein entscheidender Aspekt damals, dass es eben doch noch Bedarf der Marken an physischer Ausstellungsfläche gibt. Apple hatte angefangen flagship stores zu eröffnen und Samsung wollte dagegenhalten. Anstatt kompliziert eigene Läden zu eröffnen hat man kleine Bereiche in den Bestbuy Filialen eröffnet. Und selbst amazon wollte wohl mit seinen fireTV Fernsehern in die Läden.

Ich kann mir deshalb durchaus vorstellen, dass es für chinesischen Marken vorteilhaft sein könnte sich physisch mehr zu präsentieren. Wenn Xiaomi, Anker, Ugreen usw. etablierte Marken wie Bosch, Philips, AEG, Grundig oder was weiß ich im Verkaufsraum komplett ersetzen, dann fällt auch deren letzte Bastion von Relevanz. Hergestellt werden sie ja oft auch schon in China oder wurden ebenfalls schon lange aufgekauft, aber ich denke dadurch könnten sich die chinesischen Marken endgültig auch hier einen ähnlichen Platz als Standardwahl erarbeiten, wie es die europäischen marken in der Generation unserer Eltern hatten und den z.b. Xiaomi inzwischen in China hat.

Ich bin da wie immer beim stationären Einzelhandel hin und her gerissen. Einerseits sehe ich definitiv Vorteile darin Dinge vorher physisch anschauen zu können und sähe einen echten Mehrwert in guter Beratung und Vorführung. Andererseits erfüllen gerade Läden wie Mediamarkt diese Aspekte nie. Zusätzlich ist die Auswahl eingeschränkter und Preise oft teuerer (frairer weiße aber tatsächlich nicht immer und ein gewissen Aufpreis wäre guter Service wert).

Letztlich läuft es deswegen für mich genauso darauf hinaus, dass ich online kaufe, mich durch Reviews lese und hoffe, dass es passt. Wobei Reviews zwar sehr gut die auf die wichtigen Parameter eingen wie z.b. Bildqualität von Fernsehern, aber mMn oft unterschlagen wie einfach z.b. die Benutzung für weniger Technik affine ist.

Ich habe es schon weiter unten geschrieben, aber ich halte 1mio aus mehreren Gründen für zu niedrig. Ich wäre eher für 3-5mio mit weiteren Abstufungen für wirklich Superreiche mit 100mio+ oder 1mrd. Stimme dir aber 100% mit der Erbschaftssteuer zu.

• Gerade aufgrund regionaler Haus-/Grundstückspreise wären überraschend viele betroffen. Dadurch erhöht man den Widerstand gegen eine Einführung signifikant.

• Ich kann mir vorstellen, dass es sich bei 1mio noch um eine Größenordnung handelt bei der sich viele knapp darüber/darunter befinden und auch eventuell öfter rein- oder herausfallen. Dies würde zu einem erheblichen Mehraufwand in der Prüfung führen. Im Vergleich dazu denke ich, dass jemand der z.b. 3-5mio knackt leichter einzuordnen ist. Das kommt dann entweder aus einer klar abzugrenzen Erbschaft, es gibt einen Betrieb oder es sind signifikante Einkommensströme zu erkennen.

• Bei 1mio Vermögen handelt es sich mMn in der Regel noch um tatsächlich aktiv privat genutztes Vermögen, welches für Grundbedürfnisse des Lebens genutzt wird. Zum Beispiel das Eigenheim, ein kleines Gewerbe in dem man selbst arbeitet, eine einzelne Mietwohnung oder ein Aktien-Depot, welches den tatsächlichen Hauptbestandteil der Altersvorsorge darstellt.

Ein “Haken” daran Formeln statt absolute Zahlen festzuschreiben ist, dass Politiker gerne solche Hebel für den Wahlkampf haben.

Wenn es automatisch angepasst wird, dann kann man eine Erhöhung (die eventuell nicht Mal die Inflation ausgleicht) nicht als Heldentat und Geschenk verkaufen.

Formeln willst du als Politiker nur da, wo es eventuell unbeliebt wäre permanent Erhöhungen durchzuführen. Dann kannst du sagen, dass dir die Hände gebunden sind.

I think a partial explanation can be that for most international tourists a visit to the USA is a major trip that gets planned well in advance. Easily half or even a full year ahead. Things only really got bad in the last few months, so we might still see many holidays that were planned before the madness fully set in. If that is the case I’d expect a continued decline in the future, where people choose another destination when deciding their next itinerary.

Das habe ich bis heute auch nicht verstanden. Früher war es wohl die pure Gier und heute hält China vermutlich die besseren Karten, auch wenn sich Europa mMn oft viel zu zaghaft verhält.

Das sehe ich ganz genauso.

Wer 1mio Vermögen hat ist zwar extrem priviligiert im Vergleich zu vielen anderen, die praktisch keines haben,es ist aber wie von dir erwähnt in manchen Gegenden schon mit einenem Eigenheim zu erreichen (auch wenn man bedenken muss, dass Ehepaare z.B. 2mio Freibetrag hätten). Würde die Grenze hier gezogen, dann wäre der Kreis der Betroffenen, die nur knapp darüber liegen, relativ hoch. Viel Aufwand (und Widerstand gegen die Einführung) für wenig mehr Einnahmen. edit: man könnte vllt sagen das in dieser Größenordnung das Vermögen in der Regel tatsächlich noch für die Basics aktiv genutzt wird

Meiner Meinung nach sollte die erste Grenze irgendwo bei 3-5mio (inflationsangepasst) gezogen werden. Ab da hat man soviel Vermögen, dass die Rendite allein als Einkommen ausreichen kann. Ich denke wenn man diese Schwelle überschreitet wäre es ok auf weiteres Vermögen eine Abgabe zu Zahlen. Wobei man eventuell trotzdem nochmal eine weitere Abstufung bei 50-100mio oder 1mrd bräuchte, da es sich hierbei nochmal um ganz andere Stratosphären handeln würde, welche auch ganz andere Gestalltungsmöglichkeiten zur Investitions- und Steuergestaltung erlauben. Womit man eventuell nocheinmal einen höheren Vermögenssteuersatz begründen könnte.

Bevor das alles passiert sollte man aber einfach mal Ausnahmen im Erbrecht für Immobilien (steuerfrei ab 300 Wohnungen) und Betriebsvermögen (ErbStG § 28a, der nach Bedarfsprüfung die steuer für Vermögen über 26mio komplett erlassen kann) abschaffen bzw anzupassen. E.g. dass bei Betrieben Anteile an den Staat gehen, die später wieder abgelöst werden können, wodurch man die Idee Familienunternehmen nicht aufzuspalten beibehalten könnte.

What is going on here?

I’m just an interested layman, but i’ll give explaining it a try. I think this is more about whether or not Intel can stay in the market for leading edge manufacturing against TSMC.

The first thing to understand is that there are two parts to Intel: the manufacturing side and chip design.

In manufacturing leading edge chips they are primarily competing with TSMC (the clear market leader) and Samsung. In the past they used to be far ahead of the competition, but they screwed up that lead and are now behind. This is a very capital intensive market as fabs cost billions to build. And each new generation gets more and more expensive.

On the design side there are multiple different markets: servers, desktop/laptops, and mobile devices. Ever since losing out on producing the chip for the first iphone intel hasn’t been a factor in the mobile market. Between servers and desktop/laptops, servers are the fastly more important and bigger market. Here they are competing with AMD, but also increasingly arm based processors, increasingly done by the large hyper scalers themselves (e.g. Amazon with their Graviton processors). Additionally with the ai boom the market has severely shifted towards gpus being vastly more important (which is dominated by nvidia).

Intel is relatively unique in that they still do both design and produce their own chips (not taking outside customers, but in recent times outsourcing some manufacturing to tsmc). Samsung also designs and produces their own arm based processors (exynos), but on a smaller scale and also has other customers. AMD used to have fabs in the past, but got rid of them (today called global foundries).

I would argue that here we need to primarily focus on the manufacturing, not design side. Even though they are also under pressure on the design side aswell and e.g. AMD is beating them in the server market.

It’s more about whether or not Intel can hold on being in the leading edge race as manufacturer or drop out (like GlobalFoundries did a while back), which would leave us with only TSMC and Samsung (potentially China’s SMIC, should they ever manage to develop their own EUV technology and catch up). No western manufacturer of leading edge chips, only asian ones that are heavily concentrated geographically and TSMC bearing a substantial geopolitical risk.

As mentioned above Intel has struggled with getting better process nodes working properly (especially in a timely manner) and costs are increasing by a lot. The issue is that now intel is severly cash strapped, as they’ve paid out massive dividends in the past when things were better and now that they’ve fallen behind earnings have disappeared (which is also why the mass layoffs).

Their competitor TSMC can spread the needed investment costs over many large customers such as apple, nvidia, amd and qualcomm. So far Intel manufactured purely for themselves and didn’t take on external customers. With massively increasing costs it becomes obvious how this becomes less feasible on your own and scale increasingly becomes important. Especially if either/both the design or manufacturing side mess up and fall behind on delivering competitive products.

Switching to manufacturing for external customers is difficult. They have to adjust their internal processes to suit what customers are used to from others. There is a potential conflict of interest as Intel might at the same time be the customers rival (an issue TSMC as pure manufacturer doesn’t have). And lastly customers need reliable schedules, if you are e.g. apple and release an iphone anually you need your manufactuerer to reliably deliver a workable node at a specific time and can’t have it delayed (or even have the uncertainty of this happening).

They originally planned for their upcoming 18A (maybe even the axed 20A?) process to have external customers, but that didn’t pan out (they will just produce some of their own products). Now they target external customers for the next generation 14A. Should they by then not have gotten their shit together enough to attract customers or be profitable Intel (the former giant of the semiconductor industry) will probably break apart and be done. At least in it’s current form.

The fabs in germany and poland have been dead in the water for a while now from the moment they fell behind schedule and eventually were put on hold. This is just them officially axing those plans.

Kann man von hinterziehen sprechen, wenn es ganz offensichtlich so vom System gewollt ist?

Bei den “besonders ergiebigen Einzelfällen” handelt es sich ja vermutlich um den Fall Thiele. Da wäre ganz legal weniger/gar keine Erbschaftssteuer angefallen, wenn sie es nicht versammelt hätten.

so they were lying, except to the youth, because to them they didn’t have a message. that’s a positive thing to me.

No, i might have been a bit unclear with my wording, but the pensioners got their huge gifts. They are the largest group of the electorate (and growing) , so there are plenty of incentives to please them, unlike children, who have no vote.

I was more thinking about a blanked ban on school grounds, not just during lessons. In any case i am not necessarily against it, but i think this brings us off topic too much. My main point was mostly just that particularly in regards to technology there might be a large gap and the younger generations would bring some perspectives that might not be properly represented.

That is just a very stupid idea. The best thing for all of us everywhere is for the most rational and well-informed people to vote. The fact that everyone gets a vote is unfortunate for all of us because that includes voters who vote against the public interest, but it is necessary for a free democracy.

Seems like you are arguing for meritocracy here, which has it’s own set of problems.

Even if you want to make the argument that some are informed enough, they are far, FAR fewer than in the adult populace. You do not want to broaden that window.

Honestly, this sounds exactly like an argument that could have been made in a debate about whether or not black people or woman should be allowed to vote.

I think you said it yourself, democray needs to endure that sometimes people just don’t vote in the same way or for the same reasons as it suits ones own views.

Nachdem es allerdings bei der Verbotsdiskussion um Verbraucherschutz und Täuschungsgefahr kann man glaube ich nicht etymologisch argumentieren. Wenn man den Leuten das zutraut, dann kann man auch erwarten, dass sie erkennen, dass sie mit einem als veggie/vegan bezeichneten Produkt kein Fleisch kaufen.

Und was ist z.b. mit Scheuermilch oder Kokosmilch? In Leberkäse ist auch kein Käse drinnen, laut Google ist in “bayrischen” Leberkäse noch nicht mal Leber drinnen.

Yes, i think we should definitely pay more consideration to how our democratic system works on a more mechanical level, and not just specific opinions. Glad to hear i am not alone in this and i imagine that other suggestions like e.g. the use of ranked choice voting would be much less controversial than this one.

Now, we both agree that the age filter is imperfect. It’s a heuristic, a rule of thumb. You rightly point this out, and you interpret this fact as if there should be absolutely no filters at all. For you, any filter would be imperfect or problematic.

I’d say the age filter is perfect. But it only filters for the one thing it measures: age.

My argument is that (here in Germany) when i go to vote there are 4 requirements asked of me:

• Citizenship (although in some more local elections i think this isn’t even a requirement as e.g. other EU residents are for example also allowed to vote). Which is a binary classifier, one either has it or does not. I’ve had it since birth

• That i am currently not stripped of my voting rights. Something that (rightfully) is done extremely rarely and on an individual basis, e.g. for high treason or bribing officials. Here in Germany it’s also always a temporary measure for a maximum of 5 years.

• There are some limitations based on residence. For example federal elections seem to require that you’ve lived at least 3 months in Germany during the past 25 years (with exceptions for some professions).

• Age, currently being over 18 in federal elections, 16 in some state and regional ones. Again a binary classifier, once you pass the threshold it becomes irrelevant.

The last aspect of course is that it is done so by ones own free will.

Now this i think is what you are going for, but i don’t think it has anything to do with the age requirement. It’s required from anyone that votes regardless of age. And in fact we already have a system in place that we deem sufficient enough to decide it, since we already have citizens where it might be in question like e.g. someone with an intelectual disability which can voice their wish to vote and sometimes receive help in doing so. Similarly if you have physical issues and are e.g. blind or can’t read you can get support to allow you to vote. Prisoners who are not able to control a lot of their circumstances are able to vote. Notably we do not care about whether or not you vote “badly”, for the wrong reasons, or for someone we disagree with.

The filter for this imo would be the same as for anyone else. A declaration that you want to vote and that you do so free of duress. This filter could imo be fulfilled by a child stating their wish to vote just the same. However as stated somewhere in another comment above i’d be fine with having an additional requirement here that the first vote would need to be either in person or that one would need to actively apply for it (and if not the automatic registration comes at a certain age), in which case we’d probably need to give children some options on where to do this, e.g. in school.