You can add other M3 models for some of the efficiency benchmarks. The headline still holds true when comparing to M3 Pro models (though the exact efficiency diff depends quite a bit on the exact M3 Pro model/core count).
Again, the result holds for all M3 Pro models. The Apple M3 Pro 11-Core even takes the lead in terms of efficiency in some of the benchmarks. The text makes multiple direct comparisons between M3 Pro and M4 Pro efficiency.
It looks like they don't have benchmark results for Cinebench 2024 for some older models, so they're only shown when you switch to Cinebench R23. The Witcher 3 benchmark, for example, does show M3 Pro numbers by default.
I'm perfectly happy with the performance of my iPhone SE (2020), and it's still receiving software updates, but the battery is severely degraded. The same was true for my first-generation iPhone SE; I was able to get a cheap replacement back then due to Apple's battery replacement program related to batterygate.
Access to cheap replacement batteries would definitely have an impact when deciding whether I should replace my phone or not. I believe Apple even mentioned the battery replacement program being a factor contributing to lower-than-expected sales a few years ago (sorry, can't find the source).
It's very common for discussions on this topic to only look at one particular factor and use it to fit some narrative one believes to be correct. Mentioning the difference in population age while ignoring things like population density or different climates is a good example of this.
They put a lot of money into long-term bonds before the latest interest rate hikes. These bonds now sell at a discount, so they can no longer cover all deposits by selling them.
This is a very good/short description that explains what happened. It's not that they made risky investments but rather lack of diversity plus the insider trading of everyone pulling their money did they in. No sympathy.
Right, so where are the “gains”? Where is the greed? It doesn’t seem like there is an unreasonable upside here, just a misunderstanding/mistake in handling the assets.
Your ideas on this topic are so bizarre. Are you arguing here that the bank owners and employees were not paid? That they didn't pursue a strategy they believed would give them higher returns, and failed?
I'm arguing nothing, and am trying to better understand why people are continually claiming it was their "greed" that caused this failure, and not their incompetence.
They didn't seemingly pursue a strategy that would have resulted in their pay increasing meaningfully, in fact it seems like they pursued a strategy they believed was safe and cautious. It wasn't, but they did seem to think so.
But I don't have all of the facts and this is not my wheelhouse, so I'm asking questions for clarity. "I don't know" is a reasonable answer, but not one I find around here much.
Inactivated COVID-19 vaccines (that is, vaccines using virus copies that have been killed - live vaccines would be ones where the virus has been weakened) have been a thing for some time. IIRC China used a lot of them.
My understanding is that they're not quite as good as mRNA in terms of efficacy (though I haven't looked this up in some time.)
> Also, Hep C, HIV and herpes have no vaccine, so unclear what your statement is referring to anyway?
OP is talking about more vaccines as possible future mitigations - more vaccines as in new vaccines, not more vaccinations using existing ones (though that wouldn't hurt either.)
> It would typically happen maybe once a month at most, but it was almost always on a Sunday.
Do you recall if you slept in on those days? I tend to get a specific kind of headache if I sleep for too long.
This also happens if I take a nap during the day. I don't really take any naps because of that, but I remember hating being forced to nap in Kindergarten (at least during the first two years or so), probably for the same reason.
> Participants washed their gloved hands with a suspension of MS2 bacteriophage and hands were dried with one of the three hand-drying devices. [...] Over a height range of 0·15–1·65 m, the JAD [jet air dryer] dispersed an average of >60 and >1300-fold more plaque-forming units (PFU) compared to the WAD [warm air dryer] and PT [paper towels] (P < 0·0001), respectively.[1]
Okay, but I'm sure just-washed hands aren't all that dirty, right?
> This observational study was conducted to evaluate [...] hand hygiene practices among college students. [...] Overall, 72.9% of students washed their hands, 58.3% practiced hand hygiene (using either soap or hand sanitizer), and 26.1% washed their hands adequately.[2]
I couldn't find any epidemiological studies, but this feels like good enough of a reason to stick to other options considering these things are a solution in search of a problem anyway.
That's correct. Sberbank Europe is registered as an Austrian bank, so the Austrian equivalent of the FDIC has to cover deposits of up to 100K per client.
