To be fair when I read "for LATAM" I usually expect it to be "for one particular country but we want to pretend it's for LATAM". (Not picking on this launch specifically.)
The countries are just too different, it doesn't make sense to treat them as a block.
They are different but they do have their similarities, specially financial services and solutions and alternatives that people use to pay for large purchases.
I was actually just reading about 'the Tequila Crisis' which might explain a bit about some Mexico specific elements to why banks are unable or unwilling to really extend credit to many folks https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=29099
They were simple back in the days before Apple thought of brilliant ideas like glueing the battery to the laptop topcase. The old iPod is like a crude raspberry PI casemod in comparison, workable for anyone with nimble hands and good eyes.
It's 'just' a battery. From an engineering standpoint it's just a component that Apple also doesn't produce themselves.
If apple no longer sells the battery, it will be trivial to find a suitable replacement. As long as there is demand, there will be loads of shops able to replace the battery for you.
The real question is: will people who buy $500 branded headphones really have their 5+ year old headphones repaired, or will they but the latest-and-greates shiny new thing?
It's a battery of a popular but specific chemistry in a specific shape. Given this is Apple, those may be popular chemistry/shape, but if not, then in 10-15 years it's not going to be easy to find if Apple doesn't produce them. I'd say Apple keeps the supply chain around for maybe 5-10 years.
> If apple no longer sells the battery, it will be trivial to find a suitable replacement. As long as there is demand, there will be loads of shops able to replace the battery for you.
Its a niche product. You will bot find replacement batteries for it. Heck it is even hard to find replacement batteries for 10 year old MacBooks.
> The real question is: will people who buy $500 branded headphones really have their 5+ year old headphones repaired, or will they but the latest-and-greates shiny new thing?
That’s my whole point. These things are not build (and bought) to last anymore but to be consumed. You used to retain some value when buying into expensive headphones.
Not sure if you're trying spread FUD, but NewerTech (owned by OWC) batteries are readily available for older Macbooks/Pros. Just checked their site and they have replacements for the 2008 Macbook.
Here are things I have had CS grads demonstrate an inability to do within an hour or more timeframe:
Make a loop that sums up numbers in an array.
Write an algorithm that sorts a list of three numbers. I watched students spend an hour making a bunch of if statements to try and cover all cases... ultimately getting it wrong.
Compute the accuracy by computing the number of matches between two lists and dividing between the length.
Split a list into two lists.
Generally the failure mode is to find something vaguely near the task, but overly-sophisticated from google. Then wrestle with trying to hack it into working by frantically scouring stackoverflow etc for their next code adjustment.
You're just describing leetcode here. Not something most people even do in their day-to-day.
A lot of frontend devs don't even work with the DOM directly after having spent years with React. Could they do it? probably. Are they prepared for DOM-related manipulation questions on a whiteboard? nope.
What exactly is leetcode? as opposed to just asking someone to prove they know the stuff listed on their resume.
And suppose there are a lot of cheaters out there who don't know the things on their resume, even including earning a degree without ever having to write a working program on their own. How would you screen them out?
Latin America is not testing people Nearly enough. That’s the main reason for low counts.
In my country, it is only possible to be tested if you say you were in direct contact with the current 4 confirmed cases (1 deceased), and they would have to confirm that too.
Yes, I understand the reason for the low counts. As I keep repeating, you want to pay attention to the flooding of hospitals with Covid patients, that you can't hide (unless you're very authoritarian with strict media control).
These places are not buried in dead people either. Their intensive care systems are not being flooded. Their hospitals are not being flooded by a million cases.
Mexico is not seeing what NY and other high-infection climates have. Given the poverty, poor healthcare system, poorly prepared healthcare system, high traffic and trade with the US via NAFTA and in general, it should have an enormous number of cases by now, and as a consequence a large number of daily deaths and intensive care cases hammering their healthcare systems in every major city. None of that is happening. It's not happening for the same reason it's not happening in Texas.
From everything I've read about COVID-19 and flu-like infections, I'm also inclined to believe that warmer climates help slow COVID-19 outbreaks. It is (in my opinion) the most plausible explanation why certain regions are hit so much worse than others thus far. I also believe a paper I recently read supports this hypothesis.
I've seen the media publish articles with titles like "coronavirus myths busted: warm weather stops the virus". Ironically, these attempts to combat misinformation are dubious themselves, as the truth is probably somewhere in the middle; that is, warm climates may not outright stop COVID-19, but they may certainly hinder it. The fact is, while we can't make definitive statements at the moment due to limited data and understanding of the virus's pathology, we can make educated guesses through observation.
Another contentious point (particularly here in Australia) is the sentiment that children are mostly immune to the virus. The Aus government is pushing this line very strongly as an excuse to keep schools open (i.e. economical reasons).
So yeah, I don't know why I wrote this comment. Probably to stress the fine line that exists between having a mindset which is open to observational theories, while also being critical of "facts" which are pushed to drive political agendas amidst the coronavirus outbreak.
I'm not sure why anyone in the Navy would say that to them, especially anyone with any type of engineering or science background. But if they did I'd be happy to shift the accountability, somewhat. Somewhat because politicians should also have BS meters, so holding their feet to the fire should also help tune this BS meter. Because let's be real, this is just absurd and should set off tons of BS meters.
Being from America the nation, obviously. I'm sure you're just being pedantic, but that is how it's used. I'm not sure why you feel a need to make a point about this.
Not trying to be pedantic, I’m still somewhat confused when I read “america” when referring to the United States of America. Reason being, everywhere outside of the US, we learn that America is the continent. People who are much less into reading forums in English, or with a high percentage of US readers, can get even more confused, specially when the context is as vague as in this specific response.
Except no one refers to "America, the continent". It's always North America, South America, The Americas, or possibly Central America (though that's not really a continent). Typically America is the nation. This is doubly true because there is really no other good term for a citizen; "United States Citizen" is verbose and somewhat clinical, and there is no such word as "United Statesian". That's part of what happens when you choose a name for a nation with more than one word.
