Sure but anyone with read/write access, editing/rendering access requirements, etc. is going to have a lot of permissions in most operations. Most editors (and many above the line) can access, move, delete, etc. footage and cuts. Locking them out of that is tricky if you want them to do their jobs. Doing screeners and alt versions would be a nightmare.
People lose footage but this is a bit odd for a major operation. Again incompetence is real and it’s a reasonable explanation as well. It’s just surprising
Why would they be locked out? The state before their changes would just be backed up and could be rolled back to. It doesn’t need to intersect with their permissions at all. Crucially, they just don’t have write access to the backups
That’s way more complex than most operations implement. Editors and their team leaders usually do everything at some point. It’s not typically so specialized.
She would need the backing of both the European Council and the European Parliament to get a third term. That is extremely unlikely to happen. Moreover, the European Parliament can kick her out at any point if it really wants to.
There are also hard limits on what she can do as president. Brussels doesn't rule over the member states like Beijing rules over the provinces (Chinese + "acquired" ones). Most things need the backing of the Council (= the member states) + the member states can drag things out at home if they want to. The EU doesn't have anything like the US National Guard that can be used in member states to force them to comply (possibly against state laws and state constitutions).
The European Union is the consensus making cooperation machine many European countries have chosen to use and die Uschi is only in charge of one component of that machine.
The length of time someone can serve in a leadership position doesn't make them a "ruler" in the same sense as Trump, Xi or Putin. The political system they operate within matters a lot.
> They’re saying that starting a competitor to Amazon is now impossible regardless of capital investment.
Competing in which market? Amazon is a conglomerate operating in e-commerce, retail, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, entertainment, and artificial intelligence.
> That breadth is part of why competing is so tough.
I don't see it. In each of the industries they operate in, they face fierce competition. Many of those competitors also compete with Amazon across multiple of those industries plus others that Amazon does not compete in.
Competition is by definition tough. But I push back against the original thesis that Amazon has such leverage that it is impossible to compete with them (in all the cases, you're not just competing against them!)
It's Claudian sass. Although we've reached a point where it's hard to tell if it's the machine writing it or a person who uses it uncritically copying it.
Whole piece has that Claudish sense of a complete absence of theory of mind. The LLM has all this background knowledge in context - it’s just read all the historical facts about what happened and who said what when - so it jumps around trying to thread a narrative among those facts but it has no sense of what the reader is likely to be familiar with or what is novel; there’s no storytelling.
It could just be bad writing by someone who knows the subject well and is done explaining all the background needed to understand their thesis. Or it could be extracted from chapter 10 of a book where the prior 9 chapters laid all the groundwork so you can start weaving together a thesis like this from the pieces you’ve already planted.
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