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by rchaud 1y ago
My comment was in response to the parent which hypothesized that this was done to devalue the dollar to make US exports cheaper.
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I have had the Palma 1 for a couple of years, and don't really think the form factor works. It's too tall and thick to be portable, and with a 18:9 aspect ratio, it's too narrow to be good for reading EPUBs and the like. Whil
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Presumably the "case" was shopped around to various attorneys, until they finally found one who agreed to move forward with it. That she had never prosecuted a case before is probably just a coincidence.
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$20 billion isn't going to make a dent in the value of the USD. Buying pesos doesn't make the dollar any cheaper for major trading partners like Canada, China or the EU. This is a bailout of Argentina's collapsing currency pe
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So what though? At best they will stuff it with ads like Google has done and become what is basically Bing w/ Copilot. That isn't going to pay back the $500 billion or however much they're trying to raise.
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This is a meme I see online often (and in the show Silicon Valley), but I don't think it holds up in practice. Re: payment systems, Visa and MC are notoriously unfriendly to porn vendors, sending them into the arms of crooked payment p
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by rchaud 1y ago
No need to use a derogatory term when it's clear you mean something along the lines of "Murica-pilled"
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China doesn't need to invade Taiwan. There are enough trade and business links between the two already that would make military confrontation bad for business, and send neighbouring countries into the arms of the west.
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That's awful. Stuff like this is why I mourn the loss of MTV and VH1; they would actually license artists' music in their Behind the Music documentary episodes, I discovered a lot of artists that way. The Beavis & Butthead and
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Apple Music isn't a solo business and doesn't report its figures publicly, so it's not known if its margins would be sustainable if it weren't anchored to its much bigger Software and Services unit, which itself is ancho
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Spotify's biggest enemy are the record labels that they have to pay license fees to. Slowly ramp up the AI slop while ramping down the label-owned material and hope subscribers don't notice. It's a play that worked for Netfli
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Zero. Vinyl has costs of production, AI slop doesn't.
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Fears of an AI bubble originate from the use of external financing needed to pay for infrastructure investments, which may or may not pay off for the lenders. These 6 companies are using only a small portion of their own cash reserves to in
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> AGI is absolutely a national security concern. This may well be the PR pivot that's to come once it becomes clear that taxpayer funding is needed to plug any financing shortfalls for the industry - it's "too big to let f
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As an old millennial whose source of new music is now Tiktok, I disagree there are better ways to get new music. The concept of a 24/7 music video channel exposed me to all kinds of music in the '90s and early '00s that I wou
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Lots of nonprofits have CEO comp in the millions. Firefox is a large company with lots of employees and tens of millions of users. They have to offer compensation that is somewhat close to market rates to be able to hire people capable of m
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"Social media" is an archaic term invented to describe a public bulletin board that didn't have ads and sort of functioned like a personal website. It's been "media" ever since the first ad product launched, an
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And it's easier and cheaper than ever to post engagement slop with GenAI so why not cut out the middleman?
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You can get jail time if you're found to be responsible for causing the forest fire. That's what's needed in finance, otherwise it's just a matter of time until the next "financial innovation" befalls the econo
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Decades of peace? The US were bystanders in the wars in Rwanda, Bosnia and East Timor in the 90s, and invaded Iraq and Afghanistan within 12 years of the fall of the USSR.
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If the Taliban were too much for the US to handle, I don't see how a direct confrontation with a nuclear power is on the table.
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> People thought it would drive them to democracy That's the White House's cover story, not the actual reason. China is in the WTO because the Fortune 500 needed a stable tariff regime to streamline production offshoring to a c
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Sounds like a dogfooding sales pitch to me. Nadella has learned from embarrassing prior incidents where Windows Phone developers were found to be using the iPhones or Androids as their personal devices, or when pictures of Microsoft employe
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The latter.
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> We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech. By betraying the legacy of our ancestors.... Pave
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The phone number requirement can be circumvented by paying with crypto. At least it could back when I tried it in 2020.
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The people crowing about states' rights are quick to cheer national guard deployments in cities that didn't vote for the sitting head of state. The people who shout down calls for student loan forgiveness are in full support of it
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What economy has this much money moving between 7 companies across such a narrow set of operations?
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The dotcom bubble had investor capital going towards hiring tens of thousands of people. The AI bubble has capital going towards buying hardware, signing a handful of researchers on 9-figure deals and settling lawsuits for IP theft.
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If their compensation includes stock options, they have no choice but to believe. At Enron many employees went as far as to put 100% of their savings into buying the stock.

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