Whatever you want to say about other companies, Amazon (and Meta) is quite willing to spend many years pouring billions into technology they think will pay off later.

Looking at VR and Meta. They absolutely can be wrong. So even after investing what seems to be enough, there might not be any payoff.

There may be no payoff in the end, but it won't be for lack of resources thrown at the problem or investor impatience.

And the investors were correct to crush the stock price down to 90-odd dollars. Which finally forced Zuck to face the music.

This place is full of bozos.

Did Zuck change because the stock price went down or he was dissatisfied with the lack of progress/adoption?

Consumers wouldn't. Importers will.

Indeed. And the concept of passing any refund on is just untenable. My example is to highlight how unreasonable such an expectation is.

And while this specific tariff situation is silly, and annoying, it's been going on forever. There were cases of tariffs on lumber from Canada, with presidents of all stripes. Some were fought, won in court, and nary a person questioned "where is the refund for the consumer".

> The icing on the cake is that LLMs are producing so much code that humans are just rubber stamping all of it.

I don't understand the value of that much code. What features are worth that much more than stability?

> first trying to make all the phone so thin you cut your hand holding it,

Except the cameras that stick out. Why do I want a phone thinner than the camera lenses?

> A 99.852% ineffective rate means city leaders will spend $2,009,521.50 on license plate reader technology that does not help any case."

That's not at all what it means. The cost of the system is almost independent of the usage rate of the system. The proper math is that they spent $5,575 per case advanced. Is that a reasonable cost?

Your math doesn't include the hourly wages of the people who do the searches multiple by the time spent on them. Granted, I don't have that info, but I'm guessing it's not peanuts.

It could be truly peanuts from something that happens automatically during entering things into the system anyways to something like multiple times the raw cost if it's something like 10+ minutes of manual work per average search.

Of course insider trading is a US federal crime in prediction marketplaces.

This law only applies to people distributing an operating system. It has nothing to do with what you personally use.

It also applies to application providers. The law requires them to have their applications ask the OS how old the user is whenever it is downloaded and launched.

Why a cloud provider and not a local VM?

Just an example. I personally have it running on a local Mac Mini (obviously aware that this isnt a perfect security measure, but I couldnt install on my laptop which has sensitive work access).

That's why I only allow user input of alphanumeric ascii characters. No need to worry about sanitation then, and you can just remove all the characters that don't match.

(It's a joke, but it is also 100% XSS, SQL injection, etc. safe and future proof)

Each discord server can decide whether they only will allow people with a phone number on. When you hit one of those, Discord will ask you for your number.

Those require a phone for you to send messages and interact. It will ask you to 'Verify phone', but you can chose not to and stay on the server as read-only, Discord itself won't bother you about it. I am on a few like that for quite some time.