perhaps Google didn't actually make any money and this paper profit is due to accounting trickery? I'm not well versed in accounting practices, but this snippet from their earnings release seems a bit suspicious:

Change in Useful Lives of Our Server and Network Equipment

In January 2023, we completed an assessment of the useful lives of our servers and network equipment and
adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from four years to six years and the estimated useful life of certain
network equipment from five years to six years. This change in accounting estimate was effective beginning in fiscal
year 2023 and the effect for the three months ended March 31, 2023 was a reduction in depreciation expense of
$988 million and an increase in net income of $770 million, or $0.06 per basic and $0.06 per diluted share.

honest question -- for apartment dwellers, how does "home charging" work?

I remember using kozmo.com back in that time frame as well. They also didn't make it and went bust in 2001, only to apparently relaunch recently to try it again.

For what it's worth, the current covid-19 casualty numbers are about half of an average flu season in Italy. It seems many people don't understand how many people die from the flu each year. In the US alone, the average annual death rate is about 26000 over the past 5 years.

Interesting take, albeit completely incorrect. To steal does not require deprivation of ownership. I can steal your identity while you still have access to it.

per dictionary.com: to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.

per merriam-webster: to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully

If it's not for gaming, then what's the point of installing a $100+ graphics card on a laptop if all you're going to be doing is terminals and browsers? Use the built-in intel graphics and save us some money.

Agreed -- all of the other relatively nice hardware with a 1080p screen makes no sense.

reddit has a mechanical keyboard sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mecha...

Interested, I had a look at their website and got a little laugh out of what they had to say about a Windows build:

The market has not increased 400% since 2009. Yes, the market has performed remarkably well since March 2009, but it's only increased a bit more than 200%. (dow jones 3/27/2009 - 7776, 9/7/2014 - 17137)

Investing in DAL (Delta Airlines) five years ago would net you about a 430% return. In case you're wondering, UAL (United Airlines) is more than 700% and LUV (Southwest) is about 280%.

Perhaps you don't like when airlines lose your luggage? Maybe you're travelling for a short time, and all you need is a small carry-on? I rarely retrieve anything from my carry-on, but I still bring it on the flight because I've had luggage lost too many times.

You aren't considering power for those spinning drives. The beauty of Blu-Ray in this context are the power requirements For a typical home user, power is rarely given a second thought. In the data center world, power is one of the primary considerations when considering cost.

The funny thing here is that Amazon offers two factor auth with an RSA key (or app for smartphone)

It was not mandatory on launch, but shortly afterward. The US launch was July 2011, and the Facebook requirement came in September 2011.

I created my account in August of 2011, and I did not integrate with Facebook. I still have the original email telling me that I'll need to log in with the username I created and a password. Facebook integration definitely came after the initial launch in the US. Perhaps you found out about Spotify after September 2011? From the Spotify wikipedia article:

On 26 September 2011, it was announced that all new accounts would require users to access via a Facebook login[84] but the sign-up restriction was later removed on 30 August 2012, giving users a choice to either log in with Facebook or create a Spotify username.