The thieves care how much they can get from selling a stolen phone. By making phone parts usable for repairs, this bill just made black market phone parts more valuable. More buyers == more demand == higher price == more thieves aiming for phones.

Good luck keeping your phones from being stolen, or worse, robbed by first whacking your head with a bat from behind.

Why the heck should we, the buyer, care how much a PS5 costs Sony to build? It is being sold for $500 then $500 it is.

Why do you need a SSD when the console already came with 1TB storage? Why buy a second controller? Do you also account for the second PC for your friends to come and play together? Broken controllers, do you also account for a 2nd video card/mouse/keyboard for your PC when the first one dies? The price of a controller is not that much more than a gaming mouse for your PC, did you account for how much gaming mouse and keyboard cost?

When you add all those unnecessary cost for the console and then omit the price of the PC itself and some of its components, then of course playing on PC is cheaper.

SWIFT launching CBDC? If they succeed, they die. If they fail, they die.

This is the same dilemma as Kodak in the early days of digital cameras, their main income is film, if their digital cameras succeed, they just killed their main income. If their digital camera failed, they got swept into the dustbin as horse buggy manufacturers as the world moved on to digital cameras without them.

The SWIFT charges on transactions is more atrocious than what VISA & Mastercard charge, they get away with it because there is simply no other choice. CBDC is the other choice, if SWIFT's CBDC succeeded, they just killed their cash cow. If their CBDC failed, people will use other CBDC and left SWIFT in the dustbin. SWIFT's time in history is over either way.

Somewhere the price of a full PC got lost in your equation.

For the price of just the video card good enough to play PC games at a similar framerate as a PS5, I could probably buy 2 PS5 already, or a PS5 + PSVR2.

No, that (Embrace) is what Microsoft do when they are losing.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. They Embrace when they are the smaller play in the field, they Extend when they are the big player, they Extinguish when they have a monopoly.

XBox used to be the side rejecting multi-platform co-op or non-exclusives when they had the advantage (in the US market), and they would be once again if XBox beat the Playstation.

We have seen this before during the dotcom boom, and it didn't last long until the bubble bursted. That didn't mean the Internet was a wholly a fad, it was just that technology takes time to produce productivity gains, and eventually Internet giants did emerge after the bust.

Right now, AI looks more like the money-burning dotcom companies during the boom, everyone is rushing out their AI models, but few have an actual business plan on how to use the model to produce stuff that makes money. 20 years from now, everyone's life might be greatly improved by AI models, but it could be 10 years from now when we finally have something that AI is actually useful for.

Maybe this would be the beginning of the turning of the tide against MBAs without any frontline experience? One could hope.

Would you put any weight on a general who had never been to the frontline, never held a gun, never been on any operation? No, then why do so many business hire MBAs with no frontline experience in the industry into management? IT management who never written a line of code, etc. It is an insanity that should be stopped.

If you get getting a *ANY* degree just for the money -- don't. I have had many employees over the years and there is a direct correlation between people who don't really like to *DO X* (ie in it for the money) and getting yourself fired. Go find something you actually want to do for a career.

FTFY.

PSVR2 would be a nice addition to the PS5 if it were priced at ~$300-$350. $550, more expensive than the PS5 itself, is really too much for an add-on.

I have bought one, got about a dozen games for it, played a few of them for more than 20 hours each, and by now I still think it is too expensive for the fun it provided.

Of course that's exactly what this is.

Based on what other people are watching, i.e. "what's trending". Or based on your location, e.g. what's been uploaded in your town/city/state. Or just random videos. Or whatever they have been recommending in the past.

If one wants to be obtuse and abusive like Google, then of course the answer is to recommend nothing.

P.S. of course Google is still tracking you even after you logged out or using incognito mode.

No, this is "monetization". If you aren't a paying customer, you are the product being sold to paying customers (i.e. advertisers). This is just a new way for Reddit to sell products (read "users") to customers. Anyone who didn't expect this or something similar coming after the IPO was announced is too naive.

So that's bad experience for the products? Well, the cattle going into the slaughter house don't have much say on how it will be done. Don't be a product if you don't want to be sold.

New features won't be available to the Google flagship phone launched 6 months ago. This got to be a new record of how short a flagship phone stays "flagship".

Merely the admission that remote working *could* work for *some* is already a victory, a progress from the past.

This is the same as not having to wear shirt and tie to work in an office. Once the unthinkable became acceptable, no one will think twice about it anymore.

Is saying "40%" too hard? Or do most Americans really unable to tell immediately that "4 in 10" and "2 in 5" are actually the same?

Then why keep the 1.7% etc in the previous sentence?