You can discuss the post, but just calling it heavy lifting isn't really discussion.

It's better to organize a mass arbitration campaign. One class action lawsuit is likely going to be far cheaper to defend that 50,000 arbitration claims that the company is on the hook to pay for the arbitrator (not to mention the cost of representation at these hearings) even if the case is ultimately found in their favor.

I think the Archive can reasonably get away with this one. Unlike their "we can give away all the books because copyright is no longer a thing because covid" initiative, this effort is clearly and unambiguously archival in nature. Now, if they go and implement some kind of Pandora or Spotify type service for listening to these recordings, they're going to have trouble, but if the recordings are made available in some kind of academic setting they should be fine.

So the current production version of Mark Zuckerberg is building a newer version with a more intuitive human interface, I get it.

If states cannot regulate commodities markets, New York is pretty fucked since it leverages the fact that various exchanges are located in the state to its advantage.

I had VERY SPECIFIC requirements and I wanted the extended warranty. I would have paid 2x at a dealer. I know what I was doing.

I bought a used 2020 XC90 from CarMax last week. I did everything online from shipping it from Texas to Minnesota to financing the extended warranty. I walked in the door, gave them a cashier's check, and drove away within 10 minutes.

That's how it should be.

This. I am amazed at the number of posts I see that are along the lines of "Broadcom are really going to regret how they've mismanaged this" because they have flat out SAID that this is their plan, to drive away everyone but the most valuable customers and extract the maximum amount of revenue possible. This is and has always been a short term play, and anyone with a brain saw it coming even before Hock Tan flat out said it.

The only place they're still playing remotely nice is the EU because the regulators there actually have teeth and will take a bite out of their ass for the tactics they are using, which are blatantly unlawful even in the US (but the regulators even under Biden didn't seem to give a fuck about).

I'm pretty sure the 1000%+ price increases on renewal have more to do with this than Darth Cheeto.

This move is driven by Broadcom acting like a private equity manager. They found a place to extract a temporary revenue stream, they're going to milk it, and then sell it off before it becomes too much of a liability.

Broadcom executives surely saw the negative pushback immediately after they started their rug-pulling licensing effort. If they intended to keep this market and their position in it, they would have adjusted their behavior immediately. Instead they're going to rake everyone as they walk out the door. And until they can walk out the door. They knew that they would lose all of these customers in the medium term, but my guess is they figure that the industry is shifting away from paying so much for VMs so they will squeeze the last bit they can out of this dying market. I think they are fully prepared to spin this off if it decides to be a drain on their balance sheet. So far, there's just a lot of angry, paying, enterprise customers giving them free money for something they didn't even have to build. It's a gravy train, quite literally.

Musk aside, the #1 change that absolutely destroyed X as a platform was by default sorting a users feed by likes rather than by post date.

The entire point of Twitter was to see what that account is doing right now and not what the most popular thing that account ever did was.

And no. I don't want to login to sort by date and then be tracked by some algorithm so it screws up my random feed like YouTube does when all I want to do is look at a tweet from a news article. Especially when I didn't have to do that before the X changeover. I also don't want it to be a walled garden like Facebook where I have to login to see anything.

"Seem primarily financial in nature" is saying "money can cure any harm they suffer as a result of a stay not being granted." I tend to disagree with the court on this one because the current state of their industry means if you fall behind (which the reputational harm of "The DoD says we are a threat to national security" makes a real possibility) you're almost certainly going to be left behind. The hypothetical "we would have won the AI race and been a ten trillion dollar company" or whatever is a hypothetical the court will not entertain at the damages stage.

With their new Mythos model they can take Pentagon down, that's what I hear anyway. Maybe Pentagon needs to be taken down as well as the rest of the regime and all of the regimes.

Indeed, most of the tickets aren't so much that a middle class type can't afford the occasional one. One doesnt need to be a billionaire to not care.