Steve Lehto has a good video about this.
In Michigan the Lemon Law applies to problems that 'reduce the value to the consumer'.
Some people are attempting to return their cars over these popup ads. IIRC it was GM that was much more aggressive but I might have that detail wrong.
This pattern keeps re-emerging.
Online payment systems want your bank login details.
Facebook was infamous for scraping your IMAP account for contact information.
etc.
The implications for security are so severe I wouldn't mind if this were illegal, but certainly it should be legal for banks or cell providers to terminate online accounts of people who share their credentials, no matter if - or especially if - they are with other large corporations. How many times has T-Mobile been hacked in the past two years?
If an account holder wanted to download a data export and upload that to another provider I don't really care so much. It's the near mandatory sharing of credentials that is just such a terrible habit to normalize.
And yes, greybeards, we know you've never heard of apartment rental agencies only accepting Venmo for rent.
> So you can drive it but you cannot look at it?
Is there a difference between riding on a rocket and giving Russia the technical knowledge to build a thousand of them?
Personally I think Russia could figure it out if they wanted to but that's not why the rules are in place.
> Was he just being a rocket geek?
90% likely but the 10% difference is why there are rules that cannot be broken.
He signed up for obeying the rules, so it was a dumb move.
> "conserve energy! Ditch your tungsten! Go LED!"
( "you may be in a psyop when..." )
FWIW I replaced the warm white LED's in one quarter of my rooms with incandescents last week. Turns out current LED's contribute to diabetes.
It's been 20 years since I switched to CFL's and LED's and I was genuinely surprised how different (and really good) it feels to sit under a 200W incandescent.
The crazy thing is 20 years ago my lighting usage was over 2KW for my house whereas my entire house is now 1.4KW, typically, but the electricity bill has quadrupled while the usage fell in half so really it's an 8x.
Hence my investment in solar infrastructure. The society is collapsing in slow-mo; the AI datacenters are just exacerbating the problem of not being able to scale. They framed Nixon for impeachment over Project Independence, so this isn't an accident.
If this were a factory that needed huge amounts of water but there wasn't enough water for the factory the permit would simply be denied.
Notice how AI, datacenters, and electricity gets a special exception to the societal norms.
Partially it's the transhumanists who have a religious fervor in bringing about their AGI God, but part of it is just dumb bureaucrats who can't understand how anything, including Econ 101, works. Or they're just bribed, which happens to be a highly profitable technique.
Yeah, and when that bubble pops in a few months customers will look at them side-eyed.
We can't have those because they wanted to sell chicken meat to Germany after WWII.
No, really, Fat Electrician has a good video on it.
(our government is just a loony bin now)
First Street very likely doesn't have some magic model that can predict the future better than anyone else.
When you get a mortgage you have to pay for a flood survey. Even my house 700' above the village where the bank is.
Your flood risk is absolutely predicted by the flood history of your location. The bank writing the mortgage has the skin in the game which is why they make the buyer pay for the flood survey.
It sounds like First Street might be liable for damages based on pseudoscience if these Realtors bring a case. It would be interesting to see them present solid evidence that they prospectively beat the existing flood models and survive a cross-examination.
If they've published a peer-reviewed paper then I missed it.
Hostile design is often a sign of libido dominandi, not just laziness.
SmartTube has probably hundreds of settings you can tweak to improve usability and accessibility. The developer clearly has a user-first philosophy.
You have Revanced for Android but Apple doesn't allow such things.
It has some excellent accessibility improvements over stock.
Cheaper to just pay the bribes.
In America it's known as K-street. Or "donating" to an Inauguration Gala. Or hosting a high court judge in a European palace for a couple of weeks. Or giving decision makers absurd private sector salaries when they 'retire'. Or giving the Governor's wife a $200K no-show job. Pick your branch, there's a way.
In India the system is less formal.
It's been, what, a week, and they got 6000 jets through maintenance during a very busy holiday travel season?
That speaks to fantastic logistics. There are anonymous folks out there who did a great job and deserve a ridiculously generous Christmas Bonus.
I too bought memory in April to avoid tariffs. I had to run a stupid python program to generate a dataset that required 96GB of RAM for a delayed project so I figured I might as well bite the bullet. DDR4 was still a good value at that point (it's a problem that can run overnight, performance wasn't too important).
But how are the tariffs limiting the manufacturing supply capacity of RAM factories in East Asia?
Do you have a mechanism to propose?
Do you think they're making enough to meet demand but then blaming tariffs to justify jacking up prices? All of them? It would be an interesting conspiracy but is there any evidence to support that theory?
> How much is this problem is down to AI and how much to beautiful tariffs?
What mechanism are you thinking of where tariffs could limit supply of VRAM from East Asia?
Simple price increases, sure, definitely, but this is described by manufacturers as a supply & demand problem.
Do you have a different angle we should consider?
User hostile.
