14 Million dollars? That is a rounding error for HP...

I mean your not technically wrong, but you just described 95% of all US companies in the technology sector... They literally exist to either get bought or die. No one is investing in almost any of them with hopes of long term growth and stability. The only reason they exist is to get bought by one of the big fish, that is literally what defines success for their investors.

The point is if your metric for a successful tech company is having functional products and stable growth (meaning they can mostly fund themselves through profits), could you please point one out to me that isn't Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Oracle, Tencent, or some other huge conglomerate?

...its time now.

Zuckerberg drew a sharp line between Meta's approach and that of other companies in the field

He thinks his vision for a dystopian future is better than those other company's visions for a dystopian future. Yippy.

Numerous coffee establishments across the US are actively restricting internet access and laptop use

ngl, I get drive through coffee all the time, but going into a coffee shop for anything more than picking up an order? Like the entire point of it is to use their wifi on my laptop.

Who hangs out in a coffee shop for any other reason? I'm just saying just close your doors and just go drive through only if you don't want remote workers hanging out cause they are your only real sit down customers you have in the first place.

I agree. Hollywood is gonna have a really tough time making a movie good enough for me to want the experience of paying $22 for 50 cents worth of popcorn again...

To put a few numbers behind your post...

Harvard accepts about 1,950 students each year (that has stayed virtually unchanged for 30+ years). The number of applicants in 1995 was like ~18k, the number of applicants in 2024 was like ~57k. The admittance rate is now below 4% (was about 10% in 95 but used to be much higher like you said)...

There is a lot of people screaming bloody murder about the price of education, and rightly so. I'm just saying though, its not like its a product no one is willing to pay for... That is kind of the problem, they can charge astronomical prices for education because EVERYONE wants it and lots of people are willing to pay obscene amounts of money for it.

Government subsidizing something like this (using the mechanisms they have now) is actually stupid AF. There needs to be a paradigm shift in HOW higher education is regulated and funded if you want to fix it.

That is because it is. Article is stupid, not you.

That is one of the dumbest business decisions I have ever seen. Maybe, just maybe, they could have solved this problem by not having such shitty products that they require people to call support in the first place? Just a thought.

Don't take this as a defense of Apple cause its not. I think their AI stuff blows too. However, why is no one talking about the AI responses on Google Search?

Holy Shit its literally **dangerously** wrong about 50% of the time. How is that thing still turned on????

Just saying indentation is 4 characters and mandatory definitely does not cover it. It is described very poorly though, since I can see how you would come away with that.

It isnâ(TM)t really even about indentation. Python uses indentation to denote block scopes, he is using it to denote list, array, and parameter separators. In other words in his language:

4 spaces == a comma.

Not defending this madness btw, but that is what he is doing.

The whole surface of the sun schtick is a bit besides the point...

Steel vaporizes at 2,862ÂC (5,184ÂF) ffs. 30kÂF??? Lol, at those temps they would just be making plasma.

The fact is if they were in charge when the first season of The Wire originally aired it would have been canceled because it had low viewership numbers... Widely considered the greatest TV series ever made and has made back its production costs at least 50x by now.

Sometimes low viewership has nothing whatsoever to do with the quality of a tv show, sometimes its just poor marketing and/or a disconnect with the watching trends at the time. I think The Wire suffered from both, but it was **absolutely** worth the cost of giving the show 2 more seasons to tell its story.

All WB cares about is immediate gratification and its going to destroy their streaming model soon enough. That and their stupid pursuit of the destruction of the HBO brand, which is literally the only brand they own that has an ounce of value in and of itself. They lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers in the process of switching from "HBO" to "HBO Max" to just "Max" and it is a completely self inflicted wound.

The leadership is just fucking stupid.

This is not about Apollo, they literally give zero shits about Apollo...

This is about AI. They want to cash in on reddit as a data supplier for building AI training sets. Their data is a gold mine for AI, and they have to charge a lot per request for this use case to make it profitable, because in the AI world you generally only need to retrieve a particular post once.

Apollo is just caught in the middle imo. These API fees are just not reasonable for someone who sells a 3rd party general access client like this. Reddit doesn't care, they would probably be happy to be rid of them anyway and force people to their own app. They tolerated it this long because it never really hurt them, and it still doesn't, but they see AI $$$.

How does this axe grinding bullshit get through moderation???