The companies in question should just pass on the fees to their users. Want to use your Chase account with a third-party payment provider? That's a $15 service fee. When Chase starts bleeding customers, they'll rethink their strategy.
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Coding is to CS as math is to Physics.
Software engineering is building the supercolliders for physics.
Meanwhile we have LLM's declaring themselves Mechahitler.
Good job University of No Job Placement.
(yeah, some Universities have been giving CS degrees for HTML and MS Office)
Good one.
If we can't move the planet by then we've gone extinct too.
According to the Timcast review (spoilers) he never says either phrase in the movie.
Just some dope making posters, reportedly.
Apparently all the immigrant and Israel propaganda stuff is fake too.
Marketing Buzz achieved - don't believe anybody without verifying.
What is the current total Federal budget for science across all departments?
We have record homelessness, addiction, child trafficking, and a curiosity about the earliest moments after the Big Bang, if that even exists.
Oh and not enough electricity for humans and AI aspirations.
Given limited funding we need to prioritize.
Cutting the War Department funding in half would be another good move.
By all means if this can be philanthropically endowed, like the Simons Observatory, that would be fantastic.
And where are the Oil Sultan countries on this? Muslims used to be the very best Astronomers in the world.
Where I live (Kamloops, BC, Canada) the all-time high temperature record for a long time was 42C, set in July 1941. Most of southern B.C. set records that month. No air conditioning. Ugh! We demolished that record when it hit 47C in June 2021. I've never been so hot in my life...
The hottest we've been so far this summer was 36C. I expect to hit the Big Four Oh at least once, but the long-term forecast isn't promising.
...laura
Crazy pricing scheme Is it $3125 for seven? Why not just use two $20 accounts to get six per month for $40?
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, but presumably the second plan offers more than just 40% more videos per day.
It should be obvious that changing a 0 to a 1 (whether or not one swaps other digits) is not cutting a zero off the price. The normal price is not $3490.99, either.
Yeah, the snark is high in this thread.
But in all seriousness, $3,499 really is an order of magnitude too expensive to compete against Quest at $499. If they had game availability that could compete with Quest, they might be able to get away with more like $750, but not $3.5k, or even $2k, realistically. It's just way too overpriced for something that in practice is only usable for gaming.
Addressable does not mean accessible.
IPv6 has link-local addresses which are unroutable outside of the local segment. Plus firewalls and VLANs exist so you can limit access however you want.
This is a _LOT_ better than the typical device that connects to someone else's hosted server that you have absolutely no control over.
$3,490.99 to $4,391.99
This one needs microcode, kernel, and hypervisor patches, the latter two needing to flush cache when transitioning between trusted and untrusted code.
Bulletin: https://www.amd.com/content/da...
Cutting a zero off the price, yeah, but faster, no.
So, something like $3,490.99 to $3491.00?
No, that's adding a zero.
If there are literally no deductions, then the tax is on gross revenues rather than on profits, and that's just not feasible for people running businesses whose profit margin is small, or who have significant costs associated with their employment (e.g., rideshare drivers need to keep up a motor vehicle).
So, at the very least one needs deductions for the expenses that were spent to gain the revenues. But now a lot of complications come back. Do we allow expenses to get carried over? And what exactly counts as an expense? Some jobs require a uniform and some jobs just require looking business-like--do both types of clothes count as a deductible expense or only one? Say, you travel for business. Do you get to deduct the full cost of food when traveling on business or the cost of food when traveling minus how much it would cost to eat at home (and how do you calculate the latter)? Do you cap the cost of the food you can deduct? You probably should be able to deduct the cost of entertaining clients. But what counts as entertaining clients and what is just having fun with people who happen to be clients? Or you buy a painting to put in your office. Is it there for you to enjoy, or is there "a business purpose" for it, say to impress clients with your taste.
And, anyway, what is income? If someone gives you a gift, that's just a gift, not something you earned. But what if they give you the gift because they were impressed with how nice you were on your job or how smart you are. Now it's a tip or a prize. What if instead of giving you money, they give you a meal? If that counts as income, then do you tax that based on the retail price or the price it costs them to give it to you? And if it doesn't count as income, we have a giant loophole where you can be paid in kind instead of in money.
I am afraid that any system will raise a ton of questions, and now we need tax lawyers. Sure, we can reduce how many we need. But it will still have complications.
The wealthy aren't the problem with inflation. Giving money to them (or not taxing it away from them, same thing) isn't inflationary, they'll more or less invest the money to increase their wealth. Rich people always want more money.
Ah, but for the most part, that money just sits there. Investing money in stocks has only limited impact on anything, in practice, which is why it doesn't impact inflation much. The money doesn't ever get spent on anything that meaningfully contributes to strengthening the economy.
Cutting checks to people on the street, that's inflationary because they spend the money on goods.
It is, but not proportionately. The increase in funds availability does increase demand, which increases scarcity, but the price people spend on goods and services doesn't increase to absorb all of the extra money going in — just some of it. That's why if you compare San Jose, CA to Jackson, TN, the median salary differs by more than a factor of 2.8, while the overall cost of living differs by only a factor of 1.9 (and if you ignore the housing costs that are largely caused by San Jose being landlocked, by only a factor of 1.5).
Improving people's standard of living has little to do with giving them money. You need more goods, which then become relatively cheaper within the existing money supply because of the lack of scarcity. That means producing said goods, whether we're talking about consumer stuff or housing.
While true, absent government intervention in how people run their companies, you can't prevent scarcity. Scarcity allows companies to charge higher prices for the same amount of labor, so except when you're talking about true commodities, companies have a perverse incentive to keep supply down as much as possible, so long as they stay below the point where the profit margins become too high relative to the barriers to entry into the market and another competitor is encouraged to enter the market and compete with them.
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect "Hungry." -- a Larson cartoon
