Given the diminishing use of cash, I expect other coins to disappear in the future

Old school - a note under the door, at least when they make the bed and provide fresh towels.

Not everybody is going to notice a note slipped under the door or bother to look at it. Much better would be hanging the notes from the room's doorknob, similar to the Do Not Disturb signs. If you make them the right size, they cover up the place where you use your keycard to unlock the door so that you can't even get into your room without at least looking at the notice and there's no plausible way to claim that you thought it was spam.

Why does Amazon care what software someone chooses to run on a device they own? Is there a law (or a court ruling) somewhere that requires Amazon to act against these apps? Have rights holders told Amazon that they wont be able to continue distributing content belonging to those rights holders unless they do this?

Although since this talks about "sports streaming", my guess is that the pressure is comming from entities involved with European soccer competitions, the companies with the legitimate rights to stream and/or broadcast those games and the governments that have been bought off by said leagues and streamers/broadcasters...

will lose my business

...that ever increasing compute power will be needed for future AI
This reminds me of the old military saying that generals plan to fight the last war
One efficient algorithm changes everything
One different processing approach like analog hybrids or bio hybrids changes everything
The future is becoming increasingly unpredictable

Meta wants to misuse AI tech to create fake friends who will likely try to sell you stuff
He needs to work on AI that can help us solve previously intractable problems in science, engineering, medicine, etc

...in the olympics of bad ideas
Run Windows apps in a browser?
This might work for trivial stuff, but I can't imaging running serious software like this and having it run even close to acceptably
High end CAD? Video editing? Digital audio workstation? Scientific simulation? in a browser?
This is silly beyond belief

Exactly. This is inflationary policy, not deflationary. The depression in prices is just temporary.

But the US seem to really struggle to understand it.

Exactly. I would expect better from the Atlantic, but here we are.

This is part of the plan. China has built up a huge EV industry in 18 years, a vast, diverse, vibrant, and innovate ecosystem and supply chain.

Now it needs to be trimmed down. The government has said repeatedly that there are too many EV companies, and they want only the best to survive.

So there will be a market concentration. Mergers, acquisitions, and bankruptcies are to be expected. The result will be a stronger industry with better quality.

Far from the death nail in the industry, this will establish it as one of the leading EV producing regions.

... was how to disable it.

After scanning that many people, what are the odds of misidentification duplicates? It is a known problem with finger prints.

Nice

>"I run a very small boutique hosting service and traffic has more than doubled since AI, all attributable to them. OpenAI in particular just seems to come along and hit like 30-60K links per day, no robots.txt rate limiting, just a "gimme all your data" scraping posture. Amazon is by far the worst, "

Oh, there is far worse now. Last week my club website was hit by a full-on distributed bot-net scraping our wiki. Up to a dozen hits per second from 250,000 unique IP addresses all over the world (but mostly Singapore and Brazil addresses). All of them ignoring robots.txt. All of them pretending to be people/browsers. It crippled the old/small server, so I took the content down and the traffic continued for 5 MORE DAYS still requesting various links into the content, until it finally started tricking to 2 or so per minute.

Spotify offers lossless... I recently enabled it.

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2...

They only use water because it is cheap. They can cool with no water use if needed. So a data center water tariff would change things dramatically.