Acquisitions... They're what companies do when they hit a wall and can't innovate, at least sometimes. Mostly, they're what companies do when they have to create numbers that look positive growth at first glance. See? They increased their marketshare by 38%! Oh, by acquiring another company. Nothing new was created, only destroyed.
Is that the crazies will use them in all the worst ways. Tragedy of the commons...
A scientific paper featuring an AI-generated image of a rat with an oversized penis was retracted three days after publication
If O'Reilly ever publishes a book on e.g. ChatGPT, this needs to be the cover.
If this is expected and those coming to the restaurant know this, then it's okay. There's a particular level of service expected in fine dining. This elevates new customers to the same level of old time regulars.
Zaslav is going to fuck this up and the linear television / cable division will be the one that survives.
So no citation then?
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The idea that new build anything is cheaper than nuclear that has been operating for three decades or more is ridiculous on its face. If I'm wrong, please, by all means, direct me to the evidence thereof.
For literally six months there have been prime day newsvertisements on most major news sites. Oh, and also amazon itself has gone from a trusted vendor over the past decade to one where you can't trust that you name-brand knock-off is actually the real original Cobgxwin or if it's just one that's stealing Cobgxwin's knock-off design and will burst into flames even though it shouldn't have anything flamable inside it. And then sometimes you'll go to a product page, 14 out of 15 of the options are sold and fulfilled by Amazon, while the 15th is actually someone doing a triangulation scam and you're going to get a surprise bill from the actual company that shipped you the product (which you should have used in the first place because it was $5 cheaper). Then Prime itself keeps increasing in price while at the same time they keep killing features (though Amazon does that the right way with a year's advance notice), and then they try to trick you into an add-on music subscription like the goddamned loch ness monster trying to get tree fiddy.
Sorry, you were talking about prices today and "still using" nuclear. Your comment re: subsidies suggests you are talking about Hinkley Point, which is not yet generating power and no subsidies for said power generation are being paid.
Existing nuclear is probably the cheapest energy in your grid. The "good news" at least for you is that almost all of it is scheduled for decommissioning by the end of the decade, so you will be able to see just how "expensive" it was when your rates go up as a result.
You should have been replying to the other guy. Something screwed up with my quote block so it looks like the ignorant statement was written by me, but I was trying to quote him. Agreed it's a pretty dumb take, which was my point.
the only electricity plants getting approval in the next few years, will be coal/gas-driven ones.
Darth Cheeto is not going to permit any coal plants--not because of anything related to him, but because no one has any plants to permit. Anything currently being discussed is a pencil exercise at best (and will almost certainly never come to fruition).
I work for a company that provides equipment for fossil power plants. There is a shit ton of gas coming in the next five years but no coal at all. New coal power is dead in the US.
Energy prices in the UK are high because we are still using too much gas and nuclear
You realize the vast majority of cost in nuclear is in the construction, yes? The idea that "energy costs are high because we are still using nuclear" is absurd. Decommissioning nuclear plants will increase your costs.
Wrong. Virtually no government agency's staffing levels have kept pace with population growth. Total federal government employees per capita now is half of what it was in the 60's 70's and 80's.
I wonder if there is anything that has been going on for the last half century or so that could explain why employees could be more efficient and you might have less of them for the same task, even in the face of having more customers. Some sort of revolution, maybe of the computer sort?
On second thought, nah, that wouldn't make any sense.
This was all Zaslav's idiocy.
It could also be made to look like Betty White. Nobody knows what it is or what it will be, so you'll just have to use your imagination.
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
