For Aldi, which uses Instacart, I assumed it was because there is no 'fee' for pickup, but they have to pay someone to shop for you. I consider the difference a convenience fee.
That said, by not shopping in store, I end up getting only what is on my list and end up paying FAR LESS than I would if I was wandering around.
I get the fact that there was huge malfunction in the system that was supposed to limit each donor to less than 10 people.
I get the fact that there were inadequate/mistakes screenings.
But the real question is what description led it to be chosen over 200 times by the customers?
Hypothesis: Tall, handsome, doctor.
Null hypothesis: Kind, loving, honorable
Anyone willing to bet on the null?
Some ISP's will bundle cable along with internet at a lower starting price.
If you're hired specifically to develop a good AI, then you *should* push back against folks that want you do act in ways that would cause you to create an inferior one.
OTOH, for Meta to fail at this is devoutly to be wished for. I'd prefer almost anyone else.
A lot depends on how much you believe their explanation. I don't. In fact, I suspect the person making the explanation didn't know the reason, and either invented what they thought would sound good, or just read something someone else handed them.
Corporations don't have a "central mind" that knows all the things they are doing and why they do them. To get a reasoned answer takes a long time, and usually isn't what they want to deliver anyway.
Since China was already trying to get local chips used rather than NVIDIA, they'll probably be in favor of this move.
I assume that at least some of the tension here is that facebook hired these guys to be the hotshot golden boys of sucking less at AI; so it isn't just an it's-only-money thing
Maybe it's about salaries: the golden boys are being paid much more than their perhaps equally-qualified colleagues?
You do not get to choose the product and the product could easily be from a grocery store 100 miles away.
There is no good reason why grocery delivery in the super expensive cities - New York, Zurich, etc. should be expensive. It should be cheaper. Grocery stores on the outskirts of the city could easily set things up so that they deliver food at a steep discount to the high priced grocery stories in them becuase they could pay literally half the rent.
But Demand is so high for food and the inhabitant are so used to paying high prices that they charge MORE for the food than the neighborhood grocers let alone for the delivery.
Two possibilities:
1) Calibri is helpful: In which case Rubio is a shmuck, making it harder to read by undoing the advantage it offered over Times new Roman.
2) Calibri is not helpful: In which case it was a waste of time and money to change to Calibri but that also means it is a waste of time and money to change back so Rubio is a shmuck.
His stated reason "Decorum and professionalism" was untested opinion. There is nothing unprofessional about the font Calibri. Changing it because your opponent liked it is unprofessional and childish.
his isn't a dead end. There has already been massive success with AI just over the past 2 years.
Agreed that AI (in general) is not a dead end, but any particular implementation of AI might be. OpenAI et al are betting billions that their approach will turn out to be the best one, but it really is a bet; there's not guarantee that tomorrow the next DeepSeek won't come out with a better algorithm that obsoletes all their investments.
Apple has not participated in a meaningful way, and they will not catch up in this race.
Apple can always buy out whichever company they decide has what they want. It'll be pricey, but Apple has plenty of cash on hand.
These beggars are selling a product, though they do not know it.
That product is the approval of your own conscience. Are you the kind of person who can look at someone in need and ignore them?
It's also ingroup solidarity,you can leave comments with others who also gave money.
It's worthwhile to note that socialists despise charity. Government should do everything. That's why they got angry when MrBeast dug all those water wells in Africa. He made the governments look bad.
And never forget that socialism is for workers. It's a workers' paradise. It's not 'free money for lazy people who don't work," no matter how often Trump says that.
If you want to cooperate with law enforcement you can always CHOOSE to do it yourself.
The problem is RING and a lot of others do not really give you the choice - they make you cooperate with them, taking control of it - even against you. You get into a fight with your neighbor on your doorstep, they will get the footage and use it against you. Your daughter comes home drunk and the cops use the footage in her DWI case.
It's not about doing things illegal, it's about YOUR rights. The cops love to ignore them. You should not be forced to pay for the cops to illegally spy on you.
If you buy the camera and set up everything, you get all the benefits with no downsides and you pay less money.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? -- Woody Allen
