And that $49 is a good price for a smart dimmer that can actually control non-smart lights electrically. However, that appears to be a liquidation price (since sold out), full priced at $70, which is around what other similar products cost, and because that type of product is a dime a dozen, there's nothing to make Brilliant's smart dimmer stand out.

Their control panels are the only interesting thing they make, and that's where we see a single-gang control panel costing $399, where they're competing with other smart touch screens where there are multiple options under $100, and even some at around $60.

Some of the more premium competing touchscreen wall switch designs are in the $150-200 price range, but that's still half the cost of Brilliant's offering, or less.

It's not the only thing. I prefer Android, but a lot of the charging ports on some of my phones got janky after a few years. Also, the batteries stopped working. Yes, you can get those fixed, but it's often easier to go ahead and upgrade instead of getting it fixed. My current phone is a Samsung that's probably been on the market for three or four years now. I paid extra for wireless charging, so I would have a way to charge it if the port went out on me.

My son used Apple phones for most of his phones. He was always complaining about the battery not holding a charge.

That's not even mentioning broken screens. I've been pretty good about not breaking them, but I have probably cracked two screens over the years.

and what sort of pressure would need to be exerted for cars with drivers to become verboten

meanwhile... kids on bikes exist

Saying it doesnt make it true.

Nobody believes that shit.

Its anywhere you see a "Stop Here On Red" sign, and the sign is telling you exactly where your vehicle needs to be to trigger the sensor.

I wish more people knew this.

Some guys completely custom ride is not indicative of anything.

Soon cores will be virtualized so affinity wont matter.

When you buy ads, not every ad buy is going to work out. 22% isn't terrible if that is *all* it is. When I was doing Facebook ads it was 75% people clicking the 'contact us' button by mistake rather than interest. And we still paid because the quality of the other 25% was so good. Other forms of advertising are the same. We did Homeadvisor for a while and more than half of the leads were complete garbage. But with Homeadvisor you have to pay for each one and it was $20-40 per lead for our business. We stopped doing that but it was maybe 30% as effective as other forms of advertising, for some businesses it is worth casting the net. Most forms of advertising have an inherent amount of waste, whether it be bots, mismatch relevancy, sleazy ad platform payment structures, or otherwise. You get used to it because it's part of the business, some platforms more than others.

Nuclear necessarily means involving the state in the energy business. Nationalisation of major industries is a typical left-wing ideology, sometimes as the first step in a process intended to lead to full worker control of the means of production.

Marx would have loved nuclear.

Math fail, more like 20x as much.

They charge $400-550 USD for their light switches. My Zigbee light switches cost $25 a pop. Would I pay more than $25 for a light switch with a built-in touchscreen? Sure! Will I pay ten times as much? Hell no.

Wrong company. You're talking about Brilliant the online education company, not Brilliant the lightswitch company.

You can repair a lot of cars with the amount of money that a bad pedestrian accident can cost. $500 extra for 10,000 cars could be roughly equivalent to the lifetime costs of a single permanent disability. There are two sides to the calculation.

That's from 2022, though. In it, you've got Amazon at 34%, Microsoft at 21%, and Google at 11%. By 2023Q4 (https://www.statista.com/chart/18819/worldwide-market-share-of-leading-cloud-infrastructure-service-providers/), you've got Amazon at 31%, Microsoft at 24%, and Google still at 11%.

Living forever is a bunch of crap. However, it's only a matter of time until someone finds a way to get an extra five to ten (good) years of life.

We need to be dealing with this now, or we are going to have to deal with a 105-year-old Mitch McConnell.

Even the US Army is testing an anti-aging drug right now:

https://www.popularmechanics.c...