Also the bloody things last like 5-8 years which means far fewer than half as many times climbing a ladder to visit the moth graveyard and replace them.

Oh. You're a chiropractor. Well, that explains things.

Wayyyy back in 1994, Martijn Koster wrote about the rather narrow-minded Robots Exclusion Protocol. A protocol that exists solely for human-supremacist content owners to be able to make a public declaration that robots are not welcome to read their stuff. ...so for thirty years any specists who didn't want an AI reading their content have had an easy way to prevent such from happening. No one has any excuse for getting upset and suing now.

Mainly it's that pizza delivery outfits very carefully select employees who don't or can't fight back against wage theft, so they may more freely exploit their employees to subsidize their profit model.

It literally costs a bit under sixty cents a mile to operate a motor vehicle, but a great many francizes have innovated wage theft by reimbursing employees only half that much per mile, which neatly cuts the costs they'd pay to operate a fleet of vehicles by roughly 50%. Additionally, rather than simply raising prices on the pizza, many francizes are now putting a line-item "delivery fee" right on the receipt which is generally in the neighborhood of $5 per delivery, despite the effect that these fees have on the tips of even their best drivers (because many patrons wrongly assume this money goes directly to the drivers)--shifting the blame and the risk of the cost increase over to their drivers. Another technique to maximize profits (and maintaining a hostile work environment for more effective exploitation of workers) is chronic understaffing. Francizes have noted that long delivery times do not significantly impact the volume of orders and therefore their net profits, so they can lean hard on managers to reduce "labor" and slow-walk new hires. Because three drivers can deliver the same number of pizzas as six drivers, although it will usually take them three times longer to do so, the only thing that is affected are the tips and that doesn't hurt corporate profits.

What's preventing that from happening here is that under normal circumstances, this would mean the ISPs with all the heavily asymmetric connections would be paying their peering connections and other websites through the nose just to allow their customers to access things, because they've designed their network around the idea that not only do customers contribute almost no value, but that it should be prohibitively expensive for the customers to actually contribute value to the internet if not downright impossible (when you literally can't get more than 35mbps upstream, but 1.2Gbps downstream is only a $50/month upgrade).

The demand is all on the _customer side_. The argument the ISPs are trying to make doesn't even make sense, because it would require websites and big tech companies to be in the business of forcing users to download their websites and apps whether they want them or not.

It's far worse than that. Mainly the telco providers are upset that upgrading and maintaining infrastructure is expensive and cuts into their >90% profit margins, therefore they want someone else to pay it because costs aren't something they feel obligated to pay. Trying to force a subsidy from other companies only distantly related to them is simply the only revenue model they haven't tapped yet.

That will never happen because it would cause AT&T and Comcast to reduce their rates, and asking for less money isn't a thing they do. Ever.

Well... He's on the right track so far.

And yet the third-party Reddit viewing apps show the ads along with the content, which means Reddit is still getting paid for those eyeballs.

The idea that these things are somehow sapping advertising money away from Reddit is more than a little nuts.

Which problems did they 'solve' exactly? The only thing I'm seeing that's really all that notable is a rather breathtaking price tag.

1. Meta Quest 2 already does this, oh and it can also be used as a remote display for PCs. Wirelessly, even.

2. The Meta Quest 2 has quite good resolution actually, and there are other units on the market that are better and still cost less than half the price Apple is asking for. If you think the average HMD has "low, chunky resolution" perhaps it's time you put away your VirtualBoy because the market is absolutely dominated by the Meta 2 unit.

3. Mixed reality already failed to be particularly compelling to anyone but a small number of users. ...and basically, all these claims are silly until they've actually put units on shelves, and that's *quite* a ways off. ...and then those poor early adopters will be sitting on their hands for some time because vanishingly few studios are going to spend significant time on games for a 2% market-share device that's already niche.

...and here I thought it had something to do with Google entering the ISP space that induced them to actually update their infrastructure instead of continuing their grand tradition of never upgrading anything until government money has paid for it a few times over.

When it comes to telcos, it's always the customer that's paying for it, unless the telco has connived the local public service commission into paying for it, which is also ultimately both the customers and everyone who isn't even a customer paying for it. This is no different.

It's cool how these auto manufacturers apparently think it's perfectly okay to try to take away someone's freedom of speech because they made some cars with terrible security and don't want people finding out.

Large companies could already use Linux.

This helps Microsoft protect Linux users from evil, evil desktop shortcuts.