Yep, being a professional gamer is certainly a dream job. And do you know what else is a dream job? Being a financial advisor to someone with a crapload of money and a 9th grade education (yeah yeah, he's going to continue by taking online courses ..I'm sure that will work well in the priority list along side his 18 hours per day of fortnite)

I fully expect the rolling coal sort of people to start visiting CVS and buying a ton of the cheapest item they can find, all on separate transactions...with paper receipts, of course

While you are doing that, take a look at the name tag on your coffee maker and you'll realize you were thinking of Magic Chef. Master Chef is a TV show.

You could absolutely simulate a USB cassette. We've already got the tech to transfer audio to the player via those CD to cassette adapters. So now you have to make those wheels do something. Turning them powers the internal electronics. The rate and direction they turn, along with which one is turning, tells you whether to fast forward or rewind and which side of the tape is being played. The last thing you need to simulate is a mechanism to lock the wheel when you reach the end (making sure to pad the shorter of the 2 sides with enough white noise to make the sides equal length) so that the player can auto-reverse to play the entire cassette, both sides, without intervention.

So I suppose if you lost $10k or more in the hack, you be happy to say "oh that's alright...at least they shut it down pretty swiftly and with minimal to no loss", right?

Exactly. Normally I would be inclined to agree with this philosopher, but when you take a colored canvas with a stripe, a white canvas with some paint splatters, or even just a solid white canvas, and you can call it art, then I'm willing to give AI the benefit of the doubt on this one

Pretty much every form of insurance is not gambling. The idea with gambling is that if things go the way you planned, you come out a winner. But generally with insurance, you don't come away feeling like a winner.

Car insurance: You get into a car accident, and your car insurance pays for replairs. But generally you are still at a loss. You've lost significant time dealing with it. Repaired cars with any significant damage are often not quite the same. When you go to sell the car you are likely to get less for it (and insurance rarely compensates you, fully or even at all, for diminished value. And there's a good chance you'll end up paying more in insurance in the future

House insurance: Your house burns down, and it's a gigantic life disruption. Depending on how extensive the damage and other circumstances, you could be spending more than a year living out of a hotel or rental. Your insurance will pay for a lot of your stuff, but realistically there will be so many things not covered and that you don't even remember to claim. Anything of sentimental value is impossible to replace. It's pretty much impossible to be made whole. In lesser cases, like where you just have a water leak, insurers are fearful of mold so you could end up getting dropped and find your house nearly uninsurable except for the most expensive policies. It can even affect you went you go do sell and the buyer finds nobody wants to insure the house.

Life insurance: If you have a very high value policy, then even with all your expenses incurred it may be possible to come out financially better off...but come on, someone you love has died, which can just destroy your life (especially if kids are invovled...for their entire life they'll never be quite the same). But realistically, in many cases you don't even come out financially positive in the long run when the big money earner is gone from the picture and year after year you chip away at the insurance payout

Medical insurance: Considering the cost of premiums, the only way for medical insurance to not be a negative value investment is to have a lot of medical bills, which generally means someone is pretty sick.

Sports player insurance: I still get to go to the game and still get to enjoy it, but maybe get 90% of my cost of the ticket refunded. And note that unlike other insurances, here I was already happy to pay 100% of the value to do that. So this is really like a positive value return when the insurance kicks in (as opposed to all the above examples, where you pretty much always lose out)

I don't think "profit-saving" is even accurate either. It would be more accurate to say profit-generating measure. And with their new wireless charging pad being released this year, what better reason to "upgrade" to that latest (expensive) accessory and help them generate even more profit

And why did I put "upgrade" in quotes? Because wireless charging isn't much of an upgrade. Sure you don't have to plug in a wire, but it's slow. Even slower than the basic charger that comes in the box with your phone. But wait a minute....what if the charger that came with your phone was actually even SLOWER than the wireless charger? Then it truly would be an upgrade.

No, that's not "literally law regarding tips". You are thinking of the legally mandated minimum wage. That's not what this is about. This is about how (as it states in the summary) "Amazon guarantees third-party drivers for its Flex program a minimum of $18 to $25 per hour". There is no law regarding tips that concerns anything amazon has guaranteed over the minimum wage. That comes purely down to contract law...what are the terms of the "guarantee" in the employment contract.

Simple solution, Amazon: stop comingling the damn inventory from 3rd party sellers. True, you won't be able to prevent
  from selling counterfeit items, but you'll be able to trace back who sold it, and when sellers know they can be identified, they won't be as willing to risk it

At our current level of tech and knowledge, I agree. But I wouldn't outright say it isn't possible. Unless you believe in some spiritual essence being responsible for intelligence, it would seam to reason that all of the physical attributes that make a brain work can eventually be figured out and duplicated.

It doesn't matter if FDIC can't insure it all, the point still stands. To truly "steal" the money, you have to get it out of the system before they noticed it and get it into your control in a form that can't be clawed back. For tens of thousands of dollars, that's fairly easy. For a millions of dollars, that starts getting a bit difficult. For a hundred million, that's going to be extremely difficult. As of a few years ago, the FDIC fund stood at $72.6 billion.

Wow, perfect. So not only does it look more bland**, but now that phones are beginning to move to oleds we get MORE white in the UI? Good thinking!!!

**not sure why everyone seems to think it's good to not having lines denoting the borders of anything, whether it be separators between emails or the edges of a button.

That's a really good question. Who DOES care whether or not you've heard of Metroid?

Wrong. Some things are infinitely better with a mouse (the author of the article even says so). Some things are infinitely better with keyboard shortcuts. I'd venture to say that most things are BEST with a healthy combination of the two.

The author is like a guy who has used a hammer as his only tool for his whole life. Suddenly he discover a screwdriver and realizes screws go in so much easier and cleaner than with a hammer, and suddenly says "get the fuck out of here, Mr Hammer" and proceeds living life with a screwdriver as his only tool.