Well, "profit drives investment and innovation" sounds like another "trickle down" trope, just with another funnel where it is supposed to trickle down into.

Yes, if nothing get's poured into on top,. nothing CAN trickle down. But just pouring money in on top will NOT MAKE anything trickle down automatically.

For any kind of profit I make I have to decide: Do I let them trickle down or do I keep them? Well, I'd choose to keep mine.

Probably some guys with fragile masculinity are afraid that some guy could be demoted from "NFL Player" to "Celebrity boyfriend"

I think it's more like "anyone who has a large set of published pictures available"

I probably couldn't ask a GAI to create lewd pictures of my neighbor, cause it wouldn't know how my neighbor looks like. And even if could add my own training data, it probably would need more that one or two random pictures.

You can optimize your pdf to support reflow - but that basically means cutting of the special pdf features and usually is better with epub (zipped html)

The thing you are looking for is html and svg.

pdf purpose is to have documents printed identically on different printers. (or later "devices" in general) But if you ever tried to read a pdf ebook on different ebook-reader sizes you've seen that that won't work without reflow anyway. So it makes sense to use a format that is supposed to delegate some layout responsibility to the device - the opposite of pdf's USP.

And requiring you to send back an otherwise fully functional drone that is just in need of a new battery!

"making the frogs gay" sounds more like Bisphenol A

But isn't that guy rather slightly right leaning? The same right that tries to shut down EPA as unnecessary bureaucracy that is damaging the oh so poor businesses? And suddenly chemicals in the water are bad...

Except that no one goes up to the Walmart phone counter and asks what the best burner phone for their smuggling activities is.

But that was your whole reasoning why other drugs are illegal. So if it's harmful, it should be illegal, right?

And that's your circular reasoning.

Oh how I missed this friendly people on the net...

As ist fast food.

Thanks, I'll return that question.

We had a shared kitchen in our dorm and took turns cooking for the whole crew!

And a quite good cafeteria on campus, but that would have required to acutally, well, GO to campus and lectures :-)

Well, the other side is clearly better at it. Time to learn from them... :-/

The guy who decided to outsource!

It usually doesn't work. And can't work. How can paying someone to do the work PLUS the subcontractors profits (and management overhead) be cheaper than just paying just your employees?

This works in two scenarios: When you can outsource the work to someone with a higher expertise who specializes in that. Won't save you money, but gives you access to expertise. Or if it is not enough work to set up your own department. Like when a small manufacturing company outsources accounting and HR to a specialized company that does nothing else.

Both should not be valid for Boeing and building planes.

Yes.

When they gave conversational actions the axe, the basically destroyed what made Alexa successful: an interface for 3rd party to extend the capabilities.

Well, that whole list is about what got cut from Assistant - that revolves around voice activities.

And that's where they just sacked a few hundreds employees (actually, their hardware department). So that was to be expected. I'm expecting something like that in the fitbit area, too.