items that cost more than what the marketplace sales cap are now below the market cap because they are more easily earnable while deleting tons and tons and TONS of items costing $20 before, now $100 from the store.

The "value" erased is like saying a stock on the stock market is worth 2 billion dollars less, but Valve doesn't earn any profit from skins traded via 3rd party sites, and that's what is hit here.

First party transactions are now generating loads of revenue from transaction fees, bringing the market back to Valve and away from sketchy third party sites.

At the end of the day I can't comprehend why people are paying for this stuff though. It's just a texture which you could trivially mod in before, at least when I was big into CS in 1.X days and CS:S.

The prices are bogus and set by a company with margins that are practically unheard of. Thus far, the lion's share of value with "AI" is going to Nvidia and it's investors. They require an additional license to use their hardware with hypervisors which is additionally predatory - it's akin to charging someone a license for using an AMD cpu or Intel CPU, direct from AMD or Intel, and if you don't pay you can't run a VM or a container.

It makes sense to nationalize GPU production and to ban this one company from the China side anyway. Whatever the pain is now to adapting to hardware not running CUDA is a one time pain. Once built out they have zero reliance on a single source that is controlled by the US charging prices that are easily ten to twenty times what they should be, if not much more.

Once their solution is cheaper and better and available to the western market, it will serve as a launchpad for state backdoors into all kinds of computer systems just like what almost certainly exists in all US based chip companies hardware but could never be admitted.

Come on man, they're never going to drop prices unless it results in more profits.

Any 'green' savings is completely coincidental and heavily marketed for conscientious consumers to make them feel like they're doing some good while they buy more shit they probably don't need.

I donâ(TM)t know much about cellular infrastructure, but on the day of the Boston Bombing there was basically no cell service in a huge area from everyone trying to reach everyone.

It worked out of the city, but in the city near back bay and even beyond it nothing worked.

I suspect in a future emergency that makes the news, combined with normal user phones, the same thing could happen regardless of how much improvements have been made.

Canâ(TM)t social media as much when youâ(TM)re commuting for hours, huh.

for a while.

I don't think online reviews should be trusted anymore. Advertisers have found all the tricks to make ratings look one way or another.

It really sucks because I just want good legitimate information, but everywhere I find we're just bombarded with sponsored content. This trend of 'influencers' is a perfect example.

Just in time to sell after his next kickstarter ships for even more millions!

Itâ(TM)s the circle of liiiiiiiife⦠itâ(TM)s the wheel of fortune⦠so long as the MBA gets to sell the same shit again and get that phat payout.

So they have 1428 W2 workers, and 500 contractors, 1928 employees. They just let 700 people go, so now they're down to 1228.

Effectively they've removed 37% of their workforce. That's a lot of employees.

I assume this is really a ploy for meta to buy almost a thousand AI devs for pennies on the dollar compared to what their salaries would have commanded to be hired directly to meta.

Their shipping subsidiary is very outsourced.

They run the warehouses but franchises effectively do the transportation to users.

it should never be taken public.

It's getting close to human quality with the hallucination rate. I can't wait to not have to work!

Guess what % of drivers punished with this crime will suddenly have businesses with a need for a commercial vehicle? lol

Just another punishment for the poor.

We're in for a giant market crash for everything ML. It's just a matter of time for investors to start panicking.

The ROI on AI doesn't seem to be here to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars of yearly revenue like is being spent on hardware. There's a market, sure, but it's not that big.

no new gpu is available outside of the scalper market and the AIBs are upping their prices well above FE msrp.

Itâ(TM)s a significant price increase if you actually want to purchase one, over prices from just November. Often double or triple price from scalpers. The 4090 was almost msrp when they stopped production.

Just have to look at their news headlines.

Your reply here would be something like âoeWildstoo OBLITERATES delusional critic of common senseâ

Subtag will be there like [NO NONSENSE]

Itâ(TM)s like everything is about a big fight. If not obliterates maybe you âoeslammedâ them.