So dumb. This will push iPhone users towards Google phone in droves.

Someone had to do it.

So this has zero chance of being implemented.

Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave.

Their Billing system surely has no problem with "all these fees". WTF.

Bingo. They needed a TikTok video. They're completely out of touch.

The enshittification is real. Papa Jeff needs money so he can give it back to Daddy Tramp in the form of Melania fockumentaries. Barf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Ever since COVID hit, every other Prime delivery is late. Prime videos have Ads. Rates have gone up. The enshittification is real. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Maybe revenues are down *because* the work is being done in India and the overall IBM value prop is no longer there. Did that ever occur to the bean counters?

Multiple credit card companies are already doing this. Our merchant services company offered us this same data. Of course Google is tracking everything you do. But they can only do it with the willing help of Visa/Mastercard.

It's too late for everybody who isn't named "Tesla". Tesla's got over 100,000 charging stations installed already. Tesla's chargers are going to be the de facto standard at this point.

Unless you buy brand new hardware, hardware is absurdly cheap. Our hardware costs are somewhere around 1/20 of our software costs. It might even be less. I don't see any costs savings on hardware.

What I do see with "microservices" is crossing your fingers that whoever you're buying from knows what they're doing (ie: backups, non-faulty hardware, non-faulty sysadmins, etc.)

The other thing is that you have to rely on Internet access, which, in most of the US, is spotty at best. We're in a major metropolitan, high-tech area, and neither of the ISP's can provide us with reliable service. Hence, all of our software is built to run off-line during our very regular Internet outages. With "microservices", we'd just be stopped from doing any business at all every time the Internet dropped out.

Nothing good will come out of this for Murray. For HBO: follow-up segments, viral YouTube posts and millions of dollars in free advertising.

Also contains a custom version of Twitter that allows Putin to review and approve his tweets.

If these companies even tried to end "hate speech" or whatever nebulous crime where a specific group of pigs are more equal than another group of pigs, we will see the end of these platforms and companies full sail.

Banning trolls will hurt their business, how? As an employer, I'm MORE likely to advertise on a platform that wasn't full of screaming, stupid Trump people. Those are not people that I want to advertise to, anyway.