It's not great, but it's better than being stuck with ChromeOS and Play Store apps. Considering how cheap some Chromebooks are, it's nice to have. Technically ChromeOS is Linux anyway, just filtered through a browser.

That's all well and good, but do tell what is a "reasonable" profit or a "good" price? No one will ever agree on these. The issue here is that these ticket companies largely operate as monopolies in the towns where they do business. The government needs to do more to ensure that a competitive market exists which will naturally ensure that consumers get better prices.

How long until it can spew bullshit using full PowerPoint presentations. I ask because I'm starting an initiative at work to replace management with AI and being able to put unrealistic hallucinations regarding scheduling, etc. in to PowerPoint form is currently the only thing holding the project back.

I have gone without food for a week while fasting before. That doesn't mean that I can do without food entirely though.

It probably means scummier scammier advertisements because that's who can afford to live in that environment. The other side effect will be more advertising in the content itself. The marketing firms aren't going to let themselves go out of business and they'll find alternative cheaper ways of selling their services. Regardless of whether this is a net positive, it isn't the win that you're envisioning.

What's wrong with quicksort? It's not necessarily the best sorting algorithm for all purposes and radix sort or merge sort will perform better in specific cases, but it's a good algorithm. The only real problem with quicksort is that if you choose a bad pivot, it will have horrible performance. It is kind of funny to have a sorting algorithm that runs slower on a sorted list than one that's completely disorganized, but that's not exactly a hard problem to solve if you understand how it works. Newer algorithms have largely made it obsolete, but quicksort usually had better real world performance than its contemporaries because it could be done in place. Memory is nowhere near as limited as it once was, but not needing auxiliary memory can be more important than possible time improvements when space is limited.

Does the insurance industry also run afoul of this or is it different because reasons?

This is my concern as well. There's a lot of great content out there that uses AI for parody or satire that could get swept up by this. The videos using AI voices of Trump, Biden, and Obama acting like college bros playing video games and shit taking each other from a few years ago were incredibly funny to me, but could obviously be flagged and removed when I don't think anyone would think these were real.

People need more exposure to these because the technology is only going to get better and if people don't train themselves to be skeptical of what they see or hear online they're only setting themselves up to be taken in by whatever manages to slip past the guards that Google puts in place. People need to exercise their bullshit detectors or they'll atrophy.

They want people to get an Apple credit card. If you read the fine print then you see why they offer such a great deal: "As of January 1, 2026, the variable APR on new Apple Card accounts ranges from 17.49% to 27.74%." I'd make a joke about the Apple markup, but this isn't too outlandish for credit cards. Get people to use your card and carry a balance they'll make interest payments on for the rest of their life.

Keep in mind that this is actually a $500 laptop once the education pricing is factored in. There are going to be a lot of college students using these next fall. I can see a lot of primary or secondary schools purchasing these if Apple will provide five years of support. For the target market, this is a great product, but I don't think it's best choice for most people on a tech form. I'd say that at $600 it's a good option for dad or grandma, but the iPad is already doing that for less money.

If they do eventually get to 16 GB and can keep the $600 price tag, I could see myself picking one up for use around the house or as a travel device.

From what I know, Fascism's core is the idea that the individual's existence is for the collective. So "collective first" is Fascism, whereas "individual first" is the core of Liberalism. I'm guessing modern leftism would be "oppressed first", but that's a different discussion altogether.

The dictionary definition seems pretty similar to what I just said.

Thing is, both definitions seem to capture communism too.

You can stare at the full moon all night if you like, because the albedo of the moon has filtered most of the light including the UV band that naturally passes through our own atmosphere. The three mile circle illuminated by a mirror would bounce a significantly higher amount of UV than the moon's albedo. If you treat the 60ft reflector as an analog to a pinhole in a pinhole camera, the circular area on the Earth surface would be a rough projection of the image of the sun.

(1) I wonder how they calculate the UV exposure for the observer on the surface within the illumination area.

(2) I wonder if you'd be able to detect places in a coherent projection where sunspots or coronal ejections are reflected through the "pinhole" effect of this arrangement.

Do they make good coffee?

The people who engage in this kind of behavior where they can't possibly do business with someone who doesn't one hundred percent conform to their own beliefs never mentally developed beyond high school. Buying a cup of coffee from someone doesn't mean that you agree with anything beyond that you think they have coffee worth the asking price.

The same applies to art. Too many people will shun something because of the creator. The reality is that they probably love some book, movie, or song made by a horrible human being, but that doesn't stop the work of art from being good or bad. I think Chinatown is one of the best films of all time and the film's director (probably) raping an underage girl doesn't make the film unwatchable. People who can't separate the art from the artist are robbing themselves. The same holds true for the business and the businessman.

You must not be paying attention as Iran has claimed that they're closing the Strait of Hormuz which would affect global shipping. I don't think they can actually back that up as their navy is being destroyed, but they may be able to mount attacks similar to the Houthis who were attacking cargo ships throughout last year. If Iran is going after military targets they really suck at it. Crashing a drone into a hotel can be passed off as an accident, but the indiscriminate missile fire into Tel Aviv is impossible to pass off as accidental.

Iran is lashing out however they can because their government are psychotic fundamentalists. No one in the Middle East will miss them when they're gone. I'm hopeful that the people of Iran will finally be able to get the boot of the ayatollah and his ilk off their necks. They deserve whatever terrible things the Iranian citizens do to them when they eventually succeed in overthrowing them.

The show was going downhill at a steady rate after the second season. Even if Spacey were still there, it wouldn’t have been good. The writers hadn't planned for it to go on as long as it did and had created an absolute mess of a show that had to contend with the convoluted narrative it created in the previous season to try to remain compelling. GoT had similar issues where the show eventually overran the novelization and the show's writers didn't have the books to fall back on. Even if they did have a high-level narrative direction from GRRM, the writers for the show did not possess the same talent or care to create something that could live up to the books. Even the novels will have a hard time wrapping up that story. Too many plot lines have been cast out and wrapping everything up in a satisfying way will be difficult even if there's a good ending GRRM is working towards. Dare I say that he needs to kill more characters off?