I'm afraid I don't follow. Could you rephrase that as a four hundred millisecond video, vertical format, poorly lit, and shaky?

Why wear clothes at all?

It costs next to nothing to bring on a new customer since there's no widget to make and ship.

Growing marketshare is *the* priority. Give it away for free. Pay people to use it if you must.

Then once they're hooked, start charging licensing fees. Just a little. More for bigger customers. Maybe keep a free tier for personal use. A little times a huge userbase is enormous cashflow for a little bit of nre.

It's great cuz the customer supplies his own platform, pays for training his own people, and even pays for the electricity to run your product on premises.

Now about this building full of expensive and power-hungry silicon needed to deliver the ai hotness...

Because he's a communist. He never saw a business or asset he didn't want to pocket "for the people."

If I ran any kind of business, I'd have my money in various kinds of places that balanced risk, return, and liquidity against my perceived need for keeping the lights on, paying vendors, and and anticipated revenue. Same as everyone.

I wouldn't operate like I had a fountain of money nor do I believe I would be perceived as having one.

Hospitals don't have a fountain of money. They purchase malpractice insurance on behalf of their providers and the premiums for that insurance pay for these jury awards.

Insurance companies don't print their own money either. They redistribute the costs of these payouts over their risk pool. And those premium hikes is one of several reasons why your emergency room visit costs 10k if you had to pay for it out of pocket.

The other reason it costs 10k is that enough of these lawsuits and jury awards have forced hospitals into doing medically unnecessary (but expensive) tests for everyone, rather than coming up with some kind of cost-conscious criteria, to cover their bases and their asses so they don't get sued.

Say it with me now: tort reform. The lawyers don't like it, which is how you can tell it's a good idea.

But why is the traffic so bad and why does stuff cost so much?

Yes, and in general it's just a lot easier when the whole world, including your would-be adversaries, use technical standards, software, and electronics that your own private sector sells to them.

A corollary is that it's less easy when your would-be adversary makes moves to undercut your industry and/or try to assert their own dominance in any such domain. One might even read it as a strategic prelude to conflict.

Clear nonsense for many reasons for anyone in the business and anyone who knows how computers and/or business works, even if they're not turning redbulls into vibecoded goodness themselves.

Politicians?

Theologians?

Landscapers?

Who's the indented recipient of this propaganda?

I know, right? I had all my money on voodoo and child sacrifice, but damned if mathematics isn't uncannily useful.

Naw just use the RightwingNutjobPhone. It's totally secure. I came up with the otp myself by rolling a fair die with my own hands. It was such a perfect source of entropy I just had to hardcode it into my system...

$1 for the chalk mark, the rest for knowing where to put it, and all that.

I remember being a kid in the 90s and watching scare stories on the TV about other kids in the 90s who were so addicted to the computers they were writing software and making their own websites! As kids!

I wasn't one of those kids. I didn't LearnToCode until college. But I was good friends with one of those kids while in college. He's worth at least 10 or 20 times more than me now.

And the other millenial parents on my street are grabbing up spots at after school coding classes for their elementary school aged kids.

Not that I think it's gonna go anywhere. Unless your kid is significantly smarter than your average bear, coding won't stick until high school at the earliest. But I'm sure there were fads in the 90s that my parents were too poor to pay for that I just wasn't aware of that also went nowhere but elicited equally strong visceral reactions over what turned out to be nothing.

On an unrelated note, let's everyone refrain from utilizing the faculty of recollection to the cave days of five years ago. Just because.

I know, right? It's funny because it didn't happen to anything I'm working on.

If it had, it would of course be a national tragedy and it'd be one of the bad isms if flags didn't fly at half-staff out of solidarity.

But it wasn't anything of mine so fuck yeah!

Retard.