And? Whether or not there's some other element involved doesn't change the fact that the other element alone isn't enough. It also needs the building blocks.

Good start.

But then you completely miss the point. This isn't about "life came from space," this is about "the building blocks of life came from space." There's a difference, whether you can understand it or not.

Apple has died before, to the point of having to let Microsoft bail them out. Most large companies go through up and down cycles. Sometimes, those cycles yo-yo wildly, even to the point of the down cycle killing the company for real.

Odds are, however, that regardless of how much damage this does, they'll bounce back again. And, eventually, take a dive again. Lather, rinse, repeat, ad nauseum.

And that pretty much sums up Wikipedia. A popularity contest for factoids, actual facts are irrelevant by policy.

If it actually works as claimed, it would have to pay less because the ads you see are more relevant to the search, which means fewer ads for random shit like you get now.

Of course, most of those ads will be made up slop.

And when the threats and stalking start, and they will, as the people behind this intend, there should be capital charges followed by executions for treason or insurbordination.

It does if the button in question is the on/off switch of the power strip it's plugged into.

Unfortunately, there are a significant and growing number of people who, if they threw their phone away, would have no life left, and no ability to ever create one. By deliberate choice.

Nothing new about that. It's been standard marketing practice for decades.

If I watch one single video from a given channel, 50% or more of future recommendations will be from that channel, and flagging individual videos "not interested" has no detectable effect.

And this is different from every other sub on Reddit how?

We just migrated to a hosted server for our main point of sale/inventory system. Not because we wanted to, but because there was literally no other choice. The in-house server was end of life, and the vendor just refused to sell us a new one. There's nothing - we have looked - that can replace it, open source or otherwise, without extensive customization that would take several years and require a full time staff of programmers, plus the active cooperation of the national franchise that would not be forthcoming, at a cost of millions.

And it's not an upgrade. We've had more offline time in the last two weeks that we did in the last year with the in-house server, and there are some very important functions that are, at best, unstable and almost unusably slower. They can't even get the login screen to work right.

And it costs us about 50% more than the platinum support contract we had before.

That's not an upgrade, it's a clusterfuck.

If there were an open source point of sale/inventory package available that was capable of replacing our current proprietary system, we'd be on it in a second. Until there is, and there never will be, we're stuck.

The ones overloading my web server are, without any doubt, AI bots. Most of them honor the robots.txt file. Amazon's, however, do not, and constitute more traffic than everything else combined (and it get a fair amount of legitimate traffic per day).