The best numbers for streaming minutes would come from the "heartbeat" events that a device sends back to the service to tell them where the user is in the video, so they won't loose their place if the app crashes. (Some apps are good at just sending an API call when the crash happens)

Source: Worked for Nielsen as well as some mid-size streamers and handled analytic data capture.

My guess is they knew they needed to seed this to developers, but they knew there would be a black market where the public would want it. So they set the price high enough to cover initial costs, let the public get their hands on it, but then create time for the devs to come up with killer apps. I think the lack of a marketing and advertising presence shows Apple isnâ(TM)t pushing Vision as hard as they could.

Iâ(TM)m sure we are going to see cheaper and refined versions of Vision in the coming years, and those are the ones they have the potential to take off.

I really don't know what the play is here. When do they expect that I'd use this headset? Am I supposed to wear it while using my phone? My computer? Is it for driving? walking around?

Completely agree here- I've used ChatGPT to answer some specific questions I've had, and then verified the answers through traditional search. ASSUMING that ChatGPT is giving me accurate answers, the ability to ask a question and just get the direct answer without having to go through other websites will be HUGE. It will also have a massive impact on those websites that thrive on traffic from Google: I imagine Stack Exchange takes a hit as developers start to query Bing with development questions. And then if Bing becomes the place to get easy answers to your questions, then the sites that are generating the data ChatGPT uses will see a drop in traffic, and that results in less data to train ChatGPT for future answers. We're about to enter a new, thorny area... it excites me the way I was excited when Google first came on the stage.

My guess: Apple's end-goal is to provide a phone/data subscription directly to consumers.

To answer your question, the crypto is decentralized, and the exchange you've chosen to use can do whatever the fuck they want... because it's not regulated and everything is still, at the end of the day, tied to the US dollar.

I visited Yahoo in 2010. Even back then you could tell no one gave a shit about what they were doing. It's likely filled with people too lazy to look for other jobs and gave up applying to anything better a long time ago.

Most games on Steam are going to run like shit on an ARM based machine, unless they get new binaries for ARM. Using x86 emulation is going to kill any performance.

There were some liberties there. The other scientist was not a real person, but an amalgamation of many scientists. Also, while the thermal steam explosion would have been substantial, it would not have been a 2-4 megaton blast as stated in the show.

Additionally, this keeps a union of drivers from forming. You've got hundreds of people managing 20-30 employees, instead of one company with a few thousand employees.

Also gives Amazon the out to say "we don't pay shit, it's these other companies"

Lots of companies now offer "unlimited" PTO- but that really just means there is less incentive to let you take time off, and you won't get paid out for unused vacation when you leave.

I've worked for companies that offer 2 - 3 weeks and unlimited. The companies with the unlimited policies ALWAYS track your PTO more closely than the ones that give a set number of days.

...and companies not investing in proper process creation, leading to duplicate or incorrect work because no one knows what is going on.

...and companies choosing to hire new management externally instead of promoting from within, creating management that has power and no idea how the company does things.

...and companies that think culture means free lunch and happy hour.

Some of them are living 6-8 people in a small apartment, sleeping in shifts, and they are still paying more rent than they can afford.

Yeah... go look at the people in some of the tent cities in San Francisco. You'll find college educated people in their 40s and 50s that have been priced out of housing but still have jobs.

After taxes and medical, his take-home is about $8,000 a month or so. He's spending a little more than 1/3 on his rent, which is not good. That $3,000 a month might not even be a super nice place in a good neighborhood, either. Those would be more in the $4,000 to $5,000 range.

So that leaves him with about $5,000 a month for his other expenses. Let's say he lives frugally and can live life on $2,000 a month. That leaves him $3,000 a month to put into savings. That's not bad!

Now, let's assume he wants to own his own home in the Bay Area someday. Everything is going to be in the one million rage, unless you are buying a tear down or a really small apartment. So you're going to want 20%, or $200,000 as a down payment. Saving at $3,000 a month means he'd have the money after working for five years. That's five years of frugal living, no car, no vacations, and then his mortgage payments would be in the $5,000 a month range.

Yeah, the numbers are big, but he's never going to be in a position to live "the American dream", with a house and kids for at lease five years, and then it'll still be kind of tight.