This sounds ok in theory, but the law is against it. AI training on books was ruled to be legal explicitly because the books were destroyed. The court ruled that was a form of content shifting rather than straight up copying. If they scanned these "high value" books and didn't destroy them, they could be found liable for that.

Even if one of these rare books was worth a million, that's a rounding error on the book shredding budget and probably not even worth it to them to spin up an alternative process to identify, handle, non-destructively scan, and then attempt to resell these books.

That's one of those things that sounds great in principle but becomes harder in practice. Who's culture? Who gets to preserve it? How is it preserved? The museums in England have done a great job at preserving a sizable portion of African culture, but I'm not sure everyone's so cool with it.

Arms races always end well for everyone involved...

It's cute you don't think he's going to do it anyway shortly after the deal closes...

To be honest, a news site that could only serve markdown that embedded ad text in it would be like 1000% preferable to most news sites out there. To me, at least. No screaming video, no dozens of popups to dismiss... Just... text and maybe a few images.

You're thinking of a casino / house. The prediction markets don't pay out of their account per se. Rather they pool all the bets for a particular event, and take a % off the top. Then when the event happens that entire pool goes to the winning side and the amount per person is pro-rated against how much they put in to the bet. This is one of the ways they avoid gambling laws.

So regardless of who wins, provided the bets come in, the company always wins because they get that fixed %.

"hurricanes, floods, and tsunamis", which you give as examples of "similar" things but give lipservice to the fact they can't be man made.

Minor correction, they can't be individually man made. Pretty sure what humans are doing are still making those other things worse or more likely.

As the Trump admin showed us, the prediction value is meaningless. That's because someone with inside knowledge / plans can make a bet too close to an event for anyone to prevent it. Think about the bets on capturing Maduro or the start of the Iran war.

The whole "we don't profit" is crap too. They take a fee from a bet being placed, so they profit from every bet. They simply have no interest in which way it pays out.

Agree to disagree on the software between I5 and Tesla. There were things I liked about the Tesla better, there are things I like about the I5 better.

Tesla lies about the range. There've been lawsuits about it, and I saw it for myself with my 3 cars. The higher the charge %, the more miles per % they claim, and only get accurate around 50% charge remaining. On a realistic aspect, I'd call that range a draw between the Y and I5, with the bonus that the I5 is realistic from full to empty.

I think you misunderstood my intention. I don't really care what you want / prefer. The question was asked, "Which companies?" and I answered with one as well as the history and background around it.

The challenge is that it's small and wirey. It's that by design because going larger would make it easily visible.

Besides, regular drones are hard enough to see, and even harder to hit, at the speeds they travel with explosives.

Disney. Even before COVID, a lot of folks did WFH at least on Fridays.

Prior to COVID, office space was tight. They did a bunch of "let's turn the conference rooms into cubes" move to try to make up for it. Former offices for executives became 2-4 person rooms. But even then, the chance that the majority of the attendees for any given meeting were in the same building was nearly zero. In FL there were at least a dozen different building each miles from the other. Add in CA and WA and most of your meetings even back then were at your desk on a video call.

Post COVID, things were so much worse.

1. They released office leases to save money during COVID.
2. They were planning on building a giant office park and moving tons of folks from CA to FL. The DeSantis war killed the office park and the move, but many people, including some friends, had already moved and they weren't allowed to move back. There was no other plan to add space; at least none that was communicated at my level.
3. They actually hired quite a few tech folks during COVID, and never got additional office space for them.

When the CEO announced RTO, my team had only been allocated 25% of the space we needed. That meant we had to WFH 4 days a week and only had a desk 1 day. The desk was approximately 3'x2' and were packed in a space with 24 other desks; 4x2. So every video call you were on had 23 unwilling participants. You couldn't do anything to decorate your desk and make it feel like yours because... it wasn't. Every engineer had a mac, but of course the desks were provided with Windows keyboards and mice. Couldn't swap those out, again, because it wasn't yours.

Like many, I often showed up in the morning, went to lunch, and just didn't come back.

Whether or not it was intended to drive attrition, I don't know. I did leave during that time, found a place that was still WFH, and WFH to this day. Ironically, the new company paid better too despite studies showing people will take lower pay for WFH.

One thing the Teslas did that none of the other EV's I've tried could was the ability to connect to home wifi for updates. I have ok cell service where I live. However, like you, I also get most of my updates when I'm away from home where as my Teslas almost always only updated at home.

By not being a jerk to those I don't know. You ought to try it, may work.

Because?