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Comment Re:The smart ones, yes (Score 1) 129

I'd bet, though, that we'll see a sudden surge of voters pressuring their legislatures to force power companies to give residential service priority over data centers.

That is the key. Vote out politicians such as PSC members or who appointed them and you’ll get the attention of the rest.

Comment Re:Step one in getting your spending under control (Score 3, Informative) 68

I just asked it about local events this weekend and it gave a startlingly useful list in a few seconds. Cross-checking with sources, it's actually accurate. I spent several minutes Googling and couldn't find the same information in one place--the death of my local newspaper made sure of that.

I find it's very good a specific, bounded questions like you asked, because all it has to do is search for specific matching information; it's when it has to search through a lot of data that may be conflicting and decide what to use is where it starts falling apart.

Comment A great idea (Score 4, Funny) 68

What could go wrong? It's not like AI ever tried to blackmail a user, accidentally wiped out lots of file, hallucinates, etc.; so there is no reason not to ogive it access to your real world financial accounts.

With all the great financial advice on Redit's various forums, coupled with lots of great crypto investment discussions on other forums, you'd miss out on ways to GET RICH QUICK.

Comment Re:No wonder (Score 2) 118

Oh and if you still think this is all a joke watch the safety testing at the end.

The USA is cooked.

Politicians have to come up with some excuse to protect their auto industry donors and voters. Spying is simply the peripheral issue that lets them come up with a catchy soundbite while enacting protectionist measures. While such monitoring is an issue, this doesn't really address the core problem that your car phones home and stores a lot of data about what you have done and where.

Comment Re:Tax is the wrong term (Score 1) 24

As for the "storage and network access cosst are low" argument, a product is priced on value, not cost.

Yes, and what this article is about is the value of the service declining, so people are leaving for services with a better value proposition.

Which is the beauty of competition. If they can migrate to a platform that costs less and keep their existing base, grow it and make more money from a different site, that's great; and SubStack will have to adapt or die.

The other question is what happens when these cheaper sites see the revenue they generate for their users? Will they decide they want a bigger slice.

Comment Tax is the wrong term (Score 5, Insightful) 24

It's not a tax, but simply a charge to be on the platform, just like any consignment style shop gets a cut for the sale. It costs money to run the site, and tehy need some way to do it for free. The numbers may seem large, but someone paying a million in a year to substack is taking home 9 million. 10% is not a bad deal; but calling it a tax makes is somehow seem evil. If the writers can find a better deal elsewhere that generates the same revenue for less, more power to them; that is the beauty of competition.

As for the "storage and network access cosst are low" argument, a product is priced on value, not cost. Generating large readerships that make a lot of money for an other has value beyond the actual costs to the company that does that; and if you buy the costs determine price argument than charging $10 for a newsletter that costs nearly nothing for the nth copy means the writer should also charge a lot less as well. After all, why shoul they make a million dolalrs for something that cost them mayber a few hundred thousand (assuming 2000 work hours at say 100/hour) to produce.

Comment Re:That which is measured (Score 2) 68

A million years ago when I got my first management job I had to attend a training session on 'Goals and Objectives', the current in vogue management tool. The instructor impressed on us that 'you get what you measure'. He used an example of police wanting to improve road safety by measuring the number of moving violation tickets given out. Ticket quantities went through the roof but there was no improvement in accident rates; go figure. What was true in the 70s is still true today.

Which is why you have to ensure what you measure actually produces desired outcomes and not create perverse incentives. Reminds me of teh Dilbert cartoon where the PHB announces a bug bounty and Wally says “I’m writing myself a new minivan”

Comment Re:Also 94% of the bets (Score 3, Interesting) 88

Match fixing is a thing but in the major sports, the TV revenue is larger than betting revenue by several orders of magnitude.

Very true, but betting on games makes people more likely to watch tehm, driving viewership and TV revenue. Major sports may decry the impact of gambling and run all the Addicted? Call ... ads hey want, but the reality is gambling helps driver viewership which brings in money so you can do the math...

Comment Logical step (Score 2) 81

I wondered how long. it would take before they did this. Businesses are good to start with because tehy are used to shipping via a carrier, Amazon is just one more carrier to see how much they can save with them vs UPS/FedEX/USPS. Home is harder because the last miles is variable; so you can't set fixed pickup routes and handling pickups takes longer tahn delivering and also need sorting so adding it to the drop-offs would be a challenge. However, a partnership with USPS to handle last mile and Amazon ships makes sense, FedEx and UPS already handle mail so it's not some new idea; Amazon could bid for the contract, and winning deprives competitors of lower margin freight that can be used to cube or weight out a plane. Amazon, meanwhile, gets volume for deadheading planes and trucks.

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