$230

My jaw drops, but then I split. Half of me remains smugly looking down on fuckwits, but the other half hears that Samuel Adams' Utopia, which costs about the same, is supposedly showing up in CostCos, and while I can't justify getting a bottle .. maybe I don't have to justify things.

No.

No, it would still be stupid to do.

Nah, it's not politically noble, it's self protection. It's avoiding the change of political strife meaning they can't sell the cars they make.

Given what's been happening, it's probably a wise decision. I expect the stress between the US and China to get worse. I hope it stays at "economic warfare".

I think the justification is that gambling should be discouraged....not that I think that this works, or that they are at all consistent.

People are only annoyed because this is Apple.

If a clothing brand like Ann Taylor made an ugly $250 phone purse nobody here would bat an eye.

This particular thing has only been pushed recently, but various different visions of "interactive TV" has been a Thing for a very long time.

People were talking about it back in the 50s, probably earlier. But the earliest deployment in the US of something plausibly called interactive TV was Qube in 1977.

There's a parallel universe in which the US ended up with a cable-TV-based version of Minitel.

We don't really know. I would bet that you are correct, and even give odds, but not long odds. Anything over 10:1 and I'd feel nervous.

IIUC, an em dash is a dash as wide as a capital "M".

There are multiple reasons, but I think the biggest is that a different interactive screen ate TV's lunch.

The phone is superior in most ways, from the perspective of the pushers - usually maps to a single person, always with them, location trackable, etc. About the only advantage of the TV is being a big screen, but that doesn't seem to matter for much.

Another big one is there's no central player to lay the rails and the big players have competing interests. But I really think the deciding factor is just that the money folks don't see a need for a QVC "buy now" button.

It is always DNS.

Sorry, but even just high speeds are dangerous. They mean a slight twitch of your muscles and you're headed off the road faster than you can correct. It probably differs from person to person, but for me 70 mph was too fast, and I could tell that it was too fast. 65 was ok, but it was impossible to keep safe stopping distance. Fortunately, that *is* strongly affected by relative speeds, but you need to be able to handle incursions from this or that (say a deer).

If that happens frequently, then it's a serious problem that needs to be addressed. It doesn't matter if it's a really stupid mistake if a lot of people tend to make it.

Mainly because I started doing this in 1997 and managing /etc/aliases myself works just fine.

Because what use do you have for cash at home?

Drug delivery is the most obvious. I remember a couple of times I was preparing to head to the airport, needed cash, and might well have used something like this.

And even if you are going out, how often do you actually need cash?

I regularly use cash. "Need" doesn't have anything to do with it, I just prefer the simplicity.

I self-host email, and after spending weeks dealing with a very persistent asshole trying to break in to my systems, was looking at options a while back. (I still self host email.)

Proton was the first one I looked at, but they charge per-email address, including aliases, which is a blocker for me. (I use unique email addresses for each service I use, and more for other things.)

But this is even worse. I would never use a service that would start sending my email to someone else if I stop paying, that's insane.

There is no way Proton is anywhere close to namespace saturation. The big mail hosters have orders of magnitude more addresses behind single domains.

How is it different than other convenience-for-money transactions?

Paying people to bring you toilet paper or soft drinks is pretty uncontroversial. What makes money different?

I'd also note that $2.99 is less than the ATM fee at the closest ATM to my house. I don't use Robinhood, but it would be $.51cheaper for me to have them bring me money than to go to the nearest ATM.