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Comment Re:Oh good (Score 1) 80

This made me chuckle. I remember a particular Recruit Division Commander in boot camp. I was proud of my work the first time I completed an assigned task properly. I reported the status to him. He came over, checked out the work, and said "Nice job! Congratulations! You've graduated from worthless.... to useless!" He then smiled and walked away. That was high praise in boot camp.

Comment Too hard to regulate appropriately? (Score 5, Insightful) 108

This strikes me as the company pursuing the best course of action when they determined that it is not financially feasible to put in place enough protections to prevent this kind of activity on their systems. So... instead of protecting against it, they allow it and make money from it. I'm sure there is nuance here, but this smells like PR spin on a business decision to me.

Comment Re:Pure FUD. (Score 1) 315

I hear you on the sales growth math. If I had to guess, I'd say that this was probably likely to people waiting for the new EV tax credit rules to kick in. Knocking several thousand off the purchase price makes a big difference, also in the amount of interest paid.

Comment Re:The only sport I care about (Score 1) 31

For what it's worth, you can subscribe to F1TV for around $11/month or around $85/year. It is more expensive than the ESPN+ subscription (depending on how you get it), but you get access to some features ESPN+ can't give you. I had the F1TV subscription for years and liked to have my laptop screen showing the lap times, laps on current tire, when the last pit was, and some other data. You could also get the in-car radio for each driver. It's a way to get out of the ESPN+ subscription and you get a lot more data, but if all you want is the race, then ESPN+ is kind of hard to beat. Especially if it's bundled with the other Disney+/Hulu junk. This is the first year I'm going back to ESPN+ (as now I have the Disney+ sub), but I'll go back to F1TV for sure if the cabal above releases their streaming bundles together at an outrageous price point... or with ads. In the end, this is a math equation. I just hope they don't drop broadcast TV for events too in order to help drive subscriptions. I installed a TV antenna last year, and I get just enough of the other one-off sports games I watch on it that I don't have to subscribe for a month to to watch an occasional event like the Army Navy football game, Daytona 500, or the super bowl.

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 2) 29

This, right here. I was a college level instructor for about a decade. I'm not an English major, far from it. But the low quality of papers coming from college students made me really begin to think about everything from our education system to the ability to communicate without looking like an idiot. I'm not a fan of marketing but at least _most_ marketing materials are coherent and well written. Yes yes, there are always exceptions, but damn. However, using AI to answer questions certainly increases the quality of writing but it includes content that wasn't generated by the user and that is not what those questions were about.

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