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How complex do they think it is to follow an ordered list of drink assembly instructions can be? And if the drink so VERY complex, how long would Starbucks expect to actually offer it?

And why would the new Starbucks unions even consider allowing this since it's likely that it's just one step toward removing humans providing customer service?

If you NEED to use your smartphone, pull over and use it. Set it to give audible driving directions. Need to change directions on the fly? No you don't. Pull over and use the phone at a safe location.

Impairment, distraction, and unsafe speed for the conditions are the biggest killers on the road. Don't be a killer.

100% correct. Additionally, it matters subjectively to the person experiencing the response time. Most people buying budget cards won't notice the latency increase of going from 70fps on pure raster to 120fps with DLSS/FSR. They're going to be freaking out over how smooth everything is.

That's exactly what was said about the 8GB cards released LAST generation and people SOMEHOW continue to use 8GB cards to play modern video games. They simply reduce texture quality a little bit. Almost every single game can be played with 8GB of VRAM, you just have to adjust the texture quality and, most importantly, the people who are buying entry-level cards aren't concerned about seeing a couple more polygons in their environmental foliage.

And that's exactly the problem. They're reviewing what the card can do in extreme circumstances and basing their "buy/don't buy" advice based on that. Those extreme circumstances, though, are in no way demonstrative of how the card will be used and thus should not be used as the basis for advice.

If you tested multiple commuter vehicles on a race track and critiqued them based on their ability to handle turns at 70mph, you would be providing zero benefit to those in the market for a commuter vehicle. And if you required that all of the hybrid commuter vehicles' electric motors be turned off for the test and then panned them all for crap performance, you could damn well expect the manufacturers to not invite you to review their cars in the future.
 

Which is exactly why I gave the suggested methodology of...

They'll piss away their fan(atics) base, but they'll continue to maintain the dominant marketshare unless Intel continues to make big strides in their drivers and is willing to take a few more years of deficit spending for their GPU section.

The reviewers do massive amounts of work to run all these cards through the ridiculous amounts of tests. They REALLY put work in... but almost universally they also refuse to give any realistic time talking about the big selling point of the last two generations of cards: Frame Generation. Instead, they focus almost entirely on raster performance. They also focus heavily on the most modern and demanding of AAA games instead of the games that that budget buyers play-- LAST YEAR'S AAA games.

Nobody buying an RTX 4060 or RTX 5060 gives a damn about 4K performance with Ultra settings an Max Ray Tracing with all DLSS turned off. That segment doesn't even own 4K monitors. It's a completely unrealistic scenario. But not only do they do those tests for shits and giggles, but they FOCUS on them. Here's are test that the GPU manufacturers want done with their budget tier of cards:

1a. What texture quality do I need to set [THIS GAME] to at 1080p to get 70 FPS so that frame gen can work really well?
1b. What does it look like before and after DLSS is enabled?

2a. What texture quality do I need to set [THIS GAME] to at 1440p to get 70 FPS so that frame gen can work really well?
2b. What does it look like before and after DLSS is enabled?

Because that's EXACTLY what the budget segment does. They buy the card they can afford and they figure out how to make it work best for them.

Of course, the reviewers won't do that. Instead, they'll put the Honda Civic on the drag strip and complain about its 0-60 speed. They'll hook up 2-ton trailer and complain about towing capacity. What they WON'T do is test the card how it's intended to be used and provide good buying advice within the budget range.

I appreciate your work... but I don't want to.

The articles' relevance isn't the financial impact of the action as it pertains to the additional impacts of tariffs. The important thing is that there was a lawsuit alleging that Amazon wasn't following their returns policy and thus denying refunds where they were warranted.

Hi there. I'm in my 25th year at a major research university including 5 years in higher education outreach. I will tell you why those schools are failing (pre-Trump):

1. Declining state funding.
-- 1A: SOME high revenue universities encourages unscrupulous politicians to defund funding campuses while telling them to "figure it out".

2. Declining quality of K-12 education. Causes:
-- 2A: Politicization of school boards. People with either a complete lack of understanding of education or a blatant disdain for the education of the masses should be precluded from occupying a school board seat.
-- 2B: Lack of parental reinforcement of education as the primary focus of the student. Too many parents have no damn clue what their kids are being taught and aren't requiring their students to actively participate.
-- 2C: Constant and excessive distraction. Smartphones and social media.
-- 2D: Lack of student accountability for poor performance and poor behavior. There's no more failing a student and no more holding them back.
-- 2E: Cheating just gets easier and more attractive.

Results
1. There's less funding from multiple sources to support a functional campus
2. Fewer students that are themselves less-qualified than prior student cohorts.
3. Universities that adjust for the lower-quality student have to adopt similar "do not fail" practices to maintain funding/graduation rates.
4. Graduating low-quality students turn around and say, "I didn't learn anything," which K-12 student then consume via social media and
5. The bad student nihilism loop is born

And this isn't the fault of one "side". The liberals made it way too difficult to fail a student and the conservatives have (and continue to) defund education from Pre-K to University. Throughout the entire experience, the grossly under-compensated teachers are being ignored, derided, or even abused.

Solutions - Roll K-12 Education 20 years backward
1. No smartphones in class.
2. Maximum 30 minutes of homework per night.
3. Computers used for typing, research, and actually learning about computers.
4. Return of student tracking and remedial classes. Remedial classes have a better student-teacher ratio and teachers are compensated at base rate PLUS a bonus based on accelerated student improvement. Yes... spend more on the lower performers while separating them from standard performers.

Solutions - Roll Higher Education 15 years backward
1. Strict 3-strikes for cheating/plagiarism.
2. Reintroduce standardized testing as entrance requirements.
3. Do not accept students that do not meet minimum competency requirements.
4. Contribute back to local communities by employing students to co-teach in local grade 7-10 classrooms.

Because they're rarely investing their own money. Typically, these types of ridiculous investments happen when interest rates are low and the the economy is booming. They borrow money, promise not to use it for gambling, use the loan to pay off something they had liquid funds to pay for, and then use the excess funds to gamble on these investments.

And Klarna seems like a decent investment when the economy is good. "Hey, everyone's making more money! They can pay it off! Also, we'll charge the merchant for every transaction to offset losses!" (~75% of Klara revenue came from merchant fees).

It's the same exact thing that happened in the mortgage crisis:

1. Find a market segment that wants to own something they can't afford, but lacks both financial literacy and impulse control.
2. Convince investors to borrow funds at historically low-interest rates to invest in your company/bonds and promise a high return based on the high demand.
3. Add something special to make sweeten the deal (Mortgage: Adjustable Rates. Klarna: Charge the merchant.)
4. Start facilitating transactions as quickly as possible to show returns before people start defaulting en masse.
5. When the economy shifts and people start defaulting, externalize blame, file for bankruptcy, and walk away with the massive paychecks you paid yourself in the process.

I ENJOY taking surveys. Market research, political, social-- everything. So where's the disconnect?

I know how to spot scams and everywhere a surveyor would normally seek participants, I've all but cut out of my life. I don't open random spam emails. I don't take random surveys I find on social media. I don't answer phone calls from numbers I don't know or regions I'm not in.

So what's the solution? I would HAPPILY subscribed to a validate survey service that either emails me digital surveys relevant to my demographic or even take phone calls on my cell phone at specific hours on certain days of the week.

Does a service like that exist where IRB-cleared surveys or research instruments from reputable research companies can come together and say, "Hey, answer us. We're not full of bullshit!"

A responsible organization accepted that every important piece of computation and machinery will need replacement. Every year, you put a little away for every machine's replacement. Of course, protecting that replacement reserve is hard. Hands find their way in for this project and that. Eventually, you're at the point where you NEED to replacement the machine, it's a recession, and the money just isn't there.

So you go to the press to talk about how expensive it is to replace everything so that people are less angry with you raise prices/fees to pay for the new machines.