Comment Re:Layoffs (Score 1) 72
There is no way the whole payment is taxable. Only certain *profits* are taxed, not all cash flow, and corporations have accountants who make sure any such profits are minimal.
There is no way the whole payment is taxable. Only certain *profits* are taxed, not all cash flow, and corporations have accountants who make sure any such profits are minimal.
Maybe Roku has been paying to carry Fox content, or Fox has been paying Roku to carry content (I don't know how their deals work), and now that doesn't have to happen anymore?
Let's do the math:
($Fox + $Payment) + ($Roku - $Payment) = $Fox + $Roku
That's a zero-sum transaction. No $400M savings there.
Making a better battery, or commercializing it, is a milestone. Putting a research battery into an airplane is not a milestone. It's a publicity stunt.
Building a reliable long-range monoplane in 1927 was a milestone. Flying it solo from New York to Paris was a publicity stunt.
Which of these two actions do people remember and celebrate today?
Donald Trump (wants to fleece the public with worthless AI stock), Bernie Sanders (mistakenly believes the AI hype and wants to seize the means of production) And Sam Altman(wants to fleece the public with worthless AI stock).
TFTFY.
If they really believed in AI, do you really think they would share any of the proceeds with you?
I think that these are all just adult album alternative format stations that keep playing that one Wilco record.
âoeIf you don't test, you don't have any cases,â
If you don't measure climate change, Mar-a-Lago isn't under water. Insurance claim denied.
If AI services are becoming too expensive in the current environment, we can look to nature for help. There is a an abundant species of large mammals in the ape family that can be trained to do this kind of work as well.
Apparently, the elite also own all the newline characters.
Pica FTW!
Finally, I can finish the large hadron collider I'm building in my backyard!
That guy is held up as some kind of libertarian hero when he really was a mentally disturbed psycho
Those two things go hand-in-hand a lot more than I am comfortable with.
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982