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...

The best advice about gambling I got was "If you don't know who the sucker is at the table, it's you."

Great machines and well supported, with a good community as well.

It phones home, even with no subscription, unless you specifically opt out. How many drivers realize that?

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.

A quick read of TFA indicates that demand is a factor in cost allocation, so the locations where data sources are located should bear the brunt of the costs, and MD paying for whatever anticipated uses growth they will see.

More likely a “let’s pretend to do something until he’s gone” and “let’s see what of our needs you can handle.” Promises are easy to make to placate Trump and cost nothing.

People also reacted to ELIZA as if she was real, and this was sin the 1960’s, with far less computer power. I think it is more of a human desire to anthropomorphize things and deal with them as if they were human.

Reddit said so

"forty-five-press" not 45-47-press.

I suspect, given the potential size of the user base as well as the potential high value users on the app, "if" should be when.

In addition, given the developer's name 45-47-press, it would not surprise me if it was some Trump owned entity getting government money to develop it. Nothing like channeling some cash to your own pocket.

Democracy is for retards.

Government did this. All of this. Government regulated so much that only a rare few can afford to compete.

This is late stage statism. Retard voters are to blame.

Like you.

So AI will be training itself on stuff generated by itself, the ultimate self licking ice cream cone. Reminds me of the game of putting a paragraph repeatedly through translation software back and forth between to languages until you got gibberish,

True, but can an online only store survive? I know several local specialty crafts ( needlepoint) stores that sell online but that alone would not enough to cover inventory and other costs. A lot of sales occur in store, and that helps turnover as well as sell threads with a canvas. Turns for online only would be a lot slower. Granted, it’s different than books but I suspect the economics are similar.

I agree. Part of the value is wandering the stacks and seeing books you might like but never heard of, and independent shops’ staff recommendations.

70% is impressive until you realize it’s ~130 new stores and total stores are still less than half of the stores before Amazon was founded. It will be interesting to see if the trend continues and how long new stores stay in business.