Thus 2839 packages give you 283.9% chance one is compromised?

It's really an opinion question, is AI going to dramatically alter the web or not? No one knows the answer to that. All that we do know is that AI is disrupting a lot of things and the web may end up being one of them. So depending on how you feel about AI that day, your answer can differ.

I don't think that is correct. The FAB in AZ is their fallback position if Taiwan is lost.

I googled something like net worth of US billionaires and that was what came out on top. I was looking for the the $6.72T number, not the count of the billionaires, that count varies everyday be cause many up them are right at the $1B line. A strong up/down day in the market can change the number by 30.

My point is that even if you took every penny the billionaires have and passed it out to the general population you are only going to get a one time check for $17.920. And if they have to pay taxes first that one check will be closer to $14,000. Even though billionaires are extremely rich they are still nothing much when compared to the size of the overall US economy. The pandemic stimmie checks were of similar size and they weren't life changing.

People compare themselves one to one with a billionaire and feel very poor. But look at it collectively, if you confiscated everything the billionaires have they could only pay off the US deficit for about 18 months before they collectively went broke. And then we'd still have a giant deficit without anyone to tax. It's just a fantasy to think that taxing the billionaires can close the deficit or provide free healthcare for all. Use you brain and a calculator, it can't possibly work. Sure, make them pay more in taxes, but it isn't going to dramatically change things.

I just copied the quote and didn't edit it.

"According to Forbes, there were 868 U.S. billionaires as of 2025, holding a combined wealth of $6.72 trillion as of the end of 2024, a decrease from the 813 reported by Forbes in its April 2024 list but with increased overall wealth. The United States has the most billionaires globally, with these individuals concentrated in states like California, New York, Florida, and Texas."

$6.72T / 375 milllion (population of USA) == $17,920 per person.

Amazon has flooded DC with lobbyists trying to get De Minimus repealed. Analysts estimate ending De Minimus will increase Amazon sales by $22-25B. It is also generates instant profit for Amazon since Amazon charges a blanket 15% finder fee. It the a vendors pays $100 in tariffs Amazon adds their 15% right on top of that taking an addition $15 for doing absolutely nothing. Analyst estimate for that markup effect is an increase in $1.5B/yr in Amazon profits.

In the larger picture most economist are predicting a major substitution of goods purchases to service purchases which are not tariffed. In other words, a lot of people will simply stop buying these trinkets and instead travel, go to sports, concerts, etc.

This universal crawler would just copy everything verbatim and compress it with standard compression. It would then be up to the subscribers to process it into their own internal formats.

This is not a cheap thing to build, the central repository is going to need several billion dollars worth of storage. So the fees to join the group will be in the $250M range or more. But you'd have to spend that much on your own crawler so there's no loss.

Before you run off saying 'sign me up' note that each empty exabyte of storage costs about $100M to buy.

Consider how this would work for a new AI entrant. They'd pay to join the repository collective and then the repository will ship them an array of disks with exabytes of data to get them started. No need to crawl at all. Over time that exabyte array will be remotely updated with newly crawled content. Once they have the exabytes of data in their data center they can copy it out at very high speeds. A complete snapshot of the entire internet is zettabytes, I don't believe anyone has a complete snapshot.

A good way to solve this would be to use the Google antitrust trial to force the creation of a single crawler for the entire web which puts all of the results in to a single, central repository. Everyone can then use that central repository, while charging the users of the repository enough fees to break even on the costs. The antitrust settlement would require Google to construct this central repository. Once the repository exists, all crawling outside of this centralized crawling would be blocked by coordinated ISP action (ie, go use the central repository).

One of my neighbors whoâ(TM)s in his eighties wound up switching to a recumbent tricycle because he had balance issues. Which sucked. But the tricycle is awesome and probably would be comfortable for you to sit on.

Nevertheless, you should ride what works and is enjoyable for you. The point is not to punish 80-year-olds by forcing them to ride bikes they arenâ(TM)t safe on. I have an Azore city bike that I really like. Wouldnâ(TM)t mind still being able to ride it at 80.

I live in Europe. It's definitely not a utopia (nor is it a single country!). However, I don't think that being more like the U.S. would make Europe better. That's my only point here. Yes, Europe could definitely be better (even the European country where I live!), but being more like the U.S. would make it worse. Certainly going in the direction of "growth first" would not make it better, although again I'm sure some percentage of those who emigrated to the U.S. would say this would be better.

The country I live in now is becoming more like the U.S. at the moment in the sense of starting to move toward home ownership as a growth asset. In the U.S., this has caused an insane housing shortage, and we're seeing that here too. We should be moving away from such policies, not toward them.

That's because if you get to 75 years old in the U.S. you are more likley to be reasonably well-off—if you aren't you are more likely die before that of preventable causes. And if you are well-off, that helps once you're past 75 as well. Of course plenty of poor people reach 75 in the U.S., but percentage-wise fewer do.

Also, the EU is a big place with lots of different countries. I live in the Netherlands, where you routinely see 80-year-olds riding bicycles. This is less common in other european countries, but that's changing. Your comparison would be more useful it if were by individual country rather than including the whole continent. I don't actually know if it's any different in the Netherlands—we have income inequality issues here too—but it would make sense if it were because people are so much more physically active here throughout life.

At this point a lot of economic growth is just generating garbage, but because we are so addicted to growth, we have to keep generating garbage.

A better question to ask would be, would you prefer to live in Europe or the U.S.? Not work, live. The idea that our lives should be work from graduation to grave doesn't really seem like something we ought to be valorizing—it sucks for the planet, and it sucks for us.