I mean thats the honest truth. They would just take the money. There really aren't industries that competitive where they would gain a whole lot of market share if they could charge lower interchange fees. It would make a difference on the margin for small struggling businesses. Its one of those things where they look at costs, and see the large number next to processing fees and try to figure out ways of not paying it. They're doing the same with electricity, wages, costs of products they sell, taxes, etc. Its just what companies do: Maximize revenue/profits, minimize costs.

Da fuq are you on about? What is the product I can buy or service I can get?

I mean is it news for nerds? Not really.

Is it par for the course for slashdot? Yup.

Yell at the cloud, I won't stop you.

No, No no. Silly people who think they understand things. The money is charged to the merchant, yes thats true. However, you with a rewards card get charged the same price as Joe Schmoe who does not have a rewards card. You are paying less because you get the reward. Joe Schmoe is getting screwed. So get the rewards you can so you pay lower prices.

And for some reason, Discord went to Klipy...?

A growth mindset would say, hire more. If LLM's are a force multiplier then you increase productivity dramatically by burning the candle at both ends. The bottleneck then becomes sales.

Thats the thing though, the CEO's aren't the ruling class, the board of directors is.

Here's the thing you have to balance.

Piracy => getting near unlimited stuff for free screwing those that created it.
Non piracy => paying for limited stuff that sometimes can be taken away from you if its drm locked.

It would seem the ethical choice would be

Hybrid piracy => paying for limited stuff, but also pirating it if drm locked.

You pay for the items to keep incentivizing things you like, and you get to keep your purchases.

Anything to delay giving life saving support. Cops won't feel safe until they're literally piloting flying and dog drones with vr goggles from 1000 miles away. Even then they'll cry about the things they did.

"It's an agent that prompts Claude,"

It's AI all the way down

Notion is really only valuable as a memory/brain for Claude these days. It actually excels at that when used properly. I was also annoyed by their gmail/calendar inetgration though. It really wanted to take over the inbox and tag things how it wanted. I just didn't understand the point of it.

Micron started a new fab at their HQ in 2024 and it's barely halfway built. They have another one going up somewhere on the east coast also. They take years to build and many billions of dollars. They don't go up over night.

I worked at Micron for almost 9 years and have seen the fabs being built. Its not small feat.

I see you registered here 3 minutes before me. I remember when this place was hosted in Robs dorm room.

Don't blacklist people from working. They paid for their crimes, let them live

Good points, but to be fair, ultrasonic is currently used to break up kidney stones because it is safe to use it to do so.

Tesla also didn't make money on its cars. That's how new businesses oftentimes work.