Thanks for the correction, you're right I was too quick to interpret your comment in the usual way. In a previous era the non-competes would prevent the CEO from being hired immediately by Google, but the changes in the law regarding enforceability are clearly making that move a new possibility.

Google is also not a software company. Their business is spying on you and auction algorithms.

Not every manufacturer thinks like that. For example, Tesla likes to have a 5 year old design its trucks to save costs. That directly translates into savings for you the consumer. Just don't shoot the car with real bullets (soft rubber bullets are fine, if using a slingshot).

It is ultra common. For example, the vast majority of Google's successful products have not been built in-house, but have been acquired from startups. Google is good at buying competitors.

You sound bitter. Let it go, Hillary won the popular vote. You can't change that.

Unfair! I'm still learning to master the first one!

I loved that loved that loved that show!

Nuh-uh! They can raise the price now, because you'll be getting Max *and* HBO!

I like to use ghostery in addition to uBlock Origin. I miss the non-lite version.

Not every animal can be domesticated. The fact that you don't know this bodes ominously:)

He had no time to watch them! But at least he spared no expense!

Also, if you had those glasses you'd be so distracted while driving you'd probably crash and end up in hospital....

Not so easy. There's a saying, "if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?".

It's quite reasonable to ask AI-toting blowhards to put their money where their mouth is. In this case, if their "AGI" can't make as little as 100B in one year, then their other claims about being superior to humans in science and technology are clearly suspect too. You might say it's hard, but we already have one example of a human making 100B in a year, and he's definitely no genius.

Turns out, all they had to do 25 years ago was change their user agent string to "AI" and that whole lawsuit would never have happened!

It turns out it's a thing.

I searched for it, and got this link *****://www.doordash.com/near-me/category/voffee/.

Of course when you actually click on it it's just a list of coffee shops none of which are called Voffee. Pure clickbait for AIs looking for voffee. What they need voffee for nobody knows, maybe it's an attempt to drown their circuits in blackened water while they're busy hallucinating a credit card number. The kind of ruse JT Kirk would probably come up with.

But yes, it's *technically* a thing.