It will be interesting when we hit the inflection point where the video content is such garbage that people don't watch the ads and the whole tower crumbles to ash.

Agreed, those price points are crazy. For $2k, I'd rather buy a TAG and a personal locator beacon that probably has better range.

I assume for every 1 stable coin handed out that the The Feds remove 1 dollar from circulation right? I mean come on, you can't just create something out of thin air that can be traded in for dollars and insured. Oh wait. Damn.

I tend to agree but also this statement "In July, Carr said that he's not concerned with having a fourth mobile provider, saying during an open meeting that there isn't a "magic number" of carriers needed in the US to maintain competition." Yes there is a "magic number" it is 2.

Exactly. I guess it's too much to ask people to read the summary much less the article. I like how all these other posters attacked Canada's policies when in fact Canada seems to be doing better than most of comparable countries.

"in person, of course" - I think you meant to say F2F

Actually the shade from solar panels may likely help the lizard population.

Just remember to devalue the potential revenue by the percentage of companies that actually gain long term value from an IPO or buy out.

Yeah not sure why Apple can't reach an agreement with Masimo unless Masimo wants some unreasonable fees. Searching on the web shows a fee schedule of 10% but it seems to indicate the fee would only be on the value increase of adding the SpO2 sensor so one would thing that it negligible compared to the sale price.

It's called robots.txt for a reason. Don't really care if it's the '90s model or the the '20s model.

60,000 hours / 24 hours = 2,500 days. Working around the clock, so maybe 3 shifts of 20 people and it still takes 4 months to overhaul. Yikes.

Unfortunately it seems easier for a majority of people to sink into the abyss than to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

I still don't get why so many in the USA feel that religion and science are so incompatible.

Since we are coming up with arbitrary measures of when of when to screw over as you so eloquently put it "rent seekers", I will come up with another arbitrary measure. If a work of art is good enough or important enough to include in a LLM, pony up the cash. Otherwise, piss off.

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