as some other studies predict, that seems pretty efficient.

yes and they keep acces to your transaction data for the longest time possible (I think, about a month). Isn't it widely known that klarna lives off collecting and selling customer data? I don't use it for exactly that reasen. And I also didn't really trust giving that instant money transfer feature access to my account (although it required the 2fa of my bank and was only valid for 5 minutes, so it was more worry than actual risk)

isn't it just the principle of a credit? I'd rather say, it's tied to the belief that tomorrow's income will be not less than today's. Which I never had, so I never used that principle, apart from buying a carrier-subsidized phone once.

so their position is understandable. They are fighting a losing battle anyway - in the long term, AI-Voices won't try to replicate a human actor - nothing more to negotiate.

Nah, it's not, it's the typical Apple-fuckery a lot of developers tell tales about. It's like their customer service - if they don't want to, they hang you out to dry.

I'll buy an "s" for $1

Come on, nobody trust Zuckerberg and everybody knows that.

A full sized iPad Air fits into my coat pocket (average to slightly overweight guy, 180cm, 85kg), and I often carry it around in a backpack, because I can't be bothered with websurfing on a small phone screen. Even a phablet (why did we stop using that word?) like the iPhone Plus or Pro Max is no fun compared to a tablet screen, so I rather go for the smallest phone I can get. Meaning: I'd definitely be interested in a small foldable that bucks the gigantism trend in phones and is also affordable - two things that won't happen soon with an Apple foldable, but still, I'd like that.

is "not very", if the horse they predicted as winner came in second place.

who would have thought? Thing is, I personally already know a few people who refuse to accept how LLMs work, who treat their output as a replacement for doing the research themselves. There's probably no cure for the terminally stupid, and you can't keep people away from it without being accused of paternalizing them. I guess, we're on the fast lane to idiocracy, unless we get AGIs fast.

Actually, studies show that even if we know that we are being manipulated, the manipulation still works to a degree. e.g. if you get a false compliment, it still has a positive effect on you. or, placebos do work even if we know that they are not real drugs.

It's a game, for god's sake. It's like someone not getting over the fact that the typical nazi-henchmen in an US movie is called "Hans" and speaks English as well as someone who was told to repeat something in a language he just heard for the first time. It's called dramatization.

Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy, bouncy?

I personally don't see any argument that there is no olygarchy, here. Whataboutism won't make it less true. In this case it rather prooves it.

we'll see if they insist on it or take the more reasonable approach of buttering up little Donnie and let him have one of his pet-"deals" (e.g. saying that he won without any consequences). Otoh, China has been preparing for this moment for half a decade, so maybe they will take it as a pivot to make the US less relevant globally. Or, the'll give in to some "deal" if they can get Taiwan and military dominance in the south chinese sea for it.