Zillow is an effective monopoly on internet real-estate listings
Except for Redfin.com, Realtor.com, Homes.com, Opendoor.com, MLS.com, etc.
According to Google, Zillow has a 44% market share for real estate searches. That's no where near a monopoly.
Otherwise, you would deport the citizens as well.
Where would we deport them to?
demanding humans be used in the creation of media.
That will just mean media is no longer produced in New York.
Is it true that sperm donors make money hand over fist?
I was paid $35 per donation, and was allowed to donate up to three times per week.
So, $105 / week or $5,460 / year.
That would be about $10k / year in 2025 dollars.
The clinic was a ten minute walk from my workplace, so I'd walk there and back on my MWF lunch breaks.
It was the sperm bank that didn't do the necessary checks
Was the test available at the time? Did other sperm banks check for this mutation?
and the sperm bank that shared his genetic material 200 times.
Way more than that. It was 200 babies, not 200 attempts. The success rate of artificial insemination is about 20%, so that's 1000 squirts.
I was a sperm donor back in the 1990s.
The donors aren't "random".
They are screened for general health, genetic defects, and academic achievement. I had to show my college transcripts, provide a blood sample, and have a medical examination.
TFA describes a screwup that only happened because a test for the condition wasn't available. But many other tests were done, so the odds were still better than an old-fashioned insemination.
Many of the recipients are women in nuclear families, whose husbands have fertility problems.
They don't really know what caused the glitch.
The cosmic ray hypothesis is just a conjecture.
So, they're rolling back to the previous version until they can figure it out.
If they're doing memory scrubbing, they might want to bump up the frequency.
If they aren't using semiconductors made with depleted boron, they should be.
There is also the Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine in California.
It has been opened and closed several times as the Feds and state of California tussle over it.
California greenies want it closed. The Feds want it to operate, even at a loss, for supply chain security.
It is currently operating with DoD subsidies, but production needs to be ramped up.
Epic wants a part of the cake but brings nothing to the table. So they try to create appeal through artificial means like giving away games, or with exclusivity deals.
I recommend listening to Tim Sweeney when he was on the Lex Fridman podcast (or read the transcript):
https://lexfridman.com/tim-swe...
He explains why he wasn't able to offer games at lower prices to compete with Steam, and why exclusive offers were the only path that could set his store apart. I admit, it isn't perfect, but there are some sound reasons why it can be hard to break into this space.
Not all Nvidia exports to China are banned by America.
Even older Nvidia chips are superior to what China can produce domestically.
Trump received more black votes than any Republican in history.
As blacks move up, they move right. Same for Hispanics.
Democrats need a positive agenda that addresses the concerns of working-class voters. They aren't gonna win by playing the race card.
Two economists were walking down the street when they saw dog poop on the sidewalk.
The first economist said to the second, "I'll pay you $100 to eat a spoonful of that dog poop."
The second economist figured it was an easy $100, so ate a spoonful of poop. Then he said to the first, "I'll pay you $100 to eat a spoonful."
The first economist ate a spoonful and collected his $100.
As they walked further down the street, the second economist said to the first, "We both ate dog poop for nothing."
The first economist replied, "Not true. We just added $200 to the GDP."
Is Cobol specifically more difficult to debug?
Yes. Much Cobol code was written before structured programming was standard. There are no unit tests. There are no classes to encapsulate complexity.
Is there really a deficit in Cobol literate programmers?
No, not really. A programmer can learn Cobol well enough to get work done in about a week. The problem isn't "learning the language", but learning about the legacy application you need to maintain. For instance, why is a discount applied to every invoice for customer #478324? Well, because he was the CEO's college roommate, but you won't learn that from the manual.
Isn't Cobol actually spelled COBOL?
Only if you want to be pedantic.
I don't buy the implicit implication that because it's old it's not as good as new
There's been a lot of progress in programming languages in the last 60 years.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
It is broke.
until the AI bubble bursts
The bubble will burst because of a failure to monetize, not a failure of the underlying technology.
People are using AI for free. Why will they start paying hundreds of billions for it?
It was the same in the Dotcom crash. Pets.com had a failed business model, but the Internet didn't go away.
Maybe that few-years-old gas-powered car that is still perfectly functional is preferable to a pricey upgrade to a shiny new car
No. That would explain a general lack of new car sales, but that's not what's happening. It is only EV sales that are stagnating. People are still buying gas cars.
EV sales are booming in China. A big reason is much lower prices. In China, EVs are cheaper than equivalent ICE cars. That is also true in Southeast Asia, which imports EVs from China. But the West restricts EV imports, so the prices are much higher.
Chairman of the Bored.
