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They think their data is worth $X to AI and think that AI will pay that much.

They think $X is vastly larger than the $Y they would get from third party app developers. So, goodbye to third party app developers.

One portion of our daily 10,000 steps will be to write out some copywritten works in the GPS path to make sure our data is doubly copywritten and should not be reproduced!

We don't know Newegg's margins. Perhaps the board cost them $450 in the first place so paying $100 to repair it so that they could sell it for $500 wouldn't make sense.

Seems like they're called "servers" now. I imagine "guilds" felt a bit too gamer centric for them after they saw how popular their service was becoming.

I think personal space storage requirements have increased but consumers have been pushed towards cloud storage. People are drawn in by the free photo backup and when the free tier runs out, it's only $2/mo to continue making it someone else's problem. Business loves the recurring revenue stream and consumers love low/no upfront costs. As long as they don't get randomly flagged for a TOS violation and get banned with no recourse, it's fine not having local copies of their photos.

There's WD Blue and WD Black NVMe products for less/more performance. Perhaps it's like that?

It doesn't need to be, but it could turn out that way. Perhaps someone convinces the masses that a distributed blockchain is preferable and then it gets built and persists on first-mover advantage.

It is bad to encourage profit from a disaster because it creates a perverse incentive where you hope for more disaster. If you can profit from a disaster it is fine up until greed begins to interfere with solving the disaster.