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The new middlemen are cloud (unless you're amazon/google) and internet providers.

It really isn't cheaper. Netflix pays $1bil/yr to aws. The only advantage streaming providers have is that you're already paying for an internet connection. But TV over internet solutions have been a thing for a long time so even this doesn't really matter. At the end of the day it's just bits going through a plastic tube from one computer to another. If anything, the 1 to 1 on-demand aspect of streaming would make this the more expensive option.

Nor sure why anyone would expect somwthkng else. Streaming doesn’t make things any cheaper than traditional tv, production might be slightly cheaper but not because of streaming. Shareholders still want the same roi.

Everything being VoD is a pretty nice feature though.

Rules for thee

If not, how is this more useful than something like Siri?

>Not even close. The vast majority of shareholders own stock through ETFs and pay no attention to the finances (or politics) of the companies they own.

Right, but many would sell their ETFs and buy others if they suddenly started to deliver below market returns.

Cars were not "incredibly dangerous" when they first debuted because they topped out at about 40 mph (and went considerably slower most of the time). That's pretty comparable to a horse and carraige.

Institutional investors have to option of retaining voting rights. About 1/4th seem to do so.

https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/about-us/investment-stew...

Objective as in objective function.

For every good local tourist guide in the training data there is 500 garbage SEO articles. No wonder the AI sounds more like the latter. And it won't get better in the short term. Differentiating between quality articles and SEO spam is not just hard, it's an arms race. Whatever changes you make to your definition of quality the SEO spammers will simply adapt. Until we build AI-powered robots that can go visit these places themselves, I don't think this problem can be solved.

Bad policy tends to stick around for longer when you don't allow criticism of the ruling elite.

Don’t underestimate how entrenched 1920x1080, 3840x2160 and a few other resolutions are outside of Apple.

This take is so 3 months ago.

No true german would ever have a hard time discerning between ä and ă. That would be like mixing up p and b for an anglophone.

It’s hard to get toothpaste back into the tube.

”Taliban issues statement to tell U.S. 'Afghanistan feels your pain'” interesting.

Tesla won’t save the world. This is probably not problem we can solve with more growth, sadly.

Also, TSLA has by far the highest P/E of any major car manufacturer…

No sympathy for drunk drivers. A non-intoxicated driver would slow down in a more risky driving environment.

Or a good argument for. Depending on your convictions.

Not to mention, all profits go directly out of town.

The American military is paid for by debt. The US can only take on this debt because they have the world’s reserve currency. It’s essentially a flat tax on the rest of the world.

How do you prove who actually signed the document? Docusign does this by only sending the signing link to the signer’s email. I don’t see how you could prove that no one else had access to that link if you’re self hosting.

VSc over ssh? Jetbrains Gateway? I think both work decently.

That's true, but most medium articles & blogs are experts writing for other experts. I guess what's missing is broadly experts writing for laymen.

The answer is more people with a background in STEM should go into journalism. Sadly, that sort of specialization is expensive and the public's willingness to spend on news seems to have gone down.

Because gp didn’t read the article and assumed this was about github copilot?

Except, shipping by boat has been more cost effective since the beginning of history. The furthest you can get from the ocean in Japan is like a full days walk.

Seems like the distinction is mainly between which tools are available to you as a scientist (at least if we stick to comp-sci, math is in a league of it's own). When, or if, we can completely model a human brain, a psychologist would no longer need to perform experiments to test their theories.

Given enough computing power, most theories could theoretically by proven or falsified purely through reasoning.

If my BST implementation isn't sorted, it also doesn't work.

Equinor still pays salaries & dividends last i checked