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- And then all those unemployed seniors with extensive domain knowledge use AI to speedrun the creation of competition and you need to spend $$$$ to buy them out and shut them down. Solid idea.
- I took a tour back when it was making the Phaeton and the Bentley Continental and it was a great tour and experience. Kind of like a flagship location rather than just another factory.
- I don’t agree. The ruling used logical reasoning based on the 2023 Netchoice decision in which the Supreme Court ruled that the actions of the moderating algorithms enjoyed first amendment protection. The first amendment protects you from liability from your own speech, while section 230 protects you from liability from somebody else’s speech. Ergo, if the platform was protected by the first amendment then the algorithm output was the speech of the platform.
Netchoice had a bunch of concurring opinions, including from ACB that essentially says they really aren’t sure how they’d rule in a case directly challenging algorithmic recommendations. That’s why I say it’s not clear how the liability situation is, and it really is baffling why TikTok chose not to appeal.
- I had a Volvo XC90 that “jumped” off the interstate and onto a parallel mountain road east of Knoxville. It did its best to track along those roads and somehow made its way into North Carolina. But even when I was back in Chicago, it was still stuck in NC trying to find a way off those mountain roads. Dozens of on/off cycles did nothing. I disconnected the battery overnight and that didn’t work. At the next service appointment, the dealer had to do a full firmware reset to wipe the memory and get it working again.
It amazed me that Volvo programmed an SUV to disbelieve that it could ever actually leave a road.
- X could do just about anything. It’s actually hard to know what the current state of liability is these days, now that platforms have integrated algorithmic decision-making regarding what to show you.
In Anderson v TikTok, the appeals court decided that since the little girl did not specifically search for the videos she watched, TikTok’s algorithm made what amounted to an editorial decision to show her the videos she watched and thus Section 230 did not give them any protection. TikTok ultimately chose not to appeal to the Supreme Court and thus this is the current state of the law in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Other courts may decide differently.
The general idea is that whenever algorithms are deciding what you see Section 230 is not in play - but the First Amendment might be. The Supreme Court hinted that this is how they view things, BTW. If this is how it is, then Section 230 is essentially a dead law already and losing it only affects old fashioned blogs and forums.
- I think they are selling off old stock and exiting the TV business. Searching various sites in the US shows only a basic 50” 4K TV. A few years ago, they had a very wide variety of offerings - I bought a 65” 4K dumb TV from them. Amazon (US) shows a wide variety of available-to-buy computer monitors, so that is probably their focus at the moment. It’s probably a lot more lucrative.
- Just you wait
- They absolutely will and they will absolutely get away with it. It just won’t be anywhere close to 27%.
There has been craploads of litigation about “Fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory” licensing over the last two decades, and fees that are percentages of revenue with no cap have survived and there is no reason to believe any of these legal standards will change.
In fact, I think it’s likely that Apple and Google will team up to create a standards body that defines the method for distributing/installing smartphone apps (because this is now in their best interest, not that I want them to). These standards are going to end up using a bunch of patents that you will have to license on FRAND terms.
Yes, the cost is going to go down. Yes, Epic is going to benefit a lot more than any indie developer. Such is life
- I had a Brother laser printer for a very long time and printed a TON of paper with it. But it finally gave up the ghost during the COVID supply-chain meltdown and when looking at new Brother laser printers I discovered that they now have a much wider range of offerings and some are clearly not friendly. So the generic advice no longer applies - you have to be careful which one you buy.
Now, because of those supply chain issues they were all marked up to exorbitant prices; I ended up getting an Epson EcoTank thing from Costco with no markup and a bonus extra (quite large) pack of ink. We’ve been very happy with it and the ink isn’t actually very expensive at all. Given the electricity usage difference between laser and inkjet, it might even be cheaper per page.
- Gehry was known to have a high propensity for completing projects on time and on budget because he insisted on using design and modeling software to work out all issues ahead of time. Many clients got angry with him in the early stages of projects, wanting him to break ground and start building. But in the end, he always delivered.
- I appreciate that you’ve made the trade histories downloadable and will be taking a look to see what I can learn.
I’ve glanced over some of it and really wonder why they seemed to focus on a small group of stocks.
- No way. Anything written down becomes the source of truth 3+ months later. Either write it down correctly or don’t write it down at all.
- Land Rover bought the rights to use an aluminum V8 that GM/Buick developed in 1960 and it remained in production until 2006.
- One of the interesting quirks of the Honda K-series is that it spins “backwards”. If you try to mate one to a different transmission (or try to mate a different engine to a K-series transmission), it’s going to give you, uh, interesting results! Lots of people found out the hard way when they used their Fast & Furious inspiration to do JDM swaps :)
- These are good developments, but it remains to be seen how much of impact they will have. Software developers will have to follow a bunch of “best practices”, but there isn’t a requirement that they are good at them. There are no fines for producing insecure software, only fines for not following the rules.
Software providers are also likely to be specifying narrow “fit for purpose” statements and short (ish) support window. If costs go up too much, people will be using “inappropriate” and/or EOL stuff because the “right thing” is too expensive.
To be clear, this is a step in the right direction but is not the panacea.
Are you running late for the train and need to pay after boarding the train? Nope, not possible. The old app let you do this.
Is it raining and you'd rather pay while inside your car before running to the (covered) train platform, instead of standing at the (uncovered) sign with the QR code and waiting for it to succeed? Nope, not possible. The old app let you do this.
What happens if you parked at the train station yesterday and scan the QR code? Well, the app pops up and shows you your receipt from yesterday. You cannot pay for parking unless you close the app and rescan the QR code. The old app did not have this problem.