I like to thread the needle between “useful verification of identity” and “not a horrifying invasion of privacy that puts everyone in our society at risk”
Reading these kinds of things will just result in is creating horrible identification laws like having to scan your face each time you want to watch porn.
How about making bootstrapping businesses easier and providing preferable tax strategies floor small businesses? That would show down venture capital backed companies demanding a public offering and short term profit motives over sustainable businesses.
Or opening up platforms to drive increased competition?
Or providing sponsorship for open standards so users get more choice in the market instead of relying on entrenched large companies?
Doesn’t this mean that Meta has ossified and the board no longer sees growth opportunities?
Send like bad news for investors long on growth and prospects of the meta verse.
There’s a lot on it.
It’s not just girls in things standing in a hot tub flossing.
I don’t like the company, I don’t use the product. But it is what Facebook was in 2010.
Amazons average take is over 50%, so naturally it’s not cheap to sell on.
Most of the books I buy are reference books, that site actually has a decent stock, thanks!
Amazon is bad at packaging books lately. I’d say 1/3 orders are damaged. My last one was both misprinted and the envelope was unsealed, so the book arrived bent, wet, and blurry.
Costco can be worth it
Amazon takes 50% on average now
They’re only cutting fees in categories competing with Shein
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-reduced-seller-fees-to-compete-with-shein-2023-12
I’ll go further, I stopped using Amazon entirely and I don’t miss it.
The junky shopping experience is especially clear once you leave and come back.
I only ever order books from amazon anymore, and usually only when I get a gift card or a product isn’t for sale elsewhere.
The prices aren’t even that good anymore.
This is a great comment, and you’re right, I just think there’s room for both and realistic games can still be stylized and make you say “wow”.
Also I recommend Ghost of Tsushima, the gameplay is really solid, the graphics are beautiful, and I really enjoyed the story.
It’s an open world, linear story, and it has a very strong visual style.
Oh my God, that’s awful!
I hope the US responds by installing more solar panels this year than China ever has!
There are certainly cases where it helps. Ghost of Tsushima for example can really pull an emotional story because you can see the emotion on the characters.
Fold home automation IP into Alexa brand, keep iRobot vacuum brand but increase data exfiltration, and put ads on all searches to increase sales, layoff the scrubs R&D team would be the natural playbook.
But really, isn’t it the rich who lost the most? And doesn’t that entitle them to more?
It’s like Jesus once said “the meek shall inherit the earth, but only after I let the rich have their way with it for a few thousand years, then maybe we’ll see”
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Yeah. Spend a decade or more building resilient architecture, sure, you can now fire people. Good luck building on it though.
Chesterton’s fence is pretty important in tech, and the community sucks at documentation while working.
Also: I work in tech, holy fuck the burnout I’ve experienced these last two years is being anything I’ve experienced before.
6 months from now: “We didn’t sell it, we granted them a non revocable permanent license to be the exclusive producers of D&D content, but we still receive a royalty fee and have no control over it”