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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Can we skip the ones where he was just a sperm donor with no intention to be a father?

At least those ones don’t have a father and it was intentional…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Me: ask a question

Ai: wrong answer A

Me: it’s wrong because of X

Ai oh my bad, it’s C

Me: C is also wrong because of X

Ai: my bad, the final absolutely correct answer is A!

Repeat.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You know those kids are pretty small as well, I’m sure they can work with chimeys a lot better than an adult.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Has there ever been a finished civ game on launch since DLC existed?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marc Rober shows why Tesla's camera-only self-driving system is dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ya AEB is an always on thing.

AEB might not always prevent a crash, but it should slow the vehicle at the very least so the crash has less energy.

You could have a system that never prevents a crash and you’d still get an insurance discount due to the slowing benefits.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There was definitely a point in my career where I was making 50k CAD/year and it was a bigger change than my previous job when I went from 40k to 45k. I’m in a HCOL area.

I was able to have rent my own small 1 bedroom apartment (price has more than doubled since then 🤮), go on small little trips locally, finish paying off me debt, buy a few nice things, and actually save money.

Over the years my salary increased a lot as I retrained as a software developer, and sure, the money is nice and I can buy more nice things and save more, but the big change was at 50k when it finally felt comfortable.

If it was 50k then though, given rent increases and other cost of living increases, I’m not sure you’d get that same experience until 70-75k now though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Size of an adult Moose. And they are not as friendly as Bullwinkle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I know it’s a typo… but an Ora Mastadon sounds really fucking cool too!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Man Who Met Kit Duncan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I got ya. This is all it says about her on that article

The actress stars in a buzzy new ad for Emirates Airlines where she wakes up from an awful dream of flying on a plane without luxury amenities, but in reality flying gives her nightmares. The nervous passenger leans on a preflight ritual to make sure any type of in-flight meltdown is avoided.

“If I walk onto an airplane, I always have to go on with my right foot first and tap the outside of the plane. I have always done it. For luck,” she says. “Someone told me to do it, and I don’t remember when that was. But it’s kind of stuck.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think he edited the almost in based in his edit note.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There was no traffic, he was on the road alone.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Profit is revenue - cost of goods.

If you make a widget and it costs you $100 to make, and you sell it for $110, you have $10 profit. Then you have all the other expenses that it takes to run a business, lets say that’s $200.

Your revenue is $110

You profit is $10

Expenses: $200

You NET profit (AKA Net Income) is $-90
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do shares work? How does musk control twitter if he only owns 9% of the shares?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t know if he actually ever did it, or had just said he was going to? As in I’m not sure if there’s was anything to pay off. But there very well may have been an actual real debt there for a short period of time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s like that pretty much everywhere. people just don’t understand.

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Yes, nonprofits in the United States can earn a profit, but they must reinvest it back into the organization. Nonprofits are tax-exempt and are formed to serve the public, so they can’t distribute profits to individuals. How nonprofits make money

Donations and fundraising: Nonprofits raise money through donations and fundraising events

Earned income: Nonprofits generate income through activities related to their mission, such as:

Selling merchandise

Charging fees for services Renting out space Selling food

How nonprofits use their profits

Program growth: Nonprofits use profits to grow their programs, hire staff, and upgrade technology
Sustainability: Nonprofits use profits to build reserves for long-term sustainability
Fundraising: Nonprofits use profits to attract more support through fundraising efforts

Restrictions on nonprofit profits

Nonprofits can't distribute profits to individuals
Nonprofits must reinvest all surplus funds back into the organization
Nonprofits must ensure that their revenue is directly related to their mission

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is why you’re wrong

Profit is revenue minus cost of goods

NET profit or net income is after expenses unrelated to cost of goods.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Non profit doesn’t mean no profit.

Non profits make enough profit to pay their employees, or they get money from other sources. They still make money.

For a company to succeed, there must be profit, or have an outside source of funding.

You cannot pay rent with revenue and no profit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It helps with cash flow sure, but if it’s not profit you’re going into debt to pay that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Revenue is not profit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do shares work? How does musk control twitter if he only owns 9% of the shares?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s possible the shares were dissolved and some wholly nee areagement was made.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do shares work? How does musk control twitter if he only owns 9% of the shares?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
FYI he stopped using his stock as collateral for the purchase part way though. He sold more shares, and got more outside investment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US is actually going to implement a nationwide abortion ban and the measures for how it's gonna be handled are already in the works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Not an answer, but the Army found that pills (non liquid) were often stable for quite a long time with only minor efficacy loss.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My hotel elevator has a toilet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Any fat person that doesn’t want to be mocked can simply lose the weight.

This is simply not true for everyone. Sometimes they are medical reasons that make losing weight very difficult.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The warning on PBS Nova is heartbreaking!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s the devils pitch fork right?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t even think the business software side is that problematic for a lot of good use cases, it’s the general non user friendliness of wallets and having to guard your seed phrase properly and just general technical knowledge.

As soon as your concert ticket is an NFT people can risk losing their ticket, and people will lose tickets.

Making the ticket and scanning the ticket for entry isnt too difficult a problem.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An excellent use of company time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Hey boss, here’s $300 and I’ll use it whenever and as much as I want.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
They could (but didnt) do it with zero knowledge proofs as well. Then the website could go back and verify against the state site.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
They might get processed via the visa network, but the money is still leaving your bank account. Visa never really had it.

So now you gotta deal with visa and your bank to get something back that was stolen, and no, you aren’t ending up with the same protections. They aren’t as motivated as none of them are out the money.

If it was a credit transaction, the credit card company is out the money, and if you say it’s fraud and refuse to pay them, well now they are on the hook. They’re now motivated to determine if it was fraud or not as their money is on the line. Also, they now lose out on a potential customer that gives them high interest on debt if they dont undo it (because most people don’t pay off their credit cards). There’s no debt when it’s a debit card and transaction fees are smaller so they earn less from you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
(NotOP) these things will usually use cryptographic signatures and if the app has been altered, it’d fail the check.

No clue what they are specifically doing though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

It’s just that the usecase (NFTs) were terrible.

It’s the use case for digital images.

NFTs in general are still cool. Concert tickets, tokenzied stocks, land ownership, car ownership, digital keys, digital IDs, it’s endless what can be done with them, but it’s a long way until some of these things get adopted.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It absolutely can be done with zero knowledge proofs, but it needs to be from an authoritative source.

It could prove you are over the age of 18 without having to divulge any other sensitive information, and be untrackable between sites.

They could add it to our drivers licenses or passports or whatever which would cover the authoritative part.