It doesn't say anything about being clean.

You say it was an echo chamber but remember how much Donald Trump used it? Everybody used it.

Granted that was falling apart by the end of Trump's term and he was banned for comments relating to Jan 6.

Look how twitter got destroyed as a common medium for communication, with no replacement. X (right) and Bluesky (left) together are not a replacement for what twitter used to be. Now wikipedia as a store of knowledge goes the same route? Can't we just have one reality, but have different opinions about it?

Some people make real money in this "market," or try to. Check this out:

I Spent 24 Hours with CS2 Millionaires

I'm not saying any of this is real, but I bet some sizable purchases have been driven by dreams of such.

Cockroaches!

Already 100 million years old when those johnny-come-lately dinosaurs came along.

I guess Pokeman cards were just too tangible.

... when the AI bubble bursts and 90% of the AI data centers go dark. The AI that remains will be the AI that is doing something useful enough to be worth the electricity it sucks down.

On this page they identify 1.5C as the initial "tipping point" of specific bad things. There is a fairly wide uncertainty around that estimate, but it's considered the best estimate so in that sense it wasn't picked out of thin air.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

"Which means that we're going to have a period, bigger or smaller, with higher or lower intensity, above 1.5C in the years to come"

You cut off the conclusive part - we're going 1.5C above baseline. How much, being open in part to what we do now.

ok I'm going to wave the white flag on this one.

What I'm saying is the new goal to target 30% profit margins (sure, why not?) might or might not be accomplished through further price increases. I know they already did raise prices, and I there's been some pushback and even reductions of announced sky-high prices for upcoming games by other companies. Microsoft doesn't dominate gaming and they don't have the power to arbitrarily increase profits by jacking up prices.

I can't read the paywalled article, but the summary doesn't say anything about raising prices. What it does talk about is reducing costs by cutting languishing projects. For games to be in development for 7+ years is no way to run a business.

To make it fair, how much of the value generated by Linux would go to Linus personally, vs. all the contributors to the Linux ecosystem? For example to the Apache Foundation? Stallman seems perennially miffed that GNU built a whole environment and then Linux swooped in to host it and took all the glory.

Interesting although linux has created so much value because of its ubiquity, which would not be the case if it had been monetized - like Ultrix, Solaris, HP-UX and a hundred others.

What the world would really like is something that performs like nuclear fission (lots of 24/7 reliable baseload power, deployable anywhere) but without the big upfront expense or the catastrophic risks (pollution, storage, proliferation) to manage.

Is there such a thing? Could there be? Nuclear fusion might be one answer, and they've made good progress, but it's still a bit iffy and even in the best-case scenario it won't be applied at scale for some years yet. Geothermal is seeing some interesting developments that might allow it to be deployed more broadly, so that's what I'm currently geeked over. Short of that, there's always good old-fashioned renewables+lots of storage, which can be made to work, but requires a lot of infrastructure.