Sounds like typical Cloud propaganda. "Did you include the cost of your staffing and equipment in your opex?" No, I didn't - and you didn't include it in my cost to deal with your infrastructure, either.

Assuming the small business is local, it generally also circulates money through the local economy instead of siphoning it all away, which provides jobs in your local community, and ensures a healthier local tax base from businesses. The increased foot traffic tends to bring halo benefits to nearby eateries and so forth. It results in more and better job prospects for your kids than "amazon delivery driver" too.

These all combine to make the community you live in more economically vibrant, with things to do and places to go. Instead of a desolate suburban hellscape.

Its more a philisophical point than a direct benefit to you that can be measured in the $1 more something cost you, but its real.

"Of course audiobooks also have their downsides."

It's rapidly approaching trivial to have the audiobook created by an llm narrator. Whether it will be worth listening to such a book is a separate question.

On the one hand it makes a lot more books accessible for the blind, which is a godsend... even a bad narration by an ai is potentially much better than simply not being able to consume the book.

But on the other, its going to make finding a good audiobook read by a narrator worth actually listening to much much harder for those who are listening to audiobooks for the value-add that good narration brings.

They probably used an AI to edit it.

Hell, in the US, growing a garden is "Interstate Commerce" and subject to federal law.

>2027: Bezel-less iPhone 20

Fat finger hell, you'll always be holding it wrong.

Greens have been pretty consistently anti-nuclear because of who's backed and organized the Green organizations for the past 70 years. It's not about the danger of the technology as much as it is the possibilities that it unlocks versus the more labor intensive traditional power sources - particularly now, as nuclear has gotten far more refined and safer in capabilities.

They never much complained much about the Soviets and their nuclear power production, just that it shouldn't be used here because it's dangerous.

Nuclear is far safer over the life of the facility than other forms of power, particularly now.

That's been asked once or twice with no answer, so I'll give it a shot.

Context: I'm a relatively new (~20 months) POGO player, currently level 75/80, with 34 platinum medals (you need 50 to get to the top level, 80). That probably makes me knowledgeable, but not entirely an expert.

The thing that has made POGO so successful, I think, is that "gameplay" is really broad -- there are a bunch of game mechanics in the game, and you can progress while specializing in some and ignoring others. You want to go out and spin pokestops and find new gyms? You totally can! You want to stay home, do remote raids, and remote PVP? You totally can!

I'm really not a PVP person, I kinda hate PVP in all games, but that's just me. Others really love PVP in general, and some of them love PVP in POGO. So a POGO tournament could literally take place in a basement, away from any pokestops or gyms, because you could just PVP against each other (Heck, if you didn't have to worry about cheating, you could have PVP tournaments involving players coming in from their own individual basements across the world).

Nothing new to see here. Looks like a Gentex FDM, which has been around for years.

When you make big claims that nobody else has heard of (defrauding the US), it's important to actually provide a modicum of evidence to those claims.

Starlink's "Residential" option is $50; it's 100Mbit service, which is more than most people need. That's more than enough to stream 4K HDR video. It has ~20-40ms latency in rural locations, which is close to half what cable or DSL has in those locations, often. You can get free hardware with regular promos.

Do a little research before you spout off. This is cheaper, and better, than most of the world's internet. Half the cost of Africa, and you're not getting anything close to what Africa has. The few exceptions would be parts of Eastern Europe, and urban East Asia. Everywhere else is more expensive, with lower quality of service. ~140 million Americans have no ISP options at all, or only 1 archaic option (eg. 10Mbit DSL service with 100ms+ latency - I know of such places within a 20 minute drive of a moderately sized metro area).

There are huge parts of the US where starlink is vastly superior to what's available, and in many cases, the biggest barrier is the hardware cost - still a fraction of the cost of a game platform, or the cost of a TV. Multiple TVs are ubiquitous amongst the poors at this point, so I don't see why Starlink would be prohibitive.

The biggest barrier to entry is that most people don't need Internet beyond what they can get on their phone, or aren't willing to pay the $10-20/mo difference for something they don't understand. Or they're in an urban environment where they can't get signal. But for rural people or folks where their only option is CenturyLink?

This is really interesting for old-but-not-broken hardware you've got sitting around where you want to run win9x - but it isn't well supported.

Clearly you can run W9x under emulation just fine, but there are some use cases where that's not going to be enough (eg. you need explicit access to the hardware or there's weird clock-related eccentricities with the software). I'm sure the use case is quite narrow, but interesting none the less. This would've been far cooler 20 years ago when w9x was still relevant, though.

I'm sure this project idea was kicking around in his head all that time and it wasn't until recently that he was able to implement it (perhaps due to the assistance of AI - if not to write code, then to figure things out so he could). I've personally had a couple fun projects like this, where the itch could finally be scratched. Really amazing tech.

it's really not true entirely.

The media makes it look like that, but these are all (literally) televangelists who get their money and marching orders from Israel. They're largely unaccountable megachurch pastors who're paid whores. It hardly represents Christiandom (unless you're over 60 and believes what the TV tells you).

Anyone who grew up and knows how to use the internet can see reality a bit more plainly than that.

Agree on your last sentiment completely.

I guess you're completely unaware of the hostility that most Christians under 50 now hold towards Israel the country. The subversive "Judeo Christian" Christian Zionism dies with the boomers. It's almost entirely an anathema doctrine which is only held by Holiday Christians who worship at the altar of Regan.

Those who've read the Bible and understood it and absorbed it do not hold those death cult rules. They view this world as the Kingdom of Heaven - it is at hand - and as having the commandment to love one another as Jesus loved us first, and showed us how to love.

"Except Apple."

They are immune to the so-called laws of economics.