Yes, it's plagiarism that's too big to fail

Being successful without being stressed out. . . what a disease. . .

Back then artists earned a much larger cut... Now with streaming it is only middle-men earning any money... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Frocknheavy.net%2Fthe-mus...

Even though this doesn't yet apply to gaming consoles those huge marketplaces will start making plans for when it does... Apple is also making plans to make its marketplace conform to whatever is sheltering gaming consoles.

Consumers better buckle up as "credits" will be required to be purchased and won't transfer in logical ways.

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I think the person who said Xi was "clever" because he managed to actually get himself appointed for life. I think that's the main difference between Trump and Xi.

It's part of Isreal's Project Gospel

Here is a longer news article about Microsoft's involvement in picking targets in Gaza. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapnews.com%2Farticle%2Fisr...

Cryptocurrency massively centralizes the information about all transactions.

This is broadly true about all current workable digital currencies. Every cryptocurrency system needs a public ledger to limit how much fraud happens, but bad actors will use the log of transactions against people.

Will this mean Samsung and Google have to open their earbud systems as well?

I know Samsung has propriatary codecs to support some extra features on their models(like 360 audio) and Google auto enables reading notifications and some stuff on their models. I'm guessing that will need to now be available to any random manufacture of ear pods.

I'm guessing the EU will announce the crackdown on Samsung... someday... maybe when Samsung headquarters in the US.

Yay, so much choice...

Once the EU kicks Apple out they'll need to go after the game consoles, TV manufacturers, car manufacturers, razor manufacturers, printer manufacturers, and so on and so on. It'll be wonderful to watch... from a distance.

It appears this is a decrease in total births.The article says there were 720,988 births in 2024.

There is a crude birth rate chart version of the fertility chart; which you can match up with a population to more easily get total babies. Through the 1800s it looks like 900K+ babies were born each year(just spot checked a handful of the lower years). The population skyrocketed in the early 1900s so those were much higher.

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The anti-DEI crap isn’t even a good dog whistle. Now MAGA is saying DEI hiring is ruining video game development? Nazi’s always trying to screw everyone over. . .

The amount of AI coding shovelware is reminiscent of when there was a huge push for “apps” to be made as webpages McKinsey-types thought they could leverage that EVERYWHERE. Web-apps as real apps hasn’t completely died, but it is now finally a niche that isn’t getting pushed on everything. Shovelware will get easier to produce with this push.

The UK bans companies from telling people there is a request for access, so a banner saying the government is stealing your data would be against the law. . . I think burning the UK’s tech stack to the ground is probably the only move here, which is what is happening.

I don't think anyone is interested in buying Intel is going to be doing it for Intel's AMD64 clones. Having to support all Intel's current AMD64 CPU deals is probably a negative. A buyer is going to do it to get their hands on Intel's IP, employees, and fabs. Apple already did this once when they bought out Intel's modem division.

Major metro areas are less car dependent... Accomplishing day-to-day activities without a car outside of a major metro in the US is usually extraordinarily difficult.

Suburbanites often must spend multiple hours a day driving. The solution is urbanization. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fslate.com%2Fbusiness%2F202...