Interesting, some conflict with his BFF Patrick will ensue I imagine. This was one of Patrick's pet projects.

Must be thinking every house needs one of these! I bet the site has WD and or Seagate on speed dial.

I'm not sure if the slain individual couldn't sue. The T&C binds the rider, so if the rider dies, yep, 100 bucks. Less than Social Security death benefit of 255 I think it is. Curious though if buried in the T&C is if the rider is responsible for any violation the taxi performs while under contract, including while the taxi is enroute for pickup. That could include traffic tickets all the way to vehicular manslaughter.

Funny you say that. Today is "D-Day" for him to sign/veto the THC Senate Bill 3 passed by the lege. It would ban THC in products available over the counter with no prescription required. He has hours left to either let it become law if he does nothing by midnight or veto it and continue to allow gummy bears etc. Not exactly weed, but many people use it for calming. Not really a high I guess though like weed.

I agree. I'm an outlier and I know it. I will pay more. But modern economics is predicated on the masses buying, and outliers like me may pay 2X more for a box of nails made here, but not 50X, and certainly not if I have to order them and wait for them to be shipped to me because HD/Lowes/Ace etc do not stock them. I always use airlines as my favorite example. People always complain about legroom, but the vast majority shop on price. Net result, airline seat are sardine cans. The really rich have completely abandoned them and either do NetJets or have their own.

I agree, but unlikely to happen. These people got where they got by knowing how to bilk others. The other thing I forgot to mention is this xAI deal was structured different than the twitter deal that left the finance guys holding the bag. "Unlike Musk's debt deal when he acquired Twitter, Morgan Stanley did not guarantee how much it would sell or commit its own capital to the deal, in what is called a "best efforts" transaction, according to one person familiar with the terms." from https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fnews... So at least the arrangers have learned something from getting fairly badly burned on twitter.

I wish Intel well, but I expect you are correct. Lip is going to finish the job of digging the grave. He is out of his element. Cadence is an EDA company. Very different animal than a chip company. I've done both, very different methods. Not sure why the board thought a good idea. Pretty sad, Intel was a tech giant. Micron is probably the only cutting edge US owned fab which looks to survive.

Oh man, so we can blame them for its proliferation. I'm hearing dynamic pricing is being applied to all sorts of tourist venues as well, even things like museums. And in some cases, you don't know the ticket price until you arrive at the door. Crazy.

All true, but the sheen may start to be coming off. Bloomberg is reporting ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fnews...) that xAI had to sweeten the deal to get loans for its latest needs. It "sold" as a 5B deal at 12.5% interest. One of they key statements in the article is, "The more attractive investor terms stand in contrast to many other debt deals this week that tightened pricing and accelerated deadlines due to strong demand." I think investors may be getting more hesitant. How exactly is a money losing AI firm going to be paying .125*5B=625M of annual interest payments plus I would imagine some principle when they are losing money? I'd never play that. I imagine it must be a junk rated bond, Even BB rated stuff is paying nowhere near that.

Worse, the story should be, "The salvage operation was very complex, and was temporarily suspended in mid-May after Rob Cornelis Maria Huijben, a 39-year-old Dutch diver, died during underwater work." To investigate why some rich guy died another was killed by doing an investigation of questionable value. Will the whoever that wants this carcass (superyacht builder?) be liable for the 30m to drag it up and say another 5m for paying the family of the diver?

I'm guessing you don't live in assisted living. I suspect that was his father's big mistake. He moved into assisted because it had gotten bad, just not I want to kill myself bad. And then it progressed, and because they check on you, you're stuck. It was an ordeal too. He had to see mental health people before they'd even let him starve. I guess they would have force fed him if he did not agree to the exams. And the exams came back with "he has a failure to thrive", which was good enough for the starvation plan. But sorry for your illness, and if I were in your shoes, I'd do the same. I've got an ICE car that could probably take care of the problem in the garage, or I could amp it up and fire the portable generator in the garage. This all assumes I have the ability to do these things, which really comes full circle to my point. I want to be off'ed when I'm incapable of doing it because I'm terminally ill.

I totally get this. I've had to put two dogs down in my life. Hardest decisions ever for me. I take caregiving for my dogs very seriously. In the 1st case, I was actually a bit angry with the vet. The vet saw I was in great grief and offered to provide me meds to the dog so I could have one last night with him. I had one thought. What kind of a monster does this person think I am? Why would I cause additional suffering to my best friend. So the injection was done and I left alone. The second animal had a very unusual thing happen where for some reason could not open its mouth. Weird too as the symptom came on practically overnight. Surgeon thought probably a tumor, CT scan was done hoping to identify the issue, but came back with nothing. The dog had already had subcutaneous fluids to keep him hydrated the day before. I made the very difficult decision to have him put down since I just could not envision a life for a dog that can't open its mouth to eat, drink or even pant, the only mechanism for a dog to sweat. In the discussion with the surgeon who did the procedure I said I wish if something like this happened to me I wish I could opt for a shot. He just smiled and said, "I hear you". I make a promise to every dog I adopt, I will not make you suffer needlessly.

The swiss system is good, but still has holes in it. You are assuming that someone who is dying of terminal disease can meet the conditions. And part of that is the ability to drink the cocktail of drugs. BBC did a excellent story about a couple in the UK, when it was not legal there. She had MS, and was slowly losing muscle control. The catch was she had to go to Switzerland to die before she really wanted to. She did not want to die yet. Problem is if she lost the ability to swallow, she was stuck. She couldn't drink the cocktail at that point so option disappears. And it appears the new UK law is going to have the same issue.

It is gruesome in the US. A friend's father wanted to die, he had horrible back pain. He was in assisted living. His only option, and he took it was to literally starve himself to death. Seriously, you have to starve yourself to carry out your wish in the US. Or another friend many years ago when AIDS was a death sentence. His ex-lover was begging him to increase the morphine to the point it would kill him. Begging. Of course my friend was like no way, that's manslaughter if I do that. He died a few weeks later. I'm not sure what the point of keeping someone alive is in a case like that. Unless you're sadistic.

I don't think Jeffy works any more. Jeffy is PW'ed.

Sounds crazy, are you sure it is not when the proportion of employees versus the number fired reaches a certain threshold instead of a raw number? Not saying impossible as the whole unemployment tax structure is a bit loonie.