The SNES launched at $472 USD, adjusted for inflation. It also did not include a second controller. The Nintendo Switch 2 costs $449 USD, not $525. I'm not sure where your street price comes from, as the console is currently in stock for MSRP at all major Canadian retailers, and in the US, it's available for immediate shipping at MSRP from Nintendo's own website, so there's no reason that anybody would ever pay more than MSRP.

It's true that the SNES included a pack-in game for that price, and the Switch 2 price with a pack-in game is $499, which is a bit more expensive. But it's not that far off.

I think they're going too far as soon as they're making medical claims without some sort of medical certification. And on their residential product page, they specifically say that their air purifiers were "Developed to address COVID-19", and in their FAQ, they say "The powerful ISO-Aire filtration system was purpose-built to address COVID-19 and other droplet and/or airborne-based infections in healthcare settings."

They repeatedly mention the CDC on their website, and in most places just word it along the lines of the CDC recommending medical-grade HEPA filtration as a strategy. However, on their "Why Iso-Aire" page, they word it as "CDC and ASHRAE recommended in purifying the air with medical-grade HEPA filtration, a key mitigation strategy in the fight against COVID-19" which implies that their produces specifically are recommended by the CDC, which they are not.

If you look at Iso-Aire's website, they're going way beyond the definition of MERV and claiming that their products were "developed to address COVID-19". Most air purifiers will just make a claim about capturing X% of particles of Y micron size.

I did say "all the reputable ones". I've never heard of "Iso-Aire", and none of their products are available for sale in any major retailer that I can find. Or any minor retailers either, from what I can tell.

You pretty much are describing the Alternative Minimum Tax, which already exists.

I bought my air purifiers to get dust and shit out of the air, not viruses. None of the marketing on the air purifiers said anything about viruses or infections, in my experience the vast majority of air purifiers (certainly all the reputable ones) make no medical claims. At most they'll talk about what percentage of what size of particles they'll remove from the air. So what part of them is a scam?

I first read "AI 'Business Agents' Will Kill SaaS by 2030, Says Microsoft" as "AI 'Business Agents' Will Kill Us by 2030, Says Microsoft" but knew, since it was Microsoft, that it wouldn't happen.

I believe the story to which the parent is referring is this 2017 one: Facebook AI Creates Its Own Language In Creepy Preview Of Our Potential Future.

I'm not sure what your beef is here, that's exactly what they are saying. When they quote "state media" it means that's what the government is saying, that's why they use that term. I could see your complaint if they just quoted something like Russia Today without disclosing that it is state media, but that's not the case here.

My default on YouTube is 1.75x but it just means I get to the ads more quickly.

They could sent a Dragon around the moon if they went through the trouble of getting Falcon Heavy crew-rated, and they had planned to do that, but they decided they'd rather put those resources into Starship instead.

There are currently 4 still alive, which puts us pretty dead-on for the 95th percentile on that chart.

Virtually all of your PC's hardware is connected to the CPU via PCIe. The exception is analog audio and a handful of the USB ports that are connected directly to the CPU, and the iGPU's video. Everything else is connected to the CPU via PCIe, either directly, or via the chipset, which is connected via PCIe.

Intel plans to move Panther Lake's compute tile in-house (assuming they can get yields under control), but the rest of the active silicon (graphics tile, SoC tile, I/O tile), which I believe represents the majority of the die space, will still be TSMC.

Intel's given confusing statements about this in the past because when they cite what percentage of the total die area they manufactured versus TSMC, they include the area of the interposer underneath all the tiles in their column, which is silly. Arrow Lake (the predecessor to Panther Lake) is 100% manufactured by TSMC (all active silicon), but Intel claimed that they made more than half the chip, just because they put all the TSMC tiles on an Intel interposer.

If you want to run an 80GB model, a 48GB laptop will not run it, a 128GB APU will, and the rest of the comparison is irrelevant.