People say this like they said that Trump had no chance in 2016. It seems right, but we get repeatedly proven wrong. Honestly it sounds like one of those malicious lies meant to make us complacent. Not you, but the originator (whoever they might have been).
What he’s actually saying is, “I won’t spend the money to provide the level of service we have been up to this point.” Because there’s nothing Mamdani has done here that will cost jobs or slow delivery times - Jeff is the one cutting jobs and slowing delivery times. Maybe New Yorkers will just stop shopping Amazon when they downgrade their services, that wouldn’t be a bad thing.
As already was said, the cloud is and always has been composed of “cloud storage” AND “cloud compute”. We may see way more compute these days of course with tokenized work or services like GeForce Now or Shadow that let you play games and stream the video back to you, but they’ve both always been available. Tesla using Cloud compute is not a new decision, they’ve always been processing all of that data remotely as well, even if the car is doing some and eventually all of the work. You’re trying to be weirdly pedantic here for some reason, and are just way off base anyways. Even if 100% of the compute is being done in the car, the ride hailing service is all that needs to disappear to brick these cars and Tesla owns access to the service and can shut it down any time.
I’m so happy for you that you haven’t had your soul properly crushed by corporate America this decade. There’s nothing logical about how corps operate - the market never judges anyone appropriately for awful practices, government almost never holds them accountable for awful practices, and so they keep doing worse and worse shit that turns a quick buck. “Bad business decisions” are repeatedly rewarded in the market:
And this doesn’t even start down the path of private equity buying up companies, strip mining their assets, ruining everything that gave the brand it’s good reputation (because it’s expensive to do things right) , and selling them once they have turned them to utter shit.
The world’s politicians are failing us - the fact that any of this shit is legal is obscene. The internet doesn’t need to “stop working” for some dipshit with a balance sheet at Tesla to decide, “well, we sold all our Cybercab hardware and have no liabilities here - and software dev and server hardware is costing us too much, shut that shit down.” After all, they’ve been claiming autonomy for so long, yet they have not achieved it. They don’t have the ability to do what they claim, yet they’re STILL selling the product today on the promise of future updates.
This is the same company that sold $50,000 pre-orders for a Roadster that a decade later STILL has not been released, fraudulently sold FSD for $15k to drivers for 2 decades with a promise all their cars would be upgraded as necessary (they haven’t), artificially created a monopoly and actively blocks independent shops from working on their vehicles, manipulates their odometers digitally, and shuts off its FSD system moments before it causes a crash so that they can legally blame the driver for fucking up and take zero responsibility. So you’re saying the only logical reason for cybercab to die is “the internet stops working”, that THIS company who has repeatedly overpromised and underdelivered for their entire existence would NEVER just shutter the whole project and leave owners holding the bag? That THIS company who has yet to “solve” autonomous driving (despite claims) somehow has no technical hurdles that could destroy this project?
Bull. Shit.
Better than your heart exploding. And I imagine the quantity is dialed in by their doctor to limit risk while still helping to treat the POTS.
It’s a treatment vector for POTS.
Not for long, when they hear cheering in the streets.
$1750 x 10/wk = $17,500
$17,500 x 4 weeks/mo = $70,000
No, he literally spelled out their platform, eXcEpT HE juSt pREtenDeD iT sOUnDEd sPpPpooOoOooOOky!
You heard Mike Johnson campaigning for the DSA in front of the whole country, right? Using scary Boogeyman language to describe perfectly reasonable and honorable things?
Isn’t it fun that the media offers a presumption of innocence when we’re talking about our evil billionaire oligarchs despite hard facts to the contrary, but we get a presumption of guilt even when there is zero evidence to back it up?
If ever there were gas being sold that was absolutely OVERLOADED with Ethynol, it’s this gas. You very well may be getting what you pay for.
Well the fun bonus effect with those is that if you lose your phone, you’ve lost literally everything.
This just looks like they want to see how much ram prices soar so they can see how much they can ask for the thing
Charging more to cover their costs is NOT the same thing as maliciously price gouging (which is what was alluded to here).
If the cost of materials goes up, the cost of the device goes up. They’re a business not a charity. I think we both fully agree that they are waiting to see where prices land closer to launch to determine the final pricing of the device. But I don’t agree that they’re optimizing for profit. They already know what margin they expect from this device and might even be planning on eating some margin to keep the price competitive.
The Steamdeck, pre-RAMpocalypse, was maybe one of the best values in gaming hardware, in part because they were subsidizing the price like Sony and Microsoft do for home consoles. Any other handheld PC on the market was 2-3x the price. They can’t be expecting that same kind of sales volume from the Steam Machine, so the amount they can afford to subsidize will be lower for sure.
Of all companies, I think Valve deserves the benefit of the doubt. You’re ascribing business practices to Valve that I have no memory of them using.
Sure, even if it has never turned downwards - then constantly rising prices still makes the point.
It’s only suspicious if you haven’t been watching the wildly swinging RAM pricing. It would be a far worse experience for Steam and for the consumer if they set a price and had to keep jacking it up before the product had even been released.
I’ll bet you that Walmart is selfinsured, and this absolutely hits them directly.
When I went to Montreal, I’m not exaggerating when I say that every single service worker I interacted with opened with “Bonjour, hello!” You would only have to fuck that up once if you didn’t realize what was happening there.
No? He turned 18 years old and enlisted 5.5 years ago, has now served over 5 years.
I sure hope you’re right! The always-votes-right crowd will just vote for whoever they’re told to, including Vance, so I definitely hope that any right-leaners who have broken away and are sick of Trump now don’t fall for it all over again with Vance.
Even without him commanding a cult of personality, the right still has a fire hose of propaganda blasting to hell and back… And I don’t foresee that changing. I think the propaganda is a way bigger factor here and I’m still not sure if enough of the populace is paying enough attention to sort fact from fiction.