What about the dividend payouts?
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Until criminals figure out they're sitting ducks.
Apple's business model partially depends on selling people a new phone every few years. If people switch to battery replacements in place of new phones in large quantities, that is going to significantly hurt their business model.
Um, not necessarily. They were going to court to determine that.
That may be true in certain areas, but I don't think it applies where I live. Prices of existing homes just simply chase the cost to build a new home. The older the neighborhood, the less authoritarian the covenants are. The new development down the road start out at about $150k more for smaller lots, less house, and an HOA primed with rules ready to ream you a new one for simply breathing wrong. I poked around and some of the other recent developments have the same or similar covenants.
I'm pretty sure it's been more than 5 years. People have been griping since before ROCm was released which was around 7 years ago.
What are those? I never really found any sort of "unique advantage" of Costco. Certainly nothing to drive the extra distance past Sam's. While I had a membership, it was largely more expensive or didn't have what I wanted.
> Are you being serious?
Probably given "If you look around some detailer forums". I've seen the don't wash in the sun part, but it is about getting the "perfect" clean and not damage. The damage prevention parts usually involve reducing the amount of dirt and grit be rubbed against the paint like foam cannons, multiple buckets/clothes/mitts, grates, clay, etc.
> I have never heard of cars being washed in any other way.
I have a feeling you two are looking at it from vastly different perspectives. You seem to have a more utilitarian view of car washing. You know your car is going to receive damage as you use it. Minor scratches and fading that you have to inspect for are the least of your worries. The other person seems to view cars as important status symbols and any "easily" seen imperfection is a blemish.
Water spots and swirl marks from being washed in the sun are not damage. It's just material left around from water drying. The grooves in the paint type of swirl marks are from rubbing the dirt and grit against the paint and nothing to do with the sun.
Wrong. Virginia approved up to $750M in subsidies for Amazon should Amazon meet the terms.
> What recourse does Virginia have?
All they have to do is abide by the agreement because Amazon has to make the case each year to receive that year's subsidy.
A better way might be weighing based on the applying company. Give a weight based on the size of the company and another for the type of company. These weights would be assigned based on the top-most owner(s) and not the applying companies themselves.
Also add penalties for larger companies acquiring smaller companies with H1-Bs that were hired within the last X number of years. Not sure what penalties exactly. At least financial to fund the system, but probably to the weighing as well.
It does not address that people will likely disable the "feature" and never re-enable it. SawStop saws have a bypass "feature" so they can cut conductive material.
We'll probably see more DIY "table saws" using circular saws. I'm sure that'll be great.
And they'll disable these new gadgets as well. The ones which work through conductivity have to have a bypass to be able to cut conductive material.
"You can operate the saw in Bypass Mode which deactivates the safety system’s braking feature, allowing you to cut aluminum, very wet/green wood (see above) and other known conductive materials. If you are unsure whether the material you need to cut is conductive, you can make test cuts using Bypass Mode to determine if it will activate the safety system’s brake."
https://www.sawstop.com/why-sawstop/faqs/
The first thing people will do is turn on the bypass and never turn it off.
> 2. In order to create the models one needs lots of compute and access to a lot of text. Google scores higher than OpenAI on both counts.
If a smaller company with less compute and data commercializes something before Google which has more compute and data, doesn't that mean they are behind? You don't measure a car race by fuel available in the pit and faster top speed. You measure by who gets to the finish first. It just goes to show that Google has a horrible driver.