To a native with no other access to unequal markets, there's no reason not to spend. Their Big Mac per hour ratio is only getting worse and saving won't change that.

Give those people the same relative windfall sums and some will accelerate spending, others will invest.

The only thing glowing here is this comment.

There are no cartridges in an EcoTank. Is there something in particular you're afraid of happening?

Who knows what they'd come up with? A requirement for an Epson account? Mandatory approved service replacement of the head cleaning brush?

If one's complex paper-handling and mark-delivery robot is working fine, why change the software inside it?

In other words; software for robots can have bugs just like software for anything else, so why take the risk if the thing's doing what you need it to and the replacement software doesn't solve any problems you have?

Convenience, support, and performance.

Ampere is the floor, in practice, which is what effectively makes the "buy a Mac Studio" crowd P40 people with 10x the budget.

3090. Models like flux or wanvideo with fp16 text encoders will push your VRAM usage over 20GB. LLMs with functional context (or workflows with multi-model, not modal, tie in) will all break 16GB.

There's no point to performance without context. At its pricepoint, the 5080 is purely a gaming card.

I suppose a funny, ironic reason people might not know this is because of how Google has been able to algorithmically serve and reinforce results they already agree with, from profiling that it was able to develop through Chrome's dominance.

I was exploring Angelfire a few years ago to see who still used it and was surprised by the number of Navajo/Dine.

I learned more about bingo and reservation culture, language, and society over that few days than I had in my entire life. Vastly enhanced my understanding of Letterkenny.

Hope you submit those sites to archive.org / wget locally so there are backups once the hosts are inevitably shuttered!

Who could have predicted this, though? If only there were some, no, any benevolent corporate deity poised to provide trusted global identity services for an event exactly like this.

If only this hadn't come out of the blue, maybe there'd be someone out there, right now, who could make it so that your identity traveled with you everywhere across the internet, an authentic digital fingerprint and passport so invisible that you can't even see or access it to keep people from having to prove themselves over and over and over again.

What a solution in search of a problem that would have been!

Google should be able to say that I've had continuous access to my Gmail account since 2005 and therefore it's impossible for me to be under 18. Or 21.

Right?

All of a sudden, the internet is incapable of tracking me with that much fidelity. They don't know how old I am. Discord knows how old I am. I never told them my birthday.

This gets a big "hrrrrrrr. Durrrrrrr." From me.

Like "appearing under the age of 35" for carding for alcohol (note also that there's no legal requirement to verify age prior to sale), that's not an invalid method of age validation; there is no requirement for precision, only accuracy.

Having an account that's at least 5 years old, assuming a legal age of 13 for registration on most services, should be enough.

Some services already do it this way. Others offer to scan and analyze your face or ID. Leisure Suit Larry 1 used 1960s trivia for age verification.

Given the list of states and awareness of some notable tech companies that operate out of them, it sounds like someone is doing a little competitive market making with the help of their legislators.

How have you not heard about Worldcoin?

/s/s

Well, I don't see your name on it.

There's certainly a cultural element that a certain sector of society has been enabling to prey on. That's why Bernie Sanders was so important; for the first time, someone was telling all of these struggling workers that they weren't the problem and didn't have to be ashamed.