The only reason I put pants on is because it’s be arrested otherwise.
That being said, comfortable has priority over good looking and I don’t think I’ve ever had a compliment on how I dress since grandma saw me in a suit when I graduated 20 something years ago.
Because when you make the console you get to charge anyone who wants to publish a game for it anything you like. Microsoft made money on every pc sold with windows, but not every game sold for PC.
Same reason EA, UBIsoft and every other big publisher tried to launch their own Steam competitor. To ideally make money from someone else selling their game on their shop, but worst case just to be able to make negotiate a better deal from Valve.
Living somewhere where the healthcare is not free but heavily subsidised people do not go to the doctor for minor issues because when I tried to call and book an appointment I got an answering machine telling me that they don’t have time to answer the phone today, try again tomorrow. And of course the online booking did not work.
So that they don’t run, hide or destroy evidence.
In case of a country at war you need a lot more than a boycott.
Because it takes quite a lot of effort to eat a huge amount of sugar in the form on fruits and berries. They also have some vitamins, fibers and other stuff in them too.
There are plenty of small companies that don’t grow. Think mom and pop shops and self employed tradesmen.
I’ve you get a bit bigger and you’ve already got the hassle of employing lots of people in multiple places you can’t really balance it to be neutral, you will grow or shrink and it’s a lot more pleasant to grow than shrink.
Their spending is someone else’s income that is then taxed that is then spent that is then taxed.
Responsibly used some government debt is good. It helps growing the wealth of it’s people both now and in the future.
Irresponsibly used it’s a headache for the next generation.
Pretty much the same as any other bubble. Everyone knows its a bubble but putting a million into a 1% chance to make a billion makes sense for anyone who can afford it.
AI will probably be useful for something. Noone knows exactly what so there is a huge amount of risk taking.
I’m not old enough to remember the sentiment during the dotcom bubble but it seemed more optimistic.
You would not want to use AI anywhere it matters. Only in places where it does not matter if you get it right the first, second or even the third time, like customer support.
I mostly listen to music when I’m driving and 4G connection is spotty as soon as you’re outside of town, so I’m still copying the files around. If spotify pisses me off I’ll probably make a media player that syncs mp3s over a vpn. If there is not one already.
I used to move around a huge library of mp3s. I just can’t be bothered anymore and spotify does a reasonable job for a reasonable price.
If only could easily access most movies and TV with one subscription. But anyway this was about music.
Price has gone up 30% in 10 years or whatever since I started. But then so has every fucking thing else.
You battery operated trilobite would not recognise an offensive sentence if I typed it at you!
A mediocre engineer makes more than a mediocre artist.
If you are good at any STEM and any creative profession you should pick STEM.
Pick up a tiny asteroid and drop it from 1m. It hit the ground slightly faster than a reversing truck.
Pick up a bigger one and drop it from orbit it’s going to go faster.
Whatever you drop won’t be an asteroid because it’s already on earth.
So if you pick up corsica and drop it on florida from less than a meter up (they had it coming) there would be a mass extinction in florida. Everything under corsica would die, buried under a mass of rock, mud and whatever. If it did not die already because it could not squeeze into the less than a meter gap between the masses. There would also be an earthquake, maybe a tsunami if some of it fell in the ocean.
Famines due to incompetence or mismanagement.
I don’t care so much what the underlying thought is. Millions died when either got into power. Learning from history neither should get another opportunity.
The difference between Nazis and communists is that one of them lost a world war. You should not give them the time of day.
Why would they? It’s not like the customs guy clocks out early because he found one package.
You’re not supposed to be insecure about it.
You can be honest , you can joke about it. I’d probably just tell them it’s so boringly average, I measure every day and compare to the wikipedia article on penis size.