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What if you're paying a few EUR a month for unlimited streaming on some app, not high profit new movies? The profit they make per episode for some rerurn of some old show you binge is probably a few cents at best.

Hey there helf! I remember you from the #palmchat era. I went by irq back then too

Thank you for posting this. It never ceases to amaze me how many open source GUI projects forget screenshots.

Which will, at best, cover a portion of his medical bills.

Back during those high interest rate days, housing costs vs income were much better

Crusoe is unabashedly anti-remote work, which is curious considering their company’s environmental and energy locality focus. I interviewed with them, they are very much an old school “you must all work physically in San Francisco” company. I work for one of their competitors now, one that embraces remote work.

> I would call phones like the Palm Treo and later BlackBerries smartphones.

It's not just you; at the time these products were available, _everyone_ called them smartphones. Emphatically, Apple did not bring the first smartphone to market, not even close. They were, however, the first to popularize it beyond the field of nerds into the general public.

I thought it was notable that he was directly asked about the surveillance aspect of all of this and he did not seem to respond to that subject.

Some choice quotes:

> 2029, both for human-level intelligence and for artificial general intelligence (AGI)

> The Singularity, which is a metaphor borrowed from physics, will occur when we merge our brain with the cloud

> Making it possible will be brain-computer interfaces which ultimately will be nanobots – robots the size of molecules – that will go noninvasively into our brains through the capillaries.

> In the early 2030s we can expect to reach longevity escape velocity where every year of life we lose through ageing we get back from scientific progress.

The brr.fyi article is SO much more detailed, better written, and a lot newer (2023 vs 2012)

To be clear, Spotify is a _global_ company, and there is no excuse for this.

This is the most realistic answer provided in this post thus far, and I feel the downvotes are just proving the point. _Not needing money doesn't make you an expert on the world_, please repeat that to yourself and everyone else on that path.

I love this story - code trading is such a cool idea, and one I haven't heard of much before. Anyone else have any code trading stories?

100% of all name brands and uncommon brands and bs brands I’ve tried have sold me LED bulbs that buzz annoyingly or fail within 1 year. Literally no one is willing to make an LED bulb that lasts as long as the tech is capable of.

The least shit brand is Philips.