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Apple has an average profit margin of nearly 30%. Even with the 10% refurbish discount, and a 10% veteran/student/educator/etc discount, and the cost of refurbishing, they still are likely in the green.

This is why people like to pick up the new Studios from the Apple Store in person - for that short ride back home their car is worth four times what it was on the way there.

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Why do the immediate complaints that something is AI generated feel like they're AI generated?

Haven't you heard? Fields Medalists believe it only counts when they do the solving - not the unwashed.

Of course they are - anything to secure their position.

Ditto.

Being the “first(!) post” to complain about AI, correctly or not, is the new street cred.

A vanilla git server works great too.

Far less than the constant whining about AI.

Probably not unless there was something presenting, as a Class 1 FAA medical exam is checking medical history, vital signs, vision, hearing, cardiovascular health, neurological function, and general physical condition. There's a urine test for blood, glucose, protein. Last one I had there was no blood test or cancer screening unless it was something showing on the skin.

Interestingly, to me, my last medical was 2 years ago and there was no concern for the spot on my cheek that turned out to be basal cell carcinoma.

I guess my buddy from long ago was right - he never paid them that penny.

So the other half have more?

Why bomb something, which carries its own risk profile and success criteria, when you can make some piece of equipment malfunction just enough to wear out in a year instead of 20 years?

Errors can be along any axis, random, infrequent, drifting, and nonobvious.