HeyItsMatt

The state is saying Visa is committing the crime. The states media cheerleaders are squawking it to all that will listen.

If Visa loses, payment processors have little choice but to remove processing from sites that allow user generated content, including Reddit. They are legally responsible for all under-18 content, and as "Big Evil Corporations" they have no support from anyone in the community that matters.

The EU and UK is even worse in this regard, so no anonymous commercial social networks will ever be created again.

Nothing to do with transaction risk. Congress and the executive branch have a myriad of ways to harm a large business if they don't get what they want.

Visa's issues with religious fundamentalists started in the Tipper Gore days. During the Bush presidency it was nearly impossible for a porn site to get a US payment processor.

Pantographs and catenary wires long ago solved the energy supply problem for heavy transport. They are 99% efficient and cheap to build.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P_S7pL7Yg

Diesel and hydrogen is only needed on extremely long and thin routes like road trains in northern Australia or Alaska. This is greenwashing.

Google+ and circles were a good idea and should have been given a team with a lot of free rein and left to grow organically.

Google+ died because it was forced on everyone that had a Google and a Youtube account by psychopathic managers to "grow the numbers". This included forcing a realname policy on non-G+ users that explicitly did not want their online persona connected to their identity. It became the least cool platform on the internet overnight.

To replace Pichai the two largest Google shareholders would have to give a shit about the direction of the company. But they've been absent for longer than Pichai has been CEO.

I can't surface them at all for non-programming sites. Occasionally automotive, but it's still mostly AI generated made for adsense junk. I can use site: filters on sites I know about, but I can't find anything on a page I don't know that way. Your filter bubble may be different.

I mostly use Yandex now. It's not great.

Google and Bing (and hence DDG etc) are no longer a search engines, they're "information the powers that be permit you to have" engines. Forums, blogs, and small independent websites have disappeared from indexes. Large walled garden platforms like Facebook are impossible to query.

We really need a replacement for Yahoo.

Speak for yourself.

The US is threatened by the rise of both China and India. India seems to be quite capable of sabotaging itself however.

Yeah, there's a minimum volume required to store an electric charge and memory has reached it.

Global demand is collapsing due to the Great NotARecession, whatever price we reach by Christmas will be the lowest planar DRAM ever gets. So buy up all the DDR4 you need. ArF immersion tools that sit in DRAM fabs are now full amortized and memory lines are not likely to be earning much more than the marginal cost of maintenance, power and materials that they consume, any lower in price and they get turned off.

I hear good things about vertically stacked thin film transistors as a future technology, but they haven't left the lab yet.

From a much better Anandtech article: 32% increase in layers, 40% increase in die area.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17509/microns-232-layer-nand-...

A bunch of the cost is test and packaging which is constant so there will be a small cost per bit reduction. But the new chip will cost significantly more to manufacture than a 512Gbit device. No free lunch.

I'd love it if Meetup had a threaded discussion board with a way to pin photos and video. All my social networks would use it.

That's actually what Google+ was with circles before the morons in charge forcibly bundled it into Youtube and killed it. Google should have had some patience like the people over at Musical.ly and built an audience organically rather than shoving unwanted garbage down our throats.

You laugh, but there are still franchisee owned stores selling McPizza and *the horror, the horror* McSalads.

Facebook doesn't respect it's users, it's staff, or it's retail investors. As the companies stock is currently structured it exists as Mark Zuckerberg's personal plaything and no one can get rid of him until he runs out of cash.

Amazon wrote off it's Rivian investment. Cashflow positive.

This is the only time that it is correct for a journalist to use the word "decimate".

COGS is >70% of that number. Retailers typically subtract it before calculating gross margins.

Google has a cash cow and isn't hungry. Their employees can half-arse the rest of their business and still be confident they'll get paid at the end of the week. Amazon's retail arm bled when AWS was started, and still bleeds. Success is a matter of urgency.

Netflix has always been in trouble and has never been cashflow positive once they started making content. Problem is now we're in a recession and the free money has run out. Swimming naked when the tide goes out and all that...

Google has lacked product leadership since Sergey Brin and Larry Page left. Since the early-2010's Google has suffered enormous management bloat and exclusively taken a quarterly profit focus.

Always wondered why Larry and Sergey ran for the exits, I assume they had their kids threatened by a TLA and quietly cashed out. I assume it has something to do with the Snowden revelations that their inter-datacenter links were unencrypted on purpose.

Walter Burley Griffin designed Canberra with space allotted for highly efficient tramways that still haven't been built.

The guy has been dead for nearly one hundred years and the city still hasn't assigned a replacement urban planner...