Stock holders demand infinite growth. If the management doesn’t make money, they put in place new management. A company is only worth the value of the next stock buyback or dividend. It’s baked into the structure of corporations, especially publicly-owned corporations.

I just took a Core i5, 6 GB RAM laptop from 2011 and reinstalled Linux Mint and put in a 1 TB SSD. The difference between that and Ubuntu 23.10 and a 750 GB 5400 RPM drive was like night and day.

This way if you align your monitor with the rotational axis of the Earth, the image appears to sit still in space.

Lithium makes more sense when weight is an issue, for example when you have to carry the battery around. Sodium batteries could be good for grid storage if they can be implemented as scale cheaply enough, especially using common materials.

But wouldn’t they make more money by not requiring a subscription and having many more viewers? They will get paid for showing ads, not collecting Prime subscriptions.

Perhaps using a free radical scavenger in the water might inhibit further combustion of the electrolyte.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095495620307075

These companies have to compete in a higher interest rate environment. Otherwise their stock will fall and they won’t be able to refinance debt. The free money era is over.

If there are commercials, why should someone need an Amazon Prime membership at all? It becomes just like broadcast TV then, and they should just allow anyone to watch to maximize revenue. They have all this AWS infrastructure to deliver video, why not maximize the use of it?

Probably trying to deter Hezbollah as well.

Quantum computers are only useful where you don’t deliberately want decoherence. Decoherence means an operation when you erase a bit, like for example when you overwrite a memory bit with a new value. This requires dissipation of energy and interaction with the outside world to reject the heat of the calculation to. While in principle a quantum computer can do a calculation that a classical computer can do, it would not be useful unless it was observed and this happens pretty much every time a logic gate output flips in a classical computer.

Not so far fetched:

“I predict in 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and only the five richest kings of Europe will own one.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykxMqtuM6Ko

Please don’t show us what a Wii would look like.

Maybe Netflix has decided that having their ads shown next to neo-Nazi propaganda is a good look for them.

It’s good they attached an AirTag to them. Otherwise they would have been lost forever.

This is like a day’s worth of artillery shells for them. Every bit helps.

In order news, Republicans are lining up to be his Vice President.

I can only imagine how desperate and helpless an entire generation of children feel in Russia right now, with their fathers sent to die in a worthless war.

Oh no! Anyways…

Republicans hold our own government hostage by refusing to pass continuing resolutions and allowing government debt to be paid. You expect them to give a damn about anyone else?

Supreme court: preventing hedge funds from owning single-family homes infringes on their free speech to dictate what you have to pay to not be homeless.