The numbers just show that they are 8x as efficient. I only referenced Facebook because they’re the next closest company for comparison.

I never said they were worse than Facebook. That’s your assumption, reading what you want, not what’s actually being said.

Notably Epic charges less than 30% (something like 12% IIRC) to try to get more of that market. They even give away games. But their app is still inferior so it gets less use.

That’s because they make an insane amount of money by taking 30% of every sale on their platform, which nearly everyone uses because they’re a near monopoly and the alternatives are terrible. Around $3.5 Million per employee, nearly 5x the next highest company, which is Facebook at around $780,000 per employee.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/valves-reported-profit-per-head-from-steam-commissions-is-out-there-and-at-usd3-5-million-per-employee-it-makes-apple-and-facebook-look-like-a-lemonade-stand/

It will definitely burst, and might take out some fairly large companies with it. Potentially even one or two tech companies that have been around for decades depending on how large it gets before that burst. One or two companies will end up with the IP all of them are “building” and it will fizzle into the background of daily use just like the previous assistants like Alexa, Cortana, etc. have.

That was marketing. The alternative would have been a generic mass simulator, basically just a large block of metal.

The car gets headlines and people remember it. You obviously did.

Every building receives 240V and splits it into a pair of 120V phases. Three phase power is basically only installed at large industrial sites or very specialized shops.

Our dishwasher has a bright ass white LED when it’s done and clean. As long as you don’t open the door it’s lit up like the Lighthouse of Alexandria. If you’re opening the door, you need to just empty it. Even with that we have a magnet that says “Hella Clean” on one side and “Dirty AF” on the other, makes people actually want to swap it around since it’s not just a basic boring ass dirty/clean sign.

To be fair, SpaceX isn’t selling amusement park ride tickets on suborbital flights to the highest bidders like those competitors are. They aren’t really comparable.

But of course it’s fancy. It’s French!

/s

Life isn’t zero sum.

That is the crux of it. They believe it is. Wholeheartedly. It’s part of their core being at this point. If someone is receiving something, they must be losing something in return. It’s their tax money.

They’re incapable of making the mental connection that corporations and the rich aren’t paying anywhere near even a fair share of taxes that could entirely pay for those programs to apply to every citizen, including themselves. And the media preys on that to further pit themselves against their fellow citizens because it’s all owned by those same rich assholes.

Welp, bye bye to the shield against the Sun’s deadly laser. Although I guess that also means bye bye to the laser too? Hmm.

I mean… God literally commits genocide multiple times, and that’s just from the stories that they chose to actually include. Satan/Lucifer mostly tempts people to do things they want to do anyway.

Seems pretty cut and dry honestly.

Lucifer’s crime was daring to question his father.

After being cast out he was put in charge of overseeing those that were deemed by that same father to be bad after death.

Seems to be a common link there, and it’s not Lucifer.

I bet that he has something like Bandcamp though. Most of these| AI “artists” don’t even bother to set anything like that up.

That was almost certainly to help settle bar arguments before they became bar fights.

No, they are just using a standard MDM solution. Device gets setup on the organization Mobile Device Management system, and it has its own app store with the apps the business uses. There is not requirement for apps to be listed in the App Store or Play Store. Any business can provide their own apps for use in their MDM system.

There’s a lot more than just recognizing known raw IP addresses used as endpoints.

One method larger services with CDNs use effectively is to use DNS for blocking. When you try to access a site, your DNS request will resolve to a server close to you, with your location determining the domain resolving to a different IP. Then the platform just responds to those requests from outside their normal area with a consistent message. No need to know whether it’s actually a VPN or not, the traffic is acting like it is and doesn’t really have much of a reason to do that normally.

VPNs aren’t hard to detect, especially if you’re using a major service.

Usually it’s because they hold no actual viewpoints of their own. Everything is a means to the end, which is as much power as possible. Whatever that requires along the way.

First… Not everyone is just hiding being a dick because it’s socially unacceptable. Most people just aren’t dicks and don’t want to be. Just like most people don’t have to be told not to kill others, that’s just not something they’d do. They don’t have to be threatened with prison, or eternal damnation, or anything like that to stop themselves.

Second… Superman is an alien. How do we know what is normal for his species? The only insight we have is the comic universe.