I like this read. Eventually, management did collectively realize that tokens spent leaderboards were a bad idea. That is going to massively reduce the waste that was needlessly being generated to hit work quotas.

Sure seems like free money. In normal times, there is a chance this could get blocked, but a favored media outlet of the administration seems a lock.

Also, look at the five day chart. Shot up from $120 on Friday. Bunch of insiders knew early.

Ah. I think I figured it out.

> FOX is acquiring Roku in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $160.00 per ROKU share. FOX will pay $96.00 in cash and 0.9693 shares of FOX Class A common stock for each Roku Class A and Class B share outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the merger.

So not a straight $160/share cash, but $96/share cash and some FOX shares. Roku trading below 160 means the fox stock is not considered worth (160-96) by the market.

Fox also took a dive today. While $160 total could happen, seems likely to shortchange Roku shareholders.

Can you clarify the DRM comment? Do streaming services not work or they get downscaled to some garbage resolution?

I am looking for options and being able to sideload on a Shield is attractive, but if the experience is no different than a homemade Linux HTPC, I can save the cash.

Also quite interested in this. I guess the best contenders are Apple TV, Nvidia Shield, or roll your own HTPC.

This is also describing an interview scenario where the interviewee is trying to throw everything at the wall hoping to stick. Sure there is discretion in how much to elaborate, but it is a performative act, where someone is trying to demonstrate that they have deep knowledge about a topic and can appreciate nuance that not everything is black and white.

All of the predictions I see are of the type, “If nothing changes and reserves are depleted, prices will spike to very high levels.” We have yet to bottom out reserves, so yeah, prices have yet to hit record levels, but we are moving there day by day. There was a lot of slack oil in the system before this started, but it can only last so long.

Well, the markets sure don't think so, and they are betting with their money, not words. WTI is about 80 bucks right now. Barely above average.

Everything I have seen about balcony solar requires it to be grid dependent and cannot backfeed.

Huh. I thought the field had mostly soured on wave power due to the incredible engineering challenges. Cheaper+easier to do wind or solar. I guess you can slap “For AI” onto anything to overcome the economics.

They have a unique design where only a turbine moves with very cheap electricity produced.

AI inference gives them a great way to turn revenue from cheap electricity without solving the device-to-shore problem yet for that energy.

Can we realistically send humans to Mars plus the return trip? I would maybe believe we can do a one way trip and leave those astronauts to die after snapping some pictures.

I suspect there are substantial numbers of us in our 70's+ who would volunteer. Why not go out having made an amazing contribution?

I'd be surprised if there's a single person alive who would volunteer for a suicide mission to a miserable cold dark planet and could travel there for nine months in a tin can through a harsh radiation/muscle atrophy/psychological environment and arrive in any condition to conduct useful scientific work.

Suppose one had a diagnosis of 1 year to live. Why not expend it doing something great?

Like enjoying earthly pleasures? The terminally ill do not make good astronauts.

I'm not at all suggesting anyone would be forced into this.

Understood. My point is that the job requirements are almost mutually exclusive: must be physically and mentally fit enough for arduous travel and harsh work, yet basically suicidal.

Can we trust them to enough? If they have a medical emergency (which is quite probable, old people are in risk of all kinds of trouble, even before the harsh environment of spaceships), will the whole mission fail?

We generally have selected the most vigorous military personnel to participate in these types of missions, using old volunteers would be quite a change.

I've been excoriated for making that suggestion.

That’s usually attached to a rather bulky device with a legally mandated, visible unique identifier.

This came in the name of safety, btw.