Floats for currency in a payments platform.

The system will happily take a transaction for $121.765, and every so often there’s a dispute because one report ran it through round() and another through floor().

Thwn I’d expect higher figures for musicians, swayed by the top .01% that suck up all the fame and royalties.

There’s also a longevity mismatch. The streaming device goes obsolete much faster than the display. At worst, you’ve got a bunch of buttons snd icons for dead services or “your device is no longer supported” tutning your home theatre into a dead mall.

It’s sort of like when they used to make low-end TVs with VCRs and DVD players built in. Nobody was doing that on top of the line sets because you wanted to keep it for 10 years, and the DVD player would give out much sooner.

I think one brand tried to make a modular component to allow for smart upgrades, but without industry standards, it was a predestined dead end. Thry should have just out a slot in the cabinet sized to fit a Roku/Fire stick and let customers swap them every few years.

While there’s some far-end “let’s eliminate cash” sentiments, a lot of the selling point of a CBDC is simply faster, cheaper settlement than current private platforms, so there’s a nonmalovent position.

Many central banks are pushing for the CBDC as a commercial or interbank-only thing in large part because if end consumers could just have an CBDC demand account with the Federal Reserve/Bank of England/ECB, it would squeeze out commercial banks.

I believe the huge mistake in HTML wasn’t having some sort of element-level addressability.

People went insane over “the page flashes for 15ms because we have to reload the header and footer and it doesn’t look NAAATIVE!” and the response was to SPA/AJAX everything, inviting a huge Turing-complete nightmare of possibilities when 95% of what peopleneed would be delivered with < form action=“blah” replace_with_response=“#foo” >

That and a dearth of native widgets-- a < combobox > and a < menu > that worked like the system menus might have kept JavaScript as the sick oddity it should be.

I’d be more interested in painting my claws if it didn’t manage to smell so. Considring you’re literally smearing it on your body to sit for several weeks, you’d think they’d have developed less toxic formulas that don’t smell like you tipped over the entire Tamiya display at the hobby shop.

I believe it’s actually symbolics.com, who made weird expensive computers thst ran LISP well during the 80s AI bubble.

Let’s not sell Insect Overlords short. They’ve been aroubd for 350 million years, they must know something.

Grok went into a new conspiracy k-hole?

There are two issues with human rights.

One is selective enforcement. There are a long list of countries with abysmal human rights records, but it’s too strategically convenient or economically essential to look the other way. Whrn was the last time they made a fuss about Jamal Khashoggi? Human rights only gets invoked when sabre-rattling is useful, not as a solid and consistent moral framework.

The other is that it’s a “luxury product”. Can every country support a modern human-rights model, or does it require a certain level of economic and political stability? It’s hard to maintain rule of law amid active insurgency, or if you can’t even deploy the bureaucratic state. Once you’ve gotten past that threshold, will both leaders and the broader population be eager to switch from the system that got them where they are? You’ve got to convince people that being able to write an anti-government op-ed is more important than security, or the price of eggs. This is a long term soft sell: berating countries for not measuring up to Western standards isn’t going to get them to make that choice any faster.

Not to mention I bent all the pins on my Cyrix MII ttying to get it in that stupid socket.

The TV is blocking the amplifier from venting. Does no good to either.

Where? That sounds like a good price as internal SATA BD-RE drives tend to be $60+

I understand pre-OS X Macintoshes used colons.

A forced sale guarantees ByteDance gets a fire sale price. If there’s any way forward that allows them to sell not-under-duress, there’s a chance for far more upside.

That works even for pure economics game theory, aside from wanting to continue in what they built on principle/commitment/interest in the project.

Would Zuck give up Facebook for the right price? Would he give it up for a highly discounted price of a rush sale?

I wish I could get into the accessorizing. I bought studded bracelets and got a rash :(

Old diesel locomotives have been repurposed similarly, since they’re literally a 3000hp generator and fuel tank on wheels.

I wonder if that’s a limit of storytelling. Grand social change is hard to film. Even team effort cohesion requires a lot of actors and writing to pull off.

No matter how sound the morals and story, if it’s not entertaining, it might fail as mass media.

But good ghouls get headpats!

That’s the flavour of vampire mind control they never mention in the stories.

I think those are Hungarian banknotes.