They’ll still further increase prices citing this as the reason to maximize profits further, knowing consumers don’t actually shop around much.

All these fast food places seem to have forgotten the place they sit in the economy. They’re now the cost of a regular restaurant in many places, and often take just as long now. They just happen to have a drive thru window, and even that’s not a guarantee for many of them anymore.

Why should I pay McDonald’s $15 for a burger meal when I can get the same thing at the same price from a better quality fast food place, or an actual restaurant burger for the same price?

The only reason people are still going there is because they haven’t looked around to realize that other businesses haven’t inflated their new prices under the guise of inflation the same way, and those other options are now a much better deal.

They just tell him what Putin would like to happen. No leverage necessary. Trump admires dictators, it’s clear he wants their approval.

Let’s get that full quoted sentence instead of the two worda out of context that let you post the link you wanted.

And if we look at nature in general, non-monogamous breeding across all species is the most common.

Didn’t even need the whole sentence, just the word before those… “Across all species”.

There’s kind of my point. It is a societal construct, one largely tied to religion and thus easily mapped to religious expansion across the globe.

“Normal” for things like this is meaningless, because it is entirely based in arbitrary beliefs, not anything inherent in being human. It is based entirely on fake limits we’ve imposed on ourselves as a culture, nothing more.

This is really only “abnormal” in a traditional, Christianity-based modern societal culture, and that’s nowhere near the entire world.

By what definition of “normal”? Polygamy is a central part of several religions for instance. And if we look at nature in general, non-monogamous breeding across all species is the most common.

They already added a subscription.

Up front cost cannot cover the ongoing API costs they must be paying for Google Maps. So either this has to be free and just a front end for the same shit, or they’ll still end up net negative.

Why?

Mumblings originally in 2017, job openings at the studio in 2018, officially announced in 2020. October 2022 Andrew Walsh, a senior writer from the Horizon Forbidden West team joined the Fable team. June of 2023 had an in-game trailer.

To be honest, that seems to be a reasonable timeframe, especially given the pandemic in the middle, if you aren’t following the “rush it out the door ASAP, fix it after release, if you ever do” approach.

ASUS has used AI branding for like half of their overclocking and control software for at least a decade.

Well before the current AI buzz.

A reminder that tariffs are actually a thing.

A 25% tariff on a $600 item is $150. Even taking into account the tariff applying to the import cost instead, sales margins aren’t the majority of the cost. The tariff is applying to the wholesale cost to import the product, sales margins are then added on top of that.

I haven’t seen a single thing from AMD about whether the MSRP was set taking the tariffs into account or not. If not, then that should only apply to the devices imported before that went into effect. And everything after would be at least 25% more, more like 30% taking into account sales margins are based AFTER import costs.

No, right article. Grants, tuition, etc., all of it is used as justification for those inflated salaries.

Do people actually think that inflated salaries have absolutely nothing to do with the overall funding going through the University, including those grants?

Ah yes, of course the massively inflated admin salaries aren’t on the chopping block at all, gotta gut the school instead.

That doesn’t require the patriarchy, just the fashion industry in general trying to sell as much as possible. Adding an entirely different and otherwise unnecessary article of clothing is a brilliant idea honestly.

I mean, when you sell parts of your business to others you sort of give up control of them. That’s the way it works dipshits.

How can investors take any of these corpos serious when they constantly fuck things up everywhere they go.

Tesla used to famously not have commissioned sales. It’s one of the reasons the buying process was so much better than a dealership honestly, no pressure to buy, and they had absolutely no control of the pricing or need to inflate a sale.

At one point they received general bonuses based on overall deliveries, but not on a per-vehicle basis that they interacted with.

Before I bought my Model 3, the “sales” person literally just took me on a test drive, then showed me the standard Tesla.com website to configure what I was looking for. And based on my experience in retail sales myself at the time, they clearly were there to advise and had no ball in the court when it came to whether I bought it through them, or even if I bought one at all.

Not sure if that changed in the last 5 years or so, but I doubt it switched to that type of system since that would mean Tesla having to implement an entire process to handle commissioned sales when they clearly would prefer people just buy them online.

If I remember right, TSMC requires their highest capability fabs to be in Taiwan, anything international must be less capable.

The downside is that it requires a user account.

Most large US supermarkets make you have loyalty accounts to get their real prices anyway as it is, in exchange for your buying habits, otherwise everything is marked up.

Gotta love the Streisand Effect.

I probably never would have even heard about this book without their attempt to stop it.

A significant part of NASA may be in Alabama, but If bet that’s not where most of those educated engineers are coming from.

There is one major catch: Zeus can only beat the RTX 5090 GPU in path tracing and FP64 compute workloads because it does not support traditional rendering techniques.

So it doesn’t really work for gaming despite their claims?

As Zeus is aimed at path tracing rendering technique as well as compute workloads, it does not seem to have traditional fixed-function GPU hardware like texture units (TMUs) and raster operation units (ROPs), so it has to rely on compute shaders (or similar methods) for texture sampling and graphics outputs.

Or does it, just badly since it’s meant for scientific workloads, which the GeForce RTX cards aren’t directly targeted to.

Their claims seem to be that it’s great at everything, which is extremely unlikely. These are obviously meant to compete against Nvidia’s DGX systems, not the consumer grade GeForce cards.