Yes, and this is why old school liberals (i.e. supporters of liberty for all) support social programs. Supporting those that can’t comfortably support themselves brings freedom from exploitation.

…but who taught her to flop off the couch? That sounds like an aunt or uncle.

That’s just a savings account isn’t it?

Trouble is they want to take the rest us with them. See how they attacked Iran.

It’s a hell of a moment when they can out perform their parents, isn’t it?

Why are even non-contact sports segregated? Tennis? Why?!

This has been tested on multiple occasions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sexes_(tennis)

The only real win in singles was Billie Jean King (then 29yo) over Bobby Riggs (then 55yo). Riggs had recently beaten Margaret Court who was a 17 year number one in the women’s game.

Martina Navratilova in 2023 stated that the reason the 55-year-old Riggs lost to the 29-year-old King was simply because of age.[37] Navratilova said Riggs lost “because Bobby was too old,” and added, “A 35 year old Bobby would have beaten all of us.”[37]

We Brits use Czar as a colloquialism for “person in charge of…”.

So the head of the water regulator might be referred to as the water Czar (and they deserve a similar fate).

Should never have been in the browser anyway.

The rationale for bail out the banks previously was that the retail arms (what you and I use) were so intertwined with the commercial arms that allowing the commercial part to fail caused the loss of everyone’s money. Regulation was introduced (at least in the UK. I don’t know about elsewhere) that ring fenced the two from each other, making future bailouts unnecessary. The commercial arm would shoulder the risk of its own investments.

Doesn’t stop corrupt politicians bailing them out though.

No. Pretty sure it’s true of patents too. Might depend on which court you’re in.

It can’t be completely circular. There is an end customer that will expect something for their money eventually. Right now it’s driven by huge amounts of debt, but you can’t be on that forever. At some point it unwinds

5 year patents should exist IMHO. I think that’s a reasonable chance to monetise an invention. Short enough to remove the use of patents as munitions between companies.

After that it’s open season and you’ve allowed society to use it in any way in return for that 5 year protection.

Which is a damn good point. If you don’t protect a patent in a reasonable time frame I believe you lose the right to protect it. If Dolby has had this patent for a long time, and allowed it to become part of a standard, it may be a quick dismissal of the case.

Not sure Sony manufacture flash memory themselves. They probably just buy it and package it into memory cards.

Except that it seems a lot of these trades are on-paper, and not involving the actual transfer of goods. The data centres aren’t getting built. The servers aren’t going in them. The power isn’t being supplied. The tokens are not being generated. At least… It’s only a fraction of what they are all saying.

Some auditor is going to have a field day.

Manufacturers are supply constrained and they are basically selling to those that pay the most. Prices are above what most consumers will pay, so consumer lines become unsustainable.

The big question is what happens when they are no longer supply constrained. Will they be able to start the consumer lines back up again?

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I think it’s that they are preparing for IPO, which means opening their books and being an attractive investment.

Sora was killed because it haemorrhaged cash for each generation. Investors wouldn’t be comfortable with that still running in the books.

This is killed because a respectable investment does sell porn.

One product

Id say your parents managed to get you to educate yourself in lots of useful skills by giving you a motivation. Good job.