$11M in revenue on $153M in cloud spend + salaries...
Is the AI bubble going to pop hard soon?
Rookie numbers. How much did Uber lose? Wirecard?
Readit NewsThat reminds me of the episode that Jamie Oliver did, where he tried to prove that he could make healthy and delicious (to him) school meals, while staying inside the budget, at scale, as an alternative to fishsticks with chips (as in french fries) and peas, which he considers unhealthy. He succeeded with his culinary mission. And then, none of the kids actually chose his lunch. They wanted the fishsticks.
Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with fishsticks, chips, and peas. (It also doesn't meet the criteria for ultra-processed, if I correctly understand the term, so it's a bit off topic here). The chips are just potatoes and oil. The fishsticks are actual fish (cut into stick form while frozen) with breading. The peas are ...well, peas.
Children don't get to decide what they want to eat otherwise it would be pancakes and french fries every day.
MomoXenosaga commented on Financial systems take a holiday bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/nfriedly
So every company in Japan has their own public holiday, and they've written it down _somewhere_. Sounds easy compared to what the middle east has to offer on that account:
- When Dubai was awarded the 2020 World Expo the following day was declared public holiday (yes, less than 24 hours notice)
- In the UAE, the death of a Sheik is often followed by 3 days of mourning where government offices are closed (this can include a lot of office workers one might not think of as "government", as the respective emirates runs a lot of companies)
- When Qatar scored a goal at the world cup, a public holiday was immediately announced for the following day.
- Even planned public holidays, such as Ramadan (not a public holiday as such, but work does grind to a near halt) and Eid are determined by sightings of the moon, and the start and length of these are often announced days in advance.
In my country on a public holiday everyone is free to spend money so all the stores and restaurants are open all day. What are people supposed to do on a holiday if not consume product?
MomoXenosaga commented on Financial systems take a holiday bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/nfriedly
Money never sleeps.
MomoXenosaga commented on Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play afterbabel.com/p/why-chil... · Posted by u/paulpauper
> they literally cannot afford the space
Sure they can. Early North American settlers lived in tiny, one room log cabins, and raised those 3+ children in them just fine. Homes that small are not even allowed in most jurisdictions these days. The middle class have way more space to work with these days.
Let's face it, the reality is that middle class people just don't want children. It's not 'cool' to have children. Society says you need a career instead, and so that's what most people buy into and turn their attention towards.
People feel like their children deserve things in life which requires financial stability. Poor people having kids is seen as asshole behaviour.
Just having your children learning to swim costs 1000 euro!
MomoXenosaga commented on Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play afterbabel.com/p/why-chil... · Posted by u/paulpauper
I'm much more worried about the road to the playground than the risks on the playground themselves. Below 18, about 3/8 of the deaths are from traffic.
I grew up in 80's the time where almost everybody played in parks and fields. But I can't give that to my own son of 7.
He has to cross 3 streets to reach a playground 200m from here,the worst of the crossings a street with 50km/h limitsand 1 car every 10 seconds. Not much, except just enough people drive like idiots, 90km/h or more on a road not even 500m long.
We've been teaching him good pedestrian behaviour since he could walk. We've done a few tests where he walked to the baker, thinking he was unsupervised. He probably can do it most of the time. Except, 1 distraction while an idiot drives by will kill him.
So I bring him to the playground and let him play as unsupervised as possible for an adult on the side of a playground. Of course, he knows I am there.
I start working with him with more dangerous tools like a soldering iron. He can deal well enough with these risks. But not the streets.
I won't ride a bicycle in the UK because the British despise anything that isn't a car. People will literally cheer if a cyclist is mowed down.
MomoXenosaga commented on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu overkill.wtf/nintendo-sue... · Posted by u/brandrick
It doesn't change much legally to my knowledge, given that Sony v. Connectix was about a commercial, for-profit emulator (literally sold in stores) that directly competed with a console being commercialized at the same time (the PlayStation) and Sony lost in that case, with the 9th Circuit declaring it was fair competition and legal for Connectix to emulate PlayStation games.
Keep in mind that it's not about winning or losing in court. Most people don't have the money to fight. So they give up as soon as they get a letter from a lawyer.
Justice costs money.
There's a facebook group for people to announce they paid for WinRAR because of the no one pays for it meme. Can't remember what it was called.
I paid for winrar I think 15 years ago when I started working full time and it was the first shareware app I paid for. I don't use it as much as I used to nowadays.
Surprised it's still being updated. I thought the creator of WinRAR passed away.
WinRAR is still recommended in piracy circles.
Not what I meant. "People want an experience that works out of the box."
That experience of a car just working out of the box, doing what it is supposed to do, and never having any issues whatsoever, is more typical of Toyota/Honda than it is of any of the EV makers. Even though electric vehicles as a category should be better in principle (fewer moving parts).
My mom drives a small Citroen C1 and never opened the hood. Cars are already pretty damn reliable.
As I understand it it's usually the software that goes bad they have the whole engine thing down to a science.
Quite a big chunk of the world is happy to deal business with Russia and they are not that isolated.