Cool. Congratulations to everyone involved. But what are the yields at giga-scale?

Every dollar Wall Street takes from Main Street is spent on getting better at taking dollars from Main Street.

From Wikipedia:

Overexploitation, also called overharvesting or ecological overshoot, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns.[2] Continued overexploitation can lead to the destruction of the resource, as it will be unable to replenish itself. The term applies to various natural resources such as water aquifers, grazing pastures and forests, wild medicinal plants, fish stocks, and other wildlife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overexploitation

Don't forget power savings! Twice as fast can in many cases be reinterpreted as half the power. Our computers use a lot more power than they need to accomplish the tasks we use them for. On the scale of billions of users, and datacenters, this is a severely underappreciated issue. An extra few million to R&D could save you billions down the line.

Maybe I would've had something intelligent to say about this article, had I been allowed to read it.

Fines start at a dollar and double for each repeat occurrence.

If it gets to the point where the fine is prohibitively expensive, then the system should in fact be prohibited.

A $1B bribe for bribery

> ZTE , which already paid some $2 billion in penalties to U.S. authorities over export violations during President Donald Trump's first term, has for years faced probes by authorities around the world, opens new tab into alleged bribes to secure telecom contracts

I suppose the true cost of open and visible bribery is that now everyone wants a piece of the pie.

Spotify users do not want to be "reached". They just want their rain sounds or whatever. You misunderstand your relationship with your listeners - insomniacs are not your customers, algorithms are.

Edit: I might also add, this is a good example of the difference between consumers and customers.