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Cool, if the storm is over, then they can release the unredacted Epstein files now, right? They should have no problem doing that.

I have zero faith this campaign will stop until we’re back in the stone age.

Future headline:

“Game vendors pressured to stop selling games where women are allowed to vote or express an opinion that doesn’t reflect her husband’s”

Taxing in proportion to externalities is sound policy.

I agree, but that isn’t what is being discussed. Pricing in externalities isn’t artificial though. That could be well argued to be the “true cost” of an item. The poster’s premise was artificially inflating the cost of something.

Further, and my main point, government policy affecting pricing simply to incentivize or disincentivize consumption isn’t authoritarian as a standalone act.

I think the issue is that sugary cereal is both bad for you and not that enjoyable.

See, this is what I feel about alcohol, but I don’t go around judging people for enjoying it. Tastes are subjective. We each get to decide for ourselves what we like, and if we differ thats just fine!

For the same price, I can get a bahn mi with veggies, pate, and egg or pho or fried ramen.

So your breakfast is a minimum of 460 calories or so for ramen, and the prep time for the meal to be perhaps 20 minutes?

My cereal (with milk) is about 240 calories and the prep time is about 2 minutes.

I look at people who eat cereal … wondering what’s going on in their life that they’re not willing to deal with the cognitive load of seeing what alternatives exist for breakfast.

I have about 10 minutes for breakfast in the morning and you’re suggesting something that is going to be twice the calories and ten times the prep time. If that high calorie breakfast with lots of prep time is worth it to you, by all means, go ahead. You’re welcome to make your own choices and they don’t affect me in the slightest. I don’t judge you for it, either.

I’m not quite following you, but I respect it. I’ll delete my reply to you before this one, and even this one after you read it.

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No. I’m pointing out to others who may read this thread that if they have been stuck in the mindset of choosing between options of sugary cereal, that they have the other option of simply not consuming it. We often forget that these sorts of options exist, because no one talks about them.

Also, the example you pulled from my post history is profoundly weird, because it makes me look good… Like, I’m saying that I enjoy something, but recognize that it is an indulgence and then moderate my indulgence because other things are more important to me. I dunno, sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Ouch. Doubling down on the superiority, huh? That’s a bad look, friend.

Okay, following your logic, should I go to your beer post you made 4 hours ago and as a reply put :

“I mean, the better alternative is to just not drink alcohol.”

Is that helpful at all? Would you welcome that reply? Would that be productive to the conversation at all where you are celebrating your enjoyment of something? Should I remind others reading your post that “have been stuck in the mindset of choosing between” drinking to excess or to moderation that they have other options of simply not consuming it? Should I remind people reading your post about your enjoyment of alcohol (even in moderation) that these sort of options exists, because no one talks about them? Do you see how pretentious and unwelcome that would look as reply to your alcohol drinking post?

I mean, the better alternative is to just not buy sugary cereal.

Are you really in a position to criticize others on what they consume?

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I choose not to drink alcohol. When I see other people posting about what they drink, I don’t go around telling other people they shouldn’t. These are personal choices. We’re both aware of the potential health consequences of our chosen actions. I believe people should be free to do what they want as long as they aren’t hurting other people. I don’t want to think the worst of you, but the only reason I think of for you to make your comment was from a position of moral superiority. I know I’ve been guilty of that before and been ashamed of it later. Did I just catch you on a bad day?

Maybe i’m naive about the way businesses work; but if your still profitable, and you know you need to “catch up” why lay off people and close sites?

I don’t have any internal knowledge of Intel but I can make some guesses.

There is a 1 to 2 year process pipeline that goes from ideation, to design, to prototyping, to production readiness, to recurring production. If Intel has determined that the chips they have in design and prototyping stage aren’t market viable, there’s no reason to pass them to the next steps. This means that the teams that follow (production readiness, to recurring production) won’t have work for potentially years. So why employ the extremely expensive staff that do those steps for years when they have nothing to do and you just burn money for now output?

Yet while I have no doubt that they are behind; their revenue is about 55 billion since 2023, down from the high of 78-80ish Billion during the pandemic

Business have ways move moving profit and debt around. One way is corporate bonds ( or Commercial Paper). This can give cash infusions up front to build out infrastructure or finance today’s design costs knowing that you’ll be able to take the profits from the sales of those completed products at a later date, and pay off the debt. Its possible that Intel has taken out this debt, and because they’re dumping products currently in development, they won’t have any profits to pay off the debt. I don’t know if Intel has any of these, but they are not uncommon in large companies.

However for a company where RND is really where the value is, like Intel, it just doesn’t seem to make sense; your not going to get better designs and processes by reducing your experienced staff and letting them go work for the competition.

Sure, but maybe not on all product lines. If you have 10 product lines, and 8 of them are producing products that are barely profitable (or perhaps not profitable at all), you might trim those lines, reducing your headcount to provide more R&D resources to the 2 remaining promising product lines.

Malt-O-Meal cereals used to be the “cheap offbrand”. Not so anymore. They’re usually slightly cheaper than the name brand, but I’ve also seen them be more expensive per oz/gram than the name brand. I stopped buying Malt-O-Meal cereals 5 or 6 years ago when I saw the new pricing. The new “off brand” are the store brands. Those are significantly cheaper than Malt-O-Meal.

Seems like this “update” should be at the very top of that article as it invalidates the whole claim in the headline.

Update: 7:13 pm EST: Clarified that Fortnite doesn’t have buy now, pay later options and won’t be getting that option soon.

I don’t think the developers have forgotten, they just can’t get permission from management to make one because management demands MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue) as part of the business model because that is valued at 7x EBITDA.

I believe the anal probing stories of the 50s-70s were excuses made up by queer men to rationalize their late night encounters.

New dating app for gay curious straight men:

American Old West: 1803-1912

I had no idea it was that young.

This lead me to this fun fact: The last stage coach robbery was 2 years after WWI began.

WWI began 1914

Last stage coach robbery was 1916

Also, Titanic had already been sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic for 4 years (1912) when that stage coach was robbed.

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The only winning move is not to play.

I would actually call out that your prior work belongs to your employer. That should earn you points with your new possible employer.

“My most recent examples would be work I did for my prior employer. However, that work contains confidential policies or trade secrets that are not meant for public disclosure. I respect my prior employers confidence and cannot share that. Should I get this position with your organization, I will respect your data just as strongly as I do my prior employer’s. However, I am providing Sample #1 document I have written which I wrote which reflects my writing style and subject matter expertise without violating any prior employer agreements.”

Like it or not, government making things artificially expensive in order to disincentivize people from buying the thing is a form of authoritarianism.

I’m struggling to think of any scenario I would agree with your statement and I’m not coming up with anything. Further, I think your statement is dangerous because it dilutes the actual dangers and restrictions an authoritarian government would put in place.

Gov’t should subsidize healthy food.

Wouldn’t that meet your definition of authoritarianism because it is causing non-healthy food to be proportionally more expensive?

The rising price of most sweets and the continued decrease in quality is the greatest disincentive to buying them.

I’m not a regular consumer of candy bars, but I saw that the price of a regular Snickers bar at a grocery store checkout is now about $2 each. Meanwhile in that same store you can get a box of brownie mix for about $2, 2 eggs will cost you about 60 cents and a quarter cup of vegetable oil will cost you about 10 cents for a total of about $2.70 yielding an entire tray of 15 brownies (or 18 cents per brownie). I get that part of that the candy bar is paying for convenience, but the differential is just too high now unless you just down have a kitchen available to you.

If I understand the explanation, its like when an author (or their proxies) buys thousands (millions) of copies of their own book to make them “sold” so that they can raise their standing on the “Best Seller’s List”.