YouTube gives, I think, 55% of revenue (not just profits) to creators, which could be considered similar to production costs making up a majority of expenses.
Since it's a reconciliation bill, is this likely to make it past the "Byrd bath"? It's looped in with a $500M AI modernization fund but my simplified understanding is that items not related to budget can be challenged and removed. Couldn't find reference to this in any of a few news articles.
"I hope, considering your [pause to check personnel file] over nineteen years of service to the firm you will understand that these measures are in no way a reflection of the firm's feelings towards your performance or your character"
At the unveiling it was promised to start at $39,900, just under $50k in today's dollars.
Yes, that was for a base model that wasn't produced, but we are a long way from the promised stats on the upper trim. Promised to be under $70k, or about $87k in today's dollars (nope), 500+ mi range (nope, 300), payload 3500lbs (nope, 2500), tow rating 14000 (nope, 11000). By 2021 (nope).
It does come close on two of the promised stats: 0-60 in under 3 seconds and top speed just under the promised 130. I'd much rather have it be good at being a truck than being a massive hunk of pointy steel that can be thrown around with that much torque.
I believe it, but only if you don't use it too often. Aluminum doesn't handle creep[1] well so the actual tow rating probably decreases every time you tow something near the limit.
Tesla's vehicles give me "disposable technology" vibes. Criminal for something so expensive that's also meant to be environmentally friendly.
yes, the headline is getting ahead of things without the context of the trial. It is not correct -- at least not yet -- that Google "will have to break up its business." This is a DOJ filing for the remedies trial happening this month and/or next. Also correct that Google gets to propose its own remedies.
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/googl...
Judge Mehta has suggested he'll issue a verdict by August. Then either side can appeal. There is still a lot of legal road ahead.
Wildly speculating, I'm curious if the current Supreme Court would want to set precedent around the interpretation of antitrust law w.r.t. the consumer welfare standard, and whether there's anything in this judgement that would let them do so.
RIP magazines. The tutorials in Future Music and Computer Music were excellent. Curated downloads were nice also (and could often be used in the tutorials.) And guitar technique tutorials are basically timeless.
I actually enjoy reading ads (not to mention reviews and tutorials for various products) in music magazines. It's disappointing that companies seem to have switched to junky web ads instead.
>I actually enjoy reading ads (not to mention reviews and tutorials for various products) in music magazines. It's disappointing that companies seem to have switched to junky web ads instead.
One of the things I miss most from physical media is the sense of discovery it brought, we saw ads or unexpected articles related to the magazine thematic, products or services that you didn’t know existed, same with books, browsing the shelves of the bookstore you found something new that drew you attention on the record store flipping vinyls you saw some weird album art and decided to give it a listening. Now you get ads for things you already bought or the same 5 books everyone sees because they’re “trending”, you have infinite music at your fingertips and yet get the same 10 tracks suggested every time.
possibly unpopular opinion, I trust the bigger companies more than small ones on stuff like this. It would be so much easier to not offer anything, rather than intentionally create a potemkin setting and risk the blowback that would occur if discovered. Hopefully this comment does not age poorly.
full disclosure: worked there [edit: google] a while ago, not in search, not in AI.
If Alphabet/Waymo leadership were more theatrical... I wonder if the Tesla event delay could have given them time to expand 3 miles up the 101, across the Cahuenga Pass, so they could offer fully-autonomous Waymo rides through LA traffic to and from Musk's WB lot Tesla demo.
though it's not at all their style. And realistically I'm glad they're being methodical and prioritizing safety.
I heard it speculated that maybe Tesla chose that location for their event specifically because it was outside of the Waymo area and they didn’t want a bunch of journalists showing up in Waymos to the Tesla robotaxi event.
