Building something myself is something I've thought a bit about. Most things I read try to talk me out of it but when there's no decent home inventory there's no decent home inventory. There are also advantages of being able to customize stuff.
Do you have an expectation of how much it will cost relative to existing homes in the area you're building in? Of course one of the things you're supposed to plan for is cost overruns lol but I'm still curious how expensive you expect it to end up being.
I've always wondered if they do this to encourage people to buy lots of socks at once and change over the whole wardrobe. Like the companies are just trying to fleece the whales of sock buying or something.
Sounds maybe unlikely idk. It just drives me insane that no company keeps the same design for more than like a year and I have no explanation why they do it.
Fair enough, and even if they did I think op in this comment chain was talking about monopoly level advertising so I guess my comment wasn't really warranted either way.
I'm surprised to read they don't at least hoard user data. Very un-big-tech-like of them.
I don't think it's in his interest to do any of that. He does not control the machinery that influences public opinion and he doesn't have money like the richest people in the world have money.
You're not completely wrong, but I think he still needs at least most of them. They help inform him of strategy via data harvesting and the means of selling it to his supporters, trump does not have the ability to do that all on his own.
The tariffs destroyed the US dollar and legitimized China cutting the world off from rare earth metals. It also did a reverse pump and dump so Trump and friends could insider trade the whole thing.
The tariffs absolutely accomplished something. Just nothing in the interests of anyone but those who want the US weakened or are happy to get paid to help do that.
Why would you ever accept this anti consumer bullshit for a slightly better screen? It might not even take a year before the current cutting edge not "the best" anymore with how fast tech cycles. I would absolutely go out of my way to get a device I can deprive of an Internet connection and still use.
Nvidia is huge on producing AI and is certainly data-hungry. Without actually knowing, I would bet it's about as bad as anything else. Since all your data is passing directly through their servers it's trivial for them to do whatever they want with it.
Sure, but there's a limited bandwidth for people's intake of information. This in particular is no longer a cause for alarm.
False alarm
Updated to add at 1700 UTC, April 16 In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the CVE program.
I wonder at what point Powell decides he should raise rates. Trump has already been publicly stating he wants them lowered faster and how he also wants to fire Powell but it's not clear if he will be (legally) able to.
Last I saw there was a court case making it's way up the courts to overturn a legal precedent regarding the executives power to oust members of independent boards so it's technically possible he will be able to legally oust Powell and install a lackey if the supreme court decides to throw out existing precedent. I think you're right and both global markets and the dollar will reel if that happens. The fed is supposed to be independent and that obviously is not the case if Trump can fire anyone who doesn't do whatever he asks.
The supreme court seemed to grow a spine on the Kilmar case so maybe they'll continue to have one when this case makes its way up.