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Storage and bandwidth definitely weren't cheap in 2003. Additionally Steam provides features that a brick and mortar store could never even think of providing, including updates, DRM, instant access to global consumers, community features, in-depth data analytics, and the ability to adjust pricing in real time.

While a lot of the work Valve has put in Steam seems both obvious and ubiquitous today, these were features they pioneered for both developers and consumers.

I'd also like to point out that the only digital marketplace I'm aware of that charges less than 30% by default (Epic) is famous for losing billions of dollars in the endeavor.

Before steam, digital sales of games wasn't really a thing outside of a few niche examples. The 30% cut was the same percentage that retail stores were taking.

More like low below (the surface)

Slipknot is not where I saw this thread going but I'm here for it.

PonyOS actually uses its own custom kernel that isn't based on Linux.

It's not useful to compare health insurance profit margins to other industries because the Federal Government requires that they spend 80% of all premium revenue on care. This is effectively a cap on profits and also creates an incentive for insurance companies to pay higher costs for care so they can make more profit.

Quantum computers are only good at a very narrow subset of tasks. None of those tasks are related to Neural Networks, AGI, or the emulation of neurons.

This is incorrect, Republicans had total control after Trump's win in 2016.

It barely works on Windows.

That being said I've tried this with with success in the past.

https://lutris.net/games/rocksmith-2014/

Damn, if you're this stupid I understand why you're scared of the machines.

No one in this thread is talking about or "defending" LLMs but you.

What would you have liked him to do in order to stop it from passing?

Apple uses bog standard LPDDR5-6400. LPDDR5 is a low power variant of DDR5. 32GB of DDR5-6400 is about $90 USD.

The only thing special about the Apple RAM configuration is the larger than normal bus on the CPU die.

I did a few years in a Security Architecture role at a large enterprise. The amount of times I had to explain basic stuff to Enterprise Architects, Principal Engineers, and Principal developers with decades of experience was truly mind numbing.

They didn't need to grow. Current Wallsteet calculation is margin % + growth % => 40%

Boeing and Boar's head are killing people because of incompetence and cost cutting. Chiquita and Nestle go out in the jungle and massacre people at regular intervals just because those people don't want to be slaves and having to pay workers hurts the bottom line.

I put them in different categories.

It's a reference to Elon Musk.

Initial contacts are always 8 years with a period served in active service and the remainder as inactive. 6/2 is the most common but I've also seen 4/4 and 3/5.

Quite a few mutual insurance providers are struggling in places like California and Florida because they didn't correctly price in the potential impacts of climate change. The main issue that mutual providers have is that their risk pools are much smaller and generally very regional. If your whole region is on fire then everyone is screwed.

Additionally, they are dependent on the same reinsurance providers that other for profit insurance providers are which is already more expensive for them because of the smaller risk pool.

First Gentleman

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_lady#Variations