The "space race" has always been a propaganda stunt.
There is a reason you don't hear about every experimental result from the ISS, those are actual scientific achievements and not propaganda, while a guitar on the ISS or how to drink water, end up on the news.
Wrong. China's politics and waste may look different, they're still there in huge amounts. Institutionalized corruption and cultural corner cutting, whether for a capitalist goal, or a power control and egocentrism goal, are still corruption and corner cutting.
GOOGL knows that to become a long term successful company in a world of 4.50% interest rates, that P/E of 21 and dividend yield of 0.49% are barely cutting it.
They can no longer push popular platforms like YouTube as a loss leader.
A company that can't offer a ROI to its stockholders, is a startup that should never be allowed to go public; stick to angel and venture investors instead. Public stocks relying on the hype of "growing quickly", are a Ponzi scheme through and through.
If we speak of company ages, the argument doesn't hold either:
AAPL - 49yr - 0.48%
MSFT - 50yr - 0.88%
NVDA - 32yr - 0.04%
AMZN - 31yr - 0.00%
GOOG - 27yr - 0.49%
TSLA - 22yr - 0.00%
SpaceX - 23yr - not traded
A good chunk of the US market is made up of Ponzi scheme companies. With 401k-s tied to market investments, people are setting themselves up for a very rough awakening.
The problem with P/E is that, while it's great to measure business health internally, a company that has great earnings and then decides to "invest in growth" instead of paying dividends, is just a Ponzi scheme as far as investors are concerned: no expectation of returns from the company, only from the hype among other investors.
The bill hasn't passed yet, we'll see what amendments get into the final version.
The general downside of this kind of bills, is that they require marking "any amount" of AI-based modification, like for example: using an "AI optimized" curves modifier to adjust a photo, makes the whole thing into "made using AI".
My phone camera has an AI based detector for focusing on faces, pieces of paper, brightness and color correction... so ALL photos I take with it are automatically "made with AI", which is BS.
IMHO Melinda changed Gates's view on the world. As much as her desktop idea was nightmare fuel, they did create a foundation, had some kids together, and that let Gates grow as a person away from Ballmer's "Developers, Developers, Developers!" culture.
Whoever the fuck thought it would be a good idea to add a script tag to SVG needs to be put down.
SVG was in part intended as a replacement for Flash, which had animations and interactive graphic elements. The script tag has been there since 2001's SVG 1.0 🤷
Not sure where you get your propaganda from, but I refuse to engage with that whole twisted argumental line. I stand by what I said, I think it was pretty straightforward.
Trump is playing "bully pocker", his goal is to look good to his bases, whoever that might be at the moment. It's the game that has worked for him his whole life, and he's good at it.
What he doesn't realize, is the world stage is an agreements game, based on trust and good faith, where others can join forces and render anyone at the table irrelevant. He's trying to bully everyone into doing what he wants like he was in a single-country sandbox, by playing his strong economy and military "cards" in a carrot+stick teasing approach... without realizing those same "cards" are also based on trust and good faith. Both of which he's been losing at an increasing rate.
I don't think he will stop teasing and gaslighting everyone around, he doesn't know how to do anything else. He will just run the US presidency into the ground, while everyone increasingly ignores him.
Putting DRM on CC videos is kind of evil... but also kind of expected of a video platform to do.
In the long run, from a purely economic point of view, it could even make sense for YT to charge users for uploading non-monetized videos. It would destroy even more good faith, but would "make sense" on paper.
Games reward you in game mechanics, same as most games at a casino.