The largest cost is going to be building out data centers and buying the chips to fill them. OpenAI has essentially been telling investors they’re only losing money for now as they build out infrastructure, but when that’s done they’ll be making money hand over fist

We have no idea what the compute costs actually are since OpenAI is a private company. It’s just a shift in the speculation that it’s higher than previously estimated

Which part? Can you be more specific as to what you mean?

Hot take: Rural drivers shouldn’t get a say in how urban roads are designed

It’s not their city. They don’t live in it. They can stay in their town if they don’t like it

At this point most people just throw pennies away. At best they’re being saved in a change jar to be brought to the bank. Almost no one is using pennies for payment of goods and services. It’s a useless waste of money to produce and congress should have gotten rid of them decades ago

The only issue here is that it isn’t congress getting rid of it. It’s the president taking power from congress to get rid of it

You’re missing the point because they didn’t use precise language

Congress establishes what coins and bills are to be minted. The executive branch executes that directive. Congress has directed the executive branch to mint pennies. The executive branch determined 0 is a number of pennies to mint. The Mint is not minting pennies, despite congress directing them to do so

If the president is allowed to interpret laws congress passes so broadly, it gives an incredible amount of power to the executive branch. Historically, the president hasn’t been given nearly that level of authority

It’s illegal because congress said to mint pennies, but the executive branch is not minting pennies

Someone else mentioned children waiting for the bus get run over at a much higher rate if it’s dark early in the morning, which is a pretty valid argument

That being said, I’d much rather it get dark later in the day

50 cent piece would be the way to go. Should then also really push $1 coins, and add in a $2 and $5 coin, although I don’t know if Americans would realistically use them. Coins are much more durable than paper currency though, which would save a lot of money long term

Canada was a decade ahead of the US when it came to implementing tap. It’ll take the US a long while to get to the same level of universal acceptance, starting from so far behind

That seems off

Where are you getting this millions of years number? Seems really unrealistic considering millions of humans live at altitude and have barely enough oxygen in the air as it is

I agree getting rid of the penny is a good thing, but it’s really bad that this is setting a precedent to give the president a lot more power

It’s also a really poor implementation considering the government has given no guidance on how businesses must handle it

Also “Turned out my father isn’t my real dad” is BS. Genetic test results are useless for determining such.

I’m so confused by this. Are you playing semantic games here? Because this is otherwise completely wrong, and contradicts the story you told before it

No, actually I never heard that. Where are you getting that from?

That sounds like what they’re saying, but they don’t provide any reason for us to believe them

That’s tough man. At least as a food service worker you’re contributing a lot to the economy. When I worked in restaurants, I worked a lot harder than I ever have in a corporate job, for far less money

Median home prices peaked at $216,000 in August 2006. The lowest they’ve been in 2025 is $414,000. You had some absolutely atrocious luck. You buy in Detroit or something?

Source: https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/

Didn’t they do that a long time ago? I remember ~10 years ago Microsoft had a big push to get all SDEs to become SDETs. I think that was just before their push to make devs into DevOps

You’d likely have to pay for it

Much better way to get rid of them: Submit a FOIA request for their data. So far many cities are simply getting rid of them to prevent that data being public

Even if the government is happy to comply with the request, the data is a powerful tool to sway public sentiment. Camera near some bars? Request the data from 1:30-2:30 each weekend morning. Near a church? Request the Sunday morning data. Whole lot of people will realize how dangerous Flock cameras are when you anonymously post lists of people doing various things to one of those neighborhood apps

Note: The government can charge “reasonable” amounts based on costs incurred complying with a FOIA request. I recommend keeping your requests narrow as a result

I don’t find that to be a particularly helpful boycott. Boycotting several large corporations like that takes a lot of effort. That’s effort that can be used for more effectively directly fighting Trump

Call your representatives, protest, rally voters, etc. are far more effective with less impact on your life

Ah, probably caught his reflection in the camera lens then

Right? It’s one of my favorite anecdotes to bring out whenever talking about out-of-touch boomers

It works on a few topics too. Valuing your employees, the cost of turnover, and how “unskilled” labor is mostly a myth. I didn’t really mention it in the original comment, but the reason they had to hire 2 people to replace him was because there was so much to learn

The gas station had an attached car wash. My friend was able to run and fix any issues in either the store or the car wash. Being able to fix a fountain machine, ice machine, register issues, etc. are relatively easy on their own, but stack them up and it becomes quite a bit of training for a new assistant manager to learn on top of normal management duties like operating the safe, reviewing cameras, doing the books, etc.

The car wash was at least as much work since it constantly broke down. Have to basically become a mechanic to keep it running. You also have to learn a lot of risk management. Plenty of dumb people ignore the signs saying to turn your car in neutral, or they accidentally put it in reverse and back into the very expensive door that closed behind them

Hence they had to hire two different people