While I get the underlying point, any schedule for changing prices is going to cause a proportional gap as well. Even changing annually will have points in time where purchasing power relative to the dollar changes.
Plus constantly changing would seem like they are trying to get more at certain times. Honestly there isn’t a pricing scheme that involves the US dollar that isn’t just converting local currency to dollars at the time of purchase and that is a whole can of worms too.
Obvious plan to use AI chat logs for ads was obvious.
Some subscriptions are part of a package. Like my cable internet package includes a ‘free’ Disney subscription that I can’t cancel.
free with purchase of course
Determining that a bug isn’t a priority is fine and doesn’t require burying heads in the sand.
Also making logos generic and overly simple works well for websites and mobile apps.
They could have kept everything except the cracker and barrel and it probably wouldn’t have made any waves at all. They just went too far with minimal text on a yellow background that looked like shitty clipart.
Since his HUD was internal it isn’t a good comparison.
They Live had sunglasses with a ‘heads up’ display.
99% won’t do when the consequences of that last 1% are sever.
As an example, your whole post is great but I can’t help but notice the one tiny typo that is like 1% of the letters. Heck, a lot of people probably didn’t even notice just like they don’t notice when AI returns the wrong results.
A multi billion dollar technical system should be far better than someone posting to the fediverse in their spare time, but it is far worse. Especially since those types of tiny errors will be fed back into future AI training and LLM design is not and never will be self correcting because it works with the data it has and it needs so much that it will always include scraped stuff.
Look, two Rs is accurate as long as you accept that AI knows ‘what you really mean’ and you should have just prompted better.
Repetition brings familiarity and familiarity leads to trust for the vast majority of humans. It is the reason that campaign signs works, why brand names are so valuable, and why popularity tends to increase exponentially when it works.
Most ads are just intended to get you to remember the thing they are selling.
Googlees don’t “let” ads on their platform. Ads are the entire reason for the existence of their platform.
Mobile arch, march.
March of the penguins.
They have been doing it long enough to know that happens.
They have thousands of employees who discuss and make decisions before anything changes. Everything Meta does is intentional.
Beamed down
It isn’t the only place, but it is one of the few where the content is somewhat searchable on top of just having a very large amount of content.
Plus people like to stick with what they know.