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How can cursor be worth even 10% of 60B?

Maybe because SpaceX paid with monopoly money (all stock deal)?

Would you prefer to pay $100 for software, or a 50% marginal tax on a meager £100K?

The numbers you mention are total fraud losses. Most of fraud has nothing to do with phones, it is fraudulent money transfers and card charges.

Pretty good. Compare with a real sunny day on that street.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/kf7ELMLoFPn3qioDA

Facebook offered paid subscription for ad-free experience in Europe.[1] First, europeans complained it is too expensive. After a price cut, they EC still wanted a free version with less personalization.[2]

If google offers something similar, I am pretty sure Europeans will find something else to complain about.

[1] https://about.fb.com/news/2024/11/facebook-and-instagram-to-...

[2] https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-will-let-facebook...

Look at the traffic signs. You have very limited time to read the sign. That's the reason they have distinct patterns and rarely (except in USA) rely on blocks of text.

Nano Banana is focused on editing. But the Pro version handles your prompt much better. First image is Pro, second is 2.5

https://imgur.com/a/3PDUIQP

but there is a whole range of forces driving a sharp decline in jobs

Technically, there is no decline in jobs. There were more jobs as of March 2025 than a year before. Less than reported earlier, but the overall number of jobs is still growing.

What are your assumptions are based on?

NC outsourced safety inspections to private sector decades ago. And nothing you have described has happened.

- the service prices are all fixed ($30 or $13.60)

- tons of places to do your inspection, wait times are almost zero

- work is done in 10 minutes

- new reduced rate ($13.60) for newer vehicles was introduced some years ago

If they do something similar for driver license offices or vehicle registration offices it will be a giant leap in quality of service. Right now in bigger cities you cannot make an appointment 6 months in advance, and walk-in does not guarantee you will get any service even after spending whole day in line.

It is clear what you are saying. It still doesn't make any sense.

If I buy a bottle of wine, a chicken, a cake, and a pint of blueberries, is it correct to say that my diet is 99% fruits? There are more than a 100 of blueberries in the pint after all.

Imports from China are ~40% of all US imports

You mean 14%?

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports-by-countr...

I have my BMW key in Apple Wallet. When I was out of town and needed to share the key with another person, all I did use a standard share sheet for the key. It let it share via SMS, email, AirDrop, etc.You can revoke the key later.

Technically Russia's Plesetsk is in Europe. With hundreds of launches over the last 60 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesetsk_Cosmodrome

Looks like they have designed Tesla prototype.

https://www.automobilesreview.com/pictures/volvo/ycc-2004/wa...

But it doesn't do this right away.I was traveling with a group of people that had AirTags, and I only start getting alerts by day three.

I won't burden her financially either as I happily live out my retirement on a decent pension.

What is a decent pension and where it will come from? I'm projected to get a decent SSA pension (bigger than a median income in top tier EU countries), but I am not counting on it. What gives you confidence that government will be able to support you through retirement?

Probably Cat's Eye

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_eye_(road)

I've tried to watch an old Seinfeld episode during this event. It was freezing every few minutes even at downgraded bitrate. A video that should be on my local CDN node.

You are saying that multiple dentists found issues with your wife's teeth, she routinely refuses treatment, and this is somehow a scam?

Because contracts that people sign when they buy a subsidized phone are not really enforceable. Folks will get a "free" phone and stop paying. There is not much that provider can do. The cars are valuable enough and when you stop paying your loan you will lose it pretty fast.

It is not about stress. You are asking to pick between a) do same job at a different company for 2-3x income, or b) learn to do something different for a chance of smaller/same/or bigger income than in the previous case. First option requires passing somewhat stressful interviews and then it is all familiar territory. Second option has more unknowns.

FizzBuzz?

Hmm. Isn't the temperature adjustment a feature of any dryer? Concerns about damaging clothes could be easily rectified by choosing lower temp.

Never heard about others but Revolut is not a great example. 1% exchange fee plus another 0.3% on exchange rate. I agree that Amex is scamming their european customers. But my point was that they don't do it in US despite the lack of regulations. Same Amex is nicer to their american customers than Revolut to europeans. And one of Revolut's main selling points is their great exchange rates.

https://www.revolut.com/currency-converter/

It is an example that greed is everywhere. Not only among card issuers but also among merchants. The moment merchant find a socially accepted way to extract extra they will do it. Similar to tip screens on square terminals in all takeout places. Costs nothing to ask, generates some additional revenue.

Debit txs are not free. For big ($10B in assets) regulated issuers they are pretty low, but for everyone else they are close to 1.9%

[1] https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/vis...

Interesting. Europe has stricter regulations that cap interchange. As a result not a lot of rewards cards and less competition in that space. In US no caps, but much more players in the rewards cards space. I've checked recent foreign transactions and it looks like both of popular travel cards make some money on exchange rates, but not as much as in France.

Amex Plat did not charge foreign fee, but exchange rate is 1% less favorable according xe.com

Chase Sapphire Reserve also no fees, exchange rate is 0.3% different from xe.com

Is $60K cash split between these 6 people? Then it is not that impressive.

If you want higher ROI on spreadsheet hobby start using it for your own financial/retirement planning. Playing with numbers in that field can change outcomes by hundreds of thousands dollars.

ends up costing 2-3% more than it would otherwise

This is a very simplified view. Cash handling is not free. Fraud levels with cash are different. Overall attractiveness of a small but cash-only business is different.

Great point, I did not know this. OTOH, at the time of grant it was a respectable $5M, and it is not the first one.