They think their data is worth $X to AI and think that AI will pay that much.

They think $X is vastly larger than the $Y they would get from third party app developers. So, goodbye to third party app developers.

> They think their data is worth $X to AI and think that AI will pay that much.

which is absurd... the entirety of reddit has already been scraped before. the marginal utility of this today onward feed of data is a lot less than they think it is.

I'd respect them more if they just came out and admitted it.

One portion of our daily 10,000 steps will be to write out some copywritten works in the GPS path to make sure our data is doubly copywritten and should not be reproduced!

We don't know Newegg's margins. Perhaps the board cost them $450 in the first place so paying $100 to repair it so that they could sell it for $500 wouldn't make sense.

I mean, it would make sense.

You have a broken product. You may have already spent 450$ to get it, but that's sunk cost. You have 3 options:

1. you pay $100 dollars to have a working product (you can sell it for $500).

2. you can engage in fraud and sell this broken product.

3. you write off this loss.

if you discount committing fraud, then the 100$ repair fee definitely makes sense.

Yes, unless they thought the probability that they'd be able to sell the board for $500 was less than 25%, it would have made sense to pay for the repair.

Seems like they're called "servers" now. I imagine "guilds" felt a bit too gamer centric for them after they saw how popular their service was becoming.

I've been working on a simple bot for one of the servers/guilds I'm on, and the API endpoints as well as documentation still heavily uses the term guild.

> Guilds in Discord represent an isolated collection of users and channels, and are often referred to as "servers" in the UI.[1]

This is why it's users refer to them as servers.

[1]: https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/guild

The service is still very gamer centric, Discord Nitro for instance gives you a game subscription. I really hope they’re not trying to become Slack, that will be the death of them.

I think personal space storage requirements have increased but consumers have been pushed towards cloud storage. People are drawn in by the free photo backup and when the free tier runs out, it's only $2/mo to continue making it someone else's problem. Business loves the recurring revenue stream and consumers love low/no upfront costs. As long as they don't get randomly flagged for a TOS violation and get banned with no recourse, it's fine not having local copies of their photos.

There's WD Blue and WD Black NVMe products for less/more performance. Perhaps it's like that?

It doesn't need to be, but it could turn out that way. Perhaps someone convinces the masses that a distributed blockchain is preferable and then it gets built and persists on first-mover advantage.

It is bad to encourage profit from a disaster because it creates a perverse incentive where you hope for more disaster. If you can profit from a disaster it is fine up until greed begins to interfere with solving the disaster.