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I know that I personally have a handful of personal local only apps under development, that in the past I would have reached for a web solution.

That explains why ChatGPT has been running like shit all weekend. In the desktop app on Mac, it could not even complete a response. On the web, it would hang before you could input anything.


Yeah, most of these companies park their cash outside the US to avoid having to pay taxes, then borrow money in the US against their assets/stock. It worked great when interest rates were essentially zero. Not so much now.


Yeah, these rankings are bogus. Snapdragon is far superior to Honeycrisp.


I vote for more Stargate! It is a franchise that has just be languishing for far too long.


Try looking at the site with uBlock Origin turned on and the article is missing important details, since the affiliate links aren't being inserted. Makes for a hilarious read.

"This is why the first thing I got for my CR-V was a . They are, as far as I know, the first and only all-terrain tire built specifically for crossovers."

The whole article is like that.


I was wondering what was happening. I figured uBlock was blocking some shenanigans


The CPI is a propaganda tool. It is designed to keep the real inflation hidden to make it seem that inflation is not a real thing to worry about. Because it is formulated in secret, they can manipulate it to give a fairly rosy picture. The published CPI never panics.


the process is literally posted on the Bureau for Labor Statistics site [1], it's like the second result on Google

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm


The CPI absolutely crashed in April 2020

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi


Do you have any actual evidence of this?


I wish I had a dollar for every irrational (extremely emotionally charged!) response to this same question when I have posed it.


Nothing like some good old-fashion collusion.


In some sense it seems fair that small players can group together, so that when they negotiate with a big company they have a block of comparable size. Otherwise small companies have no choice but to merge into a large company to negiotate together.

But the proof is in the pudding I suppose, and there may certainly be unexpected or undesirable consequences.


Facebook should just pay the link tax. They then need to add a link insertion fee for the media outlets, when they are the ones creating the links. Don't pay the fee, don't get any links. Make the fee 3-4x the rate of the link tax to cover added expense of everyday users sharing links.


Delphi, ah the memories. I use to make a fair amount of money in the late 90s making shareware applications with Delphi. It was the most productive I have ever been as a developer. But, the world moved to web fairly rapidly, so I had to move on to the web.


What were your apps?


I had Spinel Clean and Tidy that let you clean-up your registry and various temp files that were left all over the place back in the Win95 era. Also Spinel ScreenPik which was a screen capture utility.


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