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To be fair, somewhat cheaper than the other way.

The problem with her case is that Instagram likely has no contract under which it has agreed to host her account, and can thus change it's mind at anytime.

Did a 4000 mile round trip this summer and barely any bugs. Wild.

I have a memory of a road trip in the 90s where we must have driven through a whole swarm, probably somewhere in western Montana, because it almost sounded like hail as they were splatting on the windshield. Sorry, maybe I killed them all that day.

Not if he wants to keep his job. The shareholders (hypothetically) control the board, the CEO works for the board.

States have always been able to do these things.

Perhaps there are a few other administrative tasks they should collaborate on as well...

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I wonder if there is a survivor out there living with the memory of that orange face, with a grimaced expression, sweat glistening on the forehead, accompanied by a rhythmic grunting squeal, as he bears down, forever traumatizing their innocent soul. Too afraid to come forward with the story because half of all Americans will suddenly become enemies.

Shit, what a horrific thought.

Wire is pretty much never removed once it's laid out and I'm sure a lot of DSL based internet connections still run over same twisted pair that would have carried POTS lines.

But you're probably right that there's a VoIP device keeping these up and working, maybe just more than 6 ft away and instead in some Telco box down the street.

I think POTS installations will remain for decades more in niche cases - emergency backups in elevators, security systems, hospitals, fire departments. And evidently Grandma's AOL internet connection up until this month haha

On sites where people tend to sort by low price, keep shipping separate.

On sites where people buy based on emotion, give free shipping to improve conversion rates and close the deal.

I pay for it, also no ads except the sponsor plugs, which are pretty easy to skip. Overall a better experience than the non premium. I don't live in the USA so my cost is like $5/month.

On the other hand, have you ever seen a government authored operating system?

Thanks for posting this take. The topic of AI taking jobs seems to garner a lot of emotional response but not much of a technology discussion.

There were people who were negative about using websites to place orders in the 90s in part because e-commerce killed order processing jobs and the need for phone reps at mail order catalogs.

In this case AI is being used as just another e-commerce UX, so it's really just a continuation of what's happening already.

People used to do things like put 18,000, or -1 and all kinds of other garbage in the fields on website order forms as well. That's just a programmers job to fix with reasonable input validation.

It wouldn't surprise me if drive-thru like Taco Bell started doing license plate recognition and reputation checking. So if you order and dash more than a couple times they might not take your order from outside in that car anymore.

On the upside they might be able to greet you by name and recall your last order:

Hello Mr Smith... Nice to see you today, would you like 10 cheesy gordita crunch tacos and 1 large diet Pepsi again?