Maybe it's time for the real doctors office to open up a service where people can describe their symptoms to them, and get a real doctor's diagnosis, as that is apparently so desired of a service that people keep asking not-a-real doctor instead.
Or it might be because people can't afford the real doctor's office, and so their options are debt, death, or gambling with the available free solutions.
Remember the whole BMW heated seats subscription thing? That was them trying to reduce configurations and price: instead of having to stock two configurations of every model/colour/engine etc combination, one with and one without heated seats, they installed them on all of them by default and you would have been able to either later buy the package like you used to (~500€) or only pay the subscription whenever you wanted heated seats (I.e in the winter).
IIRC Tesla does a similar thing with batteries, they use the same battery, but the cheaper model has the capacity and power draw restricted. One actual reason for it is that the shallower, gentles discharges mean less wear and fewer warranty claims, and therefore they can offer it for cheaper.
They would need to have more of them first for the data to actually be accurate at all. From what I could find, there have been no Waymo caused fatalities - two deaths caused by other drivers though - and four serious injuries, for roughly 220 million miles driven.
While you can then state that the rate of fatalities is 1 per 110 million miles, it's not really useful in any way.
And now that they don't have to report them, how do they ask you to pay for them?
Here in Finland, you sing up for an internet connection for a certain price a month, usually for 12/24/36 months at a time and... That's literally it. E.g I have 250/250 fibre for 35€/month for the next year. If they want me to pay more, they'll have to increase the price next year when I renew it.
Still, paying even just the $3000 for a single book from this lawsuit is going to be quite hard when you are making zero profit whatsoever. LLM AI was unprofitable when the training data was free, they are even more so if they have to pay even a cent per item. And I really doubt it's going to stop with this one batch and payment and they can just go back to pirating the stuff for free.
That's why fines should always be out of revenue, like the GDPR fines, and never profit. Just because the business you did illegally was bad business shouldn't mean you don't have to pay fines for it.
Well, that's true.
But one fun quirk is that (at least here in Finland) the EU plate isn't mandatory, you can get a clean one with no country code but then if you leave the country you are required to indicate your country of origin with a bumper sticker. So the automated license plate reader might need to be able to figure out from what country this is, and often that sticker will be stuck to the corner of the rear window.
Also a reminder - there will be no sticker on the front :)
There are no standard plates in the EU. The only matching thing is the country code on the left side.
OpenAI isn't running ChatGPT on RTX 5090's, they use data centre hardware like the nVidia NVL72, which are entirely useless for anyone else. You wouldn't even be able to boot it as it uses more power while idling than a residential home has access to, and up to 150kW at full load.
Well, true. People, I.e private companies, can do all kinds of silly things like respect their workers, or think about the future, or prioritise a myriad of things that aren't just short-term profits and investor pockets. For them, the term growth isn't just about revenue and a graph on the stock market.
That doesn't really work with a publicly traded company, especially when the people in charge get a bonus based on quarterly profits, even if the company makes decisions that destroy it in the future. Memory manufacturers know damn well this isn't in any way a long term sustainable situation, but they are making the most (money) of it while they can.
Why would anyone bother making consumer RAM for cheap when they can use that manufacturing capacity to make it for the AI datacenters instead, who pay a premium?
When the king orders 1000 cakes, the baker isn't going to be making bread for the peasants.
For Finland, 46% of heating is done with district heating, with it being as high as 90% in the bigger cities.