Yes, that is a thing.

Also fabricating integrated circuits on a diamond substrate.

That was a design feature of democracy all along, not a bug.

Basically they just need one more option:

> You'll never get me to use the app so stop trying.

I mean for the sake of the completeness of their how-to-get-people-to-use-app research, not just the benefit of the user who doesn't want the app.

You will not convert 100% of people to the app, unless you shut down the website, or make it so unusable on mobile that it might as well be shut down.

If they shut down the website and the decent third party apps, I'd actually stop browsing Reddit.

That sounds like a net positive, to be honest.

Running the code is reading. The machine reads the code and performs it.

I never called it a scam.

I think it's commendable for a huge corporation building lots of data centers to (partially) offset that impact. Amazon, Oracle and others aren't. It's unhealthy for a single company to be most of the market.

Can you point to a factual source for claiming it's a scam? If India and China aren't signatory to climate treaties, should there be no collective action?

Carbon credits are a scam. We quite simply don't have the technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere. The technology we do have is so incredibly inefficient and energy intensive that you end up burning more carbon generating the power to remove the carbon you're paid for.

If this were a feasible route, everyone would be pouring billions into the venture and they'd have more than one customer.

Carbon credits are and have always been pure grift and nothing more.

We do have that tech

It is called "trees"

i.e. they realized benefits to the environment out weigh the ability to make money

Consider two dictionaries, one in which the entries are alphabetized as usual and one in which they're randomized. Both support random access: you can turn to any page, and read any entry. Therefore both are "accessible". Only one actually supports useful, quick word lookup.

Altman cannot control anything because he doesn't have any secret sauce. Everything he has has been replicated by others.

He doesn't have anything comparable to, say, the operating system platform dominance of Microsoft Windows, or service platform dominance of YouTube.

The entire value proposition of OpenAI is that billions of people don't know that anything other exists than ChatGPT, which is rather tenuous and volatile.

GoDaddy's annual revenue for 2025 was approximately $4.95 billion.

What can the average person consume that needs 25 GB to their home?

I don't know what speeds I'm getting. My streams are not skipping or pausing. The odd large download is quick enough beyond caring.

Badly designed websites of course load badly. That has to do with latency rather than bandwidth, and the staging of the fetches.

No, it becomes realized when it is sold. They held a bunch of gold that appreciated in value. On paper, they became richer. By selling it that became realized. After that, they bought gold again (different type elsewhere but it doesn't matter). That did not make them any poorer; they just converted cash to gold.