I understand the "but I like TikTok" crowd, but China bans US companies from operating in China all the time. Why is it all of a sudden a problem when we do it to them?

Read the comment above yours, that's where I learned about it

What can a box of cereal cost, $30?

*insert Simpsons meme"

Say it again!

sigh 2024 is the year of the Linux desktop

I know how to read them, but I still always read the top tweet first, then the original tweet, then the top tweet again....

I know, I'm dumb

Brings a new visual to the phrase "choo choo motherfucker"

I feel like this section is rather disingenuous for the article author to just drop without mentioning that this is how all machine learning models are trained. The idea is that now (and for the next year or whatever) it's trained manually until the system is good enough to do it on its own with a good enough accuracy rating to not lose money.

Now, since Amazon is shuttering this, it's totally possible that they determined they'd need too many years of training data to break even, but at the very least this is standard industry practice for any machine learning model.

And come in on your knees since the cameras only capture people that are standing

And in the days before tracking cookies, doing that didn't ruin all the ads you'll ever see again

The fines are part of their outgoing expenses, though, so at least some of that $99 in your example is going to pay these very fines

Not to come to their defense, I don't like most of what they do, but when you have multiple billion users, every "small change" you make or feature you add is a significant investment in planning, building, and testing.

As someone who just built one of these, that is the exact reason we did it.

It would be cool if users just remembered which service they used to sign in, but they often don't, so this is the next best thing. Tell us your email, we look up which service you used, then send you to that service to complete the login.