An insurer is an interesting one for sure. They'd have the stats of how many times that AI model makes mistakes and be able to charge accordingly. They'd also have the funds and evidence to go after big corps if their AI was faulty.
They seem like a good starting point, until negligence elsewhere can be proven.
Yeah but if you call her a chonkin' land whale first, you can then turn around put your sunglasses on and power walk into the sunset 😎
If the CEO was lying to the investors that's akin to being lied to about the odds of a slot machine. It should totally be prosecutable.
At the same time I don't feel sorry for them, and think they should be last in line after all the other victims
Like literally every American company does. I'm not a tankie and I'm definitely not a fan of China, but this is one of those situations where the US government doesn't actually care about the issue, just that they're not the one doing it
I'm fairly sure the vouchers are sponsored, they're so low it's essentially advertising for Uber Eats
I've been playing with this thought for a while, and it's nice to see someone else express it
You can look it up yourself, I was just giving a worst case scenario
$0.025 per GB is the most expensive option on S3 I could find rounded up. It would be absolutely insane if Steam were paying those prices when they have their own servers. I also used 100GB game size as a large number, and $30 as a small price tag (for an 100GB game).
I was trying to be charitable with the numbers and it still came out pretty positive
Download. It's also rounded up. Storage is negligible compared to bandwidth, especially considering Steam's business model
No harm meant. I do think Steam is the golden example of a big business done right. All I'm saying is that there's room for improvement.
However do we know their full PNL/balance sheet?
We can make an educated guess. Amazon's S3 charges roughly $0.025 per GB, so an 100GB game would cost $2.50 for Steam to upload to a user. For a $30 game, that's around ~8.5% or just over 3 downloads before it's unprofitable.
Obviously Valve isn't paying consumer level S3 prices, and obviously users can download multiple times. But I would be extremely surprised if they didn't make a rather large margin on each sale
I agree with you, but justifying anything by saying they're successful in a free market is really iffy. There are plenty of large evil companies that are incredibly successful. That said I agree with everything else you've said.
I personally think 30% cut is too much for any app/software store. But if anyone deserves it Steam does
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