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We'll be debating whether or not "AGI is here" in philosophical terms, in the same way people debate if God is real, for years to come. To say nothing of the untaxed "nonprofit" status these institutions share. Omni
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Democratic People's Republic of AI
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Zero-interest rate policy began in 2008 and ended in 2022. Bubbles can last a long time when borrowing money has been free for the VC class to throw into AI, alongside food delivery, crypto, office rentals and taxicabs under the guise of &#
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Absolutely. It's frankly quite shocking to see how otherwise atheist or agnostic people have so quickly begun worshipping at the altar of "inevitable AGI apocalypse", much in the same way as how extremist Christians await th
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"Includes" functionality is considered to be server-side, i.e. handled outside of the web browser. HTML is client-side, and really just a markup syntax, not a programming language. As the article says, the problem is a solved one
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Facebook is IBM now, this isn't hacker risk taking, it's a stodgy corporation with an out-of-touch CEO desperately trying to create "the future". $60bn could have financed a PS/Xbox competitor and then some, but the
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Zuck the multi-tasker has managed to do both.
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The CEO doesn't pay the price for losing billions, tens of thousands of workers do in the form of mass layoffs. The CEO meanwhile is praised for his "courage" in "pioneering a new market".
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status quo stooge
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Don't be. That kind of money was never going to be earmarked for something in the public interest. Corporations get financing at 0% (or they did back then), so they can set it on fire in an effort to burnish their 'market making&#
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You can put on AR glasses right now. Maybe the issue isn't "the technology isn't good enough yet". Maybe it's just not something anybody besides hobbyists and wannabe futurists want.
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And also ZIRP, which put too much free money in the hands of too few people, who sank into anything that looked like it could pay off one day.
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Any large, bureaucratic organization will have enormous problems in maintaining an upward trajectory. This criticism is usually levied at government, but is outdated in the 21st century as there are now multiple companies whose revenues and
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The high prices go even higher when you take delivery app fees and markups into account. People will see the prices in the app and think that's the McD-set price.
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They are "user generated content".
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Any company that thinks it's too costly to respond to paying customers better have a really good ads product or airtight enterprise licensing deals. Because that's the only type of revenue stream where you can get away with ignori
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Ive seen plenty of reviews in app stores where the vendor responds to negative reviews and confirms when the issue described in the review was fixed. Is JetBrains also removing positive reviews that mention features that have been discontin
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There was talk of coal jobs coming back too.
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> it's become a gameified mess, rather than actually teaching necessary grammar and language concepts. They would be seen as a stuffy edtech companion app if they did the unsexy work of teaching. Gamification = user growth and engag
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The standard was an 8GB SSD and a screen no larger than 8.9inches, 16:9. Asus and Acer started putting mechanical HDDs and bumping up the screen size to 11.6 inches, making netbooks look like "cheap laptops" to the regular person.
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And yet it has prevented a wider military confrontation over Taiwan, Kashmir, North Korea and continental Europe after WWII.
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There's a difference between preventing war and preventing a wider world war. Trade links persisting even when countries are opposed to each other contributes to a certain level of global order between the biggest powers.
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They've been slathered with money, PR and attention for years before even making a single penny in profit. At some point that creates a sense of cognitive dissonance that's hard to shake.
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The PC term for this is "founder mode".
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The Canadian elections are structurally different though. Not everybody changed their mind, the Conservatives won more seats than before. What happened was that Bloc Quebecois and NDP voters broke ranks to vote in a Liberal MP for their rid
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> I suppose one silver lining is people ordering less crap? By government decree. What other decisions should government make on our behalf?
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Exactly, I can't see how something like that could develop faster in peacetime.
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You did the meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
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The PC market is too enshittified for this to happen. Companies no longer differentiate on hardware but on "subscriptions and services". Portable gaming machines like Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally and some indie OEMs are the closest t
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Netbooks were so underrated. Small screen, full-OS laptops for $300 at a time before the iPad/iOS era of dumbing down computers. I wrote most of my undergrad thesis on a Dell Mini, with STATA installed for regression analysis. 9-inch s

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