- SrslyJosh parentBecause it's simpler, duh. </sarcasm>
- > The middle class have financially benefited very little from the past 20+ years of productivity gains.
More like the last 50 years.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...
"For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades"
The TL;DR is that in 1964 the average hourly wage was $20.27. As of 2018, average hourly wage was $22.65.
- The key word here is "if".
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robert-jr-caruso-23080180_ai-...
- > An October 2024 report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime described the use of Starlink in fraud operations. About 80 “Starlink satellite dishes linked to cyber-enabled fraud operations” were seized between April and June 2024 in Myanmar and Thailand, the report said. Starlink is prohibited in both countries.
They knew about it over a year ago.
From a Wired article ("Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online"):
> Starlink connections appeared to be helping criminals at Tai Chang to “scam Americans” and “fuel their internet needs,” West alleged at the end of July 2024. She offered to share more information to help the company in “disrupting the work of bad actors.” > SpaceX and Starlink never replied, West claims.
The whole article is worth a read.
- See also: 3 Blue 1 Brown's fantastic series on deep learning, particularly videos like "Transformers, the tech behind LLMs".
My own mental model (condensed to a single phrase) is that LLMs are extremely convincing (on the surface) autocomplete. So far, this model has not disappointed me.
- > And to understand that while Apple's mission is to provide a walled garden, Windows has been and is used in a million different scenarios.
You're conflating the vertical integration of hardware and software (Apple's walled garden) with Microsoft's current direction (you can't use Windows without MS online services).
Microsoft has never given a damn about customers being free to use the software the way they want to. In light of how the company is behaving today, the "openness" of Windows WRT to hardware was clearly only about market share.
- Etsy is thoroughly fucked and full of mass-produced junk. "Local" could just mean buying from the nearest person who's reselling stuff from Ali Express.
And have you noticed what sellers on Amazon are doing? Foreign companies are setting up distribution in the US and registering their US companies with Amazon as "small businesses" and "minority-owned businesses", making those labels utterly useless.
- Who needs that, though? Is buying things that hard and time-consuming?
> In a few weeks it will become "buy dogfood", and it will just do the thing, knowing you get some certain food from Chewy
I have autoship orders set up with Chewy. Stuff arrives on a schedule and I get a small discount. I don't need an overhyped autocomplete fucking things up for me, especially when I can just set up a subscription myself and forget about it.