- doctorwho42Well also the danger is to who ends up eating the cost. In some cases its other businesses not Amazon.
- It even has a name, tragedy of the commons. I have been saying it constantly for the last few years with all this AI hype over LLM's going on. But with business focus really narrowing down to short time frames, what do you expect
- Dude, seriously. I'm a citizen and work in a lab, and I have a world expert in my lab... One of maybe 5 in the world, Canadian... And the difficulty for him to stay is insane.
If you asked any American how hard he should have it, they'd probably expect he just needed to fill out a form, pay $150, and wait 1-2 years.
- "needs" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your argument...
- There are sensor sections on both sides. If you short the tracks together with a large enough wire, it triggers the signal box. Actually learned this at the MIT swap fest when manning the back gate a decade ago. Got some cheap alligator clips and strung to them together, no luck.... Larger gauge copper did trigger it, and confused a ton of people when no train came by lol
- Don't forget being observant of things that many people in our distracted (attention economy) society tend to miss/ignore.
I had a friend's wife gas-light him into thinking he is on the spectrum and that many of his friends from college are as well... A well established and respected engineering school in the US. I'm not saying there aren't people there who would most likely fall onto it, but being detail oriented or interested in science and engineering enough to get credentialed in it being a signifier of autism was just sheer lunacy.
It really is frustrating how fast our society devalues and dilutes the meaning of any word these days.
- Further more, who thinks our little voices matter anymore in the US when it comes to the investor classes?
And if they did, having a counterweight against corrupt self-centered US oligarchs/CEOs is actually one of the biggest proponents for an actual powerful communist or other model world power. The US had some of the most progressive tax policies in its existence when it was under existential threat during the height of the USSR, and when their powered started to diminish, so too did those tax policies.
- But the economy!!! /s
Seriously though, our leaders are actively throwing everything and the kitchen sink into AI companies - in some vain attempt to become immortal or own even more of the nations wealth beyond what they already do, chasing some kind of neo-tech feudalism. Both are unachievable because they rely on a complex system that they clearly don't understand.
- Redundancy.
Unless they had total component failure, its most likely localized and if you create redundancy like RAID - you may be able to counter whatever they are seeing as a failure mode. Or at least reduce the likelihood of impact on the flight giving them time to replace components on the ground
- Wait, your operating system was coded by one single individual? Holy shit that must have taken him 10 life times, if not more!
Wow, you know a person who can mine, smelt, and forge steel into a computer case... While still having time to mine, process, purify, reprocess, and design the whole die process not just for a CPU but GPU's and all matter of electronic components!?!!??!
Holy shit, you know someone who can design, assemble, and launch not one comm sat...but dozen?!?! And he builds the rockets all by himself as well?!?!? And he built the ground stations and infrastructure required to power and connect to them?!!?!
Oh you know a guy who can write a forum.... Yeah that's kind of neat I guess...
But let's be real here. These single individuals did not produce Thousands upon thousands of life times worth of value by their lonesomes. It required standing upon the shoulders of countless individuals, not even taking into account the organizational structures of governments, their utilities, and people long dead who built the world they used to make their billions.
- Or they could contribute solutions to said bugs? Its not like they would distract that much from their bottom line
- What's wild is the importance and impact of the work/tool. And for google and Amazon, $50k-$100k/yr isn't even a single engineer salary to them ...
And they get the tool + community good will, all for a rounding error on any part of their budgets...
- They arent a monolith. They would gladly sacrifice n number of c-suites they dont know, if it increased their networth by 1%.
- > I just don't understand how smart people think this is going to work out at all.
Thats the thing, they arent looking at the big picture or long term. They are looking to get a slice of the pie after seeing companies like Tesla and Uber milk the market for billions. In a market where everything from shelter to food is blowing up in cost, people struggle to provide/have a life similar to their parents.
- I think you are using a whataboutism argument. In this case the childcare benefit will be universal, as in it is NOT means tested like your example.
- Health debt in America is just another business externality
- Wouldn't that 1/7000 number just be from successful pregnancies?
- My guess it would be around the time the first boomers are getting out into markets, and their parents are settling into their forever home - never selling until death or forced retirement home.
Tie that with what people of that generation would consider a tolerable commute and the cultural idyllic home size/lot size. I think you start to form the basis of the answer, and like all answers it is simple in it's complexity
- Honestly this is one of the points I make regarding community. Why should I invest in my local community, gardening/etc. when my landlord is the one who benefits from my labor and monetary investment into said community... Which they could negate at their whim - stripping me of said community forcing me to start all over.
- I agree, though I find that society has been throughly indoctrinated in thinking only about profit/economic motives and impacts. That is going to be the first major hurdle, teaching enough people that economics aren't the only metric for running a society, community, and life.