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- jimmyddddIt was a metaphor. It's not meant to be literal. It helps to prompt questions like -- "why do we create the fiction that every job from janitor, to scientist to marketing requires precisely 40 hrs per week, every week?" It also helps explore ideas like, "if I got an illness and could only work one hour a day to keep my business running, how would I do it?" In other words, it's helpful to exlore our use of time.
- It seems to offer interesting opportunities for young recent high level MBA's.
- "It does that sometimes." I guess for some reason the minimum wage cashier was not fully invested in maximizing the customer experience.
- Not wanting to help the rich get richer means you'll be fighting an uphill battle. The rich typically have more money to spend. And as others have commented, not doing anything AI related in 2025-2026 is going to further limit the business. Good luck though.
- This! A "silver lining" from the current adminstration is that we've become aware that we've left way to much to custom. It's time to put some laws in place to act as hard guard rails. Or, as another commentor mentions, incentivise congress to exert control as they are supposed to do.
- My grandfather was a mechanic and told me how replacing a dashboard light in some models required removing large portions of the engine to access the socket.
- I remember being in a Mercedes in France in the 80's and noticing it had manual crank windows. My dad in the US (even then!) hated added electronics in cars so he went to a Mercedes dealer and they explained that in the US we could only get fully loaded models.
- greg.technology is a great person for putting time and effort into this. Faith in humanity restored!
- They want to to shut down large portions of the government. For example, they want to completely eliminate all public education, not make it more efficient.
- What is it supposed to do? When I click on a country, I get a pop up with a flag and a link to Wikipedia?
- ---innovate instead of litigate. Agreed, but there has to be a balance. In some cases, it could also be looked at as favoring marketers over innovators. On the copyright side, you could also argue about why ChatGPT should have to be slowed down by these copyright trolls (i.e. authors) who want to extract funds from them. Just let them innovate!
- During the 9/11 attacks in NYC, the folks in the second tower were instructed to stay in the building after a plane struck the first building. Also good advice until a second plane struck.
- In NY city, I've noticed that taxi drivers will get agressive when we are stuck in traffic. They will start honking, yelling, or changing from one almost stopped lane to another almost stopped lane. I always thought it was theatrical, to show me that they were trying hard, and not just letting the fee increase while they sat stopped in traffic.
- My wife had high cholesterol numbers, so her doctor wanted to give her statins. She asked about a scan, he begrudgingly said well, I guess you could do that. Her scan showed 0 plaque.
- I agree. He's always constantly testing limits, exploring gray areas, bending rules and "breaking" gentlemen's agreements. We should take this opportunity to limit the rights of presidents. Apparently, the president can shut down half of the government departments via executive order. How? Because they were created by executive order. How can he just shut down the department of Education without congress? Because Carter created it by executive order without congress. A variety of presidents have had us invade foreign countries without Congress declaring war. Let's take this opportunity to tighten things up.
- I think what folks are getting at is that it might not have been an outright scam. Just a third-party company that charged for its help desk. Many folks are willing pay for services like email that they could have otherwise gotten for free. The "scam" may have been more on the part of Google which elevates paid links to the top of the search results.
- In the 1980's IBM had some marketing promotion in the US and distributed brochures and posters at different computer seller chains. The prominently displayed phone number had a typo and it was instead my parents' land line.
Surprisingly, they didn't get that many calls, and IBM corrected the number in the next round of marketing. So they never had to change their number.
- A family member helped start up a call center for UPS back in the 90's, for their shipping software. The problem she was working on was that the average time for a call to be answered was 60 seconds, and they were trying to get it to 45 seconds. They also had formal tiers of agents that could quickly escalate a call to a technical expert if needed. The golden age of call centers I guess.
- Youtube as we know it will probably be dead in a few years anyway. Tiktok has shortened everyone's attention span. I shockingly found myself clicking away from one of my favorite classic rock songs from my youth because I didn't want to stay the entire 3 minutes.