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Starlink?

> the provider owning the device, not the user

That's been the case since they got rid of removable batteries. You don't own a device you can't reliably turn off.

Yep. AI is wonderful for IP laundering and accountability laundering (is this even a term? It is now!)

This is correct. People on top are very much ego driven and don't forgive those who say no to them or make them look bad.

Yup. It's a power grab.

They could have offered a small fee to the original poster but no, they went straight to robbery.

> I am dumbfounded by the degree of mismatch between capital and utility

That's often a sign of money laundering

Sounds like a kickback

These are sales speeches. They are over hyping it. AI has its niche but they are trying to plug it everywhere. Maybe they have a point. Maybe hooking people up on software tools so they are incompetent without will pay off.

>> Without those agriculture advances

Funny thing is, it wasn't agricultural advances, at least initially. It was chemistry and mechanics. Haber-Bosch process of ammonia synthesis created cheap fertilizer, mechanization dramatically increased productivity. New plant varieties with higher yields came later.

Jeebezus. He's either delusional or a scammer. Can't tell atm

Another peak of cynicism is that the owners try to argue that the "service charge" is legally not a tip so it doesn't need to be distributed to workers.

> Then comes that other discovery

A lot of us don't get it until the first big loss.

The thing about autocracies, there is nobody to stop an obviously wrong decision (for example, Russian invasion of Ukraine).

They don't optimize for our convenience, they optimize for their profit.

Oh no, LLMs won't disappear but they will be a lot less loud.

Progress is often an S shaped curve and we are nearing saturation.

This made me thinking about broader optical corrections. I got an iPhone 16, and the photos look overprocessed. There is a cartoonish HD-like feel to them. I understand where developers are coming from: our eyes have higher dynamic range than cameras so HDR is closer to what we see but still... it doesn't sit right with me. I still remember when my family switched from black and white TV to a color one. It was an instant improvement and no adjustment period was needed. But HDR as a default looks strange.

Try taurine supplements. If you feel better it could be Long Covid.

> aggressive neglect for 811

Texas regulations are quite something. My friend told me that the closest thing to regulation and zoning they have is... an HOA. This was the first time in my life I heard anything positive about HOAs.

> the only reason for the cap

Correct. It was a very calculated decision. They were squeezing out profits by trying to move heavy users to the next tier of service. But this only works if they have a monopoly.

> Outside of the major cities, Internet service falls off extremely quickly

I live half an hour from a state capital and my only option is cable... the coaxial cable they laid bare on my flower bed decades ago. I dig it up about every other year when planting. It's not even in a conduit!

> Any time any customers are experiencing an outage, maybe because of a lawnmower that cut their service line

Whoa, they are laying cable just like that, in the open?

Any form meaning passwords too?

Yeah, just check how many alternative versions they provided for MH17 downing.

Nah. It's just they are upselling us AI so aggressively it doesn't pass the sniff test anymore.

Oh well, at least the futuristic sunglasses are back in fashion.

> say it’s good enough

How do they know?

> An underrated concern (IMO) is the impact of COVID on cognition

Car accidents came down from the Covid uptick but only slightly. Aviation... ugh. And there is some evidence it accelerates Altzheimer's and other dementias. We are so screwed.

Left where?

At least it allows links; Instagram doesn't without paying.