In what world are landowners not hurt the most by SF turning into cyberpunk bedlam?
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As someone who keeps tabs on the products I can pretty quickly get an intuition for what they mean, but the semantics do no favors. They're just placeholders for 'better' and 'best' when used in various combinations. But once you stop labeling the base model (such as plainly 'Macbook') you're not qualifying what the marketing term is trying to convey (what is it 'better' than?). 'Air' as opposed to...? 'Pro' compared to...a product you no longer sell? 'Ultra' or 'Plus' for phones but 'Pro' for desktop OSs?
If you tried to chart out the marketing terms used in the tech hardware industry it would look like the Always Sunny Charlie Conspiracy meme.
Really bizarre practice that doesn't actually make it easier for the consumer, as the year of release becomes the number instead.
The Constitution draws its concept of rights from philosophy surrounding natural rights. If you're not using the word in that context you're talking about something else.
Well done!
Looking back, only math is a useful class in high school (of which I only liked Geometry at the time). The other classes are too low res to be deeply engaging if you're really curious.
Traditional schooling also has a terrible model of punishing curiosity in that if you demonstrate a passion for the material it likely just ends up with more work/homework (AP classes, special credit) instead of acceleration to the next tier of education on that topic. The grade school education system does nothing to reward academic excellence, literally nothing. If you get an A then thats it. You're still locked in with everyone else, so whats the point?
People return their shopping carts because its the right thing to do, but also there is minimal cost. As the cost ramps up the calculation for a 'selfless' act is effectively inverted to bias self interest instead.
This is how you get the current state of the financial sector. Ironically altruism is so cynically dismissed that its actually used as a marketing strategy to pursue self interest, with no one bothering to disassemble it because no one believes thats the motivation anyway (see: subsidizing homeowners with bad credit using homeowners with good credit). Leaving the only people who do believe it functioning out of partisanship and lack of curiosity.
'Abnormal' behavior is exponential in its effects. Much like a fire, it only stops if contained. Thats why total laissez faire deregulation is naïve. Even if most people do the right thing, society is not silo'd from the minority who does the bad things.
The first major dip was right in early lockdown era. Now i'm finding articles to have increasingly less relevance/substance related to their headlines in the period of the last month or so.
It seems like the easy answer is AI, but I think AI would do a better job. Am I wrong?
One of the best parts about social media is watching swarms of people who know nothing pivot around things you know something about.
The latter point isn't a bug it's a feature. Reddit is designed to function that way. The owners/execs have never expressed any interest in countering it outside of the limpest lip service imaginable.