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We really don’t need innovation in every corner of our lives. It could have just stayed as normal landlines phones with a fix cost paid by the prisons.

I don’t think the free market has a ton to offer for basic services that should be guaranteed.

Look at American internet, plenty of supposed options but terrible rates and performances compared to Europe. Yes we’re more spread out but that doesn’t begin to explain service sucking in a city with limited options.

That’s helpful a perspective. Pi4 isn’t that much more.

Has the Raspberry Pi tripled in price since launch? I was skeptical of all these threads of “this is better” but it doesn’t seem like it’s as ridiculously affordable as it once was.

Right? Airdrop "just works" and so does copy paste between devices.

If this is a better AirDrop I'm all here for it. AirDrop was already leaps and bounds better than email my android phone to my PC.

> That's like trying to determine vehicle speed from a camera rather than sensors on the tires or whatever.

Don’t give him any ideas. Seems like he has the “not built here” complex

> That's like trying to determine vehicle speed from a camera rather than sensors on the tires or whatever.

Don’t give him any ideas

> But why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics?

There's plenty of examples against your case already in the comments against other points but the reason medical care is so damn expensive is the same reason your internet bill is so expensive (for poor quality): lack of choice.

You don't really have an option to haggle or shop around for the best plan when you broke a leg and are being rushed to the nearest hospital.

You made the choice on plan half year ago when you were healthy and you're in no state to have a calm discussion with the ambulance about what has the best price per value with your tibia jutting out of where your calf should be.

Obviously because no one would ever opt in.

It's also making sure AI is aligned with "our" intent and that "our" is a board made up of large corporations.

If AI did run away and do it's own thing (seems super unlikely) it's probably a crapshoot as to whether what it does is worse than the environmental apocalypse we live in where the rich continue to get richer and the poor poorer.

Pretty sure the cause of death "seeming very plausible" is highly valued.

Sure, but I'm not sure why we have to invent excuses for companies. They create them themselves just fine.

Yeah, but line must go up or there will be blood.

I feel like the business world feels the need to overhype any loses to justify whatever measure are about to come.

Company has had a long head start, and could have focused on core assets of a car instead of dreams that never happened and seem likely to never happen.

Not withstanding how folks might reasonably hate the CEO, or want different features than offered by the two main selling affordable cars, Consumer Reports is pretty easy to check and there are far, far, more reliable electric cars at this point.

The reality distortion field of "every negative thing out there is just a personal attack out to destroy Musk" only holds out for so long.

I was shopping at winco a couple years back, which is employee owned, and one of the cashiers was in his 40s/50s and mentioned he had a couple million in retirement.

Very cool to hear, dude will likely be better off than me. Employee owned corporations are good.

There was a major airbag flaw which affected most cars from Japan for like a decade, and it just kept growing. I always kind of assumed that was if there was a recall of that magnitude out of the blue it would rock a lot of boats so it was trickled out. *Takata I believe.

This one does seem a lot more stupid though.

Taken in isolation it’s an interesting point, but with the long history of every evangelical saying the same thing for two hundred years and being found to be wrong, a lot less interesting.

It's just far more likely to get you in trouble if you steal from the more powerful, IMO

> And, almost always, most would have made more money and had a more profitable career if they had simply stopped stealing and starting working honestly.

> I mean, figure it out. An embezzler has to not only do his or her job well so that no one is looking over his or her shoulder but has to do their job so well that they can steal for months or years and it won’t show up.

Performance and pay aren't 1:1, and sometimes quite far from it. That imbalance or perceived imbalance could certainly drive some to embezzle. Bit of a just world fallacy there.

> Apple is already failing to compete if their only competitive tactic is lock-in

Chrome has plenty of anti-competitive practices that aren't under scrutiny. Nudges in all Google owned software to switch, breaking features in other browsers (Firefox Whoops).

Like, I guess I'd be way more "pro this lawsuit" if Google was under similar scrutiny.

They won't ever have a monopoly on a browser engine though, or messaging app.

Their monopolistic practices are, arguably, preventing other monopolies. If Safari disappeared 97% of mobile browsers would be Chrome (or use the Chrome engine):

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/world...

Got it, makes sense.

It still seems quite distinct as users aren't forced to have an iPhone, there are widely used alternatives, but folks were forced to have a PC if they wanted a computer for most tasks and situations back in the 90s.

> I don't think giving up is acceptable either.

100% agree here.

I feel like if global actually policy helped we wouldn't be in this "never ending increase in CO2 emission" hellscape we live in now.

Like, not to knock on someone else's work, but I bet if we had globally enforced regulation while we may get nice bylines of "the blue fin tuna has made a rebound" the global fish populations would continue to plummet and the oceans acidify even further.

If you want to go with imaginary algorithms that don’t exist yet (or possibly ever) sure such an imaginary computer or system could do it more efficiently.

I imagine that’s a massive “depends on what you want them to do”

Add numbers, no of course not, write a book though…

> brilliant brain geniuses

If that is ever typed seriously I don't want to be in those comments.

Right… and her direct boss (who doesn’t care about remote) is, by nature of job, not in office.

Its fucked.

A friend who does clerical work and makes less than half of my programmer wage is getting forced into office by a boss who reads trash like this.

After the dust settles from this I bet there will be studies showing lower wage workers were forced into the office just as much if not more than higher paid counter parts.

While she’s fighting to stay remote my job has absolutely no risk of that, same with my coworkers companies we work with.

Every hit from Apple had lots of initial (VALID) gripes, but the experience was worth it to advance the core product and eventually eliminate or accept those limitations.

iPod was the size of a beefy wallet, but was good enough.

iPhone was glorified plastic and websites looked like crap, no app store. But hey, it worked well enough.

That said... this isn't accessibly priced and what's the hook? Like if this launched the same time as Pokemon Go or WoW were taking off alongside it it'd get the social momentum all the other options had.

Also it's better than the competition in key was, but differentiable ways...? AR/VR could very well take off but it's not this year.

Seriously, their first example seems useless to most people. Naming a tab group??? That doesn't take any time, little thought, and who does that regularly?

Summarizing an article seems like something everyone else can do OK. It's a huge avenue for bias (maybe that's why it's reasonably elided) but at least it's actually useful.