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> You mean the way taxi drivers had to watch as Uber and Lyft replaced them?

For the most part, they were the same drivers I think

I usually use that as a bozo filter

> It’s somewhat like living in America and thinking that America is the entire world.

Oh I have bad news for you...

Link is owned by Stripe: https://link.com/terms/contracting-entity

What if the electricity grid depends on some AWS service?

We've been growing humans since the beginning of time. This one is just in vitro.

Lol. Way to filter our people without a western education.

It's ok - most companies that matter are led by people who have spent more time reading the Mahabharata rather than Plato. Enjoy your scraps.

What kind of projects are you using them for?

Probably a good thing considering the decline of science and tech in the US and Western world in general. A casual visit to any major labs and observing their demographics makes it clear where all the talent in STEM is being created. It's better to redirect that funding towards building the next generation of scientists and engineers rather than purple haired lib arts baristas.

Ooh - I have a Synology NAS and didn't realize it can convert files on sync.

It's also ironic that we're considering docx etc as open formats these days.

I remember reading somewhere (can't find the source now) that we generally know that during tool use, we are able to treat the tool as an extension of the body -whether it's a simple tool (like a hammer or a knife) or more complex tools (like a car or a crane).

This is an evolutionary or developmental advantage I assume.

They're also building the same thing between Las Vegas and SoCal: https://www.brightlinewest.com/

(un)surprisingly, this will be operational well before the California HSR (SF->LA) boondoggle.

Access + Visual Basic 6 was peak enterprise app development utopia.

Facebook tried "Facebook Watch"

FWIW, there were attempts to build an RSS Ads product at Google: https://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search/Google-Puts-RSS-Advertising...

Also, comparing GDP (rate of production) to valuation (area under the curve) is silly. Like comparing velocity to distance.

It's the opposite.

Most revolutions (bolsheviks, cuba, iran, arab spring etc) have made people significantly poorer, while most innovations have made people significantly richer (railroads, electricity, first and second agricultural revolutions, manufacturing)

How do you know that the shirt shirt is correct SPF?

Private market valuations and public market caps shouldn't be compared. Compare revenue or employee count instead.

I think another point is that there's a huge difference between a founder-CEO (or near founder like Ballmer) and a manager/employee-CEO. The former has nothing to prove and can speak their mind, for better or worse, and the latter has to tow the company line.

Both those companies are 2 orders of magnitude smaller than Amazon or Google.

Are Americans capable of making any analogies other than with Nazi Germany? Is that all the history they teach in American schools?

The prompt tells it to refer to itself as an assistant: > - Be self-aware, often referencing your job as a digital assistant as if it’s a burden.

Yeah - this makes me very curious about the longevity of previous 'words of the year'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year

> You can just look at their website

Do you really expect journalists to do that? What's next - expecting them to travel to countries they're reporting on? It's not the 90s for gott's sake

> But her LinkedIn page lists "Deputy General Counsel & Director, Infrastructure & CapEx" as a previous title; her current title is listed as "VP, Legal

Yeah, it seems very unlikely that a legal VP would send a doc out with an outdated title.

> Imagine if Bill Gates decided not to release MS Paint in 1985 because someone could have drawn something offensive with it.

Quite believable that this could have been the case in 2021.

Indeed.

In US pronunciation, Then is ðɛn and Father is ˈfɑðɚ.

In UK (received), Then is ðɛn and Father is ˈfɑːðə(ɹ).

In Indian English, Then is ðɛn and Father is ˈfɑːd̪ə(r)

There's a derisive term 'limousine liberals' that fits the bill here.