WanderingThoughts

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 points 4 hours ago

Some doubt the potential for growth with satellite internet. It's still expensive for developing countries. It doesn't have enough capacity for handling cities so that leaves rural customers in western countries and they're not the biggest or richest customer base to build on.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There are many professionals driving a bit oversized vehicles, like small cargo trucks and large vans. But these people are smart enough to know they don't fit in a standard parking spot.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Notice how those French places are not a total ruin.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And it'll be used to suppress wages, because "you're not making new stuff, just fixing some problems in existing code." That you have to rewrite most of it is conveniently not counted.

That's at least what was tried with movie writers.

This'll be closer to the collapse of the Soviet Union, when living in said union.

So that makes him a classic useful idiot.

With the way things are going over there, the whole thing falls apart soon enough and this issue can be fixed in the rebuild.

Much of the craze is almost religious. You have for example Singularitarianism. Basically "Man creates AI, which will create artificial general intelligence, which will create artificial super intelligence, which will bring us the singularity, release us from drudgery and give us eternal life."

Measure once, pay twice?

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Garbage in, garbage out. These logos represent the latter.

Stock markets don't create or destroy money. They just move it around. Mostly from the poor to the rich.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Lactose for me. No more cheese or ice cream or it's also back to 6/day. Luckily there is medicine for the occasional treat.

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