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$400 check, and $400k in PPP loans that I will totally repay (if I have to)

They attract mosquitoes

AI overlords gettin desperate for more chips

Yeah, they cherry-pick that average income is up vs previous generations, adjusted for inflation.

Okay, but… cost of living has gone up.

Not just for the things that existed 40 years ago, but also from the new things that are necessary for maintaining a career, like broadband internet and a smartphone.

Needing a fucking subscription for your toaster or hair dryer or stairs or whatever. Having to tip your landlord.

They had a guy in the article that owes 200k in student loans! This is not apples-to-apples.

And also, so what if it’s up in average? Inequality is the worst it’s ever been. They barely sneak an asterisk in to address that, too.

It is capitalism we’re experiencing, but it’s treating capitalism as the only tool in the toolbox and structuring an entire culture around it.

Markets work great for some things. Not everything. Currency works great for some things. Not everything.

Anonymous transferrable shares of ownership, and all of the abstract financial instruments that spin out of that one simple mechanism… are honestly not very good for many things at all, but they’ve become the primary assets that our economy optimizes for.

The coffee mug. And the chair… my god, the chair.

The medical labs probably don’t walk away from it with a perpetual license to monetize your DNA however they see fit

I should be cynical about AI and labor displacement, but…

Does anyone actually want to wreck their bodies by walking all over a giant warehouse and lifting heavy unwieldy objects?

Now the robots will do all of that.

We’ll just need some humans to uh… follow them around the warehouse… and move them when they break down. (This is totally different, you see.)

And do the original task that glitched it out. And dodge all of the other robots while doing so. And be paid less because we have robots now.

To get a stable internet, we need redundancy.

To get redundancy, it needs to be cost-effective to implement.

To be cost-effective, there needs to be a high degree of interoperability between cloud providers.

To get a high degree of interoperability, providers need to believe that they can actually turn a profit by adopting an existing API and offering it to devs with better pricing, or performance, or tooling, etc. than the incumbent players.

Pretty much impossible with the current state of AWS. The only viable route is antitrust law. Break it up into ten smaller companies. You can still use all ten, but in order to do that they’ll need to have a pluggable interface that any cloud provider could implement and compete through.

Kingslayer85 is an okay name I guess

Yall are worried about banks when a massive bet on AI makes up over 30% of the S&P 500?

Tim Curry