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Only if you are running your own servers. You dont get to depreciate a SaaS subscription or metered bill.

And not only in a paying the bills sort of way. An actor that was never in a bad movie isn’t taking enough creative risks.

W got down into the 20s in his second term. The bottom is somewhere around there.

Basic math no, but math programs advanced to focus on fractions over decimal calculations right around the time students started carrying calculators in their watches.

Maybe the bigger problem is that the education system is teaching things that AI is already able to ace. Love it or hate it, AI isnt going away and it also has serious and persistent shortfalls that probably wont be resolved without further breakthroughs. We should stop feeding students busy work and pretending its an education.

Thats true, but its also inserting some big assumptions into your retirement plans. For example, if you looked at 1955 - 1990 instead of 1990 to 2025 for your historical rate, youd need to double the target again to keep up with inflation. If you went back another 35 years the whole thing implodes on asset yields.

Your forgetting inflation. You have to target the amount of saving you need at the end, not at the beginning. Double or triple the amount you are aiming for, if your lucky.

That almost never works. By the time a monopoly starts to crumble the rot is systemic. In this case, every single internal stakeholder at MS is going to sabotage the project as soon as someone tells them their baby cant use 3GB of ram and track every mouse click the user makes while it forces flashing ads onto the screen.

Hilarious. Nobody goes through the trouble of achieving multiple monopolies just to give people what they want.

There are parts of the world where the Facebook app basically is the Internet. Places where most people dont own a laptop, but everyone has a cell phone and phone service comes bundled with discounted Facebook data. Their hold goes way beyond social networking to, local businesses and even government services dont have webpages, they have Facebook pages only. Every game people play runs through Facebook, and all their saves are locked up with them. Every video people post or watch runs through Facebook and its hyper localized algorithm. It would take generations to displace them.

This is pretty much what everyone said immediately after Anthropic reached for the “too powerful for the public” excuse. Weve all seen this exact song and dance before. I suppose when you’ve just finished shoveling billions of dollars of speculative funding into a data center inferno its not acceptable to say that you rolled the dice and they came up snake eyes, but its still galling to be lied to so transparently.

You would suspect wrong.

Edit: Seriously, the 90s were a wild time to be a kid if you wernt growing up in a wealthy neighbourhood. We didnt have mass shootings, but there were plenty of regular shootings.

Well stuff from TOS and TNG era productions is pretty sought after by collectors.

But if you check the site, its actually a bunch of big screen TVs that have gotten the most interest, with office furniture and weird looking rocks close behind.

Illegally? No, the NATO allies all work together to catch each other’s dissidents. Just because the US has gone off the rails doesnt mean the EU was innocent.

Im just sick of the marketing disguised as concern and doomsday warnings.

I dont know how many people here are old enough to remember, but there was a time when everyone knew that the Internet was going to be big, and they were pouring big money into it, but they couldnt quite say why it would be big, or what a normal non-nerd person might actually need/want the Internet for. So, they decided it was going to be recipes. People used to have cook books and boxes of notecards, old magazine clipping, etc with recipes, and having the right recipe was kind of a big deal, and the Internet was obviously an easy way to solve this problem. Everyone in the world could share the same giant cookbook, any time they wanted, just by paying a modest minutely fee to tie up their home phone line for 20 minutes.

The current AI pitch feels like that, except this time the line is that there might be an extinction level famine because everyone will forget how to cook once they see how great this cookbook is.

Graphics are better than ever, but design itself has been moving at a glacial pace for decades.

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Ive heard more convincing arguments for an economy based on monkey pictures.

Yea, well we need to make them not suck then.

That doesnt sound like what he said at all. He just said that some AI toy might become a billion dollar trend…which really, making interactive toys should have been the first place these things were deployed. I want game NPCs with dynamic personalities and adaptive reactions. I want games that can handle the player stepping off the map by dynamically new content around them. And if they cant make an AI that can challenge an experienced human at a 4x game without cheating, the whole idea of an AI founding an actual billion dollar company is a pipe dream.