My guess is that it started simple. Early caterpillars probably didn't metamorph into something so drastically different. Even earlier ones probably barely had something that resembles metamorphosis.
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People who own the means of production, the factories, the mines, the farms, the power stations, … etc. will control who they sell their goods to and for how much.
Having to rely on the government is scary. If you got a bad government you are so screwed. You have nigh zero leverage as you have nothing to offer anyone.
People who own nothing that can produce continuous value will not have anything to trade with in the long term and will effectively be excluded from the economy.
What if the Udon Noodle Monster exist and he intensely hates people who worship someone else instead of him but is neutral on people who don’t worship at all.
You pretty much only see instagram content when you visit a specific person’s page and that’s all you will ever see.
Nice thing about Stack Overflow is it’s self-correcting most of the time thanks to,
GPT not so much.
This is bad. If you don’t have newbie programmers, you won’t have senior programmers.
Unfortunately the trick doesn’t work on early AMD K5/6 nor Cyrix CPUs - although Cyrix CPUs probably had other more serious problems.
The OG transient execution CPU vulnerability, Spectre, works on Intel, AMD, modern ARM-based, and IBM processors.
Well, the segment of the intelligentsia that doesn’t support the regime are generally executed or sent to labor camps to die.
So yes, eventually “supported by a lot if not most of of the intelligentsia”.
Console manufacturers charge a separate per unit royalty for every game published for their consoles, typical in the range of 10-20%.
That’s how they make most of their money before online stores - the console is sold at near break even typically but they do earn on extra accessories.
The store charges are separate and independent.
30% is the standard retail cut if I’m right. So if you sell your game at Walmart, they take 30% too.
Edit: There is actually a way to bypass Steam’s cut - provide by Valve strangely enough - if I’m right. As developer you can mint as many API keys for your games as you like and sell those through other means. Your customers will still download and play through Steam but Steam gets nothing - i.e. you use their infrastructure for free; of course they would get their cut from copies sold via their store.
The internet though is mostly chaos. There are gatekeepers, e.g. Google, but they don’t curate much - using a blacklist approach rather than whitelist - and instead just organize the information making it findable.
Niche ideas get air time and now compete in the market place of ideas.
So has Windows.
With multi-core CPUs, it’s easy to do so without impacting performance in most cases.
That has been happening way before Covid.
IMHO it started with the internet. Pre-internet the flow of information is gatekept by traditional media - newspapers, radio, TV, … etc. Everyone watched, listened to, read more or less the same things. This resulted in a more uniform set of opinions and more common ground between people.
The internet broke all that. People could choose what they watch/listen/read and different people picked different things, coming to very different conclusions. In the past you could ask someone if they watched X last night and there is a decent probability they did. Today it’s much harder to find common ground - you could both be on YouTube but watching completely different things.
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Movies seem to be simpler back then. Watched Sleepless in Seattle a while back. I heard it was very popular back in the day. Well … I’m not that impressed, sorry to say. The plot is very simple and a little weird when viewed using today’s social mores. Direction and pacing is adequate. Or maybe I just don’t get it.
I think “things got more complicated” as “information velocity” increased, first with newspapers, then the radio, then TV, and finally the internet - the internet can even be broken down into before ubiquitous social media, before internet video became “trivial”, …
That would depend on who is your government.
Frankly, if it's the higher end jobs getting replaced first that would likely spill over to the lower end ones as the those people who lost their jobs resort to taking lower end work to survive, flooding the market.
What are the people not work going to eat?
So you expect there to be less of us?
Imagine everyone who is selling labor today out of a job.
There will also be an over supply of people willing to offer it because they have nothing else to offer in trade for basic necessities.
No reason they wouldn’t be provide physical bodies eventually.