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..Or will we only see this support when it comes to Liberal/Leftist politicians?
Many of these complaints are fascism in diaguise. You complain and want laws changed when it comes to your candidate and don't want the same rules to apply to the opposition.
Macs are what Linux on the Desktop has promised for the last two decades.
This is a political donation, not 'bribes'. Every wealthy person in the United States does this. Why focus on Musk? When Zuckerberg spent $500 million to stop Republicans in elections across the country, did we see these same articles? It's just so convenient how these things only go one way.
"In fact, just this last week, Musk intimated that James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Texas Senate, was in a mental hospital in Ohio… "
He was in a hospital for weeks with the 'flu' and looks completely healthy. This is suspicious.
The main problem is that Liberals pushed too hard for EVs without the proper infrastructure. Then they wanted to give no incentive to buy them by removing tax incentives for drivers.
The rising cost of electricity doesn't help either.
Countries like China are getting ahead because they can easily get cheap energy in the form of coal. They don't care about regulations.
Besides, Parler had the same fate and was forced to change their infrastructure. Instead of the government, it was big tech colluding with the Biden administration.
I thought this was a good thing, according to all of the articles and comments I saw shortly after on HN.
There was much more than this as well and it was well documented in a Rolling Stone article after the election.
Now that someone you don't like might use these same tactics, you want to stop the 'cheating'.
Get in line with the Republicans and others that lost their jobs and livelihood over having this opinion.
I will echo the statement of the security community during that time that our elections are the most safe and secure in the history of the United States.
Want evidence? ................... (this is what we got after Biden won, along with massive bannings and shutdown of online speech). I stopped taking many in the security community seriously after this when they can be swayed so easily by public opinion.
They are nothing more than political hacks with no integrity.
I found multiple critical bugs (ability to access other user accounts without even having to guess or know the username) and they patched them, told me they were 'informative' and didn't pay me anything.
It might take a decade to take what we learned from AI and turn it into something that will benefit the masses.
Most of it can't be broken down into something as simplistic as a dishwasher.
Most people won't notice cancers being found faster due to AI being better at pattern recognition than a doctor, but it's still a great benefit.
Before rampant piracy, independent musicians could tour small clubs and sell music. I knew many artists that basically lost their entire business due to piracy within a year.
Nobody was willing to pay for music online, but sharing it for free was fine.
I have the same reaction now that many here and in the tech industry have had over the last decade or two:
Times change and you aren't owed a living. If you can't make money with the new AI landscape, I guess you should be going into a different industry.
FOSS licensing won't matter much anymore when you can use LLMs that make changes to a code base and it looks nothing like the original.
We needed protections 25 years ago, but too many in the industry didn't want to give up the free games, movies, music, and software.
Now that it's hitting their bottom line, there's talks of unions and protections from the government.
I'm pretty tired of the hypocrisy.
Why should I care now?
I'm a consultant. This is what I'm doing now and 3x my income.
Unions are designed to prevent things like automation, because it will replace human workers. My cousin is in the postal workers union and they are still doing everything by hand for things like accounts payable. The reason is that 4 people can now have a job, even though it's extremely inefficient. This could have been made more efficient with technology we had 15+ years ago.
It was the same with the taxi cab unions before Lyft and Uber came around. Getting a cab in a big city was the worst experience ever. It was all done over the phone. Uber and Lyft forced them to actually compete and they modernized it with a phone app, which is a much better experience for customers.
For a company that relies on changing technology, this is a death sentence.
Why should they do this? Now is the time to see how far we can go with AI. What we need to do is hand down punishments and jail time for the model/AI providers for serious incidents with AI that could have been prevented, but weren't due to negligence.
The other fascinating thing is that they all outsource their IT services to Deloitte. Think about that next time you get laid off suddenly and don't know why.
Many don't seem to realize or care that this is the end game for Socialism and the DSA.
If things were run properly, California could have some of the best services available instead of increased deficits every year.