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For scale: The global box office revenue of every single nation's film industry combined is about 42 billion dollars as of 2019. Nvidia's growth in market cap of ~350 billion since end of 2022 to 2 trillion today is almost enough to account for the entire 1.6 trillion (6%) growth in US economy for 2023.

Nvidia single-handedly carried the United States of America's 2023 GDP from recession territory (0% growth) to unprecedented massive economic boom (6% growth)!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_industry

https://www.bea.gov/news/2024/gross-domestic-product-fourth-....

I apologize for editing my comment to remove that context in trying to create clarity about my point. I had actually meant to reply to a different (similar) thread. I will reply to your point while acknowledging I edited my original point hoping nobody replied yet.

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Sure. There could be a racist judge, corrupt cop, or absurd law oppressing people in any government system ever. But that does not meet the bar required justify totally "tearing society down and rebuilding everything from scratch" as a Marxist might suggest.

There is no evidence that any alternative system would be better. There is much evidence that alternative systems end up worse. Why not fix problems where you find them instead of throwing the baby away with the bathwater?

Campus activism has been tainted by Marxism. "Critical [race|gender|disability] Theory" is just standard Marxism applied in the social science context. Since Marxism pre-requisitely requires framing everything in the world into a "oppressed vs oppressor, have vs have-not, good vs evil" binary, you will become a target for hostility/harm if you are perceived as somehow privileged.

If isolating/targeting people based on on race/gender/ability bothers you, you should stand up against "Critical (Marxist) Theory" infiltration of activist circles in the social sciences. Activism should be about empowering the needy, not harming the need-nots.

Agreed

If you want to complain about pro athletes making too much compare to STEM, consider that the average aspiring pro ends up making less than minimum wage over the duration of their career.

Only a tiny handful of about 250k high school football-playing seniors are able to find any at all job in their sport (if they even make it to college). Meanwhile, the roughly 100k yearly US CS grads have an unemployment rate of maybe 10%.

Unfortunately, as a practicing Muslim, I can report that doesn't help much. On the plus side, my infection doesn't flare up too often -- And when it does, I have some mitigations I usually take to get it to taper off.

Yep. Its inside me :)

I could probably get decolonized by simultaneously hospitalizing myself, my family, and bleaching everything we own while we get pumped with heavy anti-biotic cocktails -- But that just isn't worth it to me.

I didn't pick up regular staph -- I picked up an already moderately resistant strain that became more resistant due to treatments stopped too-early due to both allergic reactions (my issue), illness/vomiting due to collapsed "stomach biome" (my issue), and undersized prescription lengths (doctors issue).

I have been colonized with "mostly" dormant MRSA for a couple years now. The idea of ever needing surgery terrifies me because I know I could die from a flareup in the "weakened" part of my body.

I tried fighting it in the past but the stomach damage from long treatment regiments just wasn't worth it, not to mention the risk of getting reinfected from my home. I hope a non-harmful and reliable cure is available someday.

Crime is high when people have nothing to lose and something to gain. It shouldn't be so politically controversial to say that both carrot and stick are needed to prevent+reduce crime.

Reform idea:

Capital gains tax should be split into two categories: Medium term (1+ year) and very long term (7+ years). Very long term tax would be much lower than today's tax, while medium term would be higher. This reform would reduce MBA's plundering company goodwill and trust for short-term quarterly boosts and reward long-term thinking.

Sorry to hear, wishing you well.

I have a 2013 Samsung Ativ Book 6, the younger brother of your machine! The display broke twice, the keyboard is 85% unresponsive, HDD got replaced with SSD, and jampacked a larger (Ativ Book 8) battery inside.

Physical issues aside, it runs Windows 11 passably for a backup PC -- Not bad!

It goes further back than this -- What do you think happened to the "joint stock companies" that funded English settlers going to the Americas? ;)

Maybe its Minecraft?

There are custom firmwares out to bypass these types of things, unfortunately.

Buying legally in the US isn't that hard to make it worth it to buy illegally unless you are a broke teenager buying one to try and "look cool and tough" to your friends.

As other commenters have mentioned, US American's ease of access to firearms does not extend to their usage. If you buy a weapon and wrongly shoot someone, there is a system in place to make sure you are found and punished. There is no such system in place for catching people flying drones.

At the risk of sounding hyperbolic:

Imagine Iranian agents using these address books to track down naval officers in San Diego from across the border in Tijuana. Having a global address book lowers the barrier for hunting people down and hurting them. This is already happening to off-duty Russian officers mowing the lawn at home.

Seeing drone dropped grenades everywhere in Ukraine has made me worried about normalized "drone drop murders" spreading to the rest of the world. With widely available addresses gang violence, political killings, and even online flamewar escalations will become much much uglier.

Who needs to do a driveby shooting if you could drop a homemade bomb from a McDonalds bathroom 20 miles away using some jailbroken drone? Violence isn't the only issue either -- Imagine what will happen when courts catch up to the internet age. Get ready for the normalization of digging through decades of comment history to character assassinate people on a whim. This is getting really bad. I don't think society at large is ready for the coming nightmare.

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We need immediate privacy reforms to:

1. Fine companies for requiring unneeded personal data. Fine companies for collecting addresses and numbers when they don't need them. Address + number specifically should be dumped when no longer needed.

2. Fully regulate+audit data-based industries to confirm that anonymized user profiles are truly anonymous.

3. Raise the legal bar allowing usage of personal data to harm an individual. Lawyers and employers shouldn't be able to find+splice your Youtube comment history to try and character assassinate you outside of some felony-tier criminal case.

Unfortunately, this post is probably going to be taken down. Sad to see intelligence agencies having open season on manipulating children without any discussion allowed.

Is our humanity really so far gone? At this rate, researchers should come together and refuse to publish further research in this area.

I would hope UN can come together and at a minimum make an arms treaty to limit/prevent/undo development of AI tools that track/hurt individual humans this way. At a pathetic bare-bones minimum, these drones should never be allowed to kill or maim humans autonomously, and must be hardcoded to "accept a surrender" if someone stops holding their hands up.

If we limited chemical weapons, we can limit these terrifying abominations too.

As someone new who started with NextJS v13.4 on AWS, I am also disappointed that AWS/GCP/Others don't support all of Vercel's features. That being said, the commenters here are being unfair and unreasonable.

NextJS 13.4+ is nothing short of incredible. Are you telling me I can get a free, faster, opinionated, React implementation with 10's of finicky/unreliable/3rd-party Node_Module dependencies now seamlessly baked in for free? With a unified/simple build process too?

NextJS is nothing short of a lifesaver for small/indie web dev teams!

I do have my struggles + bloat + bugs using AWS instead of Vercel to host, no doubt, but that's out of my own cheapness/stubbornness. Vercel is not a charity, its a business -- I'm disappointed by commenters here basically complaining they don't "work for free".

Don't kill the goose that lays golden eggs

Is this actually happening? Palestinians are no longer a people? To the point of being erased from the internet? Really? A human somewhere is moving this lever. Someone is actually trying to erase a whole group of people. Incredible.

If you are reading this: I hope you feel conscious responsibility for what you are doing. You are doing something wrong!

Trollbait posts don't belong here.

Where do you live? How bad is the gun violence? Is it safe for little kids? How far to nearest city of 100k+?

In my impossible fantasy dream world, China and America could avert the "2nd cold war" by having dangerously over-leveraged idled Chinese builders (Evergrande, Country Garden, etc.) partner with American construction companies and put their idle/money-burning build capacity to solving America's own real-estate shortages. Each Chinese worker would be required to have an American teammate on the job, bringing a nice profit for everyone involved and building new friendships along the way. One can only dream...

Absolutely inappropriate to post something like this to Twitter before exhausting all other options (civilian airports, drone clubs, Space Force satellites) first. I feel like the Twitter account manager shared this out of desire to go viral, rather than securing the plane.