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You criticize society, yet you live in society. Makes you a bit of a hypocrite, no?

So true. It was such a shock moving here from Chicago. People make 50% more money, work less, have better weather, and spend all day in useless meetings where people take turns going on 10 minute long tangential, corporate buzzword filled monologues.

And I'm in an industry that makes essential, life-saving products. Can't imagine what it's like in big tech.

You sound like someone who has never been in northern africa or central america. Plenty of areas there that are clean, urbanist, and wealthy, way more than in Kenya or Rwanda.

Don't let facts get in the way of a good blog post

Don't be evil.

Funny how even you don't really remember it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

You need a bigger desk not a bigger room. Make some compromises and remove some other furniture in the room to accommodate your bigger desk.

Nobody is erasing anything. It's just merely noted that in order to make a billion dollars, it helps to start with a million dollars. Just common sense if you understand capitalism, but with some examples in this case.

Vision Zero is literally the least effective program out there. Almost every metric they track has gotten worse in the past 5 years

The comment you are replying to starts with "My day-to-day experience..."

Any major examples? I've heard a lot about animal trials succeeding and then the human trials failing, but would love to read into it if you have any sources.

I would hope that in 15-20 years autologous therapy technologies will have matured and cost per-patient will be driven down significantly.

As someone who isn't very familiar with how the clinical phase process works, is it fair to say that before Phase 3 clinical trials, companies can cherry pick patients that look like they will respond well to the treatment? and then Phase 3 is more general?

The implication is that in capitalist society without enough regulation, the monopolies will collaborate to maintain their own monopolies rather than fight each other and try to compete. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon all could compete, but it's more profitable to have a gentlemen's agreement to not compete and to kill any challengers.

Same as Standard Oil, J.P. Morgan, US Steel, Armour Meats, etc. last century.

"If the case for digital video consumption was objectively better, Blockbuster would have bought Netflix to profit on both ends"

There wasn't enough silicon wafer manufacturing infrastructure in 2005 to meet global silicon wafer demand in 2023 either, yet somehow humans magically got together, invested money, built plants, and wow, a decade and a half later there is silicon wafer manufacturing infrastructure to meet global demand.

Imagine not understanding the ability for humans to build things. Pretty sure the comment i'm responding to is a gas industry shill.

Life is short. There will always be work. Live now, worry about what may or may not come to pass as it comes to pass. You will not regret taking a sabbatical, traveling the world, learning new skills, and picking up new hobbies on your deathbed, even if it meant you lost your job. You will regret not taking more adventures and trips around this beautiful planet.

>sell same phone as last year, but 10% faster >same chip, just overclocked 10% more >10% overclock causes phones to overheat >push update to downclock 10% >marketing and engineering teams high five each other

"That was the greatest thing about the Nexus lines - good hardware"

Yet every nexus phone had major hardware issues. that's not good hardware. It wasn't premium, it wasn't supported long, and it wasn't high quality. I LOVED the nexus line, as a broke college student that prioritized bang for the buck and customization, and speed, and android was getting great new features every year, but things have gotten so bad at google.

growing a sapphire crystal is difficult, and like silicon chips, the bigger the surface area, the chances of defects goes up exponentially. Additionaly, ading $200-300 to the BOM to make your product last longer is a bad idea, since each broken screen is usually a sale or a $500 repair bill. simple economics.

Hey Buddy, you realize things improve, right? Especially novel software that has currently improved tremendously in the past 10 years. Are you actually suggesting that it will suddenly stop improving today? Weird.

Shame, guess you have to buy the next gen CPU from Intel, which will surely not have any exploits.

This is an intentionally crippled product. Google can't afford to give regulators a reason to go after them for a couple billion dollars. Google or Microsoft could easily have created a DocuSign competitor and killed DocuSign, like they killed netscape, wordperfect, etc. Now that they respectively control the internet and the enterprise software suite, they have one primary goal: protect and grow the cash cow. Everything else is a marketing exercise or a concessionary project given to keep busy the tens of thousands of computer scientists that they are paying to keep out of competitors/startups payrolls.

Google won't release an "X-killer" until Google is broken up by anti-monopoly regulators. Until then, google will let millions of dollars of easy money go by in order to avoid giving regulators examples of google using it's control of the internet to replicate products and push the incumbent companies out of business. This is why all google features are half-baked and killed. Fear of regulators.

hedge funds and quants also use pen and paper for quick idea sketch.

$170k for driving a giant vehicle, navigating crowded streets, dropping of dozens of packages each day is very fair. It's a critical, difficult job that helps the world function.

$300k for actively getting kids and adults addicted to dopamine hits and clickbait and SaaSifying everything is the real problem.

You know how there was a dotcom boom? Well the AI boom is just a repeat. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Save this comment and revist it in 5 years.

As someone who just lived in tokyo and loved it, you have to admit that Tokyo, and most of Japan is an absolute hellscape of architectural laziness and function over form to a fault. There are so few "beautiful" areas, outside major boulevards and government buildings. Every street is stuffed with exposed electrical wiring, whirring AC units, generic vending machines, mini parking lots, etc.

It's really interesting how anti-Zen it all is, and how the disharmony of Japanese cities contrasts with the harmony, balance, and simplicity of Japanese parks and temples.

Again, as an urbanist, I ADORE Japan; the public transportation, the convenience, the dense urban fabric, but you cannot deny how ugly it all is haha

You read a whole book, but can't be bothered to do a google search titled "watson and crick problematic"

Weird

You realize that AI agents will push the most malicious, unhealthy, sponsored, Nestle and Kellogs shit to you? You realize what's happened to the internet, and SEO spam, and social media, and you think AI will be a force for good, informed consumerism? Or do you think it will be controlled by whoever has the biggest ad spend budgets?

So we have to hire trained, educated employees capable of detecting code speak and monitor every single phone conversation? Why are people so opposed to giving adults a time out with no phones, no calls, no distractions, just a book, rehabilitation classes, and job training. is it really that hard to see adult criminals as children who have misbehaved and need to be taught how to function in society? If parents punish a child, nobody blinks an eye, and even probably praises good parenting. If we punish delinquents and teach them how to operate in our hyper-complex society, it's problematic.