This is precisely why Raghavan acted the way he did.
enshittification works.
squeezing from your customers and maximizing your monopolistic power while doing nothing innovative works.
when you're big enough it works for quite a while.
the world STILL needs a smart phone that runs on free software, not google's enshittified android
Because ignoring it will totally make it go away.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
oh that's right! these fucking morons think it's a Chinese hoax, so there's nothing to be done anyways.
monopolies are good for business
there's a reason greedflation is a thing. insufficient competition.
it's an unstoppable force.
unfortunately there seems to be plenty of people who will tolerate thus leading to yet more enshittification.
The state has issued permits allowing the pollution and subsidized the crypto-mine through tax incentives despite having an affirmative duty in the state constitution to protect the environment for its citizens, according to the lawsuit.
it's not enough crypto mining is already the most useless, polluting endeavor on the planet (well, might be training ML models now), but the government of Pennsylvania decided to subsidize it.
and
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection declined to comment.
that's right, because they got caught doing something they shouldn't have.
Disccovery is likely to get very interesting...
Sane people knew that base on what evidence ?
Prohibition sure as fuck isn't working.
I voted for this, and voted for it precisely to try it. It seemed like a more rational way to deal with the problem. Also, i'm not insane, thank you very much.
My thinking was, when I voted for it, was that it could be changed if needed, which is exactly what's happening.
There's one very important consideration in this type of effort that's being ignored - no one has made a serious effort to do something similar. That always carries heavy risk in implementation. Basically the problem was, as far as I can tell, is that you have to absolutely force addicts into treatment programs. So next time someone says that addicts will "choose" to do it we can point to this effort and say "no- they will not".
Meanwhile armchair quarterbacks like you have all the answers, none of which you have shared.
Or is your answer to spend 100s of millions of dollars on prisons to lock up users and then complain that we spend too much money on prisons ? That's generally what everybody else does.
Meanwhile, you're welcome.
Just like hacker forever became a negative, now we're using "AI" for something that is most definitely, not , in any way, actually AI.
This automatically means the average person thinks that AI is going to be "smart" in some way when it's just a very energy intensive, resource hungry, bubble-inducing pattern matcher.
Is the level of it's pattern matching impressive ? yes it is.
is it impressive for the amount of power it costs to actually train it ? Not sure about that one...
Fucking _everthing_ is in plastic packaging and uses absolutely unnecessary additional plastic for every aspect of a package.
it's infuriating.
Shit is poisoning the planet and they are making it worse.
It may be that he deserved to be canned.
it is also probable that he was put in a situation to fail.
so he could either stand up to the execs above him and get replaced or
Hard to say.
But rot most definitely starts from the top.
I wonder what the CEO was telling investor last year or the year before.
I wonder if the word safety was used in any way other than as window dressing.
There absolutely needs to be environmental impact laws, because real estate developers are parasites that will ruin an area to make a buck.
But San Francisco and similar cities have a very strong streak of maintaining property values by simply not allowing anything else to be built.
As always it's balance.
The most dysfunctional thing in America is the court system. It's absolutetly controlled by money.
Even when justice is served it's delayed.
You have money , you can tie it up in the court for YEARS. Poor neighborhoods get bulldozed immediately, or have highways put through them.
to make porn with it, of course.
probably only make 20 million this year instead of 22
https://www1.salary.com/BOEING...
I wonder if he'll make more money getting fired than if he stayed.
Fucking wanker.
I mean, if I'm the Alaska Air CEO, i'm going back over all of those fucking airplanes from top to bottom.
Boeing has just cost them a fortune.
The mergers are completely focused around monopolization, which is what happens when "over-regulated" companies are not regulated.
In the electronic CAD software space the goal is to absolutely milk customers for every last penny, because changing vendors is fairly painful.
The last thing you want to do is to allow a lower cost alternative, or any alternative, to exist otherwise you can't keep raising the license costs every year for no reason.
So naturally, you buy the competitors and do the absolute bare minimum of maintenance to keep them alive those former products alive, all the while using them as a list of victims to receive never ending calls about upgrading to the more expensive products. Also, eventually you kill those products because you allow existing customers to have them but don't allow new customers.
This is critically important now that there's virtually no way to get out of monthly/yearly licensing fees as you won't just go without upgrades, the software will stop working. So being able to raise prices year after year is easy money.
I guarantee there is no upside to this for VMWARE customers. Well, unless they like paying more for the same thing, then there's plenty of upside.
source: I use lots of CAD software and it's absolutely infuriating how you can look at versions 5 years apart and barely tell the difference in functionality. You're paying more though.
Love makes the world go 'round, with a little help from intrinsic angular momentum.
