- Google (and others) regularly outsource its tech to China "unwillingly" so China R&D cost is very low
- Education is pretty poop when everyone is thinking about race rather than tech at school
- Hiring is pretty poop when everyone is thinking about race rather than tech at work
- General workforce in tech companies spend a LARGE amount of time in various sensitivity training, changing word meaning, etc. (I don't disagree with some of it, it's just than when you spend half of your time on trying to figure out how to be the least likely to micro-offend people, you don't spend much time working - and the time you spend working gradually becomes "why the fuck I am even trying" because you're bothered by the problems, rather than by the work)

tbh I think we'd do well to associate social media with drug addictions. i can't think that having each and every day of so many people to be driven by their tiktok/tweet/facebook/you-name-it where the goal is to have "more attention" is good - "yet here we are"

Next up: going to the supermarket to buy food is too dangerous (well duh!), just use Amazon, trust us.
Some people made a LOT of money from this (including Amazon of course).

1) I play on a 35 inch ultra wide QHD screen, on PC. When I downgrade it to 1080p everything's pretty damn ugly. The display is a Spectre 35, I bought it for 350USD, it is a 100hz, gsync panel. Great for gaming and not that expensive. I can only assume this category is exploding right now.

2) If a graphics card is fast enough for 8k gaming, it is faster for 4k gaming. The best gaming setup at 4k right now run things like MS Flight Simulator 2020 at less than 60fps with all details to max... at 1080p. Until a graphic card plays all games at ~100-120 fps on average you'll want a faster graphic card for 4k gaming.

3) VR Goggles need at least 8K and could use 16K.

And with the free money we can go buy flying cars!!

The fact that this is voted insightful is CRAZY to me. Everyone seems to think that we have robots that can do all jobs and artificial intelligence is also real and we're just enslaving humans by having them do work because it's fun or something. Every year is the year of the self-driving being ubiquitous yet here we are. But don't worry NEXT YEAR will be it! Yea.. right. It's much further out.

So no, there's no flying cars. There's also no robots doing all the jobs. The robots we have also don't self maintain. The people that work on them (software, mechanics, etc.) can barely afford buying a house after 10, 20 years on the job, yet you should have spare money + food + free housing and you think that'd work...

Yeah, Amazon no longer need other companies as it's his own best advertiser. The difference with Google though is that while Google is also it's best own advertiser, Google makes no money from it's services in general other than GCP (and arguably device sales).

Amazon on the other hand directly benefit from being it's own advertiser because it gets a large cut on every single sale, in addition to it's own.

Basically what we're seeing is Amazon overtaking everyone as the biggest and fastest growing company the world has ever known. Make no mistake though, ALL companies of this size are evil. It does not matter how much they tell you the opposite, it's human nature. People who are OKAY with fucking you up and thinking of you as dumb, controllable slave labor WILL and WILL come to power.

The only way to avoid this is to ensure NO company and NO government entity is able to grow THAT big. That means NO monopoly on anything - and distributed controls everywhere.

Linus used to oppose this stuff, but he's eventually been bullied into submission. Remember that if you opposite anything like this you can and will most likely be fired. If you are very vocal you will lose access to all banks and most media as well. People will march to your house with actual death threats. Linus is a high profile figure.
Time to look outside your little bubble.

To be fair there is no proof that what he said is true. A lot of it are conjectures. They could be true, they could be wrong.

while its true that EU complains about US companies generally for power grabs and money, when it's also good for the general populace, i'm not all that unhappy (however rare that is)

The way phones are tracked today is different from the way this system would track them. This system is much more precise.
You see, carrier's mobile towers triangulate your position with 3 towers (granted that you get signal from 3+, which is only in cities usually) which is not very precise (even with 3 towers). This is why Apple and Google are providing movement data right now on their COVID sites.

GPS is not on all the time because it consumes a lot of battery and does not work indoor. Effectively it gives more precise position every now and then, and otherwise is not really better than mobile towers - arguably worse, because it can be faked and because it doesn't work indoor anyway. Finally, you can reasonably disable GPS at least.

On other other hand, short range communication like BT works indoors and is very low power compared to GPS, so can be always on. It even knows if someone watching the tv with you moves from the sofa to the kitchen. BT is rarely disabled because people don't think of it as a position tracking device (thought it and wifi are already used as such) and because many have bluetooth headsets.

Finally: its much easier for governments to ask carrier mobile tower data than Google's or Apple's data. In this case it brings it on par.

it's too bad you can't be upvoted above 5.

nah i just read slashdot and it has a box to disable ads already ;-)

Looking at the video, specially in first person mode they look exactly like bots.
Was hoping for something more.
They follow walls and snap on target basically. Which also creates the bug when each time is being another wall and it loops. They either see through or hear through precisely and don't try to jump over or set explosives on the walls. That's quite basic.

wages will just go down. robots are certainly NOT free.
if a human does it CHEAPER than the human gets the job. the only difference is that humans now compete against robots (and they already do TODAY)

there are tasks where robot costs are LOWER than humans (chain assembly for ex) and other task where its not (janitorial task), that's mainly because one robot can assemble a million cars, but can't clean a million offices. you need a million robots for that.

not that this is great or anything

I know its cool to hate on Bill Gates but really he's neither a bad guy, neither a bad CEO and he did advance computing in more ways than you can probably think of.
Certainly Linus did a lot too and certainly had more focus on solely computing - but both of them were also right-time-right-place. I know countless people who wrote their own kernels, some much more advanced than Linux (even Microsoft wrote OSes much more advanced than either Linux or Windows 10). But neither at the right time or the right place, let alone both.