I don't know who modded this offtopic, this bill sounds 100% like "let's make up an issue to win so we can be winners."

Pointless to ask without knowing what compensation he's getting.

What the deal with silicon valley jobs used to be was, you'd get a big salary, but you'd work a lot.

He who hath never pushed the paradigm of email or spreadsheet past its intended usage, let him cast the first stone at her.

That would have to be addressed on an application-specific basis. Debating the issue "in general" doesn't make much sense.

Definitely humans provide care in a way an algorithm cannot. On the other hand, when the summary does get around to mentioning what Kaiser is actually doing, it's monitoring sensors. Computers are pretty damn good at maintaining vigilance in sensor monitoring, in a way people are not. That's why we have fire alarms even though humans can also feel heat and smell smoke.

The OLED screen jumps out at me as a useful upgrade. An iPad is mainly a screen.

Although, they make some nice non-OLED screens too.

I think perplexity.ai is in a honeymoon phase of not having been sued yet. GPT4 has become very cautious about analyzing or quoting copyright material including papers, whereas perplexity will still go ahead and access them and do the work for you. It's great, but I wonder if it will last.

People want to see their 401k's go up, and whoever's in charge of making sure $BIGNUM goes up this quarter at google wants their bonus. There is no single individual who personally owns the $110B google has lying around.

They most certain do have offices in those locations

https://about.google/locations...

Not sure offshoring is an appropriate term for a global company hiring globally.

If you're hiring somewhere you don't sell anything, that's definitely offshoring.

If they had called it Windows 10.2 instead of Windows 11 would it have changed anything? It says "Update Now, Or Else!!" and you click OK an it does it. Nobody is camping out at Best Buy for a boxed version of a new major release any more.

But the crooks only got $22M out of the $1B in damage they caused, thus destroying $978M in value. It's like when somebody smashes your car window to steal $2 from the coin tray.

If everybody owes everybody then it all cancels out, right?

The problem is that debt diverts a large share of actual economic output (goods and services) into passive income (interest paid). Disconnecting productivity from consumption is bad. Communism goes all in on it but runaway capitalism does it too.

I've self-hosted email all these years, but more often each year I cannot use emails at my domains to sign up for things, and outgoing email from my ip is rejected. I suppose it's because of spam issues mainly. But it's indicative of a root cause - people like walled gardens with Responsible Parties to moderate content and resolve issues with.

Ha! This is true. I'm a year-round motorcyclist in a desert area. Below about 102, the air is somewhat cooling when you get moving (dry climate). About about 105, it feels like being in a huge hairdryer.

Soaking your shirt before you start helps a bit for a while.

Also 9% of households in India have A/C.

What is that figure in Phoenix?