A lot of companies won't (and probably shouldn't) care about items 1 and 2, and won't care that much about 4.

Now do housing costs.

Communism is people doing unnecessary work because bureaucrats don't know what they're doing. A 32-hour work week improves employee health while revenues remain stable or increase.

It uses up resources to create arbitrary value so it's the opposite of a wealth engine.

... is "all of the above".

See here.

Good on China for ramping up solar, but they are still increasing their total carbon emissions. The atmosphere doesn't care about per capita - it only sees more CO2 or less CO2.

USA carbon emissions from energy production peaked in 2007, and have been declining (somewhat bumpily) ever since, primarily because we have been replacing coal with natural gas.

... can connect to my house's wifi. I enabled it to see if it would reach out and reset the clock.
Nope - it only resets the clock through OnStar, which I refuse to pay for.

I now see that I should definitely disable that - it does nothing useful, and might be sending data back to GM.
I should crank up Wireshark before turning it off, just to see if it's obviously sending data back.

The big problem is their core user base is made up of just terrible people who drive their non-core base away.

I have no doubt reddit shares are going to soar in price after the IPO simply because I don't plan on buying anything and that's how it seems to work.

Has the EU found any companies headquartered in the EU doing similar stuff?

Or from just before "The Adolescence of P-1", there was John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider".

Both of them nailed the idea of migratory programs roaming a network and adding data to themselves.

Ryan's P-1 got the AI part as right as he could have in 1977.
Brunner's "tapeworms" were just really clever coding - the smarts were in the protagonist programmer, which I guess is why the ultimate tapeworm didn't have a name.

Why would HP decide to make less money?

is here.

Money quote: But I actually think Google might also have performed a public service, by making explicit the implicit rules that recently have seemed to govern a great deal of decision-making in large swaths of tech, education and media sectors: It’s generally safe to punch right, but rarely to punch left. Treat left-leaning sources as neutral; right-leaning sources as biased and controversial. Contextualize left-wing transgressions, while condemning right-coded ones. Fiscal conservatism is tolerable but social conservatism is beyond the pale. “Diversity” applies to race, sex, ethnicity and gender identity, not viewpoint, religiosity, social class or educational attainment.

This is not a new agency.

Congress doesn't appropriate money for each single position one-by-one. DOJ gets money appropriated for salaries generally.

"As with every government position, once created it canâ(TM)t disappear anymor"

Yes, it will suck when nobody uses AI anymore and the position is still there.