You get a lot more job opportunities. Every time these companies merge they fire somewhere between 10% and 40% of their staff.

That means fewer job opportunities for you and that means supply and demand kicks in and lowers your wages.

If you're American you are also losing out on jobs to countries like Canada and Germany and United Kingdom where they have universal Health Care.

That's because as an American every company that hires you needs to budget at least 10,000 a year to pay for your health insurance on top of your premiums. Assuming you're not working at some place like Walmart that just tries to put you on government programs because they pay you so little...

It's all connected. We need to start thinking about how these systems are lowering our pay and costing us our jobs.

Google Play lists all the permissions:

Device & app history
        retrieve running apps

Location
        approximate location (network-based)
        precise location (GPS and network-based)

Phone
        read phone status and identity

Photos / Media / Files
        read the contents of your USB storage
        modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Storage
        read the contents of your USB storage
        modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Camera
        take pictures and videos

Wi-Fi connection information
        view Wi-Fi connections

Device ID & call information
        read phone status and identity

Other
        receive data from Internet
        view network connections
        pair with Bluetooth devices
        access Bluetooth settings
        connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
        full network access
        control Near-Field Communication
        run at startup
        reorder running apps
        control vibration
        prevent device from sleeping
        read Google service configuration

You can refuse some of those permissions, but it's still a hell of a lot.

Isn't all the infrastructure and hardware. That stuff's going to get used because the goal of AI is to replace white collar workers and that tech does work. Not perfectly but it's improving every day and it already does quite a bit.

The problem is that the nature of llms means that when things shake out we're going to be left with just a couple of big players. That's because the only people who are going to be able to stay in the game are the ones who have access to training data from real human beings and that's basically going to be people that own a platform. Basically Microsoft Google Apple and Facebook.

The real problem though is banks are loaning out money to anyone who so much as sneezes making a noise that sounds vaguely like AI.

A lot of those loans are going to be bad, they're going to collapse and the banks are going to go with them.

When that happens we have basically two options.

First we can nationalize the banks to prevent a global economic collapse. Let's not get ourselves we're not going to do that. We have been programmed that is socialism and socialism bad, m'kay.

The other option is a massive 2008 style bailout followed by mass layoffs as companies boost their stock.

There isn't a single economist who doesn't know this is coming and I'm guessing most of the people here even know it's coming but we can't do anything to stop it because our thinking is too constrained to come up with any other solutions besides letting the corporations fire 25% of us, praying that we're not in that 25%, coping with the very real possibility we will be in that 25% by convincing ourselves we are the ultimate badasses that the company couldn't possibly live without...

I'm open to other solutions but I literally do not know of any. Voters around the globe simply will not accept the correct and well understood solutions of regulation and short-term government control. And if there's a third solution nobody has come up with it

I'm asking out of ignorance I really don't know how well it works but you really need to be able to easily control access to logins and such.

Like with my company I've got single sign on for tons of apps and they seamlessly integrate with multifactor authentication apps.

That's all just kind of built into active directory and it's all plug and play and just kind of works (as much as anything works with modern computing).

As much as Windows 11 sucks because it's so incredibly user hostile you still need the administrators to be able to cheaply and easily set up all the permissions and logins and all that. Otherwise it's a cost of administering the devices goes up it defeats the purpose of saving money by buying non Microsoft software and hardware.

That's the key point that people always forget, or simply don't know. Most Chinese people are happy with how things are going. Life is getting better every year. They feel like they are involved in local decisions, and that the government is looking out for them.

I asked a guy about all the CCTV cameras on roads. I noticed them because, unlike the ones in the UK that are hidden and quietly record number plates in a central police database all over the country, the ones in China have a flash so you can't miss them. As well as the licence plate, they get a photo of the driver, hence the need for the flash. I was a bit alarmed, but he said they keep everyone safe and help the police catch criminals. Exactly the same justification used in the UK, only with better PR.

I do 99% of my coding in C these days. I used to do some C# stuff, but it's been a while.

So for me a decent IDE is very very helpful.

That was my other thought, why don't they submit a patch fixing it? Or maybe they did and it just needed review.

I love love love Stanislaw Lem....The Cyberiad, Star Diaries, etc etc. Great stuff.

Even Solaris was pretty good, although the film adaptation was a little underwhelming.

Because decades of market consolidation means your options are very limited.

Turn off AC comments again you cryptofucks, 99.9% of AC posts are fucking garbage

Unless you're an Uyghur Muslim you probably won't be enslaved there, you can put your money into foreign banks and then you will still have benefit unless the risk catches up to you.

Capitalism inherently means literally only one thing, capital controls the means of production. Who has the capital? The wealthy. Who therefore has the right to control? Yeah. That's right, the wealthy. Capitalism IS about the rights of the wealthy.

Capitalism is about control of PRODUCTION, not about control of stuff you bought. That is orthogonal to capitalism. You have to have the right to own property for capitalism to exist but that doesn't give you the right to do whatever you want with it.

Rent seeking is orthogonal to capitalism as well, because it's not about production. Hell, it's barely even about ownership, since you can sublet.

TL;DR: All the stuff you think is capitalism is really about a specific form of capitalism with other things added on. Capitalism is NOT inherently about free MARKETS. You can have mods on capitalism to try to make it make the freest possible markets, but they aren't the soul of capitalism. Rich people controlling stuff is.

Ryanair have two motivations here.

1. Steal your private data, spam you with notifications, the usual app stuff.
2. Make more people pay the check-in fee.

They are always up to stuff like this. The other very common one is rejecting bags that are within their size limits. They have special devices that the bag must fit in, but the dimensions are not the same as the ones in their Terms & Conditions. The device has rounded corners that reduce the volume a little, for example.

This is ignorant. There are lots of reasons why consumers would have to buy a product which is hard to repair. For example there's no credible alternative, use of a specific product is all that's supported, it's mandated by an employer, the manufacturer has driven competing manufacturers out of business, etc. This is why we have antitrust and warranty laws.

The very essence of capitalism is that those who control the capital control the means of production. Everything else you think is necessarily part of capitalism isn't except for private property ownership, as you can't have capitalism without that. The right to purchase a competing product means absolutely nothing when there is no competing product, when a specific product can be mandated, when the alternate products cannot reasonably be maintained or there are deliberate incompatibilities, etc etc. It's really truly sad how few people around here know what capitalism is, means, and does.

This is the problem right here. Why is Google not considered an accessory? Google received consideration to disseminate it and the either employed no or insufficient oversight. This is not simply user-provided content which was posted without their cooperation.