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Comment Re:Quit paranoid stupidity (Score 2) 42

What do you believes controls the price of an item? I mean why don't they just double or triple the price of the widget? Also quit using the word widget if you aren't willing to apply it broadly. I mean is toilet paper proprietary? Orange juice? Strawberries? There's two things that can control the price of an item .. a competitor or customer's willingness/ability to pay. I find it hard to believe there is collusion for most consumer items. If it was some industry with a few players, like airlines or cars .. then yes. Maybe. There's a lot of consumer products that would require hundreds of vendors to agree to increase their prices. Are you saying restaurant owners are all colluding .. some to the point they go out of business?

Comment Quit paranoid stupidity (Score 3, Insightful) 42

AI is increasing jobs. Nobody is getting not hired or fired due to AI. The thing we're losing jobs to is inflation due to tariff bullshit. Inflation is reducing the number of people going to restaurants and things like that. If AI was taking jobs and doing things more efficient we'd see the price of goods collapsing.

Comment Balkh province (Score 5, Informative) 143

Damn, you guys are morons. Even the Taliban knows banning WiFi has NOTHING to do with immorality or Wi-Fi .. people in Balkh don't like the Taliban. It was, and is, a Northern Alliance stronghold (now called National Resistance Front - NRF ), they are annoying the heck out of the Taliban. Reference: https://www.afintl.com/en/2025... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.afintl.com/en/2025... https://moderndiplomacy.eu/202.... This ban will make things a lot worse for the Taliban there, not better. The reason for the WiFi ban is because the Taliban thinks the attacks on them were coordinated through Wi-Fi and that the NRF use it to communicate.

Comment Self taught brain surgeon (Score 2) 77

College is needed for STEM .. especially engineering and physics, because most people need to be told to do all the requisite math. Yes you can learn mechanical engineering from online videos and books.. in fact that would no doubt make the best mechanical engineers .. but then only about 1/3rd of humans would be able to do that without the motivation and structure college provides.

Comment Re:Not scalable (Score 1) 21

You realize the car has a camera in it right? Pam Bondi (US attorney general) has already said anyone who vandalizes a Tesla will be charged with terrorism (Reference: https://www.bbc.com/news/artic... ). But if it does happen, the car owner will have to clean it up, you've seen the movie Taxi Driver with Robert De Niro right? I suspect that will end as soon as people find themselves doing 20 years for leaving a scratch on the car seat.

Waymos have been in operation in San Francisco and other places without any problems like that .. And that's without the threat of terrorism charges.

Comment Not scalable (Score 2, Funny) 21

None of the Robotaxi-only car companies (Waymo, Zoox, etc.) will be around in three years. You can bookmark this comment and come back to it, then declare me Nostradamus reincarnated and offer me a blow job.

Te reason is, they won't be able to compete with car companies (specifically Tesla, but maybe by 2027 Benz too) that enable their car owners to be robotaxis.

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