Peak stupidity is allowing, let alone supporting private companies to have control over your health care.
Still....better than having the Federal bureaucracy in charge of it....
Ugh....can you imagine health centers ala DMV?
*shudder*
someone is going to make a crapload of dough...
Yes, "in five years China will be shipping cheap AI chips all over the world", but they'll only be "good enough", not "top of the line".
honestly, that's probably all it needs to be. If If they can make a GPU with 16GB of VRAM and 5060 performance, and give it a $99 MSRP, even if it involves recompiling to whatever-their-answer-to-CUDA-is, they'd give nVidia a run for their money. If they made it readily compatible with vGPU tech with no licensing fees, it would definitely be disruptive.
Temu's existence shows that plenty of people are fine with "good enough". Nvidia's threat isn't going to come from China being able to DIY their own 5090Ti, or even an A2000....it's from China being able to give people more than half the performance at a price that makes it worthwhile to just buy three of them. Nvidia will still have its market, but I don't think it's unreasonable for China to make a good-enough card that takes the bottom 20% of Nvidia's customers.
The most versatile, repairable, recyclable materials for bridges if one can afford them are steels which can be cut, welded, and easily inspected using proven methods then scrapped and recycled efficiently with many of the standard steel sections easy to cut and resell for less critical reuse.
Cheaper concrete destroys reinforcement bars and mats by corrosion which is a major reason why the US infrastructure repair bills are so expensive. (Small and medium bridges can be replaced by portable metal bridging which can even be rented for use on short-term projects. Some WWII Bailey bridges remain in daily use because there's no reason to install a downgrade that's difficult to remove vs. swapping parts, weld repair or disassembly and replacement with similar.) Portable bridging in military usereliably withstand thousands of heavy wheeled and tracked military vehicles
"Shotcrete" is a handy coating and good for the developers trying this out, but the TCO and averting traffic delays due to repair time also matter.
Automated NDI inspection robots designed for these would be a very good idea to save labor. Bridge inspection robots are not new. Check out these inspection and maintenance robots:
no doubt. Which is why I only have subcontractors, not permanent employees and almost all of them are in Ukraine. Also as I said, should something like that be attempted, I would shut down parts of businesses and get rid of the people who attempt it, I wouldn't run a business where I had to deal with this.
Something about some beer or a good mixed drink just seems to make the works GREAT at 30K feet....
Self-hosted Atlassian products seem to be just fine.
As for what "they said", they also said this cloud shit would be cheaper. It isn't.
Those who do NOT use AI heavily and keep up their own ability to solve problems will succeed over those who do not, in the long run.
The unfortunate problem is that this is technically true, but practically...less-true.
If HAL9000 understands what an HR hiring filter is looking for better than a person, then the person using AI has a higher probability of getting the job, because the process of *getting* a job has been so heavily abstracted away from knowing how to *do* the job. "Doing well on an interview" and "Doing well in the trenches once hired" are similarly distinct skills. Those with charisma are, as a rule, more likely to be hired if they are interviewed, than those without charisma who are a savant as the skill the job requires.
The problem with the premise that those doing the work without AI will outperform those who rely on it, is that the premise assumes that job performance is a company's metric of success. It *should* be, but more that a particular company is concerned with appearances and relationships and market capture, rather than the ability for a product or service to meet the needs of the customer, the less the skill of the worker is relevant to the worker's success.
Today, white males are a tiny minority on the net.
Everything that you experience about it, might be a result of that.
And half of all Indians are still offline, remember that.
until the AI bubble bursts
The bubble will burst because of a failure to monetize, not a failure of the underlying technology.
People are using AI for free. Why will they start paying hundreds of billions for it?
It was the same in the Dotcom crash. Pets.com had a failed business model, but the Internet didn't go away.
as someone who owns and runs a few companies, the largest having around 1000 people working in it, I can understand why some people, especually who never built a company, think that the people working for a company are underpaid compared to the people who buolt it. This misunderstanding is easy to develop, people (and many other animals) have a strong built in mechanism responsible for having emotions and feelings related to fairness. This expectation of fairness is easy to channel into a different sort of a feeling - expectation of equality, feeling that equality must be enforced because it may ne argued that it is unfair that there is inequality of outcomes.
So it is clear that there are political forces tbat use thw easiest pressure points in the human condition to achieve low hanging political fruits. The fwelings of unfairness become especially inflamed during harsher times, so an economic downturn can be easily used to pass various socialist, even Marxist agenda, which changes the power balance in the ruling elite (those near the reigns of political power). This is done at the expense of economic health, any amount of political power over economic forces misallocates scarce resources and decreases economic activity in the long run, while achieving short term pplitical goals.
On a personal level, I woildn't allow unions to take over my enterprise, I would rather see the business shrink and restructure than lose control over how it is governed.
Military is made of people. They also burn coal, diesel, gas, kerosene. They eat, they need transportation even more than anyone else. If they cared they woild stop themselves first. Look at the wars, look at all of the world militaries. How much CO2 and varoous poisons is produced by them in proportion to the rest of the population? What do wars cost us in terms of CO2 and poisons and all other ways, that military destroys the environment? Will people of this planet stop fighting and disban all militaries of the world? Quite the opposite, the end of our civilization will be accompanied by the biggest acts of aggression, most destruction, largest conflicts on the global scale.
If bombing solved world problems we wpuldn't have any problems, we definitely have enough bombs.
Suits the sort of users who deserve (even more) data mining.
I just flew over half of the planet to the Maldives, these islands will surely disappear sooner than later due to the glaciers melting down. It is nice to be able to visit in the meanwhile.
That said, I won't buy an electric car. Maybe as my fourth or fifth, maybe, but I will keep driving a gas sedan for work and my sports car is just a fum toy, I don't care that an electric one accelerates faster, electric scales also go 0 to 200 in less than a second, doesn't make me want to drive it.
Teslas make me nautios, that is a strong no from me, some Chinese or Korean just are not interesting. Charging time is not there, it must be less than pumping gas, I don't want to plan my days around charging a vehicle. The batteries are too dangerous and the entire thing is too heavy. Cold degrades batteries, heat may cause a fire. No thank you.
I would switch to a nuclear powered car though, that would work for me.
Maybe that few-years-old gas-powered car that is still perfectly functional is preferable to a pricey upgrade to a shiny new car
No. That would explain a general lack of new car sales, but that's not what's happening. It is only EV sales that are stagnating. People are still buying gas cars.
EV sales are booming in China. A big reason is much lower prices. In China, EVs are cheaper than equivalent ICE cars. That is also true in Southeast Asia, which imports EVs from China. But the West restricts EV imports, so the prices are much higher.
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