AI is some sort of technology, whoever develops this technology better wins something supposedly. Governments have nothing to do with this, technology doesn't belong to the governments.

we are talking about different things. You are talking about class division, all of this, I am talking about a person who does not have to work and yet he does it because he wants to, yes, but personally for him there is nothing to be gained except more headache, it is not about earning more, it is about doing something with yourself.

I am saying that doing something is an important part of living, doing something useful, where you feel useful, this is what this example shows.

Certainly, if you worked as an office cleaner most of your life, probably you will not be missing that work if you were able to get a pension and stop working, but I think you will still be missing the entire aspect of being useful in a wider sense of the word.

I think what makes us people is desire to be useful, doesn't matter how much money you make. I think people who do not have that desire are actually less than developed people.

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The largest (wealthiest) block of shareholders in this country are the pension funds. Don't like the way business is being run? Complain to your union rep.

Actually, the delegation of powers to various government entities and the people is arguably just as important. That's why we have democratically elected representatives instead of a pure democracy. Or founding fathers feared the resulting mob rule.

... to write in cursive when I was a kid. Problem is: nobody can read my handwriting*. On the other hand, I learned to print in drafting classes. And my neat printing adorns numerous sets of construction blueprints in my city.

*I probably should have gone to medical school.

My point is that a guy with all the money still chooses to do it, shows that people lose themselves when they have nothing to do that involves more than just enjoyment.

I get it, it may not be my first choice either. But the republicans are in power and they get to pick their priorities. This seems relatively innocuous compared to other batshit crazy things.

Just shows that there is no amount of money that replaces some sort of meaning in one's life. Bezos will treat any business correctly, obviously he will be looking for maximum efficiency, which is not easy to do when you are a billionaire, after all, any issues that can be sold by throwing money at it he can really solve this way, which may be the wrong approach for a new business that needs to become useful by standing on its own 2 legs.

But it is just interesting to observe, a guy with all the money and access, he still wants to spend time working rather than enjoying yet another sunny day on one of his yachts.

Yeah, when I hit that sentence my brain went "how's that again?"

I think they've seen too many sci-fi TV shows where someone gets sucked out an airlock and is instantly frozen solid.

Okay, get ready, I'm gonna blow your mind with an idea. Are you sitting down?

Socks... to protect all your Apple Socks. It's like layering, but for your Apple stuff!

Slight correction: "If revenue is rising ..." Even at the same price per KWh, utilities are better off if their systems are loaded right up to 100% capacity, 7x24. Residential and most business customers don't do this. Industrial customers and data centers come closer.

What _WILL_ cause our prices to go through the roof is when all these AI services fold and close up shop. Then, all the grid investments will have to be paid for by somebody. And that somebody will be the last person to unplug their toaster. See Whoops.

"Hey Mr Businessman! I just bought this brand new PC/Tablet/Cell phone and I'd like to buy that really expensive product I saw on your web site. Of course you can't track me. Because I only just turned on this brand new machine this morning."

Do you really think they'll turn you down? Once the credit card has been approved and the transaction completed, I'll just spin up a clean copy of the VM running my browser. And then next week: "Hey Mr Businessman! I just bought this brand new PC/Tablet/Cell phone ..."

On the other hand, my bank does this. It's a good idea in that they can catch unrecognized machines trying to log on as me. And make me step through some additional authentication steps. It's a bad idea because they only recognize one machine per user account. Switch between my office (home) machine and the kitchen laptop and I get the whole third degree interrogation again.

What purchase? In a few cases, I can't even view informational web sites; being presented with the "Looks like you are using an ad blocker". From some outfit with the URL freestar.com. Including a link with instructions on how to disable it.

But I'm not actually blocking ads. I just have Enhanced Tracking Protection set to "Strict". I'll actually put up with your stupid ad banners and video clips*. I don't care. Because I don't buy stuff from people who repeatedly annoy me.

*Except where I get a popup telling me to enable DRM. Really? You're afraid that I'm going to steal your precious 15 second ad clip for some product to improve my bowel movements?

I think I have already left enough hints.