Where they get to have all the money and all the power and they don't have to sell anything to you. Were you filthy consumers can wallowing dirt and dust and die and they can ascend to godhood.

The ultra wealthy have already noticed how dependent they are on you and me and they don't like it. They are taking steps to sever that dependency without losing their limitless wealth and power. It's the end of capitalism but without the socialism

Time zones and communication are factors. That said there is still a lot that can be outsourced because we don't enforce antitrust law so companies can put out shit products and people have to either buy them or do without because there is no competition.

There's no reason why us Americans have to compete in a race to the bottom it's something we choose to in exchange for culture war bullshit. But even with that companies are still going to want people locally which is why they have work visa programs.

Again though if you want politicians on your side you have to give up hating on trans kids or Mexicans or whatever the fuck culture war bullshit they are using the wrap you around their fingers. And that means you've got to start thinking critically and googling competently so that you can tell who is tricking you.

And you should be embarrassed you fell for it. You're not but you should be.

Your willingness to consume the ultra-wealthy's propaganda is going to doom us all. I don't know why you find it entertaining but I know that you do. I have encountered multiple people who enjoy consuming propaganda.

I could of course easily debunk what you said but that's pointless. Anyone who agrees with you is so thoroughly steeped in propaganda that they are completely untouchable.

I learned that years ago, I would talk to some of the right wingers I knew and they would start to agree with me as I debunked all the points that they had picked up from Fox News or whatever. But then they would get in their cars and turn on Rush Limbaugh and then they would get home and turn on Fox News and any of the work I did was completely undone.

You need to learn to think critically and Google competently and if you can't do that then our species is going to end. Sooner or later we're going to put the billionaires in charge of everything and they are dumb and incompetent and evil. They will screw up and they will handle launch codes to religious lunatics and then it's goodbye humanity.

The inability to think critically and Google competently is the answer to the Fermi paradox.

People ask who will buy their products. The billionaires have thought that question through to its more logical conclusion.

Everybody thinks capitalism can't die unless socialism kills it.

But what if somebody else kills capitalism. And what if they do it for their sake and only their sake? The ultra wealthy are preparing for a post capitalist world where they control all resources. A world where they aren't dependent on us filthy creatures known as consumers.

It's usually called techno feudalism. What they're planning that is. It's a world where you and I do not have a place.

There will be a tiny number of slaves used as toys, a tiny number of engineers keeping things working for the billionaires or strictly speaking trillionaires at that point and then a tiny number of thugs to keep the engineers in line.

Unionization isn't enough anymore. At this point we're fighting over whether or not we get any say in the future of the human race and our own futures.

You forgot takes up more disk space.

Most countries have done sort of public nuisance law because you cannot cover every possible way today people might unreasonablely disturb others.

So they probably don't actually have the right, but you know big companies don't really have to obey laws.

I've always wanted a version on the gimp that takes ages to start, runs slower and can access all the critical files in my home directory but not a plug in usb stick it a secondary drive for "security reasons".

They have remote drivers used to make corrections as needed. If you did something like that then they would quickly find you and arrest you. I'm sure they can find something they can charge you with. If not then you can bet by the end of that week there will be a law because there is billions of dollars at stake. Hell maybe trillions. If you consider the value of replacing every single professional driver..

When you cause problems for corporations and rich people those problems get fixed very quickly.

I'm not asking for wisdom I'm asking for people to learn a God damn thing in 50 years. I don't think that's unreasonable.

It's not just at most people don't learn it's that they are actively hostile to it. They choose ignorance over knowledge because ignorance feels good.

Yes. Read the whole thing again.

Indeed. And it is even worse: We do not know whether there even is a possible solution that would be practical. So far, it looks like that even for the numbers for raw, uncorrected qbits, effort scales exponentially in the number of qbits (!) and the length of the calculation (!). And that is the easy case that does not give you anything worthwhile. Effective qbits are far worse. For reference, the conventionally computer revolution was driven by an inverse (!) exponentially scaling effort in the number of bits, and no dependency on the length of the calculation.

If your effort goes up exponentially, you have no chance for scalability ever. It is simply not possible.

No, I am not mistaken. And no, I am not "tinkering" with the system either. I switched Bitlocker off and on again. That is in no way "tinkering". That is _basic_ functionality, and Microsoft messed it up due to sheer incompetence. But I sense you are arguing in bad faith here, as so many MS apologists do.

That is really nonsense. Even calling this "fragmentation" is just an attempt at manipulating the discussion and not true. Sure, an enterprise may want to standardize, but that is really it.

During the protests in Los Angeles earlier this year protestors kept setting Waymo taxis being summoned to the area on fire until the company stopped allowing them to go there. Waymo will be far more incentivized to solve that problem than someone herding robotaxis.

It is a liability to guard against stupid threats that will not materialize soon enough to matter. For QCs, "20 years" is simply ignorant and stupid. Nothing "suddenly" will happen with QCs.