This isn't about that. This is corruption, pure and simple. The US taxpayer is hemorrhaging money directly into the wallets of the AI companies, who undoubtedly paid off the guy at the top.
Yeah, basic human rights are highly overrated, America should just stop worrying about them.
They neutered the old Google. It was faster, but it kept screwing up to the point that (just a few weeks ago) I was forced to update to Gemini, even after holding out for awhile.
TLDR; Google screws you either way, so you didn't really lose anything
They neutered the old Google. It was faster, but it kept screwing up to the point that (just a few weeks ago) I was forced to update to Gemini, even after holding out for so long.
TLDR; Google screws you either way, so you didn't really lose anything
A bunch of "economists" from companies with vested financial interest in convincing everyone their products are world-changing all agree that their products are world-changing
Do you have any non-propaganda, unbiased evidence whatsoever that consolidating into fewer companies will in any way result in greater production of creative works?
Because if not, perhaps you should consider the possibility that the statement you quoted isn't actually propaganda (it's just a statement of fact).
America is a democratic society, and its rich are just ordinary citizens. They may have more $$$, but they are otherwise equal to others, not a separate noble caste.
In other words, they're "just like us"
I feel like people who make comments like this have no concept of American history. Naked graft like this has happened, just as bad if not worse, many times in US history!
Now, should we be concerned that we're moving backwards instead of forwards on corruption? Absolutely!
But it's just flat out ignorant and counterproductive to pretend this level of government corruption has never occurred
There's a fundamental difference you're missing: all the businesses you listed want to keep you as a customer. Broadcom *does not*.
For their model to work, customers just have to pay their (wildly) increased rates long enough for Broadcom to make back the $$$ they spent to acquire VMWare (they'd like to make a tidy profit too, but with all the VMWare assets they acquire that's guaranteed
Google, Amazon and Microsoft may all be shitty companies with shitty plans to keep their customers while doing a shitty job of serving them
This made me laugh
Broardcom's entire business model with these acquisitions (they did the same thing with others before VMWare) is to acquire something everyone depends on AND can't easily switch off
It doesn't matter if most customers eventually leave: they will stick with what they have, no matter the cost, long enough for Broadcom to cover the entire cost of acquisition. At the end of the day they have more money than they started with, a small fraction of customers still paying, and some significant IP.
They win all around, and everyone else (including the acquired company and its now-fired employees) loses.
/plan is not how you loop in Claude: you use
goal solves your concern: the model doesn't stop when the code compiles, it stops when a second (independent) Claude evaluates a condition you setup to be true.
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I predict that this poster A) said the exact same thing about smartphones and B) now owns the latest, priciest iPhone.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to work.
