You get a lot more job opportunities. Every time these companies merge they fire somewhere between 10% and 40% of their staff.

That means fewer job opportunities for you and that means supply and demand kicks in and lowers your wages.

If you're American you are also losing out on jobs to countries like Canada and Germany and United Kingdom where they have universal Health Care.

That's because as an American every company that hires you needs to budget at least 10,000 a year to pay for your health insurance on top of your premiums. Assuming you're not working at some place like Walmart that just tries to put you on government programs because they pay you so little...

It's all connected. We need to start thinking about how these systems are lowering our pay and costing us our jobs.

When you buy your ticket, you can just specify that you're disabled and that you need a paper ticket as a special accomodation. After all, they already have these questions for people who need other accomodations (for wheelchairs or food). It shouldn't be too hard to add one more to the list.

And for the passengers that don't have the foresight to check that box when they buy the ticket, I'll bet Ryan Air will be more than happy to supply a paper ticket for an extra $75 fee per boarding pass (or per leg of the journey).

Isn't all the infrastructure and hardware. That stuff's going to get used because the goal of AI is to replace white collar workers and that tech does work. Not perfectly but it's improving every day and it already does quite a bit.

The problem is that the nature of llms means that when things shake out we're going to be left with just a couple of big players. That's because the only people who are going to be able to stay in the game are the ones who have access to training data from real human beings and that's basically going to be people that own a platform. Basically Microsoft Google Apple and Facebook.

The real problem though is banks are loaning out money to anyone who so much as sneezes making a noise that sounds vaguely like AI.

A lot of those loans are going to be bad, they're going to collapse and the banks are going to go with them.

When that happens we have basically two options.

First we can nationalize the banks to prevent a global economic collapse. Let's not get ourselves we're not going to do that. We have been programmed that is socialism and socialism bad, m'kay.

The other option is a massive 2008 style bailout followed by mass layoffs as companies boost their stock.

There isn't a single economist who doesn't know this is coming and I'm guessing most of the people here even know it's coming but we can't do anything to stop it because our thinking is too constrained to come up with any other solutions besides letting the corporations fire 25% of us, praying that we're not in that 25%, coping with the very real possibility we will be in that 25% by convincing ourselves we are the ultimate badasses that the company couldn't possibly live without...

I'm open to other solutions but I literally do not know of any. Voters around the globe simply will not accept the correct and well understood solutions of regulation and short-term government control. And if there's a third solution nobody has come up with it

I'm asking out of ignorance I really don't know how well it works but you really need to be able to easily control access to logins and such.

Like with my company I've got single sign on for tons of apps and they seamlessly integrate with multifactor authentication apps.

That's all just kind of built into active directory and it's all plug and play and just kind of works (as much as anything works with modern computing).

As much as Windows 11 sucks because it's so incredibly user hostile you still need the administrators to be able to cheaply and easily set up all the permissions and logins and all that. Otherwise it's a cost of administering the devices goes up it defeats the purpose of saving money by buying non Microsoft software and hardware.

Because decades of market consolidation means your options are very limited.

Visual Studio and Eclipse are typically used for statically typed languages (C# and Java), so you get IDE magic like automatic refactors, renaming, jump to definition, etc. It's nice, and helps you program faster.

However, in the real world most people use dynamic languages like Python, which loses all that IDE magic (AI can kind of help here). btw IntelliJ has been more popular than Eclipse among Java programmers for more than a decade now.

The conclusion is that most programmers don't care about programming more quickly/efficiently.

I'm now not even sure what your point is. The population decline was reported in multiple places, if you don't like Al Jazeera, then feel free to find a different source.

I assume strong AI is possible at any time, as soon as the algorithm is figured out.

You can't call something a "serious bid for top talent" when you don't even know what the terms are. Applications haven't opened, and the details about eligibility haven't been released. It's premature to make conclusions about what they are trying to do (let along what they will do) without those details.

The Soviet Union never even pretended to be communist. They claimed they were socialist, and working towards communism. But they were quite aware they hadn't achieved it yet.

What on earth are you talking about? Rosseau doesn't have anything to do with electric cars.

The government. That's why they are complaining (according to the summary).

If the gate to production is lithium batteries, then you might as well use the batteries you have in luxury cars instead of cheap cars. At least, that is optimal from the manufacturer's perspective.

If you can get batteries for both (which will eventually happen as production increases and prices come down), then you will make both luxury and cheap cars.

Is that really true?

I thought they got bought? Did Oracle re-capitalize? I need an upgrade on Niagara.