It's good for the employees who leave and bad for customers, and coworkers who stay. The smart thing to do is layoff the shitty performers and boost the pay of the best employees. Instead, you're ensuring those with the best resumes will get a great pay package to get a better job. So you like your job at Krafton or can't leave?...well...now the best people quit and you're left with the very worst and least ambitious coworkers.

You're a customer? This is a repeat of the offshore outsourcing rage of the early 2000s...you make the environment hostile and terrible and the best leave for the jobs that aren't asking you to train your replacement....and those that remain have a fraction of the talent....deadlines get missed....product quality goes down....now there's an uptick in vulnerabilities....and of course costs go up...you need to pay these McKinsey consultants who recommended you move all R&D to India massive fortunes to justify their Ivy League brains cluelessly applying patterns that might have worked in manufacturing to software development where it DIDN'T work.

If AI actually worked as Jensen Huang and Altman/Zuckerberg/Beinhoff promised, this might be less of an issue, but AI can't code. At best, it can make your smartest programmers more productive...and even that is controversial. I use Claude 4.5 daily and it's a hindrance in anything I know how to do, like Java, where it can't reliably compile and pretty much fails nearly every prompt I give it. I will admit that it helps me with technology I don't know well...it helped me with some very simple JavaScript recently...so it slows me down on what you actually hired me for, but makes me less of a dumbass in every language you didn't hire me for...

This may move the needle, but not enough that you can cut headcount drastically. If AI can ACTUALLY replace these employees, they weren't contributing a lot to begin with. I am honestly baffled. The CEO must be really clueless. With Beinhoff, he was AI-washing his company's failures and portraying routine layoffs as AI innovation....this guy?...I honestly have no clue what he's doing or his motivations....maybe he's just a really nice guy who cares about the employees more than the future of the company?

One can also study the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act to see how poorly that went. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They will be coming to crop shortages in North America and Europe. So I don't think you get it.

Gawd, I remember a time when a model was attractive. Then came heroin chic, when every female model looked like she was strung out. Now I think they are going for "non human".

The thing I wonder about is who is the target audience?maybe the people Jaguar was trying to influence? https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

I know a lot of iPhone users. I don't know any who would want that weird thing. I suppose they will sell a few, but not too many.

We have to make it extremely unpleasant for companies to collect large amounts of unnecessary data.

This. It is easy to steal as well. Apple is doing one of their occasional farts. They even have the pumpkin spice iPhone. Fortunately they still have tasteful iPhones. I'm an Apple products guy, but if all they had was that orange abomination, I'd wait until they regained their sanity before buying my next phone

They've had failed products before this. And this one will definitely fail Even their models look embarrassed in the pictures.

Borat did this long before Apple thought of it

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There was an article on the WSJ about a week or so ago that said roughly 60 % (or it might be 40 %, memory fades) of wage earners had money in the stock market in various guises. They have been buying on the dips. That, according to this article, is what has been propping up the market. There is also froth from AI-Mania. I suspect the big boys have been feeding it thinking they are savvy enough to bail in time when it all goes pear shaped.

The small investors have been doing this for quite awhile, and as long as they continue to do this, they continue to be rewarded; at least that is their thinking. They also tend to be a resilient lot because they've weathered downturns and buying into them in the past. I cannot judge what kind stomach they will have if a real gale blows or if the article was weighing their contribution as more than it deserves.

"If there are 1000 stocks in company A that were originally sold for $1 and someone buys one share for $2, the value of the stock is now $2000 even though only $1001 were ever put into the market. "

I hope you aren't an "investment" advisor.

Well, Kessler's orbital mechanics work out. Objects travelling over 28,200 kpm have incredible kinetic energy. A space shuttle window was very damaged by a paint fleck. There results of larger object collisions will be all that much more impactful - pun intended. That transfer of energy will send some of the debris higher., some lower.

Just recently, the Shenzhou-20 was damaged by space junk. https://www.scientificamerican...

An Intelsat broke up in orbit recently. They are still investigating the cause. They are now tracking an increasing number of objects from the explosion. https://www.space.com/intelsat...

And since it is becoming pretty difficult to insure satellites now, a lot of sats are launched without insurance, and the companies are making them as cheap as possible. They aren't as robust, since losses will be uncompensated. https://www.space.com/space-ex...

Finally, if you want to see destruction, a country that can achieve orbit could place a bag of sand or ball bearings in a retrograde orbit, and bring the whole house of cards down as the exchange of energy and subsequent destruction occur.

Even that best case scenario of 5 years for the carnage to de-orbit, I'm not sure that people will want to wait that long to get their internet.

If you believe that making low earth orbit impassible for a decade is good news, I have some bad news for you.

Regardless, the nature of the energy transfer from colliding objects in space means that some of the debris will end up in a higher orbit.

I have a 2010 Hyundai. None of this garbage is in my car. I turn the key, it starts. No waiting for a computer to boot up and grant me permission to drive or being tracked and, in this case, my information stolen.

And it's a stick shift.

KISS is dead.

People will either buy it or ignore it. Not the first silly product from them that most of us will not remember.