So, other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?

That would have to be addressed on an application-specific basis. Debating the issue "in general" doesn't make much sense.

Definitely humans provide care in a way an algorithm cannot. On the other hand, when the summary does get around to mentioning what Kaiser is actually doing, it's monitoring sensors. Computers are pretty damn good at maintaining vigilance in sensor monitoring, in a way people are not. That's why we have fire alarms even though humans can also feel heat and smell smoke.

The OLED screen jumps out at me as a useful upgrade. An iPad is mainly a screen.

Although, they make some nice non-OLED screens too.

I think perplexity.ai is in a honeymoon phase of not having been sued yet. GPT4 has become very cautious about analyzing or quoting copyright material including papers, whereas perplexity will still go ahead and access them and do the work for you. It's great, but I wonder if it will last.

People want to see their 401k's go up, and whoever's in charge of making sure $BIGNUM goes up this quarter at google wants their bonus. There is no single individual who personally owns the $110B google has lying around.

No. Growth is not the default state of natural systems. Equilibrium is the natural state of natural systems. Long term stability is the only reason life is even possible on Earth. Of course, over geological time frames change is inevitable, but in timeframes that are relevant to humans and human society, stability is the norm and indeed required for life and our civilization.

Growth beyond equilibrium is characteristic of cancer and parasites. Markets are NOT akin to natural systems; they do not establish a natural equilibrium despite what post-Keynesian economists would have you believe. Don't believe me? Get your head out of your first year economics textbook and have a look around ffs.

I'm not sure what you mean by "it's called an economy". That phrase might sound all edumacated in your head, but my point was that privatised debt on public services like education, healthcare, or infrastructure represent a "bleed" on that economy. And a bleed has exactly the same effect as it has on a human body. It might play out over a far longer period of time, but the effect is the same: A slow an eventual deterioration of health and if not stopped, eventual death. The debt servicing load on the collective OECD countries now exceeds even optimistic growth forecasts. In other words, blood is being extracted faster than the body can produce it.

But whatever. History will show which one of us is right. Let's talk in 20 years. If the OECD has emerged into bountiful prosperity, you were right. If it has shrunken or worse, I was.

Just because student loans are discounted does not mean that they cannot be packaged and resold to the private sector. Look up SLABs:
https://www.investopedia.com/a...

They most certain do have offices in those locations

https://about.google/locations...

Not sure offshoring is an appropriate term for a global company hiring globally.

If you're hiring somewhere you don't sell anything, that's definitely offshoring.

No. Grow or die is a false dichotomy and it's why we're about to grow ourselves out of our planet.

That's true if you look one level deep. Dig deeper.

The government sells bonds against those debts which essentially transfers all of the profit on those student loans to the private sector.

It was less than a year ago that KB5026372 was breaking VPN connections; and now they've broken them again?

Yes. There was unecnrypted data.
But the unencrypted data was not the passwords.

It's still not a good look for them, or good news, or anything but a fail on their part.

But its also not what you imply it was.

If they had called it Windows 10.2 instead of Windows 11 would it have changed anything? It says "Update Now, Or Else!!" and you click OK an it does it. Nobody is camping out at Best Buy for a boxed version of a new major release any more.