Wasn't it you who asserted industry layoffs are due to AI use?

"The vast majority of the software industry is embracing this tech as a productivity booster and you can just look at the layoff statistics for evidence. Microsoft is massively profitable but recently offered buyouts to 60k employees. Oracle laid off 13% of staff. Cloudflare, Wix, and Epic Games furloughed 20% this year. "

Where is your evidence to support your causal assertions? Oh right it doesn't exist because you are full of shit.

Yes you are, your words speak for themselves shill.

Anyone can use an LLM. Unless you are applying for a job at a code mill an interviewer who focuses on tool use is doing themselves and their organization a disservice.

Sounds a lot to me like some kind of social justice nonsense. If people choose to buy crypto they should be able to do so and keep the assets they earned and bought with their earnings. This sounds to me like some "Cross of Gold" speech where you think people shouldn't have private property rights because, alas, they'll just keep their wealth! The horror: someone working for something then getting to hold onto it against the oh-so-benevolent government thieves/gangbangers *GASP*. Next thing you know they'll be saving money or the family farm and giving it to their children. Oh the humanity!

Even in this situation IPv6 is still a huge benefit because peers are able to prime the ISPs association tables to enable direct communications amongst themselves. You might still need a third party to facilitate the setup of the communication yet data channels are still able to be maintained directly between peers.

This immediately came to mind:

https://youtu.be/GjDbUhRy3GM?t...

RIP brother. You were a real one. The past is written, but we are left to write the future.

I'd disagree. I'd say this is one of a nearly unlimited hacks and robbery modalities that crypto inherently enables. That's okay, though. Please go out and incinerate your money on crypto. When it craters or gets stolen, it eventually pumps up real/actual assets by scaring anyone with sense out of the crypto market. Don't buy Gold or Silver. I want a bit more time to buy at these ultra-low prices.

Everyone should provide evidence to support their personal experiences to ZipNada's satisfaction. Of course ZipNada the sealioning shill will never be satisfied. It will always be you are doing it wrong or not using enough or using the wrong one.

I loved that book but it was a thick one and a long time ago, so I don't remember that specifically. But I believe you.

I am reminded of Ted K's writings - specifically on the enablement-virtuous-cycle between tech level, state control, authortarianism, etc.

The replacement of uniform broadcast media with "decentralized" culture and media has thrown a wrench in things. The tech we had in the 50s-80s enabed one form of mass control. The changing tech broke those specific mechanisms, but the System responded.

The fight over control of twitter was actually like trying to re-litigate WW1 The dying princes of the dying imperial system were all trying to install their preferred ruler; not realizing that decentralization had already won.

People will occupy twitter if they can, but holding that territory was already non-essential by the time it changed hands.

The system response has certainly not let go of trying to reclaim overt control over all top-100 information warfare tiles on the board, but has invested in subterfuge and compartmentalization as well.

If the system cannot control a single monoculture, it is also happy to have significant influence over 100 microcultures that are functionally disjoint with non-porous boundaries.

Ted K would say that America has become functionally ungovernable. I agree. We have much evidence of being a failed state. Now, if you shut off the internet and the news, and just went about your life, you might not see any evidence of it. But we are sort of like an observer on the ground, watching a plane fly overhead at FL350. The plane's engines are out because it is out of gas. From the ground, to us, it looks fine. It looks like every other plane. It will stay up there, really high, for a good long while. It will have passed out of our view by the time it has lost enough altitude to notice.

But the plane is doomed. The people onboard know. The people with the right sensors know.

America is like that plane. It is going to fall out of the sky. But most observers don't know that yet.

Internet censorship won't restart the engines. That doesn't mean they won't keep trying anyway.

I like LLMs and have a collection of them. I have prompts running in the background continuously most every day. What I don't like are psychologically manipulative shills spewing nonsense divorced from reality.

What does this even mean? AI tools are dead simple to use and prompt engineering is long dead. What is left and in how many weeks from now will it have completely changed? This whole notion knowing how to be an end user of an LLM constitutes some kind of "skill" is frankly absurd on its face.

You're still dodging the point. Yes, specialists and NGOs write reports about coal phase-outs. The actual political project that gets votes, bans, mandates, and media airtime treats personal cars as the moral enemy and the symbol of the mobility they resent. Power generation remains the larger slice of emissions; electricity and heat roughly double transport in most recent breakdowns; yet the visible campaigns still zero in on pickup trucks and suburban driving because those are easier to demonize and tax than Chinese coal plants or global shipping. Talk is cheap; the force and the cost allocation are what matter. China is a hard target, but Billy-Bob's truck is a target you and your pals feel you can actually take a swing at.

Wrong. Public transit helps where density and demand already support it. In most of the US it doesn't. Lower-income households own fewer vehicles on average, and a higher share of the poorest have none, but the ones who do own them spend a larger share of income keeping them running; because in much of the country a car is how you get to work, buy food, or move kids. Cutting that option or making fuel and registration more expensive doesn't "help them get around"; it raises their time and money costs while the people pushing the policy keep their options.

Means-tested scrappage schemes and EV subsidies are just transfers: taxpayers (including the working poor) fund them so the numbers look green. They don't make low-carbon energy cheaper in absolute terms; they rearrange who pays the premium.

Small-scale solar and batteries in Africa are a real development win for basic lighting, phones, and fridges in places that never had reliable grids. Markets and falling panel prices did that, not carbon taxes on Western farmers. That does not scale as a model for industrial economies that want 24/7 power for factories, data centers, hospitals, and air conditioning. Intermittency, storage costs, and grid constraints remain, and the places that have rapidly cut coal-related emissions (US natural gas substitution via fracking) did it through cheaper, denser energy rather than virtue-signaling mandates. Fossil fuels still deliver the most reliable energy per dollar in most contexts; nobody has yet made the full "green" stack cheaper without subsidies or forced scarcity. Sad but true. Yet, aggressive climate-nazis like you never listen or care. Your position is "smash the poor" and then just spin anything that doesn't support "climate action".

Ah, so this means government imposed censorship with corporate partnerships (fascism) is the only valid way forward?

Doesn't sound like you forgot it. Sounds like you want it but don't want to get your clock cleaned in a debate so you just can't exactly write that down. You can have freedom and have to put up with people you don't like having the same rights, or you can take the rights away by force and hide in the basement until they come for you, too. Choose.

The minute anyone talks about "hate speech" we know exactly what they want: censorship. This is whole article is one big crybaby rant for "regulate me harder daddy". The cure for speech you don't like is your own speech against it, not getting Big Brother to come fight on your side. You'll find him fickle and quick to turn on you the minute what you say offends someone.

How many times must we say it: you don't have the right to not be offended

The Internet is a robust global interconnected network of peers able to communicate with any other peer on the network for the cost of admission.

Protocol specifications and world class implementations are freely available to everyone.

High performance hardware enabling single peers to provide information to millions is cheap and (was) readily available.

High level world class server and client stacks and related technology are also freely available to everyone.

There is zero excuse for anyone here to be whining about the state of the Internet.

I think you've pushed all of the talking points any shill would shill. Focus on proposals, documentation, deployment, signaling this is the future and will cut costs + you're good as dead if you don't use our product. I don't see anything you've missed.

The only slight wrinkle is the stunning lack of real world results. Layoffs are a result of economic conditions and corrections for pandemic era hiring not "AI". When AI gets to that point it will be obvious to everyone. Right now it is just another tool and you are very much high on your own supply.