All fair points, but I'm arguing against this particular assertion:

Borcherds said he currently grades on completion if a student hands in their homework. He admitted that it is “not a very good system,” but at the moment, he has no alternative.

If you have zero indication that a student understands the material other than whether they handed in the homework, the existence of AI is not the problem.

One-on-one discussion of the assignment after completion. Even if it's just enough to confirm that the student understands what they submitted.

This sounds like he's unwilling to do a little extra work to determine if the student actually understands their submitted work. If that's true now, it was true 40 years ago, when the student could have turned in paperwork that some other student actually did.

They don't charge transaction fees, but they get paid by market makers like Citadel for facilitating the transaction. The more transactions Robinhood facilitates, the more money they make, regardless of whether the transaction is in the customer's best interest.

A Robinhood AI deciding what to do with my investments? Not even once.

While many users choose Microsoft Office over LibreOffice because of its support for the proprietary formats (.docx, .xlsx, and .pptx)

Is this still a common issue? I migrated from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice a few months ago, and I haven't had a problem with any of my existing .docx and .xlsx files. (Same with .pptx, but I rarely do anything in PowerPoint.)

The interesting part is that they lost 28% in prediction markets compared to 11% in online gambling. They also reported that the median losses were 7% and 1% respectively.

NO. GODDAMMIT. The number one reason I still use Firefox is that it makes the internet tolerable to me, mostly thanks to extensions that minimize ads and terrible marketing nonsense. Blasting AI slop at me is the exact opposite of the reason I use Firefox. I'm more likely to quit being on the internet than I am to accept unwanted AI garbage in my browser.

Salesforce CEO says he found a way to screw the people that made Salesforce possible. He makes money, they collect unemployment. Uh...yay?

I'm insanely excited to hear that a couple of restaurants I haven't visited in decades because their food sucks are planning to save money by making their service worse.

If you can plagiarize by using a plagiarism machine and not be guilty of plagiarism, the rules might need to change.

You make excellent points. The layoffs at Meta follow a similar pattern. Even though they've laid off something like 21,000 employees, their headcount is up over 10% since January 2021. And perhaps more importantly, lots of companies outside of FAANG are hiring developers. The sky is not falling yet.

Can't wait to see how they recreate the excitement of soccer in a world where the avatars have no legs.

"No, no, despite the measurable increase in productivity, working from home doesn't work." - you, hilariously

I assume they mean US factory jobs specifically, which reached their peak in the 1970s. https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/v...

If the answer is yes, then San Francisco will continue to thrive with the same strategy that's been working for them for several decades. But if the answer were yes, then the mayor wouldn't need to beg companies to come back downtown and pitch it as a return to normalcy.