Wait, your idea is that consumption causes wealth? I'd really like to know where you got that idea.

Practically speaking, it doesn't need to be good. People watch cartoons, even though the quality of some of them is outright horrible. No one watched the Simpsons because of the realistic animation.

These kinds of things wouldn't happen if everyone wrote their code in Rust (or slower, memory safe languages). It's impossible to have security problems if you don't use C++. Rust solves every problem. That's why we have quantum computers now, written by AI in Rust. Tomorrow I will ask Gemeni to design me a flying car. With antigravity.

PointCast... memory unlocked. There's a name I haven't heard in like 30 years.

I agree with you that everything old is new again, often something that wasn't as successful as it could have been and companies are trying to make the idea work. VR has been in that category for almost 4 decades, and it still is.

If you have two molecules of water, they are keeping each other wet. If you have one molecule of water it's not wet.

It's not hypocrisy. Their core belief is, "anything that helps my party is good. Anything that hurts the other party is bad." There's no room in that for fairness.

> At some point your UI has reached peak usability and the you can only go downhill.

That point happened in 2009.

Also another case of Microsoft touting a "new" feature that other OS's have had for decades.

According to the article, the investigation was started after three congresspeople received threatening test messages last spring.

Depending on your manager, it's intentional. For managers, personal power is a result of having more people below you on the organization tree. The most logical way to respond to this incentive is to hire more people below you. And if people are working slowly, then it's a justification to hire more people.

Not all managers do this, but the incentive exists, and managers who do it tend to gain power faster than those who don't.

So, because incentives are misaligned, evolutionary pressure exists in corporations to make you, as an individual contributor, inefficient.

It's just an extension of the fallacy of dividing people into "left" and "right" which makes no sense, unless you are trying to divide and conquer a population.

It's a problem in China, too: https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...

School was near a lead processing plant. Local officials told the hospitals not to diagnose the children (who had obvious symptoms of lead poisoning).

California's dream is to have battery backed solar. That will be quite expensive, but California is willing to pay a lot for it.

It's easy, all you have to do is change the laws.

We've known that for decades, but the hope was China would become a free nation instead of choosing war. In recent years, their dictatorship has turned stronger, though.