When my father was starting out as a young physician in the late 1950s, he had a meeting with the president of Chemical Bank to get a loan. The guy told my dad that the reason rich people are rich is because they watch the pennies.

People have gotten so used to renting every aspect of their lives that they have no clue why they feel poor. In this case, people keep their OnStar subscription even though they probably never use it and as good as cellular coverage is, the reason for having it is pretty much gone. Once SpaceX gets they tech into phones, there will be zero reason to have OnStar. But people are clueless. Wasting money on subscriptions has reached epidemic proportions.

The real concern is what happens when OnStar is totally obsolete. Is GM going to cheerfully give up all that free money? Hell no. They're going to find another way to nickle and dime their customers.

When I bought a new Toyota last year, I got a trial subscription to not just SiriusXM (which sucks, btw, compared to Spotify) and a one-year trial to their digital key nonsense on your phone (which also sucks, btw). I never started paying for those things.

There will come a day, not too long from now, when you won't be able to own a vehicle outright. You will only be able to rent it and every cool feature will be on a subscription basis.

I don't think I've ever googled something and it came up with anything that wasn't .com, .org, .edu, or .gov. Are search engines, and now more importantly AI engines able to scour other domains for information?

Here's my question: the AI doomsayers, particularly those in government, are demanding guardrails for security. In other words, mere mortals shouldn't be allowed access to sophisticated hacking functionality. Okay, but what if you want to use those tools to look for vulnerabilities in your own systems so nefarious entities won't be able to hack them? Will you have to go to some supposedly trusted government agency to have them tell you whether or not your systems are secure (for a nominal service fee)? How do you know you can trust them? Because they're the government?

That's the question. Is it truly that some plastic CAN'T be recycled or is it more likely that they aren't because it's too expensive or time consuming to do so and there's no market for it? Places like California love to stroke their own egos when they have 27 different trash containers for every conceivable use-case and then it's out-of-sight-out-of-mind. Just like everywhere else that uses one recycle container.

We used to stick AM radios next to those early computers to give the illusion of sound for games.

Let's say that you have 6 years worth of information about an organization. You want to create a year-over-year summary report that drills into what the organization did and more importantly, what all that cost. Could you hire a few of people to pour over that data and try to come up with something useful? Sure. They'd be expensive and they take a lot of time to do the job. Also, you never know if they're not cherry-picking the data or concealing some of it because they have a personal axe to grind. Humans have their own motivations or lack thereof. They might not actually do the work and instead come up with a report that's B.S while using the money you paid them to go to Tahiti. AI would do this task in a day or two and it won't conveniently forget to include data because of some ideological viewpoint.

At this point, you do have to iterate a few times and disambiguate the information so it can process it correctly. But it asks you for clarification instead of assuming. The models are going to become more efficient and require fewer iterations over the next couple of years.

Ultimately, you do have to have a pretty good understanding of the subject matter in order to collaborate well. If you don't know the first thing about electronics and you asked AI to design a circuit to do something, it probably won't work. But if you know how to tell AI what you're seeing on scopes and meters, it can help you make modifications to get it to work. That applies to pretty much any subject. The people using AI to make a lot of money in the market most likely already have a good understanding of how the market works.

And he in turn gave the US the middle finger by cozying up to China. No sense of responsibility to repay all that he got here.

All you need to do is prove that an "alternative" app store can't be used to distribute malware or worse, some EU commie spyware.

OS X and MacOS are the same thing if memory serves.

I've looked at a few engineering PhD programs and it just seems to be all about memorizing every course you ever took since freshman year. The irony is that real engineers never memorize anything. They look it up because that's far better than relying on a fallible memory.

Every piece of technology can be used for both good and bad. On the one hand, flock cameras could track an Amber alert suspect. I know of a case in Arizona where a murderer killed two people and drove the bodies all the way to Ohio where he borrowed his neighbor's backhoe in order to bury not just the bodies but the car they were in. So, arguably a good use-case for this tech.

But then you have the recent video of cops in Colorado accusing some woman of being a porch pirate saying that she can't make a move in this town without them knowing about it. Turns out that she was totally innocent and someone else was the pirate.

So, the old saying that those who would sacrifice liberty for temporary security deserve neither is entirely appropriate here. What happens when the next actual fascist administration comes along and cooks up some over-hyped scary disease and uses flock cameras to lock you up because you violated some bullshit lockdown order? I'm guessing that 50% of you would want the cameras gone while another 50% would say "Good, lock them up because I don't want to get sick." To the latter, I say "Your papers are not in order."

You're an investor with cash. You look at this IPO and see three things. Eventbrite. Probably some value there but does it have a moat? Vimeo. Could be a competitor to YouTube if it's done properly. AOL? What the hell is there that's worth anything?

Or perhaps by getting up you temporarily free yourself from the daily grind and that's what's killing you.

1200 baud?! Feh. I started with a 110 baud acoustic coupler modem on a Teletype 110 that operated at a whopping 11 characters per second.

Under Bernie's plan, actual Americans won't get control of AI. The government, and more accurately, an unaccountable agency wholly controlled by Bernie, Liz, AOC, and a few other nimrods will have total control over it.