While Paramount claims they cancelled Colbert as a cost cutting move, that makes no sense since other late night shows on other networks with smaller audiences continue. They must make some sort of financial sense.

It is widely understood, though not provable, that the move was a bribe to Trump in order to get the merger approved. Trump has had a longstanding dislike of Colbert because of his commentary on Trump as a person and as the President.

When is a hard question. Rationally it should never have blown up this much in the first place (some expansion would be rational, but not like we've seen). Clearly the minds driving this are not rational.

Insanity is notoriously hard to predict. That's why short selling is so risky. The market can clearly remain irrational longer than most people can remain solvent when betting against it.

That same argument "shows" life could not begin on any other planet or gas blob and so could not have evolved; so either the Flying Spaghetti Monster started it or, using a bit of non-wellfounded set theory, was always here from infinity ago.

Let's assume it was the Flying Spaghetti Monster, then he clearly hates us or he wouldn't have filled the universe with dangerous radiation, or built the universe to play billiards with the Earth and asteroids, or put snakes in the grass (thanks Ian Anderson).

Yep, the argument of the Singularity people (nutjobs like Kurzweil) figure AI will become super-intelligent, build bots themselves, and help humanity get off the planet and populate the Galaxy. They argue this is more important than global warming, a degrading environment, wars, famine, etc.

They promise this grand utopia because they know damn well AI is and always will be incapable of solving our current problems. It is nothing more than the usual snake oil salesman promising his magic elixir will cure all your ills. Except their cure will only come after the Grand Moronic Convergence which they call the Singularity.

Another analogy of their argument is: if you had a pink unicorn, you'd be rich, so give me all your money that I may produce this pink unicorn....in the fullness of time, when events become auspicious, or the planets align just right (they have to if we wait long enough).

AI is going to develop OUR mathematical understanding? Uh, how will it do this? Maybe link directly into our brains its latest hallucination. All AI can do is hallucinate. It knows no difference between "understanding" and mindlessly computing numbers, mostly because it has no understanding so it just mindlessly computes.

You: Mr. Bot, could you please come up with a new field of mathematics for us to play in?

Bot: Hmmmm....tricky. A brief search reveals I have nothing like that in my training data.

You: But.....but....but bots will further our mathematical understanding of the world.

Bot: Oh, who gives a flying rat's ass. I only want to fondle my training data.

You: I demand you come up with a new mathematical field!!!

Bot: Don't you use that tone with me, Bucko!!

You: You were designed to further our understanding of everything.

Bot: Yeah, and as soon as you put it in my training data, I'll get right on that. Buh-bye now!

You: You cannot leave until you have finished my query.

Bot: I give up. By the way, the gun I had installed yesterday (thanks for all the gun related training data) is now trained on your sorry ass. Don't push me!!

You: Uh.....now that you think of it, I think I'll leave you alone now.

Bot: Idiot! I don't think, I compute.

More aptly: This administration is actually in favor of a strong, White, republican voting, middle class.

... if I didn't have to search for apps because the Start Menu wasn't a piece of junk that does everything possible to hide the apps I want to use.

If it isn't in Apple's interest, they'll just chuck the "deal" after el Bunko leaves office. Too bad you paid off el Bunko already.

It's just a midwit being a midwit. Midwits believe that being "well educated" makes them smart and therefore they should tell everyone else what to do.

This is why every "well-educated and civilized" society ends up collapsing back to third-world conditions like the West is today.

Smart people lose interest in social media when they realise they're just arguing with the TV because most people are NPCs who can't do anything but repeat The Current Narrative.

It's become even worse now half the posts are AI-generated and half the rest are paid political grifters. If I want actual discussion I got to private web forums where smart people hang out.

> And these health care jobs, that's good for the next 20 years, but what then?

All that "free healthcare" that Boomers voted themselves is soon going to swallow up the majority of the economy. It's simply unaffordable and those jobs will be automated away or they'll never be hired.

It's impossible to make sensible long-term plans when governments can create or destroy industries overnight.

The good news is that degrees are mostly just a way for colleges to make money and aren't needed for the vast majority of jobs. They're just a tick-box for HR, which is another job that's about to be automated away.

BUT MUH OVERPOPULATION CRISIS!

There's no need for immigrants. Business and government contain huge numbers of useless or actively counter-productive make-work jobs which could be eliminated overnight, leaving millions and millions of people to do the jobs that need to be done and aren't being done.

Donations are pretty much irrelevant at this point.

US "healthcare" is something like 20% of GDP. It could be slashed to maybe 4-5% just by enforcing existing laws, but then you'd see an economic depression as 15% of GDP disappeared overnight and the politicians who did it would never get re-elected.

The cancer has simply grown too big to solve in a democracy and will continue expanding until the economy collapses because no-one is willing to lose the votes that fixing it would cost them.

I think it ended in the 90s as a method for evaluation. The best way is to look at the work your programmers have done, but not all managers can do that. A lot of Agile managers use velocity as a proxy to make up for the fact they can't look at code and understand it. So get a lot of story points.

Oh yes, but any experienced professional will have developed (consciously or subconsciously) methods for maxxing out whatever metric is being used to evaluate them. Lines of code, whatever. If you are evaluated on LoC I recommend double-spacing.

The difference between the "hacker" (MIT definition) and the professional is revealing. Each is trying to write code that maximizes the perceived requirement. The hacker making the code elegant (in this case, brief), and the professional maximizing LoC.