Sure, maybe they deliver 100 Mbps, but they do *not* deliver fiber internet. Yeah, I know advertisements lie all the time. That doesn't mean we have to be OK with it.

I agree, the market is too concentrated. There are smaller options, just not as well known.
https://www.pcmag.com/picks/th...

I don't think it's fair to blame cloud hosting at all.

If you shrink back from the cloud because you're worried about using "a huge megacorp that can survive without you", what are you going to gain by self-hosting? You'll still be dependent on huge megacorps that can survive without you:
- The electric utility company
- The ISP that connects you to the internet
- The landlord that owns the building where you are hosting

Sure, you can mitigate each of these risks.
- You can connect to multiple power utilities, add standby generators and UPSes.
- You can connect to multiple ISPs, each of which is capable of handling your full load of data.
- You can host duplicate copies of your infrastructure in different locations to make it possible to fail over.

But how many companies that choose to self-host, will go to all that expense? Not. Very. Many.

No. The push against immigration is pure xenophobia and racism. The farmers who voted for Trump because he was going to deport all the "illegals" are now crying because they can't find enough workers to work their farms. You'll notice that Trump isn't deporting Europeans or Canadians, just people with brown skin.

I will repeat my main point:

Those who think employment is about to go away (because of AI), are drinking way, WAY too much Kool-aid.

Saving 46 minutes per day sounds kind of plausible, but probably is still exaggerated. People are terrible at estimating how long things take, and how long things would have taken without automation. The people who came up with this estimate, probably forgot to subtract the time it took them to properly instruct the AI, and how much time it took them to correct the mistakes AI made.

Clearly, this self-professed fan isn't worried about his job. Let's watch and see what happens. My money is on the human.

You'll notice that even Amazon's rosy predictions, say they hope to keep their number of employees *flat* rather than continuing to *grow.* They have no hope of zeroing out their workforce, not even close.

Those who think employment is about to go away, are drinking way, WAY too much Kool-aid.

The automation Amazon referenced, is not AI, but "robotic" automation. But let's go with your premise.

There are only two groups of educated people who think AI will be able to "replace the human mind":
1. AI company CEOs and marketers
2. YouTube influencers who make money selling scary stories

Those of us who have actually *used* AI, have very little fear of "being replaced." We can see that it boosts productivity, but it's very, very far from "replacing the human mind." In fact, it's so boneheaded, it's laughable. It's only useful in the hands of skilled users who can sift through the dumbness and pull the good out of it.

There you go again, lying to make your point. It's not capped at $100,000, and I pointed to an official IRS link to prove it. If you can't even bother with facts, there's no reason I should listen to your logic, such as it is. We already went over how the Social Security payments are capped. It doesn't seem unfair to me.

Rumors have always traveled faster than sound.

While your comments are true, they aren't really relevant. Cars were a thing before Henry Fort too, but hardly anybody had one until Henry Ford. Taxis were a thing before Uber, but unless you lied in a major urban area, good luck actually getting a ride in one. Before Uber and Lyft, there were about half a million taxi drivers, Uber and Lyft increased that total (if you call them taxi drivers) by about 5x.

Partitioning doesn't negate caching of things like frameworks. For example, if I have a script tag that references Bootstrap, it will certainly cache my copy of Bootstrap as I use it for my web site. This is called double-keyed caching. My copy of Bootstrap is cached for me, but other websites that use Bootstrap won't get MY cached copy.

OK so apparently slashdot has done some work to make their site work without javascript. Many around the web have not.

That's all true. But they are *not* going to ever make those benefits unlimited, if anything they will make changes to reduce the amount of benefits received by people who exceed those limits. So if you're trying to hold this up as a way that the government "doesn't tax the rich enough" then sorry, I don't follow.

Uber launched in 2010. It seemed crazy to get in the car with a total stranger, but people quickly warmed up to the idea.

Now it's 15 years later, and we're worried that this is going to go away, and jobs will be decimated.

However did we survive before Uber anyway?

Before Uber, nobody conceived of such a way to earn money. In the unlikely event that robotaxies will completely make Uber driving a thing of the past, some other new kind of work will pop up, just like Uber provided a brand new line of work that nobody thought of before.

We used to call them hybrids. Now we have tools to be more specific about what genes we want to keep and not keep. But the idea isn't really new.