Bond payees are the highest on the totem pole. Every single shareholder gets wiped out before a bondholder even misses a payment.

Look at the insane virality and popularity of OpenMolt / MoltBot, which was made by a hobbyist over a few weekends. Yes it has security issues - but if it was actually built and provided by a company like Microsoft or Google, they could easily address those.

Why is it so popular? Because it is an AI assistant that can actually do stuff, and is useful, as opposed to the stupidity of having AI in a text editor mostly used as a cliipboard cache..

Microsoft needs better product managers. The current slate seems to have no sweet clue what people actually want out of AI.

GenAI has been able to bypass reCAPTCHA for a long time.

They are useless virtue signalling at this point.

Right, so now its a clusterfuck and they might as well close the office because anyone who does put in the commute time is now being fucked.

This is PRECISELY my point. Pick one or the other. Hybrid doesnt work.

Look, there are pros and cons to working from office and working from home. Everyone knows what they are, so I am not going to rehash what is already widely known and understood. Neither of these models is perfect. Different ones will work for different companies depending on their size, stage of growth, what they do, and geographical location.

However, ONE OF THE TWO needs to be selected for any given company, because this whole "hybrid" model is what sucks FOR EVERYONE.

NO ONE wants to commute to an office to sit on Zoom calls - it is entirely counter productive and THE ABSOLUTE WORST combination of both models - however, this is EXACTLY where you end up with a "hybrid" workplace, because you can never guarantee who is exactly in the office and who is not so you are all on Zoom all the time regardless of where you are.

"Hybrid" is what truely needs to die.

He says they are going to combat AI Slop, in the same breath as he says they are rolling out tools to make creating it easier.

I don't think this guy understands what most people think "AI Slop" even is. "Remixing existing content", *IS* slop. It is low effort, low value, garbage.

I said growth rate in the very first post. Go read it. You're the one who confused them, not me.

Yes but this is always used as a red herring in the argument. Carriers say "if we are forced to sell unlocked it will make phones unaffordable" - my point is, this is a false narrative.

Canada banned the sale of locked mobile phones in 2017. Since then, every phone sold in the country has been unlocked.

Did financing phones go away and make phones more expensive? No.

Carriers still finance phones, and tie them to plans, it is just decoupled from the device so while you may be paying off the device for 3 years, you can decide to sell it and/or move carriers whenever you want, by paying off the remaining balance.

And you should take a reading comprehension test.

The GROWTH RATE has been shrinking for a decade.

Reports in the 70s were all predicated on not just growth, but INCREASING growth rates (exponential) because that's what had happened until that point. All of those models were wrong. The growth rate has been collapsing even faster than it grew. The global population is never going to reach 9 billion, and the peak estimate is revised down every single year. Its actually looking unlikely we will ever even break 8
5 billion.

There are ways to build data centers that use little to no water. They are just more complicated, so unless they are forced to, companies don't do it.

I wish people would not just always assume that Data Center == Water Use. This is a problem trivially worked around using existing technology.

The fundamental premise of that report was that the global population growth rate would keep growing, which it hasn't -it has been shrinking for over a decade, and is almost to an equilibrium point - after which the population is going to start *shrinking*.

With shrinking population, will come shrinking water demands.

The global population collapse is going to cause a lot of other problems - our economies are not built to withstand it - but running out of water won't be one of them.

The only question we have right now is, will global population collapse happen fast enough to avert the water crisis. It is hard to say, as all prediction models about population over the past 100 years have been inaccurate - we classically over-project and under-project the growth and collapse rates.

If you are an end-user, Gemini is way better, more functional, and comes with your Google subscription

If you are a company - come on. Claude is WAY WAY beyond anything OpenAI does.

Total nonsense. Humans cant do that. Saying AI needs to be able to do it is bogusm