Literally anything other than the three you list? I mean I could name 7 other brands one of them being OPPO which is the same company as OnePlus.

headline would make me spit coffee on my screen and laugh, instead of today when they make me throw up a little in my own mouth.

One company suddenly increasing in size to the tune of 7 figures is not just "4 major studios instead of 5". One company is literally buying an insane size of the market along with a lot of IP.

The market is far better served letting Warner go bankrupt and having the company divided and the 4 major studios equally getting to bid for parts of the business.

The end result of this is that Spirits time slots and assets are bought by a variety of airlines. Yes that's exactly where we want to go. You're not served by pretending there is competition simply because one company has two different coats of paint on their planes while they overnight massively increase the amount of market coverage, and dominance in the industry. This does not benefit the consumer.

And yeah it sounds bad, company goes under, jobs lost... I suppose millions of Americans just decided to no longer fly now? Except that's never been the case with any airline going bankrupt in the history of the airline industry. In reality consumers still fly, companies still want to serve consumers. Airports are all effectively running at full slot capacity. The end result is those people who lost their jobs get jobs at various competitors who fill the whole. The planes and assets get bought and reused by various competitors. The flight slots get taken up by various competitors.

You may see the key word there: "various". From a market point of view and from a consumer competition point of view, having one company go out of business is MASSIVELY preferable to having the company "saved" by being bought by another company. The former process preserves competition, the latter creates consolidation.

Industries in trouble need to be blocked from mergers. Allowing them can have worse outcome than market competition.

On what basis?

So the industry doesn't need mergers then? Just let it go away? I'm struggling to see what point you're making, your post is inconsistent. Do we consolidate power in a monopoly or let an irrelevant industry die?

The cable industry has a FUCKING HUGE influence on the world, especially in America. Media are king makers. It's anything but a waste of time worrying about this. Unless that is you want every show in the future to be some variation of "Ow my balls"

Yep, let's go with the latter. If they are going to be reduced than their assets should be divided up and sold individually, not making one of the 4 companies fucking massive compared to the other.

Mergers of that size should be prohibited. You are not well served by a massive monopoly on media. You're far better served with everyone in the competition getting a slice in the firesale.

Worth noting we've already done this. ReCaptcha has used input characterisation for a long time now. Again I didn't disagree it'll be worked around, just that it won't be as easy as people think.

There's a difference between capturing and replaying data (something that will be easily detected, humans are biased but still have variance), and properly generating a human looking input. This is harder than people think.

The rest of the world laughs at how the greatest country in the world suddenly dies because it's not light outside. Maybe that's why Trump wants Greenland? To teach Americans how to use light switches?

Indeed. Now how do we do this on a societal level quickly and easily in a way that everyone remains in synchronisation and there's minimal confusion and no requirement to adjust signage / information?

The idea that opening or working times are a choice are a delusion by someone without kids or without an employer (contractors can chose their working hours).

I agree people complaining have no clue. The idea that peak hour follows the sun is just stupid, as you can see by the wide WIDE differences between summer and winter sunrise / sunset times. Add to that the insane amount of road maintenance that is done overnight in NL and your post ends up with only one point left: You think it's annoying.

But the Netherlands is the Netherlands. The entire country thinks everything is annoying at all times. The rain is annoying, the sun is annoying, the cold is annoying, the heat is annoying, the wind is annoying, the lack of wind is annoying, etc, etc, etc.

Dark at 10am? People up north laugh at you.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

You can probably find the article but years ago a father found out his teenage daughter was pregnant because Target started sending him coupons for baby stuff. The reason Target did that is because they figured out that if you bought certain things that were not related to a baby it meant that you were pregnant. It was relatively simple machine learning that made that possible.

That's illegal no matter what tool you use, though, and it's not the tool that makes it illegal unless it was designed to do illegal things intentionally, or if you keep using it when you know it does illegal things. Adding AI isn't the legal problem. It's just a slightly new gimmick to the same old game, pretending you didn't know what you were doing.

Screenless is stupid. Screens are cheap now. By all means make it audio centric but if I just have to get out my phone to get any info that isn't convenient to get via audio, then I might as well just use my phone for the audio stuff too.

Facebook isn't a nice company but no company is a nice company.

I don't want to necessarily defend them but Facebook does have legitimate uses. I'm a introverted nerd so I don't have a lot of use for it but I have a couple of friends you are what you would call an extroverted nerd.

I can't think of any existence more frustrating and depressing than being an extroverted nerd. You're someone who wants to be around people and you aren't comfortable if you're alone but you're kind of weird and off-putting. Not for any fault of your own it's just you know you have something wrong with you as far as people are concerned. Maybe you're ugly maybe you're short and fat maybe you're on the spectrum and have zero tact so you blurt out incredibly uncomfortable and inappropriate things pretty much non-stop.

For those kind of nerds they can find like-minded nerds on Facebook and congregate and hang out.

And for regular people they can find people into their hobby. One of my more normal buddies finds his fishing buddies that way.

This is plausible deniability. Basically they want to fire people with disabilities or people who are starting to age because they can replace them with somebody younger who will work harder for less money.

It doesn't matter what experience the people getting fired have it's just a mathematical formula. We are all just cogs anymore except for a tiny handful of extremely specialized workers. If you have to ask if you're one of them you're not you'd be making it at least half a million a year and you wouldn't be wasting your time reading my dumb comments.

This is about creating a algorithm that fires people illegally and then claiming the algorithm is just a fair algorithm. This way Facebook can keep this shit tied up in court for years and we're down most of the people who would sue if not all of them.

If you have ever seen fight club it's the same kind of calculations that were done at the beginning of that film. Including the cost of the lawsuits.

I don't think people have realized just how much big data has tilted employment in favor of the employees. Or if they have realized it they've just pushed it out of their heads and pretended it didn't happen because it's too scary to think about.

I mean my head is full of all these disasters that are coming that nobody is doing anything about and nobody is going to do anything about. It's not necessarily worth knowing about it really. It would be one thing if anyone could do anything about it but when 60% of the country reads at the level of a 12-year-old I think we are pretty well fucked...

MCA was mind boggling. IBM is exactly not known for being cheap, and yet that's exactly what they did with MCA autoconfiguration by using floppies instead of ROM. Meanwhile they used a very expensive card edge connector when there was really no good reason to do so. It's truly insane.