China has about 120 days of stockpiles but they are going through them fast. They import about 1/3 of their needs.

Progressives are taking a cue from their European democratic socialists and getting really good at regulating industries they barely have.

If we go this way, then we should also adapt compilers to include random variation in the code that they generate, so that the same source code on the same version of the compiler won't always produce the same output.

You now, if LLMs are the golden standard for how we want all the world to work, we take the things that are really bad ideas for programming in LLMs and implement them in our compilers too.

I am probably going to need to go with #3

True but top officials and contract officers, even brokerage employees are monitored for this type of behavior. Most govt employees and military are not actively monitored because they donâ(TM)t have enough authority to make financial decisions.

We also saw a case recently where someone won $400k betting Maduro would not be in office and itâ(TM)s thought they are likely a DOD or Trump admin insider.

Polymarket and other betting sites have basically become a way for insiders to profiteer on non public information but in a way that endangers states by adding a personal profit motive to govt policy that extends far beyond actual decision makers or those in a position to award govt contracts and now anyone around the water cooler can do it.

...if the thing you're enshittifying is already bullshit?

"Remove the advertising"?

Isn't advertising the whole business model of most tech companies nowadays?

RIGHT?????

It goes on the LEFT!

But, yes, I agree with you that vertical space is much more of a premium now than horizontal space given the aspect ratios of monitors nowadays. It was different back in the 1980s when a lot of the UI conventions we still stick with were first established.

I love how Microsoft has to plan an initiative for four months to say that they will be paying their electricity bills.

I still have a Vic-20 in my garage. Maybe I should get it back out!

What I want is an AI Razor, not Razer, that will shave AI off of all the places where it's grown.

...but the inevitable firing of this person when bad things happen and this person failed to stop them, will allow OpenAI to say "see! Look! We're doing something about how terrible we are!"

Zillow is an effective monopoly on internet real-estate listings, that is bad.

Google is an effective monopoly on anything internet search related that it decides to dip its fingers into, that is worse.

Meanwhile Ireland which likes to style itself an independent country is completely dependent on its neighbors for defense against Russia which is now routinely flying sea-launched drones over Irish territorial waters and airspace. The aggression spiked during President Zelensky's recent visit to Ireland where at least 4 military grade suspected Russian drones flew near the President's aircraft.

Ireland pretends it is what Israel actually is, an independent sovereign state participating in the global technology and trade economy without entangling alliances like NATO. In reality, Ireland is effectively protectorate of its own former colonial empire, the UK and the USA and because it is not a member of NATO, the Russians see it as an obvious target of military escalation that Russia could attack but not trigger NATO Article 5.