Agriculture and food is highly regulated and subsidized in the United States and most countries. Yes my contention is left to be a "free market" food would be something of a disaster.

Or what I'm really saying whatever competitive market for food we live in today is maintained by subsidy and regulation. State intervention is a necessary part of capitalism.

Publicly traded companies constitute less than 1 percent of all U.S. firms and about one-third of U.S. employment in the non-farm business sector.

This is true but also if we are going to use market principles here we have to accept that there is a form of market failure in labor that has to be accounted for in that people have to work.

Unless you qualify for disability or SS you need a job to survive or its out on the street. A key aspect of a competitive market is the ability for the buyer to walk away from a purchase, not simply to have an alternative. With labor very few people have the option to not work so the power balance is in favor of employers. Two sellers competing for a buyer who is forced to buy from one of them is ripe for perverse incentives and collusion.

This is not realistic for a number of reasons. Those companies will need workers also.

I agree but this is very much related to the second point

This is American's refusing to take responsibility because, ironically, they keep voting for the self-proclaimed "party of personal responsibility" because to American's that means eschewing any sense of social responsibility. One party gives a permission structure to ignore the issue because that is the "personal responsibility" they sell, only to yourself and nobody else.

Actual personal responsibility would be voting for the party who accepts the problem is real and the acceptance of an adult that the solutions may involve some small sacrifice from yourself. Conservative Americans aren't even capable of taking the personal responsibility that they may have been mislead and were wrong about the issue.

Science fiction is a big umbrella category and it itself is inside the fantasy genre depending on how we wanna slice it.

It takes place in space in a future or alternate Earth, that's enough. Sub genre it's probably a space western, thus my comparison to Cowboy Bebop which is also scifi but with minimal tech, it's just a space setting for character stories.

The fact it takes place in space and different planets means production costs will generally be higher just due to the various stories they can tell within such a large world, animation means they can put the characters in a new exotic location without building entire sets, costumes, props, etc.

Firefly is science fiction but it's just not as hard as say The Expanse

Thanks I must have missed that, yeah that gives a me a bit of pause. Fingers crossed though, I know Firefly had its comedic elements but I would not consider it a comedy.

Arcane was quite good but when I think of Firefly as an animated series for some reason I think more traditional 2D animation but yeah, that studio (Fortiche) I would never say no to.

Totally agree, there is so many talented voice actors they can tap to fill the role and to me that is more respectful than trying to AI recreate it.

Watching the King of the Hill reboot last year I was similarly concerned how they would handle Dale Gribble after Johnny Hardwick passed away partly through the recording considering what a major cahracter he was.

But they had Toby Huss do the voice for the remainder which I thought was very respectful since they were cast mates and friends on the original run and really he does such a good job it was hard for me to tell who was doing at what time considering everyones voices have aged anyway.

Even with what difference there was it all works, if the writing is good after a minute nobody will really mind. If the writing is bad original cast won't or not won't make a difference.

Animation allows the show to be as scifi as possible but fit within a more consistent budget.

It would be nice to hear who will be handling the animation I think Firefly would be a great fit for one of the higher end anime studios like Madhouse or Trigger or Kyoto as Firefly has always felt like Firefly is Cowboy Bebop inspired so that style would work well.

Also helps that Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk in particular have done lots and lots of voice work in the years since the show aired so they can get a lot of use from them.

"Alright everybody back in the pile"

And all he had to start with was $2B of stock sales of Uber after his ouster. Truly an every-man we can all relate to, overcoming such huge odds.

Once again, all of this is opinion. "The basics" means absolutely nothing, its subjective.

I would call an oil change "the basics" in vehicle maintenance and yet lube shops fill the streets to this day. Should they close and the people who use them be branded "auto illiterate"?

Ok great, define it then.

Once again, entirely subjective and considering this article is discussing the reaction form competitors they apparently do not agree with you. Considering Mac marketshare has been rising over time also cuts against that. It might be bad bang for the buck *for you* and they are for me as well but for my mother or other not-tech-savvy folks? Huge value for the money for the right folks. This is just a way for you to disparage Apple users for some reason.

A man once told me "they don't need to know anything about it other than the basics to know that they don't need to know more for their uses."

Congrats, you just made my argument that "technological illiteracy" is really not a real argument against these things.

You can apply the same thing to a doctor or an auto mechanic, this is a fantasy to expect everyone to have some undefined level of knowledge about everything they interact with. You do it just the same, thus the classic question of "when you start up your car in the morning do you expect it to explode?"

Said in the form of a personal opinion. Open the schools.

IMO for anything nationalized in terms of software should be open source, and that is all of it including the training data and methods, prompts, etc. Maybe this becomes political football but we should all be able to observe the game taking place, that should minimize the amount of fuckery.

As for the training data use what the government has access to legally, I would assume that is the Library of Congress and similar materials, there isn't the pursuit of profit to motivate the system to train off of every piece of conspiratorial trash ever published or uploaded online.

And thusly the massive administrative overhead in the American healthcare system is a regulatory and legal problem, not a technological one.

Like everything related to healthcare spending the US stands alone as the most expensive system, even just comparing to Canada; The gap between U.S. and Canadian spending on health care administration has grown to $752 per capita.

I am sure AI can help reduce that but I personally am not in favor of tacking on yet another expensive process to reduce a different process because we are too goddamned stubborn to just accept the reality the rest of the world has for decades, but you know Obama said you could keep your doctor so for such a mortal sing we must subject our entire nation to despair forever.

There's systemic issues with how our laws and institutions are setup but a big part of that is our fault as well, as in the voters. if every 4 or 8 years we decide to put in the "pro business" party and candidates who put in the "pro business" judiciary we can't be surprised that we get these results. There's a reason Europe has been leading the way in consumer protections for the past decade. Breaking up big companies is entirely capitalist but we've been snookered into thinking it socialist by bad actors and media.