Where I work we have eastern US (50%), very few UK (10%), and India (40%). Some of the Indian people have crap (for them) hours (1-9pm).

We have the spread so there's 24 hour coverage, and processes that take a while can have people working on them throughout the day.

For example this morning I overlapped with someone from India 8-10am for a handoff, and then gave them instructions for when they get in around midnight (my time).

When things are busier I start at 6am (and leave early) to have a little more overlap.

To get 6ish more hours of work in a 24 hour period it seems like a reasonable way to handle it to me.

Specifically we work with data migration and have to get things handled within specific periods of time, the extra around the clock work force is makes my life overall much much better.

If the auto transcribing and meeting notes count as AI, then it is extremely used in teams (and extremely useful).

Manuals are going to go away in performance cars too now that they're objectively lower performance.

It's all going to be DCT at the high end (perhaps creeping down), an automatics/CVTs.

It's a shame, I too love a manual, but it's less good for performance, and doesn't really save money for manufacturers any more (killing the low end).

That assumes that either:
1) you can reliably hire elite programmers and use AI for the rest
Or
2) a team with diverse levels of talents is worse than a team with all average talents

I have no opinion on the answer to those two questions, but it doesn't seem obvious to me that pure average talent would be better than a mixed talent team.

I wish it worked that way in practice, but from what I can tell the only mechanism to enforce the emoluments clause seems to be impeachment which appears to be pretty much a non starter.

If it is illegal, it's only for running amuck of a pretty much unenforceable part of the constitution.

They probably got mixed up because they were trying to game the first year?

It seems like they couldn't decide on 2017, which I assume would impact their final year of protection.

In the process they got mixed up and failed to keep things going in 2019.

So it wasn't about the $450, it was about the $x they'd get with that extra year of protection.

They probably gutted middle management, as this is exactly the type of thing a good middle manager will hassle people about until it gets handled.

Why would it be cheaper for the government to buy than the expected profit?

It'd be practically zero sum (technically it may get more use of the government purchases for expected profit under the current system, but it'd be a very very expensive purchase, and one that would benefit a subset of the population).

At the text size I like I have enough words on a 4.75 inch screen for readability (better than a newspaper).

I'm in my 40s, but I'm pretty near sighted, so I don't use reading glasses yet, but I feel like in a few years I'll want the current sized phones.

But there are a lot of people under 45.

I was going to get the next iphone mini, then they cancelled it.

Then I was going to get the next SE and then they cancelled it.

Apple was so close to having me switch.

At this point I'm going to be getting some terribly budget phone to get something not giant and it's super frustrating.

Phones are so HUGE now, but apparently that's the only thing people like.

I can type 30ish WPM

If the words are things like length() or common programming phrases it's definitely much quicker.

I wouldn't describe myself as touch typing though, I need to see some of the keyboard to orient myself at times. My typing speed is not a hindrance to my work. I assume there are people smarter than me that perhaps would be able to have thoughts faster than I type, but in general typing is a very small slice of time for my work. If I typed instantly I'd be at most 10% more efficient.

TurboTax has over 5 minutes of fluff where it pretends it's doing something.

It is an absolutely painful process to use.

I get it.

I have moved around for a bit (never lived in another country though), but ended up within 30 minutes/15 miles of where I grew up.

I still stand by the sentiment that a country that makes travel outside of its boarder difficult is probably not all hunky dorey and wonderful inside.

So the citizens are freely allowed to leave and visit other countries as they see fit?

I've never heard anyone refer to North Koreans as savages though, only that they're oppressed and the government does a poor job of making it a good place to live (evidenced by the difficulty in leaving).

I haven't read that book, but reading the summary of useless jobs I feel like the author may have never worked?

A good administrative assistant is golden, as is a good middle manager.

I'm not convinced there's no value in someone checking and enforcing compliance too.

I think the author just assumes everyone is perfect and there's no value to a little bit of redundancy to making sure things are done right and on time, and therefore sees fluff where there's value.