I'm hoping there are labor laws in the US against forcing people to work for free.
It is illegal for Amazon to even allow them to work for free, even if they truly volunteered. Workers must be paid at least the minimum wage ($16.50 in Brooklyn).
Nobody is being asked to work for free. They are being asked to help out in the warehouse instead of their normal job duties.
I was in Shenzhen a few months ago.
About half the cars are EVs, and 100% of the motorcycles are electric.
There are solar panels on almost every building.
The air was clean and the sky was blue.
Not every city in China is at the level of Shenzhen, but the progress is amazing.
Your implied claim that Netflix subscribers are falling is false.
2019: 167.09 million
2020: 203.66 million
2021: 221.84 million
2022: 221.64 million
2023 (Q4): 260 million
2024 (Q4): 301.6 million
America's coal consumption has declined much faster than Poland's.
Over the last 25 years, America has reduced its coal consumption by 60%, while Poland's consumption has declined by only 30%.
Lip service doesn't solve anything.
It's good to see Poland making some progress, but Poland's energy is much dirtier than America's.
Last year, Poland generated 60% of its electricity from coal, and much of that was filthy lignite.
Last year, America generated 16% of its electricity from coal, a number that is dropping quickly.
The race is already underway, and the EU is already way behind.
You can argue that AI is going to the "bottom" (whatever that means) and it doesn't matter, but that seems rather foolish. People betting trillions of their own money obviously see things differently. LLMs are improving dramatically, and there's way more to AI than just LLMs.
By forfeiting yet another technology, the EU will sit and watch as others get there first.
Trump is the dictator of the proletariat.
The white-collar bourgeoisie is not happy.
It's not turning out like Marx predicted.
There is generally more money in law, medicine, etc. than in the engineering or science fields.
Law and medicine are advanced degrees.
Engineering is not.
Engineering is the most lucrative bachelor's degree.
Those who continue to law school, medical school, or an MBA are most successful when their undergrad degree was engineering.
Shipping Lithium batteries is dangerous already.
It's a lot less dangerous to ship them mostly discharged, like maybe at 30%.
They last for 10-15 years before being replace
Actually, they last for 30 years at 80% capacity or better.
Why aren't they installed on every surface?
At least in America, it is illegal to install cost-effective solar panels.
Biden and Trump both agreed on high tariffs on solar, and American manufacturers have no incentive to be more efficient.
I see the "loneliness epidemic" running rampant
That's an obvious market opportunity for fake AI friends to keep people company.
My son is in college.
He says the dorks run Windows, the cool liberal arts kids use Macs, and the techies run Linux on their laptops.
He's a techie, so he uses Linux.
Tesla should just fix its website so people can change their address without using a phone.
Sounds like UPS needs the accent-fixing AI described in TFA.
They don't mean a password reset on your laptop.
They're talk'n about resetting a forgotten password at a bank or other financial institution. You often need to call and undergo an interrogation to confirm your identity.
There's no reason an AI can't do that at least as well as a human.
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing for money.
