A new shiny thing after cryptocurrency wound up as a commodity traded like so many others, and not the civilization-changing invention envisioned.
AI looks like it'll be hampered by power generation and delivery (or rather the lack thereof).
On the upside, there'll be ungodly amounts of money spent upgrading and expanding the power grid.
I think a better question is whether we are seeing capitalism's end game: concentration of wealth in the hands of so few they decide that it's in their interest to remove the governments power to regulate them. (As has been stated by more than a few national figures about deregulating to the point the US Federal government "can be drowned in a bathtub")
At which point the wealthy can simply assert the role they already hold: as our feudal lords. They hold all the means of production, all the means of information distribution.
They'll likely even have swarms of slaughter bots to enforce their will. What can the rest of us gonna do to stop them?
First they came for Boeing, and I didn't say anything because I wasn't all fucked up.
Got to be pretty unconventional to count as unconventional in QM.
Being a hippie never goes out of style.
The actual comedy gold, is trying to watch everyone else pretend they can do what he does.
Not everyone has enough money to do groundbreaking things like put a car in orbit.
I saw it when it came out, and thought it sucked donkey doodles.
Don't they know fake news is what everyone wants these days?
I've been asked to create reports that add pounds + gallons, and it's almost impossible to get them to understand why that's nonsense.
Pshaw, that's super easy! 3 pounds plus 6 gallons equals 9.
Perhaps I'm being too harsh. For example, if their boss is an MBA who gives out raises on the basis of how many pounds+gallons they produce or sell, they would be quite rational to request a report that shows how many pounds+gallons they have produced or sold.
People won't deploy apps that don't work
For some suitable definition of "work".
In my experience, business "analysts" don't know what the hell they want, let alone how to specify it.
I've been asked to create reports that add pounds + gallons, and it's almost impossible to get them to understand why that's nonsense.
But as the saying goes, there are no atheists in foxholes
Why not? People who think their god will protect them don't need foxholes. People in foxholes are putting their trust in the boring but well-established ability of a thick pile of dirt to stop bullets.
how is that not also fraud?
I've been wondering what the authorities would do if I started selling updated accommodations for the afterlife. Want an extra garage or bath? Something closer to the golden throne, or further from all that off-key singing? Or most popular of all, something farther from those people.
Pay now and get it later, of course.
That being said, this feels like a worse sort of bad because a person in a position of power/trust is abusing that position. A pastor bilking his flock smells like a firefighter committing arson to me.
At least he wasn't puttering the choir boys.
when you need him?
We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem -- how to run a sunbeam through a meter.
