Exactly. And the AI companies glory in this. All of their promotional material is centered around how many jobs they can destroy and how much unemployment they can create and how they are going to own all of the thought work. It is naive of them that they are surprised that this is concerning to the point that the government might step in.

Especially since they rely on the governments giving them a pass on stealing all of the world's intellectual property.

I'm being silly I suppose about making it in Finland. I could make a joke about how I want the phones to smell like rye bread and salmon.

But back in the day, that factory in Salo used to employ 20,000 people. But they cut staff there and then upstaffed by 20,000 in China. And these days, unemployment in Finland is quite high.

They need to make Nokia 6300 in 6G. And they should make it in Finland. That's what the world *really* needs. :-)

It is just a few percent of the population that actually has to file income tax in India: about 90% are exempt. But of the few people who do, compliance is not great. So bad publicity for the tax portal is unfortunate.

It is actually digitalization and demonitization that started pushing people to file: first the government needed to kill off cash.

Maybe. Engineering is easier to convert into a good job, sure. But as someone who studied physics in London, a good physics PhD used to lead to a good job in banking which was London's largest industry. These days, the London banking sector is stagnant. I think that might be part of it.

At first glance, I read it as the USA was planning to export the paying of taxes to India. I don't know why India would agree to paying my income tax, but, I'm all for it, haha

In this election, the right picked up more men, more latinos and blacks, and more non-college educated than in other recent election. For latinos and blacks, the left just expected that they would get their support with no lobbying or special attention. For men and non-college educated, economic life and community life has gotten even worse under Biden, and Harris's plan to improve the lives of men and working class didn't seem to resonate. So, unsurprisingly, given the two party system, people were less excited to vote for the party in power. And a couple of percent makes all the difference.

Using Los Angeles's LADWP, last month I paid $0.204 / kWh. Plus there is another 10% City utility tax on top of that. And there is also a monthly BS "power access charge" of $17 flat fee. So all told, it is $0.26 / kWh.

According to this website, LADWP's power is 13% coal and 35% natural gas and 0.1% biomass, with the rest being renewable energies of various types.

https://www.ladwp.com/who-we-a...

That same article states "Overall, AM and FM radio still account for 60 percent of all in-car listening, Edison found. SiriusXM satellite radio makes up 16 percent of in-car audio use, followed by driversâ(TM) own music from their phones at 7 percent and podcasts and YouTube music videos at 4 percent each."

That suggests that a fair number of people under 75 are still using non-satellite radio.

My taxes, in which I had a day job and then sold a house I once rented, was 17 pages long. I used TurboTax because I couldn't figure it out for myself. The state tax forms were even longer. Even with TurboTax, I'm still not sure if it is anywhere near correct.

Every year when I do my taxes, I discover that there were things I was supposed to have been keeping track of that I didn't keep track of.

hehe

Maybe Master Splinter was a rat with Chuck Norris brain cells.

My first paid coding job was C in the late 1980s, did many languages in between, lots of C++, and now I'm wrapping up my career with a job doing C in the 2020s.

It is funny how much and how little has changed.

This is probably the most exciting thing NASA has done in my adult lifetime. Even if the only technical achievement here is "we made a really big rocket with modern parts" I want it anyway.
I so badly want to see a man on the moon again. I don't want to believe that the era of human space exploration beyond low-earth orbit ended before I was born.

As Gen X kid grown up on SciFi, it is sad that, in my lifetime, human space flight was just chilling at SkyLab, and then the Interational Space Station.

That's not exactly fair. I mean we all knew Google would shut it down because they is their nature, but, there was a lot of effort and innovation needed to get this off the ground.

One of the things Google discussed at the beginning of Stadia is that there are games that could have been created using this sort of technology that wouldn't be possible on non-streaming platforms, especially in the MMORPG space. That is true. But no one created a game that showed that possibility.

My friends have tried Stadia out and had a fine experience with it. Obviously, some games aren't perfect for that: fighting games or other games that require the frame-clock precision, but that isn't most games.

Also, there are streaming games on the Switch that seem to be doing fine via Nintendo's service, like Control.

The tech is there, with caveats.