The economic numbers for the past six months must be quite painful for your worldview.

That's the point of eating your seed corn - it fills your belly, for the moment.

Specifically, he aggressively try to get rid of the fed chairman so he can arbitrarily push down the interest rate, which promotes further exploding the debt.

I guess you were born after 1990 or so. There was still a guy with a cart delivering inter-office memos when I did "take your kid to work day" at boeing in 1991 or so. Personal computers effectively eliminated the secretary by 1995 as executives learned to type messages themselves. Spreadsheets changed accounting and forecasting forever; "computer" used to be a job. "IT was supposed to usher in this great new world of productivity and it never manifested." What the heck are you talking about buddy? The office landscape of today looks nothing like the office of 1970. Microsoft Office replaced the cost center(s) of the company, a two very average analysts can do in a week what a team of 30 used to do in a month. Instead of forecasting two years out at coarse resolution you can forecast out 10 years highly granularly. Change one variable out of curiosity, and do it again instantly. Before you'd have a series of meetings to decide on the one projection you'd do, and then the whole team would work on that for an entire month to produce the single result.

This makes me think how different solar systems have almost nothing to do with each other. If all the other solar systems (that is, 99.9999999% of the universe) disappeared tomorrow, would it have any affect on us whatsoever?

Did you understand anything in that marketdroid BS? I didn't.

All this screams to me is: avoid - avoid - avoid.

I actually think the difference between 51% and 65% is surprisingly small.

The online music streaming market doesn't seem to have become fragmented like the video market has. Everybody has everything. You don't have to sign up for 10 different music streaming services to find what you want. I don't actually have spotify, it seems like everything is on Youtube anyways?

Would you call China invading Taiwan defense? That is the issue. Neither China nor the USA will be invading the other anytime in the foreseeable future.

"TDS" is simply the reflexive response when you can't defend him.

And the tragic thing about this is that the possibility isn't really that far-fetched, and indeed is precisely the type of thing the climate deniers would do to thwart climate science.

Going out of business, it ain't pretty. You take measures to increase revenue, but it inevitably makes the product worse or more expensive.

If you RTFA it says amazon has as many robots as human workers. Amazon is the 2nd largest employer in the US; that number may shrink as robot use increases

Actual slavery involves forcing people to work, and your comparison depends largely on pretending you don't understand this.

I agree it won't last long, but there is a "magical" or "high priesthood" aspect to it for now (or put more pragmatically - trade secrets). If it were just a matter of going through some set of well-defined steps, even hard ones like getting a PhD from Stanford, way too many people have done that for $10M pay packages to happen.

I guarantee you that a mid-level research scientist in AI from non-distinguished company is not making $500k per year in flat salary.

I actually think that's the way to go. There needs to be a law about whether AI is allowed to learn from content on the same terms as a living individual, or not. Then there also need to be technical means to enact whatever policy is legislated, which is here this Cloudflare technology could fit in.