Currently, these tens of thousands of deaths have tens of thousands of culprits. If a handful of companies release self-driving cars that are 2x, 3x as effective, it's still thousands of people suing a few companies. This makes it more attractive for lawyers and can bankrupt the daring companies.

The Vision Pro is the Apple Lisa: a bulky, oversized, expensive computer in anticipation of a market-defining product.

Apple probably felt confident releasing a product like this for developers and extremely early adopters, because there was no equivalent Apple product it could cannibalize. This public Beta will be great for developers to see what kind of products can be made and if there's commercial viability.

It sure worked to pump up Microsoft's share price. As for AI, anything that makes Word's autocomplete or Excel's error detection better is good for productivity. Beyond that, it's less useful.

Here in Venezuela, as soon as high inflation hit the country, loans disappeared from banks. You could only get a good loan if you were extremely lucky or well-connected. When hyperinflation came, the country turned to the USD. Now inflation that has come down (Argentina's is currently worse but ours is still extremely high), most people have some sort of income in dollars. The local currency here will lose 3% of its value every month, vs every year for most countries. As for billionaires, we are a poor country and have only one person in the Forbes 500, who happens to live in Spain and made a killing when our ("socialist") government decided to subsidize rich people with convertible bonds and subsidizes exchange rates. If he were taxed nowadays, the money wouldn't even reach us.

I can't tell either if it's sarcasm. But if it's serious, a unionized software development shop in a rich country, where salaries need to be around $80K / year to ensure a decent living, will have a hard time competing with companies with a developing world workforce in which $24K / year can pay plenty of expenses, including rent, private school, etc. The thing with software is that the barriers of entry have been torn down. If you were a pre-internet developer outside of the USA, you would have to wait a lot to get the latest tools, and contact experts in real life to learn something. Nowadays, if anyone releases a new SDK, you can download it in seconds from anywhere around the world, including documentation. Forums like StackOverflow allow you to ask any question that the documentation won't cover. And as an investment, all you need is a $500-1000 computer. Recently, they interviewed Ryan Peterson from Flexport about remote work, and he basically said that if a person in the USA insists on being fully remote, there's not much difference from hiring a much less expensive person that lives abroad. It's pure labor arbitrage.

(pardon the pun)

I care about Woz, too. The Apple ][ is an important part of my childhood and he pretty much designed the thing. It's the first computer I ever coded in and at the time represented a bright future without limits. It would be nice if tech had the same positive connotations as then, but whatever. He's one of the good guys.

Government changes do not eliminate past debt. Cipriano Castro (a dictator), refused to pay the debt of Joaquin Crespo (a previous dictator), so the Germans, British and Italians sent their navy to block our coasts to force the government to pay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–1903

There are certainly electricity outages, but uptime is in the high 90's, even in the countryside, where I live. There hasn't been political violence since 2017. Exaggerated accounts of Venezuela don't help at all. Perhaps China is willing to look at things through a different eye than Miami and extend an olive branch, even if they wouldn't really need us for the moment being.