I didn’t see a single top level comment be the devil’s advocate so I will give it a try.

Humanity moves forward. Standards are always shifting. New technologies and needs are created everyday and people want to raise their standard of living to accommodate for new things. Also, global population has been growing since we stabilized food production in the 1800’s.

If companies don’t grow at least with population, that means tomorrow we will have less than today. If companies don’t also grow with raising standards of living, that means someone stays poor. If companies don’t also grow to match the complexities of producing new technology, that means we stopped in time technologically.

In a competitive system such as capitalism, you don’t wait for more competitors to show up and fill this new ever-growing demand; you take that demand for yourself. So everyone seeks growth.

When a society does not grow (i.e. japan) for too long, capitalism doesn’t break down immediately, but you clearly see it stagnates. Japan’s population is not stable and their economy is facing major problems.

Whether growth is organic or fabricated is a related, but different, topic

The end goal was always to deprive us of alternatives

If I was doing something wrong and could say “no u” to whoever complained, I would too

Northen portugal is H

First buying russian oil, now israeli investments… Is the goal to get associated with murderers?

Also called Pix. Instant payment, every single bank supports it, can register your phone number, email address, business number or get a random key to your account so anyone with one of the those details can pay you. Tiny catch is you have to be in Brazil (Btw I heard we are exporting it to other countries)

He has to hire 100 new people everytime, 80 to actually do the work, as before, and 20 to fix what AI broke

A tariff is not a tax on exit, it is on entry. US decides to charge tax on the coffee

Foreign products already pay huge taxes (60%+). As a final consumer you can’t find anything below 190% of original price. Many people travel to US just to buy stuff because it is already so heavily taxed. The price difference for a single iphone already pays for 2 plane tickets (which can be cheaper than travelling nationally depending on destination, given the demand)

Brazil has a tariff for decades and now cries wolf

I am not worried abou the launch codes, I’m worried some incompetent middle manager will replace key staff at a water treatment plant or something (because the CEO told them to put AI somewhere or be fired). Then the fucking AI will have a meltdown after it reads data 10 times in a row and will poison the water supply of millions. Nobody will catch it because quality control analysis was also replaced by the same AI and it decided to delete the alert system for some reason (it had to do something, that is how it works).

I’m not worried about AI being good, I’m worried about the people that think it is good (which already proves they are stupid af) giving it a shot at anything critical

Isn’t menopause the clock?

That is why I like unicorns. when they fly, nobody starts calculating. Everybody just accepts the magic

If you don’t have anybody, it will be hard to be a neet. They are usually maintained by someone else (mostly parents)

This is big, these algorithms are useful for a ton of things (and can get very expensive in big sets)

Man you have way more faith in adults than I do

The initiative start with the game “the crew”, where ubisoft shut down the servers and you can’t even play singleplayer. The argument is that your product can be removed without your consent. The counter-argument is that it is not a product, it is a license.

The best possible outcome is that developers be required to keep games playable if they don’t want to maintain it anymore,by either updating the game to work offline or providing lan/private server capabilities.

It might just end up being a warning when buying the game like “this is a license, not a product: access may be revoked at any time”

Problem is you can’t trust anything. The fancy $2k machine might just be fancy in name. You don’t know if stuff is good before it starts not being. And reviews don’t help, because they won’t test a product for 5 years to check durability before posting

This slap question was a big meme several years ago, and when that video came out (years after the meme), it was an instant hit.

The fact that this discussion is still going shows how popular it is

If it works with any git platform, you have several alternatives + self hosting.

The chokepoint is the index, but if the mod repo is up and you have the url by some other way, it should work

https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf

The Road Not Taken by Harry Turtledove