“Faith-based health care provider” is one of the saddest euphemisms I’ve heard in a while.

I agree with the overall sentiment, but I’d like to add two points:

1. Everyone starts off as a code editor, and through a combination of (self-)education and experience can become a software engineer.

2. To the point of code editors having to worry about LLM’s taking their job, I agree, but I don’t think it will be as over the top as people literally being replaced by “AI agents”. Rather I think it will be a combination of code editors becoming more productive through use of LLMs, decreasing the demand for code editors, and lay people (i.e. almost no code skills) being able to do more through LLMs applied in the right places, like some website builders are doing now.

Yes! Fuck this individualistic “you should cycle instead of taking the car” language. We need collective investment in mass transit, because not everyone can bike to work, and even less people want to do it in the rain.

It’s also such a funny contradiction: a big part of the free market model rests on the idea that well informed consumers can vote with their wallet, which should reward good businesses and punish bad ones. Yet it is very difficult to argue consumers have ever been informed enough to make this work, which is in large part due to advertising flooding communication channels with noise, and also because it is unreasonable to expect a consumer to be fully informed for the hundreds of purchases they make on a daily basis.

Why not dual-boot with steamos in that case? Sure, some things may not work out-of-the-box now, but work is constantly being done and at least won’t regress like the step from W10 to W11.

Yeah in this case I think it’s more a case of “hey this guy looks kind of like my son”. In this case I think it led to a miscarriage of justice, but I think in other cases that kind of thinking could protect against excessively harsh punishments. In the end I think it comes down to inequality. Bigger inequality shrinks the pool of people judges can intuitively relate to, which in turn makes judgements more unequal.

I think that’s just the comfortable position for humans. Questioning what you know to be true is hard, and the more fundamental the fact the more uncomfortable it is to doubt. Which is also why religion is so attractive.

To the point of replacing Visa/Mastercard: it would be great if the EU could continue in line of SEPA and create an EU payment processor. Now, I want to be very clear, it should be owned by the member states’ governments, and profit (if any) should go into the EU budget. No neoliberal bullshit of “oh we’re going to put out a contract/give out loans for anyone to set up a payment processor and the market will decide”. It should be a state owned payment processor, to finally stop the likes of Mastercard, Visa, etc. from leeching off every single consumer transaction in the economy.

That’s a great saying about wisdom, I’m going to use that some time.

Even though I haven’t run anything Debian based as a daily driver in about a decade, I still recommend Debian based distro’s to beginners. With Ubuntu being so widespread it just makes sense, because whenever you search for “how do I install xyz on linux” it’s going to be a guide for Ubuntu 99% of the time, which should work on other Debian based distro’s most times.

Perfect company for Trump.

Yeah if there’s one thing that wouldn’t be easily explainable to people from the 70’s, it’s the lack of technological optimism in the current zeitgeist.

I agree that it’s editorialized compared to the very neutral way the survey puts it. That said, I think you also have to take into account how AI has been marketed by the industry.

They have been claiming AGI is right around the corner pretty much since chatGPT first came to market. It’s often implied (e.g. you’ll be able to replace workers with this) or they are more vague on timeline (e.g. OpenAI saying they believe their research will eventually lead to AGI).

With that context I think it’s fair to editorialize to this being a dead-end, because even with billions of dollars being poured into this, they won’t be able to deliver AGI on the timeline they are promising.

State capitalism, but yes.

I think that should be expected given the governing structure of almost all large companies, because they’re dictatorships. Employees have no say over who’s in leadership, and can be fired more or less without recourse. You wouldn’t expect a town hall in Russia or North Korea to allow dissent, would you?

On Mars

With the exception that trains do not run roughly at the same schedule through the night, which is a big plus

I haven’t seen those posters, but those are also quite telling about their world view. Piracy sites can and do expose people to all kinds of nasty stuff, but everyone knows (or should know) that and they take the risk anyway. The media companies would rather assume that’s because people are evil and like to steal things, than to do a little introspection and see it’s their own bad service driving customers to piracy.

There’s even a great case study for this in another type of media: Steam, despite its faults, has almost eradicated game piracy. Piracy is an access problem.

The way this is phrased makes it sound like more than a third (60% of 69%) of millenials only ever consume media through piracy, which I find very hard to believe. What seems more likely to me is that the survey asked people if they have ever used piracy and now they’re trying to make this seem like a much bigger deal through misleading phrasing.

It is for me in Europe