Imagine you are so dumb, you decide to rename your company for its biggest failure, and then you get to fire everybody else because they are redundant. Facebook renaming itself Meta is like Tesla changing its name to Cybertruck Inc.
I can’t wait until the AI bubble is over and drags the worst people under.
Absolutely. But the founders are heavyweights in the field and I had hope. I guess it’s cold fusion two, too good to be true 😭
The part about TAE is devastating, as a lot of people had high hopes they would come up with a fusion reactor. Them being sold to TMTG probably means it was BS all along.
Having worked Silicon Valley through two boom-and-bust cycles, my impression is that these people hurt because they don’t understand their success. What I mean is that the Internet is a random multiplier: if you have the right idea at the right time and the right structure, you become almost infinitely rich. If you lack anything in the combination, you get nothing.
Take Facebook: the idea had been floating around for a while, but successive implementations suffered from technical, then legal issues. Then Zuck comes along, steals the idea, implements it successfully and boom, you have an infinillionaire. But when the same guy comes up with the next idea, it fails. Then the next one fails. Then the Metaverse happens and the failure is astounding.
It’s basically a lottery, where your startup is the ticket. One person wins, a million plays for nothing. The winner is selected at random.
But people hate that idea, so they come up with stupid “logic” justifying why Zuck won and Yang (Yahoo!) failed. You can’t imagine how many people in Silicon Valley devour Ayn Rand’s ideology, how many believe in genetic racial superiority, and other fairy tales. I was always surprised they didn’t go for divine intervention, but they are largely agnostic.
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For what it’s worth, I had the same instant reaction as @faythofdragons@slrpnk.net. In particular, (a) if he’s nearing retirement, then he’s way too young for the type of behavior, and (b) the belligerence and anger reaction when contradicted match what I’ve seen with family that had dementia, and it sounds like that’s new.
As for the question at large, I can’t confirm your experience. Where I live, older people behave just like younger people when it comes to stating opinions or telling stories. They are more stuck in their ways, no doubt, but I guess it’s harder to change the way you do things if you’ve done it successfully one way for 40 years.
The issue CFIUS seems to have is that Lumileds’ product portfolio relies on compound semiconductor material gallium nitride (GaN) chips
Wud? GaN technology is everywhere these days, including in tons of USB chargers imported from China. That can’t be the real reason.
Music is a weird art form, because something sounding familiar is very important to our ear. Many people have a really hard time liking music that is too foreign to their taste and end up sticking with only a select few genres.
Where familiarity is important, AI can deliver easily. I would think as much as we hate the idea, there is a pretty significant market for AI-generated music, specifically because it’s so predictable and follows convention to a tee.
The number of Republicans who approve of Trump’s performance on inflation sank by 10 percentage points (from 83 to 73 percent) since last summer.
Alright, I understand a lot of things are political in nature, but what the hell is wrong with people who see inflation go up and think, “He’s doing a great job on this issue!”
Never forget his borrowed Nobel peace prize!
If it were just divorce, that would not be as bad. Former allies are increasingly concerned they are going to be the next target of Trump’s greed. Canada and Europe, automatic American allies forever, have to make contingency plans for a US invasion. That’s absolutely nuts.
I can only imagine how a soldier must feel like when they get to eat stuff like that, and then they are fighting a war that is so dramatically unpopular at home, and all it seems to do it make everything more expensive.
I would think retention is going to become a major problem for the US military.
I think you are onto something. It does sound like they didn’t take rape, even child rape, all that seriously until relatively recently.
You know, I was wondering that, too. I think it might have something to do with the limitations of technology back in the ancient days (of 50 years ago), when it made little sense to prosecute someone for something heinous, but essentially unprovable.
Tech has made huge strides and we can Bones the shit out of any case, even if 100 years old.
What this poor girl has gone through is heinous enough, all statutes of limitation should be suspended indefinitely in her case. Honestly, hearing how many victims of child sexual abuse escape Stockholm syndrome years later, maybe child sexual abuse should not come with a statute of limitations, at all. I guess child abuse in general, not just sexual.
I know that lawyer try out every single tactic in the playbook, hoping that something sticks, but the sheriff trying to hide behind, “She waited too long,” is abhorrent.
the gathering’s keynote speaker: Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), whom President Donald Trump is also reportedly considering for attorney general.
I could see how Trump’s EPA administrator and Trump’s AG would both need the same qualification: the ability to deny the most factually convincing reality out of existence. The man could do a few more jobs, like explaining that America is not suffering from inflation, that gas prices have not gone up, or that jobs are plentiful in America!
With a few more years under his belt, he could probably also convincingly explain whatever the administration is doing in Iran. So far, every rationalization of that mess has sounded like my 4-year-old nephew trying to explain special relativity.
The man committed tax fraud to the tune of $30k. That’s not nothing, but when you hear that Trump paid nothing in taxes for years and that his “charitable” foundation was shuttered because of abuse of tax law, you sort of wonder whether the government has the right priorities.
Just kidding, of course this man was just another notch in the quota collection bin. I am sure the ICE officers got a tiny chubby when they heard the words, “probation officer,” as that meant they could detain and deport.
That’s how it all started for me: I had Netflix and Spotify from ages before, and then Netflix did their, “ads or double the price” thing and Spotify gave me more and more corporate music instead of what I wanted, so I dropped them both and switched to YouTube Premium for both music and video content.
Population density is not really a problem: Most of the country is virtually empty, but there are a series of urban agglomerations that have incredibly high density overall. The North-East corridor (DC to Boston, more or less) is the most obvious one, but Chicago and environment or Coastal California are great options, too.
The “secret” reason why it’s not happening is public indifference and corporate sabotage. A campaign of decades of worsening public transportation has made people convinced that a high speed train would be just for poor people, which they imagine to be someone else. Also, eminent domain land seizures are slow, environmental impact studies slower, and both force costly changes from original plan that the public hears about as cost-overruns.
Final nail in the coffin: in America, for bizarre reasons, passenger rail has lower priority than freight rail. The freight rail companies don’t want to give up the privilege, and obviously you can’t have a high speed service wait on freight trains bumbling by.
Don’t you worry! All that communist budget balancing is done off the backs of hard-working billionaires, who are ready to flee the authoritarian hellhole and its sky-high taxes for places where their humble contributions are not punished! /s