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What sort of positive effect would you expect? What do you think is wrong with people over 60?

Again I disagree on cost. I just had a look again at what it costs to buy a company off the shelf in the UK (last place I did that). It’s about £299 and another £50 a year. Theres …

If the worker in Shanghai had similar economic freedom and rights to workers in the west have then this would not be an issue. Instead, useful idiots everywhere are proposing to ad…

This is a rediculous assertion. To begin, you know nothing of the circumstances of millions of people. Certainly not enough to make sweeping statements. In 2023, there were 5.5 MIL…

Your overly abstract language has no value here. Profit is not surplus value created by worker - that’s a 4 year olds understanding and negates all the other components of the syst…

Take it from the workers? Are you suggesting that workers do not have employment contracts where they agreed to trade labour for wages at a fixed price? Workers always have the cho…

What I'm wrangling with is this: I agree that a particular sequence of words is copyrightable. What I'm struggling with is that facts _about_ that corpus of text are not copyrighta…

Maybe I've got the completely wrong end of the stick here, but why isn't an AI model treated as a fact, given it's essentially a factual summary of the most likely bit sequences to…

NFS scales and operates incredibly well however it has constraints. Like any tool, it has its appropriate uses. Why would you exclude a useful tool from your arsenal because of per…

Perhaps we are speaking about different concepts. I was referring to the pace layered architecture.

Collaboration tools are some way from being systems of record and there is substantial difference between competitors. Generic chat apps are not yet useful enough (despite years of…

I disagree - tech _is_ software and it’s so ubiquitous that it’s essentially invisible.

With all industries are converting to software and every person on the planet moving towards owning a smartphone it surprises me that there’s an ongoing narrative that tech is coll…

If everybody thinks the sun will rise tomorrow, it won't. Reminder: Nobody can predict the future.

She grew up with computing systems that had no concept of keyboard shortcuts and intentionally abstracted away the concept of the file system and documents. I think her assessment …

Sturgeons law (1950’s) states that 90% of everything is garbage. I see no reason why computers and software should be exempt. I also do find myself chuckling at posts like this bei…

The change will happen slowly, and then very quickly. Look to Australia where renewables are being installed at very high rates. There are many areas where they are dominating the …

How long is the half-life of architectural best practice? It seems to me that after ~10 years, half the cargo-culted ideas that young developers go all in on fail. Perhaps that's j…

Right this very moment I have an iPhone 11 and a Pixel 5 in my pocket, both running fully up to date OS versions. I keep two phones because of personal reasons not relevant to this…

This is a ridiculous assertion. Google won’t do anything like that. They’ll comply with the law, because they want European money.

Advertising can be helpful if it’s done carefully, with taste (Daring Fireball is a good example). Apple it would appear are losing their taste which is a real shame, because they’…

I find the generic “workers are important” quotes remarkable, in the sense that they do nothing but contribute to the sense that these companies really don’t care. It would almost …

Yes, I agree and its a significant concern I have. If this occurs, it may be quiet some time before we see another company able to cover this use case.