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Because regulation (even well meaning regulation) always favors incumbents and hinders startups.

Aren't most of the current/latest advancements in health care coming from tech and software?

No, I am not saying I trust Meta's statements at all. I am just saying that I have ZERO trust in those "independent researchers". I am old enough to remember when "researchers" and…

> people who spend their time thinking and researching the positives and negatives If only we could trust such big hearted people who selflessly donate their time and expertise for…

Even his examples (Meta, Google, Airbnb, Uber) are "hated and accused" mostly by pundits and activists. Their users and investors are overall rather happy with their services (all …

The EU is trying relentlessly to read our IMs though.

Such sleeper accounts, slowly acquiring clout and time on the platform are often used by botnets. One day they (or their actions) will be sold to the highest bidder to upvote a com…

I've been planning vacations with ChatGPT's Deep Research since it became available. Absolutely brilliant! From finding areas with favorite activities for each parents, teens and k…

Your clients and your competitors' clients did benefit from this overall faster coding output though. Eventually your employer benefitted too, from more & happier paying customers.…

There are other reasons though. Whole house backup is a game changer. Battery always holding about twice our daily usage (or thrice a reduced, emergency usage) means I don’t really…

Software running modern farming runs in datacenters. For example, AI checking images from drones monitoring health of crops, then directing drones with treatment. Software ate the …

Sure, I totally get you. Then higher costs, lower availability and crappier services (all due to less competition and more bureaucratic hoops) is a price you should be happily will…

Not a hobby, but a duty. I lived under both systems and I do not wish the horrors I’ve seen in my youth onto my children. Although at this point, it’s probably unavoidable. It seem…

> Must be all that nationalization. No, it’s the regulations. In less regulated, freer markets like vision correction eye surgery the costs went down and quality up. Even in health…

State run (or heavily regulated) services around here in Eastern Europe: health care, education and housing. All incredibly bad and expensive, I pay huge chunks of my monthly salar…

Capitalism is the only known system that aligns natural, normal individual greed with the benefit and advancement of the society.

> help humans instead of replacing us or squeezing us as hard as possible in the name of productivity Increasing their productivity is helping humans.

These days it’s forbidden to deny the horrors of nazism but quite fashionable to glorify the murders and confiscations of communism and to even justify Marxist murderers like Mangi…

It still doesn't bother me as a consumer in the slightest. On the contrary, I am happy that laundromat exists in the first place.

Every year, the government comes around, reassesses my house value (always up, never down) and ask me to pay a percentage (always increasing) or they will take away my house which …

PCs are also made by corporations, together with PC parts. The reason computing became so cheap during the last 50 years was competition between said corporations. Competition that…

> This is ignoring the people who capture the rent. So my grandma shouldn't have been be deliriously happy with the new washing machine that saved her hands from bleeding weekly be…

> My $200 Moto G3 in 2016 had a removable back cover (admittedly not battery). It was also waterproof (and had a headphone jack.) It also did diddly squat in the market place and t…

> I hate when a technocrat at a multi-billion dollar company makes those decisions Really?! So instead of the person hired and paid specifically to select and decide what the produ…

> it can technically be done At what cost though?! And no, I am not talking about money. Any device (and any product really) is a set of tradeoffs. I like it when different produce…