See it’s actually fine because computer power is just always going to get better and the next gen will handle it all fine.
Oh and there is definitely no reason to try and reduces electricity usage. See cause we’re totally going to run everything on solar panels any day now and we can just scale that up forever to meet demand without any problems.
Obviously, sarcasm. It is kind of infuriating how little a lot of companies care about keeping stuff lightweight.
Personally I’m very interested in projects to build functional lightweight systems and architecture, particularly stuff that could run on older process node chips. Like stuff that could be made without colossally complex supply chains.
The health care and pension system are not Beijing’s, they are those of individual cities and provinces. The systems are highly localized, it’s be like as if states in the US ran Medicare and Social Security. This means it’s huge problem for poor interior provinces and probably manageable for rich costal ones.
Benefits and services from such programs are limited to legal residents of an area but most people in the most productive economic areas are migrants and are not entitled to the benefits.
Without major restructuring of these systems, hundreds of millions or retiring migrant workers are going to overwhelm their home provinces systems.
Lot of talented highly educated people as well. There are some difficulties though, namely in regards to how… complicated the legal situation is for companies and investors is. It’s very much a system where the bureaucracy is so thick that you need someone who has connections to get through it all.
This is not to say that laws in India should be changed to suit the needs of foreign investors, just that the internal complexities make it difficult market to work in as a foreigner. Perhaps that’s for the best given the history of foreign “investment” and “business interests” in India.
I would generally agree on the idea that “corruption” isn’t really real, and that bad outcomes from poor or malicious leadership are the result of systemic failures, not individuals not being good enough.
I would, however, disagree with the notion that the problem is that people who break the rules of a system will inevitably win against those upholding the rules of the system. I reject the notion that there are real rules that can be broken, there may be a set of rules written down that people are told to fallow or else but that is not what is actually influencing people’s decisions, at least not directly. Instead there is a set of incentives and perceptions, If a set of perceptions and incentives create a bad outcome, then those are what need to be changed.
Simply eliminating these systems that allow for concentration of power won’t solve the issue ether, as new systems will come into existence that will fill the power vacuum left behind.
I think most republican law makers don’t actually care about trans people, they’ve just been successfully marketed too by anti trans demagogues that it is in their interests to push these policies.
If they’re evangelicals, then going after trans people is a way to push the Overton window back towards punishing gay people and enforcing their religious vision of patriarchy.
If they’re people who want to privatize all school then it’s another wrench they can throw in to the operations of public schools make them more dysfunctional and hated.
If they’re libertarian de-regulators, then it’s a new minority to scape goat when out of control private companies fuck up. (Read how they blamed POC and gay people for ruining major franchises, rather than unregulated consolidation and shitty management strategies)
Most of these are actually not very sound strategies and probably won’t work, but the anti-trans demagogues have successfully sold right wing leaders and politicians on the idea that this new plank to their platform will help them win in 2024. Frankly, I think they’re setting them selves up for disaster as most democrat politicians and pundits are just going to not engage with them on It and call them weird for obsessing over other people genitals. But the anti trans demagogues will get what they want, the laws will go through in red states with no opposition but from trans people and their actual allies.
The ongoing effort to privatize social security and Medicare, the most successful and popular welfare programs in US history continues. Neoliberal Regannomics marching on like an undead litch.
Facebook has done so much terrible shit by refusing to moderate properly, multiple fucking genocides are on their hands, and yet this is what gets them in court? Fucking… this?
Nah, kids shouldn’t be on these platforms nearly as young as they are, kids being on these platforms are not the reason these sights need to moderate better, adults being jackasses are the reason these sites need to be moderated better.
The funny thing is, that most of the one who do make a profit, do so by selling goods and services to those not making a profit, and if all the unprofitable ones disappeared the “profitable” ones would suddenly be unprofitable as well.
I think this is likely the first in a lot more cuts to come. Google probably does not want to do it all at once though, potentially because that would be a huge red flag for the whole industry and hurt the confidence of investors in the industry as a whole.
Given that Google makes most of their money by selling services to other parts of the industry, and a lot of the industry runs solely on the confidence of investors, doing a bunch of big cuts all at once would harm them. But they do need to cut back a lot more long term, because investor money is drying up to feed the companies that buy services from Google.
Ok, but almost no one got this spywear because they wanted it, they got it because cousin Jerry who they only talk to once a year needed to get them something for Christmas and just went with the trendy tech thing, and it’s just been plugged in in the corner since 2014 siphoning personal data to the big cloud in the sky.
I say supposed here in place of opposed as “ supposed” implies “a correct course of action”, rather than “an alternative but opposite course of action.”
Another drop of blood in the water. tech is no longer a boom industry. The hopes of infinite growth have been dashed on the reality that there is a fixed amount of time people can spend on phones, computers and tablets in a day. Meanwhile the anxious suits are saying “but is there anyway we could get people to not sleep? That’s be an additional 8 hours we could be showing them adds and harvesting their data.”
Honestly I don’t think it’s just Google, DDG has been getting worse as well, not quite as bad as Google but still similar issues where the thing I’m looking for is buried under spam sites built to a generic standard with shitty content but spectacular search engine optimization.
And pumping out sites and pages like that is optimal in the current market as it is the best way to get clicks, as supposed to investing in skilled writing, investigation and research.
The problem is that the major search engines have all kind of sat on their behinds about this and actively sold these bad websites assistance in gaming their search engine. The search engines would have to rebuild their search functions to find signs of bad sites and deprioritize them in the list, not just show things that seem relevant. They’ll probably never do this because then they’d hurt the part of their business that is helping shitty sites game the engine.
Macro wave, they put a fucking cavity magnetron inside a toaster oven? Or I guess you could also say they put a ceramic heating element inside a microwave? Ok so, consolidating counter top appliances is not the worst thing, I like my pressure cooker/crook pot and all that.
But WHY DOES IT NEED TO BE SMART!? Why would I want to control it from my phone? I’m going to have to go to it to put the food in to it anyways? So why would controlling it remotely be useful? Also, please, I’m so tired of the AI branding hype cycle and the manufactured consent around it.
Kind of hard to grow an economy without new workers entering the work force to work those new jobs, and the future cohorts of high school graduates in china are looking smaller and smaller for the next couple of decades. Really the best option would streamlining production in low skill areas, substitute capital for labor, so those workers can then go in to high skill areas where they will be more over all productive. But that takes capital and the ability to take those workers out of the market for higher training, it also generally requires buy in and confidence from those workers that their higher skills will be rewarded which is not exactly a good bet right now.
“ See ink cartridges can be vectors for viruses because they have chips in them.”
“Why does a container of ink have chips in it?”
“To make sure you don’t use third party ink cartridges”