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  • You're acting as if there's not a plurality of opinion in that cohort. And it's also about Gen X who is about to hit that retirement cliff being discussed. It's also about class and questions of forced retirement because bodies no longer allow folks to work that allegedly claim they would if they could.

    And if we are making morale arguments about human dignity and what society should do, that applies to these older generations as well despite their previous political contributions.

  • The ageism in this thread is starting to get appalling. Apparently the working class only deserves sympathy and help if they are under 35 years old currently.

  • That doesn't help people currently approaching 65 that this article is focusing on.

  • Look at the reuters article cited: https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-companies-lose-190-billion-market-cap-after-alphabet-microsoft-report-2024-01-31/

    Jan 30 (Reuters) - AI-related companies lost $190 billion in stock market value late on Tuesday after Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O), opens new tab delivered quarterly results that failed to impress investors who had sent their stocks soaring. The selloff following the tech giants' reports after the bell underscored investors' elevated expectations following an AI-fueled stock market rally in recent months that propelled their shares to record highs with the promise of incorporating the technology across the corporate landscape.

    I don't know that I would say this has anything inherently to do with AI...

    The reuters article for AMD specifically: https://www.reuters.com/technology/high-flying-chipmakers-hit-after-amds-forecast-falls-short-2024-01-31/

    Jan 31 (Reuters) - High-flying semiconductor stocks slipped on Wednesday after Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD.O) disappointing current-quarter revenue forecast added to investor worries over sluggish demand for non-AI chips

    ...

    That overshadowed the company near doubling its AI processor projections to $3.5 billion for 2024.

  • TV economics are hard. I think where basic cable and network TV make it work is that the content was filmed in a way to have natural ad breaks to make it less disruptive to the viewing experience. That becomes terrible when you shoehorn ads into places they don't belong. On the other hand, watching that content without ad breaks that was filmed with ad breaks also plays out weird because you'll have that commercial cliffhaner music/scene that is quickly followed with resolution before you have time to wonder "what is going to happen?" So shit gets weird when you have a tier model where some people get ad breaks and others don't because your content isn't made to satisfy both use cases.

    TV is expensive to make and these are businesses that make money. A simple reductive "if user pays any money they deserve no ads" problem. It's a challenge of things like "The business needs to make X dollars per user and if we have ads we need to charge Y bucks where Y = X - expected ad revenue." The other challenge is in order to have an ad business you need to convince advertisers you have ad viewers they want to reach. Well, advertisers like rich people with lots of money, and they probably don't have the cheaper ad supported tiers. So can a TV company really support a completely ad free tier? Or do they still need to serve some, but less ads, to make sure their advertisers know they can get their ads seen by the platforms richest users?

  • So what happens if a person allows their likeness to be 3d modeled and textured for something like a video game, and that 3d model is used to create explicit images. Is that not a problem (or maybe a different kind of problem) because it's not a deepfake and instead a use of a digital asset?

  • Interesting. So is Tesla fucking up so bad that they don't even have vendors that know how to hide the fucked up job they do? Or do they have vendor's that may also be to blame?

  • "Google and Apple should manage consent, but let me manage payments directly so I don't have to pay them."

  • I am kind of curious. If you are a waste management vendor, and you have a job in sales or client acquisitions... Should your job almost to be a watchdog and narc. Your job is compliance, and your client prospect pool includes those not doing it ...

  • Do ESG funds yield much? It feels good to read about doing the right thing, but it doesn't feel good to have investments not pay off that require you to make cuts later. As a personal investor I could never really justify the expense ratios and historical performance for my retirement or investment. And I don't believe my silver of capital in the global economy makes any difference.

  • I don't see how these small state specific regulations can work. California is the only state big enough, and the EU as a whole does GDPR type regulations uniformly. Regardless of what they regulations are, I feel like it needs to be US federal level regulation to make compliance practical

  • Not a bad time to join if you can negotiate a good amount of pre IPO equity.

  • What does the state constitution say about this?

  • I don't believe it's the products, but the plants. CBD plants must contain less than a certain percent THC. But the finished consumer product derived from the plants can have more potent levels of THC creating a weird legal grey area as I understand it.

  • Yeah, it's totally fucked. And there's a weird part of me that is thinking this is "better". Israel not bombing indiscriminately and instead using special forces for more precise measure to hit military targets is what people want in some weird way. I can't tell if this is supposed to be viewed as still terrible or in some way an improvement in the way the war is being waged.

  • But in this scenario does China want America to eat the shit platter and broken glass?

  • Yeah. But I think part of the article's thesis is that although there was a cop in the school in Parkland who didn't do anything helpful, it was unclear if he violated training procedure. On one hand the public wanted to crucify this officer for doing nothing to actively stop the shooter, but on the other hand many in the public behind defund the police type movements don't believe there should be cops in schools (let alone armored and heavily armed one) which would have not done anything either to have an armed and armored officer in this school situation.

    Not sure what the answer is, but I think it's a complex one that requires folks to temper the ideal situation for real practical near term change.

  • But how does that help school shootings which are specifically discussed in this article? Do we need designated SWAT officers at every school?