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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Econ 101 also states that a failed business stops existing. In reality, failed businesses are endlessly bailed out as “too big to fail” and they pay their executives bonuses with that bailout money while continuing to rip off customers along with the other one or two companies in the same industry that do the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan using generative AI less than other countries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Use it for what? Generating a bunch of nonsense text that others have to waste time reading? Generating shitty images with fucked up hands and garbled text to use in stupid ads for worthless trash?

  This is a “competitive advantage” not worth pursuing. Most AI products/services lose money and even if they didn’t, they’re creatively bankrupt as a whole and shouldn’t be admired for squeezing money with lower quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Learn to code” didn’t solve the deep underlying issues with the job market?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King forgot his crown⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to ban birthdays so this never happens again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We live wasted lives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoever you vote for will be bribed lobbied until they don’t represent you anymore, assuming they weren’t already compromised before even entering office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, are you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t right meow, I’m at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking forward to Tesla reporting Q2 earnings next month. I assume another round of disastrous numbers paired up with some vaporware distraction. Perhaps they can keep this charade going, but at some point reality will catch up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China hits 1 TW solar milestone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being the country with the most solar power generation by far is not “green washing”. For being the world’s factory, they’re doing quite well and it’s obvious from trajectory that they’re going to be among the greenest countries overall, including those countries that have externalized their pollution to China by using them as their factory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It already jumped up about 10% on monday simply because the service launched. Even if the service crashes and burns, they’ll jump to the next hype topic like robots or AI or whatever and the stock price will stay up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh right, I forgot that history started on October 7th.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iran is simply countering the terrorist state known as israel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iran has the right to defend themselves and israel has proven again that Iran is in need of this defense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The weird people are still there, but development teams are much larger now, so their input is not as prominent. Plus the budgets are so large that a flop can heavily damage a company or even ruin it, so they’re very risk-averse. We need more AA or A games instead of relying so much on heavy-hitters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think at this point Android is the king of operating systems in terms of what the majority of consumer devices run. Perhaps the path forward is people plugging their phone into a dock and being presented with a more productive interface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure, but they anticipate a lot of children having this device in their hands, so they’re going to design it for that, perhaps even over-design it, just in case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true, but the time between rise and fall takes a while. From the looks of things, the US empire is in the process of falling, which would clear the way for China to take over the top spot. This may change depending on how things go, but if China can grab that spot then it’ll take a while for their turn to fall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We wouldn’t have semi-affordable (depending on your situation) iPhones otherwise. They be impossible to build at scale. Really eye opening.

  Yes we would, they’d just have to lower their ridiculously high profit margins: cnbc.com/…/apples-gross-margin-hits-record-as-ser…

  For many years in the iPhone era, Apple’s gross margin would predictably come in at between 38% and 39%, reflecting the company’s tight grip over its supply chain and its pricing power in the market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I felt the same until I had one of those challenge peanut things that add straight up capsaicin crystals. It made my tummy feel not so good when I had it on an empty stomach, but I never had the “spice burns twice” effect until I had malatang and I asked them to do a spice level above their written max level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m grateful I have the basic technical knowledge of how to install an adblocker. 🙏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a good couple of years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t on reddit, but I did hear a lot of buzz about lemmy around that time, so I decided to check it out. It’s been one of the better places I’ve enjoyed for discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How's it going?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely nude?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The information is freely available because you can do nothing about it. The student protests about israel were shut down. If it was deemed a greater threat, then even more violence would have been used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, that’s another thing! They made it tedious to make progress, probably in an attempt to squeeze out more money, but I ended up just losing motivation for actually learning because it became a drag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a shame. Duolingo was never great for learning kana, so I guess they thought to use it more in lessons, but they should’ve just improved the dedicated kana lessons instead. I had learned kana before using duolingo so it was a smooth transition to take on sentences introducing more and more kanji. It sucks that they’re just making things worse since there were some nice things about the app before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You can disable scores (upvotes and downvotes) in lemmy, and I think it's great!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People will upvote and downvote for any reason, but often do so simply because they agree or disagree with the post. A good moderator does not moderate based on their personal opinions. I would rather not rely on votes for moderation because it’s terrible for that purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped using duolingo a couple years ago because I noticed I was just doing the bare minimum to maintain my streak instead of actually learning something new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Memory manufacturers purposely cut production to help justify cost increases: tomshardware.com/…/memory-prices-rebound-due-to-r…

  But yeah, they’ll also take advantage of demand (real or imaginary) to jack up prices: tomshardware.com/…/micron-confirms-memory-price-h…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calm down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I AM CALM!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, that’s leverage. They sold notes which can be converted to shares of microstrategy. So while they don’t have to issue more shares right now (which would dilute shareholders and lower the value of individual shares), they will have to in the future given the conditions on the convertible notes. If they have to convert those notes into shares while the price of bitcoin is dropping, it’s a double whammy because the value of their holdings (which their value is entirely based on) drops AND they’re diluting individual shares by having to issue more shares. This wards off investors which will tank the price even more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What argument? You pointed to the price of bitcoin going up and I pointed out that scams go up in value. Then you think it doesn’t apply to bitcoin because…? Oh, that’s right, you didn’t make any argument other than “number went up”.