The problems of the group of people whom we call “homeless”… has it ever really been a lack of homes?

There are homeless shelters with empty beds at night. Some people who probably really need them refuse to go there and instead sleep outside because they don’t want to be sober.

It’s amusing to think that if we just assign one empty home to each homeless guy - thus eliminating homelessness - all would be right. In the world. But I don’t think it works that way.

We tried limiting who’s allowed to vote. That didn’t work nor was it constitutional.

We tried giving every child an education through at least 12th grade, including civics, history, and other relevant course material. It is free for anyone who sticks to it… That seems to have not completely worked either.

We have tried a great social media experiment, which has evidently made things worse.

I don’t know my friend. Every man for himself? Or individually try and educate your family, friends, and neighbors? It does seem rather helpless when you see the average man on the street unable to answer basic history questions yet their vote counts the same as the vote of a highly educated, knowledgeable citizen.

I agree with your points. AI is a tool just like hammers and word processors. It shows a lot of promise because people can solve problems in ways that other tools cannot.

Efficiencies come later, and hating on the tool because it’s immature just means you’re probably further out on the technology adoption curve or have different use cases.

Here’s an example of the split screen not running at full width on Black Ops 3

https://youtu.be/FcNHlqup4tM

And here’s how it used to look on Black Ops 1: https://youtu.be/lnF2W-e7e8Q

I’m not so sure about the latest versions, if they made local split screen better.

Black Ops 3 has the Kino der Toten map split screen but it doesn’t run full width. I’m pretty sure the same map on Black Ops 1 did run full width.

My favorite moments with these games were always playing locally, and having that keeps the game playable for as long as you own it and a working console.

A full width split screen zombies mode, and a full lobby of people who want to play Kino Der Toten are pretty much the only thing that would interest me in another COD BLOPS title.

I just can’t imagine who these titles are for now. I appreciate they’re trying to make the graphics and sound amazing, but these online experiences, as imagined by the developers, have taken away more than they’ve given.

The last modern warfare title I bought was MW2, that bizarro named one. I opened it a few weeks ago and the whole game has become a loader to other COD games and its multiplayer lobbies are empty. So stupid and I wish I could get a refund.

I used Waymo half a dozen times or so when traveling to San Francisco this year.

The experience was actually quite good. The cars arrive within a minute or two, they’re clean and high-end (for what amounts to a taxi), and you can set up the atmosphere according to your mood. The driving was smooth and uneventful.

Unless they raise the prices significantly, I would continue to choose Waymo over human drivers.

This is something travel agent websites do too.

If you’re logged out, they’ll show you a price that’s really attractive. But if you log in with an account that’s got some history, they’ll suddenly say that price is no longer available now you need to pay the higher price.

Agoda.com I’m looking at you

I live in Thailand and work/life balance is already pretty generous for many people.

They have 20+ government and religious holidays a year and unlimited sick days (if you have a doctor’s note, which you can buy for cheap). If your doctor says menstrual pain is severe, you could already get a doctor’s note easily.

If you work at a company for longer than a year, you’re entitled to something like 1-3 months of severance pay if they fire you.

For office workers, nearly everybody expects their birthday off work, you can take a whole day off just to go to the driver license registration office, and many companies allow time off from the job unpaid without a second thought if you want to do something else that day.

If anything, the lax focus on productivity holds companies and opportunities behind most of the world. So while it might be a great place to live for some people, it’s not necessarily a place where things can be achieved.

For factory workers, their employers are not always following the laws anyway, so these types of benefits may not make their way down the line.

No, it’s an educated take. Anything else is probably not an environment you want to live in unless you find yourself inside the privilege party.

Humans will always have vast differences in opinion, that’s the whole point of the USA.

This is a wild thread. Kamala understands decorum and professionalism.

Politics without is just a fuckin’ schoolyard fistfight, and we’ve had too much of that.

Democracy is about being able to have differences in opinion but still be neighbors.

I’m not against ads in principle. The advertisers are paying the bill for stuff I consume. Great.

For that effort, they get a chance at my wallet. And to be honest, making me aware of a business or product is indeed a way to get me interested in what they sell. I do prefer the ads to be relevant instead of always useless.

That being said, it’s currently preferable to use a blocker and let the people who don’t know how to use blockers subsidize my ad-free ways.

Exactly. There’s no demand when the price increases so much.

Yes we can. That side of the business is growing.

I think a lot of other e-commerce businesses have also shifted away from the US market as well. So US buyers have fewer choices now.

I’ve searched quite a lot and cannot find factories in the US for the kind of goods we sell. I’m sure we could pay somebody considerably more who would do it but then we would have no customers.

I own an e-commerce business. We are an American company. We make and ship goods directly from China.

Our margins are tight, basically we cannot sell in the USA for a lower price. Our suppliers can give a tiny bit of margin back to us, but same story for them too.

So we have 2 options:

A. Stop selling in the US

B. Add a tariff charge, so that if people still want to buy, they can.

We chose option B, direct passthrough of the tariff cost. About 60% still pay, and we lost the rest of our customers.

I don’t know where else they shop, because our competition did the same, but I assume they decided not to buy anything given the higher cost.

A lot of terms are starting to blend… Now anything that does work a human could also do is AI / robots / automation / machine learning.

Taking away the profit potential of a skilled labor task - especially labor skills that are difficult to obtain, is always going to be painful. Especially for those who earned their knowledge through blood, sweat, and tears.

In some ways it tell ls us the hard job was actually possible to make easy by doing it another way.

But when one door closes another door opens, right? … Right…?

A whole lot of people working in tech are not themselves using the bleeding edge of tech

Hard to say… It seems in this case they were unable to organize themselves.

Regrettably there are not too many high quality researchers who endeavor to put their names on such studies.