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I like that this is posted on a site called commondreams

"What a nice business you have there. It would be a right shame if something happened to it. Don't you want to pay us for your protection?" - Anthropic

It’s a bummer since artist can get a bigger cut of physical media sales and cd are easier to make than a records. Btw, what about digital album sales? On Amazon, for example, you can buy a CD digitally. You just get MP3s or similar, but it costs the same as the CD, just without the physical media.

And the default DE is a JS app that runs in a webview. You know, the same tech stack we make fun of the Win11 start menu for, but for the whole DE.

Gnome is Javascript that runs in a webview. It's the same technology stack that we make fun of with the Win11 start menu. It's shit technology. No wonder it requires so much RAM.

In terms of nostalgia-buying, we millenials are now the older generation. I doubt it’s all the 15-20yo who are buying CDs.

The peanut butter example might be overly simplistic, especially because it compares b2c to b2b, but other than that the original point is actually correct. In B2B it's very common to order things before they are manufactured. If a company orders 100 new company cars, it's very rare that the car dealership (or even the car manufacturer) has all 100 of them on their yard, ready to be taken away. Especially when you are talking about large-scale b2b purchasing, it's very common that orders are taken months or even years in advance. And here we aren't even talking about regular "my company needs to buy 100 RAM sticks to upgrade the laptops", but we are talking about manufacturing deals. They always order stuff like RAM chips way in advance, even if only to secure reliable and predictable pricing and availability.

Tbh, without the last three steps, this is how business works in general. You order parts for devices that don't exist yet (if they existed, you wouldn't need to order parts). Same with creating new data centers. You don't build the data center, and only when it's all fully finished go shopping around to see if the hardware you want to run is available or not. Trying to capture mathematically impossible profits and satisfying inexistent demand are the only real points here. Obligatory damn clankers.

The process for this is usually like that: Software dev team lead: "We need another senior frontender." HR person: "Ok, what are you looking for?" Software dev team lead: "Someone who knows how to use Angular." HR person: "Great, so which version of Angular are you using?" Software dev team lead: "Version x.y.z" HR person (thinking, not saying): "Ok, so senior means 5+ years, so 5+ years of version x.y.z it is!" Also HR person: “Why can’t I find anyone who’s qualified?”

Friend of mine applied for a job where they asked for at least 5 years of experience with Angular version x.y.z (can’t remember the exact version). The friend responded that he had 10 years of experience with versions x-3 to x+1. The HR person doing the hiring asked back “But do you have 5 years of experience with the exact version x.y.z?” to which he answered “Version x.y.z has only been out for 3 years so it’s impossible to have 5 years of experience with it.” HR wrote back saying that he was rejected because he didn’t have 5 years of experience of experience with that exact version.

Never, never ever ever trust corporations to do social change topics in a good way. The unholy union of business and feminism still means that you now need 80h of paid work a week to keep a family afloat instead of the 40h we had before. Disney and LGBTQ+ and other minority topics is exactly like that. They don’t care about anything like that, all they care about is making money.

Yeah, it was a political decision, not one based on how well the Linux transition worked. They used Linux for quite some time productively. It wasn’t a failed transition at all.

They used Cloud Computation and AI (“Actually Interns”) way before it was cool.

Yeah, that sounds seriosly painful.

It’s not about condemming him. What he did was basically kick off the whole genre of research. And for that he is still credited and well-known. But it seems you missed the context of this thread. It started with someone sarcastically joking that cocaine is “famously good for your health”, to which someone sarcastically mock-backed the claim by referencing that Freud did back cocaine. There’s no need or point in defending this very debunked claim. Btw, Freud recommended cocaine as a medication against alcoholism. He administered cocaine to an alcoholic friend of his, and it did nothing against his alcoholism. In fact, the friend died soon after off a combined alcohol-cocaine overdose. This did not stop Freud from claiming that cocaine is great. He even got his girlfriend hooked on it. Freud did start the whole field of research, but his own research has been debunked a very long time ago. There’s basically nothing of his research left that still counts as “state of the art”, but sadly many uneducated people still repeat his nonsense. It’s kinda like believing that Carl Benz’ earliest car patents still have any relevance in modern car design. We credit Carl Benz for kickstarting the research in combustion engine cars, but nobody would be stupid enough to think that early research in that field has any relevance to today’s practice.

Actually, masturbation as treatment for “hysterical paroxyism” had its peak during victorian times.

That is true, but that still doesn’t make any of his advice correct.

LOOOOLOLOL. I think there are some initial investors who, in the beginning, legitimately thought it would be a good deal. At this point, the investments are driven by hype, and investors know they are, but they’re gambling that they can ride it to the top without being caught holding the bag. That’s why it will collapse violently. Because the moment it starts going down, everyone is going to dump it. This is it. Bubbles happen BECAUSE investors know what they are doing. They ride the bubble hard, hoping to get out just before it pops. The later you jump, the more you gain. Unless you jump too late. All this, including the popping of the bubble, is done on purpose. High-level capitalism is certainly the place where you should never mistake mallice with incompetence.

What’s dishonest or fraudulent about a capitalist doing capitalist things? If you think there’s some honest, genuine and honorable capitalists out there, you must be really credulous.

Pretty much, with the difference that corruption can only happen if it takes something off it’s path, so to say. If the path itself is bad, being bad is not corruption. If steel rusts, it’s being corrupted. Rust itself cannot be corrupted, because it is what it is. And yes, I very much think that capitalism sucks.

ChatGPT is a fronted for specialized modules. If you e.g. ask it to do maths, it will not do it via LLM but run it through a maths module. I don’t know for a fact whether it has a photo analysis module, but I’d be surprised if it didn’t.

To be corrupt, you need to have another purpose than personal enrichment that you are corrupting in favour of personal enrichment. The whole goal of capitalism is personal enrichment. There is no other purpose that could be corrupted. It’s like saying that you make water wet or that you burn a fire.

Read it again, slowly, without anger, and I’m sure you will be able to understand it.

The concept of a “corrupt industry” doesn’t really make sense. Corruption only works in non-profit/political/governmental contexts. It’s when you have a job that requires you to value some specific higher goal more than your own personal benefit. The whole purpose and the higher goal of an industry, same as capitalism in general is personal benefit. A capitalist cannot be corrupt. Or to put it differently: The thing that would make e.g. a public servant corrupt is the modus operandi of capitalism.