They are waiting for India to rename themselves to Bharat so Pakistan can claim the name.

Only in high value places.

I read an Economist article about the expected impact of AI on worker productivity and it found a major bifurcation of impacts.

If AI output could be trusted as is, productivity gains mainly went to less productive workers as they were able to benefit the most from a tool doing the hard parts of the job. This could reduce wages since you can lower job requirements by using AI.

If AI output needed human processing and review, productivity gains mainly went to high performers as they were able to benefit the most from a tool doing the easy parts of the job. This could reduce employment as high performers can do more by using AI.

Spotify would have to pay for added functionality. AI slop comes for free.

But that isn’t caring about your stack beyond that your stack isn’t shit.

Yeah. The only thing I’d clarify is if she is paying rent or contributing to the mortgage. Paying rent is cleaner and she isn’t paying half, but it is important to have an understanding about this in case there is a breakup or death.

That was a design decision by Steve Jobs to keep people from using them as wired mice.

They’ve been here for a while.

It is also important that the presentation of Shakespeare is radically different than it was in history:

https://youtu.be/2UZ369VYJrY

There was more crowd interaction, actors commonly forgot lines, and the play itself would usually have a limited run. Also, the script was considered to be a trade secret, so there were few complete copies kept.

For consumption of content, phone to laptop use is probably about 70% phone and 30% laptop.

For production of content, 20% phone and 80% laptop, with Lemmy being a large part of the 20% phone production.

Yes it is.

The USA definitely went crazy after 9/11 and has done destabilizing things to the international community. I’m not denying that.

However, the USA has a big stick that has been able to keep most borders frozen. Without the threat of American intervention, I can see a lot of wars between countries start because war became an option.

And this could come to pass with a peaceful China.

This is including the Middle East.

My only concern is that I expect an increase in international conflict as the American security guarantee is gone. The only remaining countries capable of projecting power internationally can’t do it on nearly the scale of the USA. I expect a lot of wars until new spheres of influence get established.

Intensionally, the USA is going to lose its status as a hyperpower. Europe is going to decouple from American defense policy to the point where I can see American military bases close in Europe. An anti-Chinese military alliance will function with or without the USA anchored by India and Japan, but I see that force yielding some territory to China in the near term. There will probably be an increase in the number of wars in general as regions go into conflict without an American threat to maintain borders. Nothing the USA does is likely going to fix this.

Domestically, the administration is the greatest threat to the republic since the Civil War. If Trump is able to be pushed out in the future, there is going to need to be a major re-evaluation of how the American federal government works. This is going to require constitutional changes and the removal of major powers that the President has collected as the federal government grew.

It helped win him the election.

Alcohol did help people survive in the past.

Beer was a very common way to create a potable water source in the past and provided calories that could be preserved over time.

Nowadays, the use of alcohol as a preservative isn’t necessary. A reevaluation of alcohol in all its forms in the modern context shows that it causes a net harm to health, even at low volumes.

He didn’t fly away?

I thought he would break apart and his powers would go back to their component rings.

Not all problems from alcohol come from alcoholism.

There was a thought process that alcohol could apply some health benefits below a certain consumption level.

It has been now accepted that there is no “safe” amount of alcohol.

I’d consider it worse than Edison. Edison’s real contribution to technology was the creation of a company R&D lab geared towards new products. He would invest in the development of the product before it became big.

Kroc took over an already functioning business.