IninewCrow
Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
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Banks, businesses and companies have been doing it for years … Ten cents here, fifty cents there, a dollar a month, 75 cents something else … Especially grocery stores, they just nickel and dime pricing all the time … and you ever notice the errors that happen at grocers? 9/10 it’s a mistake in their favor and when you correct it, you’re made to look cheap for wasting time on ten cents or fifty cents.
But add up all those transactions across hundreds, thousands or millions of customer transactions and it quickly becomes a multi million dollar windfall and everyone is completely unaware of it because we don’t care about losing five cents.
I’ve been working at organizing a bunch of stuff I’ve been collecting over the years … data, writing, lists, ideas, whatever … I kept using all sorts of services, apps, websites, cloud services and all sorts of crap to maintain them all but eventually it all becomes too complicated and breaks down.
I’ve since discovered just using simple text files and services that just use simple text mark down … no special service, nothing proprietary, easily transferable and interoperable.
I started looking at websites the same way … I don’t care what it looks like, I just want to read the information … you made it too hard for me to read your simple text info? You’re asking me to turn off my ad blockers and turn on Java script? All to read 200 words on your site? I’ll skip it and move on to the next site that will allow me.
It’s the age old problem of high end gaming for the past 20-30 years … too young to afford the best hardware/consoles … too old to find the time to play on the best hardware/consoles
The demographics always have one or the other … youth or time
- the younger you are, the less money you have but the more time you have
- the older you are, the more money you have but the less time you have
The only common denominator in both groups is investing in smartphones or a general PC … if you don’t have the money as a kid, you always have access to a phone … if you are old and don’t have time and don’t want to invest in expensive hardware or specialty consoles you won’t have time to play with, you just invest in cheaper smartphones or a general PC
Thanks for calling me out … I have a bad habit of commenting on headlines … read the article and you are right … the story is about actually produced CPUs being illegally shared and sold be reviewers before public sale
But my point still stands about us dealing with China … it always amazes me, western countries keep complaining about China, the things China does, how China cheats, how China breaks rules and how illegal China is … yet we still do billions of dollars worth of trade with them and base a large chunk of our economy on them. We literally provoke military conflict with them, yet they are our biggest trading partner.
I never understand why everyone is so surprised by this
Corporations do billions of dollars worth of trade with China because the Chinese can really bend or ignore the rules of worker safety and use cheap labor either in their country or somewhere else. Then the Chinese skim off the tech, knowledge and information to make cheap copies for even lower costs for themselves and cut out the original to make more money for themselves. They did it with every dollar store product ever produced, with cars, motorcycles, anything with an engine and now they’re doing it with CPUs
Or people are just comfortable with what they have and don’t always want the latest, greatest thing that usually costs hundreds of even thousands of dollars these days. I’m perfectly comfortable just playing minecraft on my PC once in a while on my own on a ten year old system that I bought and built myself for about $500 and pay for a $20 game title.
I really don’t care if someone tells me or shows me their $5,000 rig (that they’ll upgrade in a year) that is streaming the latest multiplayer game they spend hundreds of dollars on every year to level up and hopefully become a world reknowned gamer online.
I remember reading research and opinions from scientists and researchers about how AI will develop in the future.
The general thought is that we are all raising a new child and we are terrible parents. Is like having a couple of 15 year olds who don’t have any worldly experience, ability or education raise a new child while they themselves as parents haven’t really figured anything out in life yet.
AI will just be a reflection of who we truly are expect it will have far more ability and capability then we ever had.
And that is a frightening thought.
Whether or not it’s true … it’s marketing for Google and their AI
How does anyone verify this?
It’s basically one person’s claim and it’s not easy to prove or disprove.