I think it’s as simple as phones and laptops are mature technologies. A laptop now lasts many years. Phones don’t get so radically better every 2-3 years people are compelled to upgrade.

What sort of growth can Apple now sustain? A cheaper phone to compete with Android globally?

You’ll have to explain this more clearly.

A lot of ISS terrorism (and I think other organizations) it’s presumed you will die and the check goes to your family. In certain parts of the world, that’s a fair amount that could prop up a poor family.

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I’m more just talking about how the COOOL NEW THING attracts a lot of attention. Then an ungodly amount of investor money. And then dies. I don’t like podcasts and I don’t know a whole lot about their distribution, but the fact that they get funded like super bowl ads definitely means another shoe is about to drop.

It seems they are about to have their bubble burst. It’s probably the next wave of enshittification.

Exception proves the rule. Garner campaigned against FDR.

Would be kind of a self own to get a new VP. No one does that. Unless she like killed someone Biden has to ride it out

My favorite stage of Quora is when the monetized asking questions. Around this time I had too much time on my hands and showed up to help. When I realized I was making fractions of a penny, I turned to trolling the power users.

These guys were so insecure. They’d whine in their answers about how Quora should pay for good answers, not for questions that bring traffic. Nice try, but every tech bro is online and dying to give an opinion, so sorry, “good” answers is not worth paying for.

And when you would try to correct them or report their answers as incorrect they would lose their shit and try and report me 😂

Fun times. Like a dolphin watching a ship sink.

That’s not the point. If Joe the artist makes $25,000 a year breaking copyright, that doesn’t mean copyright is now meaningless.

Absolutely 0.0000000000 defects is impossible.

However, as an engineers, it’s troubling to hear Boeing say things like “well we added a few more inspection points”. Lack of inspection is a contributing cause but it’s not the root cause.

Finding errors at the factory is great and a great way to go out of business (both due to increased cost, as well as eventual escapes)

In something like a commercial airliner you can’t afford to just catch the mistakes. You have to prevent them.

Nature VS nurture heavily implies this will never ever work

What’s different is the feedback loop and the globalization. Yes, it’s just capitalism, ie giving the people what they “want”, but it’s really not just the same as someone suggesting that customers like clean lines and plants.

Thanks for not blaming me.

According to Google, a garden path sentence is one that misleads or tricks. Part of speech doesn’t seem to be a definitional feature. Unless someone comes up with a better answer, I think I might be right.

If I understand it correctly, it may be a garden path sentence. The usual construction of a garden path sentence is where a sentence, when read, the part of speech for a word is different than immediately considered.

The old man the boats.

Here it seems when considered a word at a time that the old man… Oh wait “man” is not the subject of the sentence, “Old” is not an adjective.

How bleak. A couple proprietary algorithms driving millions of business decisions across the globe, everyday.

Probably the parties and their donors would scramble to replace them.

Harris has a leg up as she would be promoted to President and would be the incumbent. But she might not be prepared for a primary. Probably Gavin Newsom, her and a couple people would fight over some key endorsements and donors.

Well Chris Christie and Mike Pence would probably kick themselves as they just dropped out of the race. In a lot of ways, the republican race wouldn’t change much. At least Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis would still be fighting over the voters not waiting for Trump to resurrect three days later.

The really dicy shit happens if the winning candidate dies before inauguration.

Let’s just nationalize SpaceX and Starlink. Then maybe he can focus in tesla, X and his spliff rolling.

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