SaraTonin

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I don’t know if heads are actually going to roll, but the guy who was in charge of the Vision Pro is now in charge of Siri.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If you’re on old reddit you don’t even see notifications for chat

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There’s a guy in the news at the moment who has started a GoFundMe for a legal defence for his wife who has been deported. Says he doesn’t regret his vote for Trump.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It doesn’t seem like you’re really replying to what i wrote.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I’m sure both people who use Bing are furious

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

The fact that this is even a real headline should trouble everybody. I know the answer, but the question still is:” what kind of a state is the USA in where someone even feels the need to write this, rather than it being an assumed norm?”

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (25 children)

Three points. Firstly, in the 1950s, CEOs earned around 20 times what the lowest-paid employee did (including things like bonuses, shares, etc). Now the average is around 400, but can be as high as 2,000.

Secondly, in the US in the 1950s the highest tax band was 91%. Today it’s 37%.

Both these things are perfectly sustainable. And all that’s working under the false premise that there aren’t numerous tax loopholes available to the rich but not the poor.

Thirdly, there’s a tonne of research into what best stimulates economies, but it’s often dismissed because it doesn’t favour the rich. If you give money to the poor, they will spend it in their local communities. Then that money gets spent again, and again, and again, getting taxed each time. IIRC, for every dollar given to someone poor the government itself gets something like a dollar fifty back. Because the money just keeps circulating.

Give money to the rich, though, and what happens? They hoard it, or they spend it abroad. It drains money from the country, either by taking it out of circulation, or by taking it out of the country entirely.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

Also, what’s the betting that they were very interested in “debates” before the negative consequences affected them directly?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’m in the middle of moving, but once I’m set up I’m going to look into dual booting. I’m not sure I’ll 100% be able to get rid of windows, though. For a start, I’ve heard NVIDIA is a nightmare on Linux and I’ve only recently got a new computer so i don’t really want to buy more hardware.

Hopefully dual booting will allow me to experiment and try alternatives for software which doesn’t have a Linux version, and i hear that one of the things that chatbots are actually good at is diagnosing and fixing Linux issues. So I’m hopeful, but I’m not assuming it’ll be entirely painless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I’ve never found them to be more performant, and i can’t understand the logic of why a programme running inside another programme would be more performant except in comparison to unoptimised alternatives.

I’ve never used a web app that i thought was better than a local app. But i definitely understand why developers prefer them.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It’s definitely been the direction of travel for the last several years. Not because the products are better, but because it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Everyone who didn’t get an echo as a gift, I’d imagine

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