Th4tGuyII

In the latest episode of Trump leaving his allies out to dry, it looks like Trump is trying to trade Taiwan to China for Somethingᵀᴹ

I genuinely feel terrible for Taiwan that they’re stuck in this horrid position of being constantly threatened by China for merely existing, and essentially having to bet on the global value of TSMC to keep the otherwise apathetic US around.

It shouldn’t have to be that way, and its abhorrent that it is.

I’m thankful that the EU managed to (mostly) step in for Ukraine, but Taiwan is simply too far away for Europe to properly defend - so if the US doesn’t stand up, I doubt anybody will.

By that calculation, even on the lower end of only losing $20 billion that’d still be 10 years before it’d cost them anymore than this rancid business decision did.

They’re so determined to not negotiate with the union that they’d rather throw away the shareholder’s money than give it to workers… And that’s just this scheduled strike. If talks fail again, I bet you there will be more to come.

Samsung might have a difficult time explaining that one at their shareholder presentation next year.

What?! A soulless megacorporation pocketed refunds for tariffs that they never actually paid (because they forced the end user to eat the cost)??

I seriously hope this lawsuit works, because it’d set one hell of a precedent for future lawsuits.

Probably - because the amount of money they’re about to lose was probably less than what actually negotiating with the union would’ve cost them

According to the Seoul Economic Daily, daily losses could approach 3 trillion won ($2 billion) if fabrication lines are paused entirely. Professor Kwon Seok-joon at Sungkyunkwan University previously estimated that the 18-day walkout alone would cause 10 trillion to 17 trillion won ($17 billion) in direct losses, while JPMorgan has projected total losses of up to 43 trillion won ($28 billion) when factoring in labor costs and extended production disruption.

Wow. What a huge amount of money to lose just because you won’t pay your highly skilled workers more.

As @osanna@lemmy.vg said, you really have to wonder how much it would cost Samsung to pay their workers more if they’re willing to tank a potentially $20-40 billion loss instead of giving the union what they’re asking for.

Yes - not because I particularly like the idea of bigoted speech, but because like most Governments have already started to demonstrate over age verification, any tool of censorship you allow to be used against your enemy will eventually be turned back against you

While I’m not going to say its over, it sure looks like Google is about to make it a whole lot harder for people to escape their influence.

And the worst part of this is it would seem even the most “privacy conscious” governments are on Google’s side.

Because locking everything down and removing our privacy is good for the children… Just never mind the rich pedophile cabal that almost nothing was done about other than slapping the wrists a few very high profile scapegoats.

Again, fair enough - treating it akin to a draft making machine isn’t a terrible idea…

But I would argue that reviewing an existing draft, while a perfectly valid skill to have, is not the same skill as actually writing that draft.

I can say from plenty of experience making and reviewing documentation, that making the first draft is always a much more demanding task than reviewing and making corrections.

And while there’s nothing wrong with making life a bit easier, maintenance of skills is just as important as making them in the first place. If you want to maintain skills for the latter, you need to let yourself write some drafts too.

I mean I have a microchasm example of this myself. I used to be good at remembering phone numbers prior to being able to store them all on a smartphone. Now, even if you put a gun to my head, I can really only remember my own. And that is because I outsourced that part of my memory to my phone, just as most people have - without any attempt to reinforce it.

Fair enough, but if you’re a manager isn’t that kind of the whole job? Communicating with people. If you’re not doing that, what are you getting paid to do?

I can’t imagine out-sourcing the skill-set you’re being paid for to an AI tool is a great way to build up that skill. Sounds like humanity’s typical great short-term idea with horrible long-term consequences.

Would be lovely if my Government would even consider that.
I hate using Win11, but it seems we’re so entrenched with Microslop that they’re even giving “officially endorsed” courses on how to use Co-Pilot.

I understand that AI and Neural Networks have their uses, but why are people so willing to give up their ability to think and write for themselves??

As others have said, a license is a legal tool that allows you to enforce how you want your program to be used.

And in the case of FOSS this is a really big issue, because just publishing code doesn’t put it into the public domain, and leaves you open to exploitation by big companies.

There are various types of licenses, but for FOSS the main ones are unlicensing and Copyleft licenses. Unlicensing essentially declares your code public domain, so anybody can use it for any purpose. Copyleft licenses are usually fairly permissive, especially for individuals, but obligate that any offshot/fork must also be made Copyleft - so prohibits close sourcing of your work.

Their attitude towards us really depends on what their evolutionary pressures were. If resources were/are plentiful, they might have a less aggressive nature and simply wish to meet us. Otherwise, we might be on the chopping block.

As for us. I imagine a decent portion of humanity would immediately default to rampant xenophobia or weirdly sexual obsession.

This game is so circular as to be ridiculous… Who’s actually making money if everyone’s just passing the same billions of dollars around and around?? At some point something’s gotta give.

My got take - if you’re not playing with stacking draw cards, you’re playing Uno wrong

Almost had me for a second, but it got a bit too based for any serving politician at the end haha

Oh, yeah. I’m sure the currently compromised DOJ is totally going to find fault in its own compliance with the law

Is that a good metric??

Isn’t this just stating that you’re letting something with the coding ability of a toddler run amok through your product, having to constantly be bug-fixed by your remaining engineers?

This is exactly what Microsoft started doing, and its so far worked out terribly for them. Loads of their new software updates have had unacceptablely large bugs for even simple things like task manager!

For me it was an album, “Nothing is True & Everything is Possible” by Enter Shikari.

There are multiple songs I absolutely love from this album, but when I went to look at more of their songs, they had a completely different vibe.

Good on Starmer for having just a bit of integrity not getting us involved such a stupid idea.

Seems even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Because it is much less mentally taxing to believe that the world is meritocratic and fair, than to realise that your outcome in life is oftentimes just as dependent on where you’re from, who you know, and pure dumb luck.

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek.