They were nerds but not computer nerds. “tech nerd” would be someone building computers, learning how to program a bit, war driving, etc

Huh. For me "tech nerd" has always been more general, and encompassed the folks pushing the envelope in multimedia/games/home-automation, and so on

It’s still tainted though. Even if OP buries that underlying transaction, the other people he is talking to might (like I would) assume OP is bullshitting to placate me and secure my vote.

The inscrutable buttons in their UI are terrible for mobile/tablet access. I wish the discoverability was better

> Models are getting 99% more efficient every 3 years

The LLM industry has only be around for like 4 years. Extrapolating trends from that is pretty naive.

Users are not a moat because there is no network effect here.

You're right, it's worse. It's hurting people's lives, maybe it should be considered a crime in America due to how intertwined having a job is with also having access to healthcare, social services, government services, the ability to eat, the ability to have a place to sleep; it all seems extremely dramatic in this context.

All the more reason to tax tech companies more to provide better welfare for the nation because we all know these business magnates are too greedy to care about other humans that aren't them.

Cutting staff by half is an admission of massive management failure.

Their planning was terrible.

Their hiring was terrible.

They can’t think of any new projects to put these staff on.

Not really. Sometimes markets fail.

It was not a management failure when construction companies had to lay people off during the GFC.

Your comment was better without that edit.

It’s an appeal to absurdity that falls flat because nuclear plants and oil refineries have been built near population centers in the US (including in California) without problem.

California had had more issues from under investment in industry (see it’s ancient electrical infra that lit the state on fire) than from collocation of industry and people.

Both of the largest ports are right in SoCal and that’s going pretty well. Building another one would never make it past the permitting stage in today’s California.

In particular, all those PFAS firefighting foams on Navy bases (and civilian ones?), still being used: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5639257-defens...

Post these “checks” that failed. Don’t hide behind some bullshit about the author being motivated

There is no rational basis for anyone else to expend any effort refuting anything when the author has not said anything in the first place.

The article contains no citations, and so may be presumed 100% false by default.

"may be presumed", as in, sure it might actually contain some other mix of true and false, but it doesn't matter what that mix actually is. That only matters in some other article written by someone else that citates any of it's assertions.

This piece is the same as if monkeys typed stuff at random and some of it could possibly happen to be the same as something true. It doesn't mean the monkeys made a valid point, and no one should spend one second either defending or refuting it.

It might not help for controlled nodes, but it does help avoid ISPs controlled by said governments from seeing it