drmoose

I'm not convinced that shrinking population is at all an issue for a developed country that can replace workers with technology. China is already one if the most automated countries in the world and currently running the biggest infrastructure investments ever. I think if anyone can handle population reduction it's probably China.

This is an easily solvable problem if the front end could just group posts with the same link

Oh no you might see something twice - unusable!

both of these issues are really reaching.

1. CCP will have no trouble of succeeding Xi as it's a single party system.
2. The population issue is heavily overblown and we have yet to see it actually have an effect. China being a dictatorship also can handle this issue more efficiently than the west.

The only problem China would be facing is civil disobedience but as long as Chinese live slightly more comfortable year after year and don't notice the spying/firewall too much the Chinese are just too spineless to do anything.

That's why China basically has to do nothing to win geopolitica these days. Just sit back, continue spreading propaganda and see everything fall in their favor.

Macbook pro

The aluminum chassis is stupid and has sharp edges so if you use the laptop on the go it's likely to cut your wrists. The screen is so glary you can't use the thing outside at all. The keyboard is really bad and I had one of those with a touchbar which is the dumbest laptop idea ever that would constantly get activated by slight brush or water droplet. And macos is such a terrible operating system full of legacy restrictions and commands you can't customize or animations you can't remove.

I had to use one for a contract I had with an US firm for security auditing and it dropped my productivity in half tho it was fun to explore the apple world on someone else's dime knowing it's temporary but I'm not going back ever.

"Our assets are delivering"

But why is housing becoming unaffordable when materials are cheaper and technology is significantly more efficient?

How come this doesn't apply to any other technology? The computers are better and cheaper, the TVs are, the machine tools are, the cars are etc. etc. The concrete is cheaper, the wood is cheaper, the quality is better, the logistics are faster and work force is more skilled and available.

No matter how you look at housing issue there's no explanation other than policy failure and market manipulation. It just makes no sense, right?

You're talking about LLMs not all AI would have the same origin and for all we know real AGI could be achieved completely differently

Kinda nice to see it used for once. Is that how it feels to like a billionaire?

That's not a bad bet. Clearly telecommunications infrastructure is not going away and even radio towers are never going away until physics finds an alternative.

I do kinda miss Nokia's creativity tho

Nah the argument that this could grow "pedophile culture" and even encourage real activities is really not that far fetched and could be even true. Without very convincing studies do you take a chance where real kids could soon suffer? And I mean the studies would have to be really convincing.