For example, homebrew will auto-update your formulae by default. If you install it with homebrew, you may not have ran `brew pin hugo` and it gets auto-updated.
The orange website is filled with tech-savvy people who understand all this. To play devils advocate, google is trying to protect the lower-half of the IQ distribution: examples given in the article are the folks who were *told by their bank they were being scammed, and still sent money anyway*. There is no amount of prompts that can protect a user from their own stupidity.
This person feels entitled to quality customer service. Maybe 30 years ago that was an expectation. Nowadays, if you want good customer service, you need to pick business that deliberately prioritize it, which often means paying more.
Consumer Cellular is a great example of a company that prioritizes customer service and costs a bit more. Compare their cellular service to a company like Mint, which gives you basically the exact same product, but for half the price due to having literally zero customer service.
For running shoes to use one of their examples, REI is a great store to get a human to show you where things are and to give their opinion on what the right shoe for you would be. If you go into a Macy's or a WalMart you'll pay a lot less, but you won't have anyone there to help you.
Every self checkout I've been at has always had an employee willing to help, in fact more often than not the person manning the self checkouts at Costco just ends up gunning all my items when they see I have an infant strapped to me, and I typically don't have to lift a finger. Of course, you can't get into Costco without purchasing an annual membership and you can't get out of Costco without spending at least $100.
You can get cheap stuff, and you can get less cheap stuff with good customer service. Peoples' time and energy is not free, and you should be willing to pay for it if you expect it. Feeling entitled to good customer service when you purchase bargain-barrel products lacks a certain awareness of how much an employee deserves to be paid.
It also depends on the industry whether they have the margins to give better service with lowered profits or if they'd have to raise prices to avoid losing money.
> Meanwhile, all the wealthy business owners are fascinated with it cause they can get things done without having to hire.
I think you need to add the word potentially in front of "get things done". The venn diagram of what current LLMs can do, and what wealthy business owners think LLMs can do, has the smallest of overlaps.
> Should Harry [open AI's therapist LLM] have been programmed to report the danger “he” was learning about to someone who could have intervened?
> In December, two months before her death, Sophie broke her pact with Harry and told us she was suicidal, describing a riptide of dark feelings. Her first priority was reassuring her shocked family: “Mom and Dad, you don’t have to worry.”
> Sophie represented her crisis as transitory; she said she was committed to living. ChatGPT helped her build a black box that made it harder for those around her to appreciate the severity of her distress. Because she had no history of mental illness, the presentable Sophie was plausible to her family, doctors and therapists.
> As a former mother, I know there are Sophies all around us. Everywhere, people are struggling, and many want no one to know. I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)
> Sophie left a note for her father and me, but her last words didn’t sound like her. Now we know why: She had asked Harry to improve her note, to help her find something that could minimize our pain and let her disappear with the smallest possible ripple.
> In that, Harry failed. This failure wasn’t the fault of his programmers, of course. The best-written letter in the history of the English language couldn’t do that.
The most insulting thing about LED lightbulbs that the author touches on is the claim that "they last at least 10 years", when in practice about 50% of them in my experience go bad within 2 years. Granted I should probably buy better quality bulbs, but given my experience, I am hesitant to drop more money on a potential failure.
To offer a counterpoint, I switched over to GE and Sylvania LED bulbs a little over a decade ago, and only one has burnt out (the most heavily used one, unsurprisingly). Almost all of my lamps and light fixtures are open, though, and the few closed ones do not get a ton of use -- I've heard that heat build-up in enclosed fixtures can do a number on LED bulbs.
It's the power converters that break down from what I've heard, not the LED themselves. So light bulb companies can make the 230V -> 1.5V conversion brittle and have you rebuy lights over and over "as designed".
I've seen a lot of other sorts of failures. On the LED bulbs where individual filaments are visible, sometimes a single filament fails, or flips on and off.
I had one LED bulb that just burned, which was interesting.
Renting only makes sense on a fixed income if you can ensure your rent does not increase. If in 15 years your rent is double what it once was, you will probably not be able to afford it.
Sure. But you're paying property tax indirectly on rent any way. And, property tax is usually in the range of a few thousands per year versus rent being a few tens of thousands per year. An increase in tax may be weatherable whereas an increase in rent may not be. And many areas have laws where property tax for seniors is reduced or fixed
Every single cost mentioned in the article is passed to the renter in one way or another.
Also, property tax is pretty much the most unavoidable tax there is, and the most beneficial. It funds schools, parks, roads, police, garbage collection and much of the local infrastructure and essential services where I live.
I like having all those services, so I will gladly pay the tax, including any increases.
> Every single cost mentioned in the article is passed to the renter in one way or another.
That's not how markets work.
You can only charge in rent what the market will bear and if it's between renting a place out for a net loss of say -1500 or not renting it out and paying 3000 in expenses anyways some landlord is going to pick -1500 over -3000.
In general, being a landlord is a losing proposition. The whole reason renting is better than owning is because real estate appreciates less than the stock market. That's still the case if you buy the place and rent it out! You might make money but you're losing out on the opportunity cost of NVDA growth.
Now landlords could all gather together and decide that renting 150 units for 3000 generates more profit than renting 200 units for 2000 and yeah you'll end up with empty units. But its because the opportunity cost of the empty unit is in the landlord favor.
If it was only strike 3 holdings material, zero percent likely.
> Strike 3 Holdings, LLC is a pornographic film holding company. They hold the copyrights to adult films under the brand names Blacked, Tushy, Vixen, and others. They are looking to prosecute claims for copyright infringement for their works being shared illegally via P2P file-sharing programs.
> However if Meta branched out into other adult material then its possible.
It seems pretty unlikely to me they would stop at one production studio! The lawsuit alleges a lower bound on their porn pirating activities, of course, not an upper bound.
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