They've made it quite clear through their business strategies that they understand what it means for a business to persist for 100 years. There aren't any other tech companies that seem up to that challenge, if you ask me.

I think it's not that they have to create rival AI products, it's that they have to keep up with a market that's giving less of a shit about luxury hardware as time goes on. That demand is being replaced by demand for performance and interoperability, and other companies are far more accustomed to serving those.

The transaction was in person, idiot.

I agree that parents have separated public schools into rich ones and poor ones; that's part of the problem I'm trying to describe. Wealthy parents want their kids around other wealthy families, not because it's a good idea, but because they don't understand social development.

But you're overgeneralizing. There are plenty of places in America where even the rich schools have some poor families.

So I will get to golf at Augusta for free whenever I want?

If you put your kid in public school, it's going to interact with poor families. If you homeschool it, it's not. I'm sorry but that's just really obvious to me, given my experience. I guess that's where we'll agree to disagree.

My main point is wealthy parents don't understand the value of their children interacting with poor people.

Sure, but parents don't select a random subset of peers like school does. Do you think the presumably wealthy parents of homeschooled children will make sure their kids are interacting with poor families? Because those aren't going to be at the private extracurricular clubs.

You need a study to tell you that putting kids around their peers is helpful for development?

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"My child won't experience running around at recess with its peers, because I'm too afraid of it becoming indoctrinated inside the classroom if I'm not there."

"My child will get bullied if I'm not there."

I think it comes from narcissistic parenting, specifically the inability to value the child's independence.

I can already do this with antigravity. Just give it a workspace and tell it what to do; it will make its own python scripts. I've never tried asking it to analyze an image, though.

Yes, this makes me think of ERP software. Each of the things it does is trivial, and most job shops think they can do those things themselves; the real product you're paying for is a team of people who have communicated with shops and have made the thing cohesive.

It's not the property that gets taxed; it's the gain in value that does

If they print 10% of the dollars while your asset goes up 10%, it gained no value, and you are taxed.

It's trump every year still, based on their definition.

When I first used Bitcoin, I remember thinking it felt Japanese. Maybe from the satoshi name though.

What did openAI do though? We already had llms before.

I "need" windows at work to run mastercam. That is the last bastion of windows for me. I have Linux on my computers at home and have been able to play any game I want, all my mouse keyboard and speakers I just plugged in and they work, and everything just goes faster like start up, opening apps etc.

Anyone know if I can run mastercam in Linux somehow?

The composition of sewage is more predictable and a lot of the contaminants are organic, so bacteria can do a lot of the cleaning for us. If you go to a treatment plant, you can see that most of the process is just letting the water sit in big aerated tanks while the bacteria eat the poop.

The seawater has been sloshing around for millions of years and is full of minerals and things bacteria don't eat so you need to either distill it or pump it through a lot of filters.

It's cheaper to purify sewage than to purify seawater, so desalination is really only relevant in places without plumbing infrastructure... and even there it's the wrong approach.