OpenPassageways

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[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe there's someone he's trying to impress with the truck. Isn't that why guys drive trucks?

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

I lived in a neighborhood that some would consider a bad neighborhood but actually it was pretty nice. Saw a drug raid across the street from me but never had any issues with theft, violence. There was a nice path behind the house that went to a local park. The only issues we had there were with the police ticketing us for parking cars on the lawn, when there was nowhere else to park them.

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

But taxes don't take money out of the system. The government then spends that revenue in the budget.

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

You've never been older in your life than you are now

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago

I'm guess you have a fully staffed infrastructure team team, so the reason that has yet to be explained is that they want to downsize that team.

We use cloud services because we have never had a fully staffed infrastructure team.

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's only one kind of acceptable neckwear for a fascist

 

I just moved to a small town. A regional city has rolled out municipal fiber and the towns around it have the opportunity to hook into that city's municipal fiber network if we rollout the infrastructure.

Comcast is spending money through fake grassroots groups to try to get people to vote NO.

I'm trying to convince my fellow citizens to vote YES. The town would take out a loan to rollout the infrastructure, monthly fees would go to pay off that loan and presumably pay the city for the fiber connection as well.

Honestly, the details don't interest me as much as just having a better service and having an option other than Comcast. I figured that "locally owned and operated" would be a slam dunk with xenophobic Republicans, but they seem to be convinced by Comcast's lobbying on the issue and are going to vote NO because taxes might go up (if people don't switch to the service). Has anyone had success with convincing people of the value of municipal fiber?

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to do this because it was supposedly better than sugary creamers. You're supposed to use a little blender to whip it up though, then it actually tastes super good.

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago

Look at this guy, these thugs are living their best life now that they have a blank check to terrorize people without due process.

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

I agree. I'd like to see some separation between the car manufacturer and the software. Any computers in the car should support whatever operating system you want to put on it. Things like controlling the car's functions would just be device drivers. If the car company also wants to get into the SaaS business, fine, but you shouldn't be required to pay for that software to operate the vehicle.

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm on board with it if people want to change the terminology around these things, but it seems like the core of what the author is discussing is the valuation of these companies and potential bubbles.

I think it makes sense that Disney and Amazon and Netflix who are able to make money through more of a SaaS-like model would have a higher valuation than a car company that has to produce a new car for every unit sold. Maybe there's a recent example of an over-valued car company we can think of?

Consider that an auto mechanic and a software engineer can have a similar problem-solving skill set, and could both be very intelligent. Why then does an auto mechanic make so much less money? It's partly because of the economies of scale involved with software. The owner of the software company can sell the software to thousands of clients without having to pay the software engineer to build the software thousands of times. The owner of the auto shop still has to pay the mechanic to perform every job every time and get paid for it.

So while I agree that Disney and Netflix maybe aren't "Tech" companies, it seems to me the real problem the author is grappling with is whether they should be valued similar to tech companies. So I guess the question becomes, are "tech" companies highly valued because they are expected to make some huge technological leap that shakes up industries, or is it because of the economies of scale inherent in the SaaS-like business model?

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 months ago (5 children)

This doesn't change the fact that SaaS is lucrative because unlike producing hardware, you can add users/subscribers without paying to produce additional units.

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I prefer to use the term fiscally responsible.

It's fiscally irresponsible to cut taxes for the billionaires and corporations when we have record deficits.

It's fiscally irresponsible to cut the IRS budget when that results in less revenue.

Republican voters have been brainwashed into thinking that Republicans are somehow more responsible with the economy and budget, when history shows that Republicans drive up the deficit with irresponsible tax cuts.

 

A Norwegian man said he was horrified to discover that ChatGPT outputs had falsely accused him of murdering his own children.

According to a complaint filed Thursday by European Union digital rights advocates Noyb, Arve Hjalmar Holmen decided to see what information ChatGPT might provide if a user searched his name. He was shocked when ChatGPT responded with outputs falsely claiming that he was sentenced to 21 years in prison as "a convicted criminal who murdered two of his children and attempted to murder his third son," a Noyb press release said.

 

Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, the film production company behind franchises such as The Matrix, the Joker and Ocean's has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US, according to a filing with a Delaware court.

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