And the solution for that is improve the infra but using starlink for it is not scalable nor cost effective. That's the point. It seems like an easy shortcut but it won't work at scale or long term.

Maybe. I'm just seeing agencies say there's no need to run fiber or other backhaul out to rural areas when we can just give people starlink. And thinking of the FAA contract that DOGE cancelled with Verizon and replaced with a starlink contract for ATC I believe.

Doesn't matter if it doesn't work. You can suck up money from those other things and for starlink, make people dependent on your inferior service so they're stuck.

I do think starlink is a bit like the boring company in that its true purpose is to say "we don't need that other investment, I am working on something better." For Boring, it was to prevent California High Speed Rail; for starlink it's to say "use starlink instead of rural network buildouts."

The founders allowed slavery, so as an originalist Alito will rule that banning slavery is outside the powers of the constitution and thus the 13th amendment is null and void.

I hate so much that these headlines always call flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional actions such bloodless things. Calling this a "Birthright citizenship rollback" or calling the unconstitutional dismantling of the department of education "cutbacks." It's maddening.

100% the "self driving cars vs human drivers, which is safer" is a false dichotomy and purposely elides the myriad other better ways we could direct society's resources to efficiently and safely do transport. Self driving cars have all the drawbacks of extant car centric planning plus many more.

I have a somewhat similar issue (but not nearly as hard to deal with) with the various Stargate shows and Buffy/Angel. The solution I came up with was just label them however, and then have a playlist file that puts them in order of air date.

Yep transportation has been relatively safe from outsourcing up to now because you still need someone to move things. They want to fire all the people making American wages and have someone in a cheaper country do the driving for cheaper. They're not going to be fully autonomous.

Bioshocks whole point was "oh you think you're making meaningful choices but we the developers are the true puppet masters, we give you one way to progress and you're powerless to do otherwise isn't that deep?" No, it isn't, this is an FPS game.

I believe the Seattle hooverville wouldn't exist today because they're seemingly more willing to use overwhelming military force to prevent them and less willing to accommodate them.

Even when one does manage to appear, they send in military style raids to break them up. See: wall of forgotten natives and the quarry in Minneapolis, and the large Echo Park encampment in LA a few years ago where they used hundreds of cops to brutally evict them.

Seem to serve no purpose but to move people from place to place. But in frequently demolishing any encampments, they scatter and traumatize the residents and there's rarely a chance to build a place like Hooverville.

I often think that the lesson modern cities have learned from hoovervilles is simply to demolish them with overwhelming force early so they never get a chance to build a community that can organize itself. I don't know how it was back then but sweeps today are frequent and [...]

Idk about anthropic, but at many tech companies your performance review includes how much you use AI, and if you don't use it enough they ding you for it. So of course people say they use it a lot and that it's helpful. If they don't or they think it hurts their productivity they get fired.

I would say it's a good way to save money but in your case you're doing it to unlock something also very expensive 😅

I used to joke that phones were lovecraftian madness runes, made by the labor of thousands of slaves gathering material, and shaped by skilled artisans into objects that create mesmerizing lights which dazzle and confuse the minds of all who behold them. But it really does get more true every year.

If there's one thing that's gonna pull us out of this, one group of people Americans are yearning to look up for leadership, it's venture capitalists.