It doesn't matter how they try to enforce it, it can't work as the US, Canada and many other countries are in for a couple of decades of labor shortages due to the boomers retiring and dieing off. The only way out is a massive increase in immigration, and that is a hard sell in most countries.
Posts by Blank Reg
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Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech
Continuous growth never works, we need periodic recessions to reset prices, and most importantly mindset. When people believe things can only go up they make a lot of stupid investment decisions and all asset classes become overvalued.
Commercial real estate is in for a major correction. With trillions tied up offices that are not likely to return to pre-pandemic occupancy rates for as much as a couple decades there are a lot of banks that will have problems in the next few years as leases start coming up for renewal
IBM said to be binning off more staff as 'workforce rebalance' continues
Flying car biz Alef claims 3K preorders, still hasn't done a proper demo
Re: There will never be a demo
The whole concept of flying cars is bollocks. People can't drive on the ground, it won't get better in the air, and the consequences of failure are much more severe. Then there is the noise issue, do you really want these things buzzing overhead all day long? If they ever get off the ground they will be relegated to rural areas only.
Ahead of Super Tuesday, US elections face existential and homegrown threats
Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad legal week
Amazon hopes to avoid labor regulation by simply abolishing national watchdogs
Re: Who's next?
I'm ok with the stock options as compensation, though the amount given is often ridiculous. But they should have at least a 5 year vesting period. One of the problems of modern corporations is that there is far too much focus on the next quarter at the expense of the long term. That leads to some very bad decisions
ChatGPT? Sure, I've heard it. But is AI coming for my job?
Re: Resistance to adaptation
I was taking a more global view. in places like Paris or Prague as much as 20-30% of apartments are short term rentals. In the USA you have corporations buying up 10s of thousands of homes. Where I live , during the peak of the market, we had about 1/3 of home sales going to people that already owned multiple homes in the city. If 20 or 30 percent of homes came back on the market then prices would go back to normal levels
Re: Resistance to adaptation
The solutions to home affordability has too many with vested interests fighting against it. Step 1,ban corporations from buying single family homes. Step 2, change tax laws to make it non viable to invest or speculate in single family homes. Step 3, ban short term rentals, Step 4, NEVER REPEAT THE MISTAKE OF NEAR ZERO INTEREST RATES.
How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists
Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute
Re: A brilliant testament to analysis
The key exchange only needs to happen once when the machine is first started, then stored encrypted in some WOM memory on the chips. That isn't foolproof, but tapping into the internals of the TPM or CPU is a lot more difficult than connecting to some pins on the motherboard
X hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety
The pen is mightier than the keyboard for turbocharging your noggin
COVID-19 infection surge detected in wastewater, signals potential new wave
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto stolen after Ledger code poisoned
That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim
Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him
He's a potential billionaire. Until he sells his assets their value is undetermined. And selling his assets would greatly diminish their value, that is why he has come up with several excuses for selling assets over the years. The real reason being he wanted to cash in while the price was insanely and unreasonably high. Had he kept the proceeds he would be a real billionaire many times over, but instead he decided to flush it down the toilet
Lawyer guilty of arrogance after ignoring tech support
Re: Are you sure, this isn't the plot of an IT Crowd epsiode?
No, my problem with Aristotle is that he would come up with some hair-brained idea and declare it correct without bothering to check. He thought women had fewer teeth than men, surely that is easily verified. He thought heavy objects fell faster than lighter ones, again he could have done a simple experiment to prove it.
Basically, he would declare a hypothesis as fact and leave it at that.
Former IBM Canada worker wins six-figure payout for wrongful dismissal
And they really tried to screw him on the severence. In ontario you typically get 2-4 weeks per year of service for IT roles, and given his title and age it would be at the higher end if the range. The one time I was let go I got 14 months severence after 17 years, and I was almost 20 years younger than he was when they fired him.
'Recession-resilient' Tesla misses Q3 expectations, slows Mexico expansion
Japan cruises ahead with drive-thru EV charging trial
Re: Vehicle ID based charging
While an EV can certainly beat a ICE supercar in speed and acceleration, it can't do it for very long. High speed and acceleration isn't sustainable due to the high drain and resulting heating of the battery. That's why formula e races are so short, and until very recently they had to swap cars half way through the race as they could only last around 25 minutes.
Routine repair costs should be lower for well made evs, which leaves out Teslas. But repair costs from accidents can be huge even for relatively small accidents. If the battery is damaged then the car is often written off.
Nvidia boss tells Israeli staff Mellanox founder's daughter was killed in festival massacre
Human knocks down woman in hit-and-run. Then driverless Cruise car parks on top of her
Musk's first year as Twitter's Dear Leader is nigh
IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week
BMW deems drivers worthy of warmth, ends heated car seat subscription
Bombshell biography: Fearing nuclear war, Musk blocked Starlink to stymie Ukraine attack on Russia
Re: So Musk has blood on his hands
Russia has no chance of winning, they just don't have the capacity to keep their troops armed. meanwhile, the west can just keep production going as long as they like.
Besides, it should be obvious by now that the Russian military is completely incompetent, they really aren't good at this war thing.
From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars?
Musk's latest X-periments: No more headlines, old posts vanish, block gets banned
OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times
Re: Not really
I've always found it funny when conservatives claim that you will shift to the right as you get older. I like to point out that this means that there is a correlation between those likely to be in cognitive decline and the tendency to be right wing. But it makes sense, you'd need to be out of your mind to support the right these days.
What does Twitter's new logo really represent?
Apple seeks patent for devices with roll-up displays – iRoll?
Re: Nokia
yes there were a number of companies working on roll up screens a decade ago if not more. I saw a few prototypes but as far as I know none ever made it to production. one likely problem is that bendy screens will tend to not lay perfectly flat after a while, then your very expensive phone would end up with a screen resembling a fun house mirror
Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200
Starlink satellites leak astronomy-disturbing EM radiation, say boffins
It would be better to run fiber, it will likely be cheaper in the long run as it doesn't need replacing every 5 years like the LEO satellites used by Starlink. If you're really so far out that fiber is never going to happen then there are terrestrial radio solutions that can get you higher speeds and fewer issues with less atmospheric signal loss.