Posts by Jim Mitchell 730 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2012
If I don't consume gigabit services what enjoyment would gigabit-capable broadband bring? How would it boost my productivity? How would a higher monthly fee boost my prosperity?
As I understand it, you don't need that speed unless you are doing things most households don't actually do. You can have the whole extended family watching 4k streaming video with that. A large family.
"That said, in the real world, I'm surprised to see republican politicians directly calling for smaller budgets for the IRS in order to protect honest tax evaders from nasty bureaucrats."
New to the US, eh? The IRS has been dysfunctional for years due to the Republicans' hate of the rich paying taxes. There is a reason the only have the resources to audit the poors.
"Mirroring" is something people do, consciously or not, when engaging with somebody. It makes them be more receptive to you. You look like them, you sound like them, you act like them, tricking the human brain into liking you as long as you don't overdo it. An AI LLM probably shouldn't be told to that or else you just get a feedback loop cycling into even more bullshit between the user and the model.
Yes, the US is also a large producer of tea. Well, no. But unlike coffee, it could be grown in bulk here if people thought that tariffs were not going to change in twenty years instead of two months.
Of course, since the US is also rounding up and deporting all the people who would actually grow that tea....
Housing is just not a financial instrument, like equities or gold. Everybody needs housing and you just can't order more from the factory. People have to live someplace so the amount they are "willing" to pay can be quite high since the alternative is leaving or sleeping on the streets.
