Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
US bombers should be renamed missilers because, these days, they tend to drop missiles more than bombs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ-qBf5ufMc
Google let an employee walk who left because Google didn’t value his AI chatbot technology. Google later had to hire him back and make him a billionaire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_s6f5P8Ggw
“”The main question we wanted to understand is who’s going to be left to buy products if everyone gets automated and replaced by a robot?” Tsoukalas, a senior fellow at Wharton, told journalist Katty Kay on the New Normal podcast that was posted on Monday.
The paper describes a classic economic dilemma: A single company may recognize that laying off too many workers reduces demand for its products, but in a competitive market, every company has an incentive to automate, because failing to do so risks losing to rivals.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/ai-could-trigger-layoff-trap-081101725.html
Critics have exaggerated the electricity and water costs of data centers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6t2PxZxDE
It looks like Ukraine will be given permission to produce Patriot missiles, but likely not the best kind which they most need to protect their cities from Russian ballistic missiles.
It could take a long time to actually start producing missiles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE4WnAKl9jA
Officially, North Korea no longer seeks unification with the south. Trump blew his opportunity in his first term to get closer relations with North Korea, despite holding hands for the cameras. North Korea has deeply allied with Russia, giving North Korea advanced military technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruxntzId1uM
The US has a fleet of naval drones. One of them rescued the downed Apache crew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSHgyQkWuzY
McDonald’s is a real estate and big data tech company. It is selling convenience, not cheap food or good food. Its goal is to manipulate the customer to come in and buy profitable items.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIOW2HKgzPk
Some companies use regulations to their advantage. They beat companies that are obeying the spirit of the law, by finding a loophole that absolutely destroys the spirit of the law, but technically, can be argued to follow the rule of the law. Cheating companies have a competitive advantage and the nice guys finish last.
This strategy is aided by weak regulators.
Sometimes this is bad because the regulation fails to prevent the harm it was supposed to stop. Other times it is good because the regulation was preventing new and disruptive ideas from flourishing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q37yxPUAC24
China is cracking down on foreign chips and communication tools that could allow its citizens free access to the outside world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_cPgPusjvA