You finally got it.

Yes, I'm shouting "beware, they are thieves" before they actually took something - because they are, in fact, well-known thieves. This is the thing that's called "reputation" (just adding that since you actually seem to be new to the planet).

If they've done it a hundred times before, it is very likely that they'll do it again. It really is that simple.

You new here? I mean the planet?

Of course you don't. They never show their intention to extinguish until the first two are complete.

Oh no, you want to say that Microsoft is following its usual strategy, as they've done for 30+ years?

What a complete surprise! Shocker! Stop the presses...

If you so much as touch anything made by MS without having a plan B ready and waiting in the top drawer, you can't be helped.

Bones and teeth. No remains with fur, muscles, etc. as far as I'm aware.

I'm talking about the price paid, not the profit or losses incurred.

And, of course, a bit tongue-in-cheek.

Basically: Since campaigning in the US costs countless billions, we shouldn't be surprised that politicians are all bought. It's the only way to get anywhere.

If that.

Given that we don't exactly have HD videos from 12,000 BC what they're doing is at best making guesses at what might be a few phenotypic features.

Well, the taxpayers pay $400,000 per year for Donald, for a total of 1.6 million.

His friends paid several times that in campaign contributions. So basically, everyone gets what they paid for.

Yes, but you can take any arbitrary direction - for example your own spin axis - and define that as "up" and then measure rotation relative to that and you should still arrive at a 50/50 distribution. Just the sign changes.

Yes, but...

Some careers are possible to enter from the side. Programming, writing, acting, whatever.

But some careers are impossible to enter like this. Medicine and law are the prime examples. You are legally forbidden to work in these fields if you can't show the proper degree. There's a couple others as well. And then there's the glass ceiling, where theoretically you could do a job, but unless you are incredibly exceptional, the people with the degrees will always be preferred.

It's easy to ascribe things to one cause, but that's rarely true.

Yes, there are a lot of people whom you should seriously look at and ask what exactly their career plans were when they decided to do gender studies or whatever.

Yes, the economy is in the dumpster and that obviously means a shortage of job openings.

Yes, Gen Z has a different attitude to work-life-balance than previous generations. (and, frankly speaking, my attitude to work would've been different as well if it had been clear from the start that I'll never be able to afford a house.)

But - studies show that only about half of the students end up in careers directly related to their field of study. There are some obvious lines - you can't be a lawyer without a law degree or a doctor without a degree in medicine - but in most other fields, there are students going on to different careers and workers who never studied it.

So 4 Million - that's the sum total of a bunch of causes, only some of which are within reach of the graduates to influence.

So when you buy or download a software, you expect all the books the coders used to learn with it, as well as everything they looked up on StackOverflow while doing it?

I don't see this as being completely different. In all other fields of life, we buy the final product. We understand that there are machines and workers in a factory producing it, but we don't expect to get those sent along.

In front of me, on the harddrive of my machine.

These things already exist and some of them have been around for quite some time. LM Studio, for example, or Ollama. They're even reasonably easy to use, an interested non-techie could figure it out.

More of them are coming out constantly. Local-only or local-first (i.e. with an optional choice to also query online sources) AIs are already fairly common. Asker needs to use Google before using /.

Of course.

On anything that doesn't really matter at all, you will statistically find a near 50/50 split in opinion.

Just make a coin flip and go ahead. One or two years in the future, all those who wanted the other option will have forgotten about it, because frankly, nobody cares.

This. And it's not new and not specific to India, just more visible on a larger scale.

Many, many years back I had issues with my DSL connection, back when DSL was brand-new and the only reason I had one at home was that the company ordered and paid for it so I could wake up at night and babysit the servers if something went south.

Anyways, after a while I knew their script, and I could answer all their questions before they even asked them.

One night, when I was particularly unhappy about being up, I called them and literally said "Your router with IP xx.xx.xx.xx just crashed. For your questions: Yes, green, yes, yes, no, no. Now connect me to tech support."

It was fun. The kind of humor you laugh about at 3am.

Ten minutes later, some tech guy calls me and tells me they just figured out that their router crashed and they're sending someone out to reboot it right now.

So: You can't change it, it's how large corporations scale. You can have some fun with it, though.

When you are doing something you are really invested in. The typical top-managers' fallacy - assuming everyone else is as motivated as they are, for 1% the paycheck.

I remember reading a few studies indicating that 20-25 hours is the amount of actual productive time the average office worker has, and it doesn't matter what you do, it comes to around that. If it's more relaxed people will do their own stuff, surf the web, etc. and if you do tight controls, they'll take long bathroom breaks or get coffee several times an hour. One way or the other, people find ways to spend the non-productive time. I hear in the current generation, there's a whole trend of looking busy but not actually doing something.

So no, 60 hours is a figure the guy pulled out of his ass, nothing more.