Not exactly - it's a growing company, it meant fewer new people need to be hired in the coming year, nobody was actually let go.

A lot of what we see being done with AI is relatively useless. But AI itself has value. I have implemented AI systems where I work, freeing up a number of admin employees who would otherwise have doing been work that is now handled by AI. And speeding up those processes. So in a real sense, AI has delivered efficiencies to my employer. But you're right, we're not deploying chatbots or many of the things that are commonly used to demonstrate AI. I fully expect the AI hype-cycle to continue until it's used only where it delivers benefits.

There's some validity to that, but it applies even more so to a company that *offers* a lifetime price guarantee.

That's logical, but an employee can't generally just demand higher pay and get it.

More likely, in China people will stop entering the tech industries if they're seen as bad places to be working. This builds up a problem for the future for China - it'll take a few years, but China will experience a shortage of skilled tech workers.

It goes both ways - at least where I live.

A married couple is to some extent considered a single economic unit (to use a dehumanising term). On the one hand they can share their tax credits/exemptions, to reduce the taxes they pay. On the other hand their combined incomes are considered when evaluating state benefits etc. If one of the pair are out of work, they don't automatically qualify for state benefits if the other has a good income.

I guess if we want to treat them as individuals we should allow a stay-at-home mother to claim benefits even if the husband is in a very well paid job. It would get very expensive for the government finances.

The argument that there is no "real" free will isn't new. That we are essentially machinery running software. The fact that we can somewhat predict the behaviour and responses of those close to us does somewhat validate that.

But it doesn't mean that reward and punishment are useless or unfair. Both simply provide additional inputs to the algorithm running in our heads that guides our behaviour. If you want to stop me attacking your family and taking your stuff, does it really matter whether or not I really have free will? If the presence of punishment deters me, isn't that good enough?

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I'm not from USA and don't know the terrain, but I assume if it crashed into the ground it'd be fairly easy to find. There'd be some smoke or something. TFA mentions lakes, so presumably it's at the bottom of one of them. That would likely make it difficult to locate.

..cancers. I think the confusion is elementary schools don't teach about the difference between DNA and RNA. That's really a shame for the less well educated.

Thank you Linux, Debian, and Linux for freeing me from the Microsoft upgrade treadmill.

...attract immigrants. It was only a matter of time before China, and eventually India, faced population decline. History shows that population growth leads to GDP growth. I'm not aware of many seeking to immigrate to China.

The purpose of GPS is to track and locate things. What else would it be used for?

Part B is the standard 80/20 most of us grew up with. Yes, there are advantage plans that can help pay expenses not covered. I see that as a good thing.

Are you talking about the wealthy executives of fast food companies who sweat over their desks daily figuring out how to sell more grease laden foods?

There is absolutely no reason why anybody in the richest nation on Earth should be without healthcare or go hungry.