No, it's what matters to people who bought all the stuff that was tariffed.

I don't care what the law is, and neither do all those people.

Given there's a "Windows 11 pre-installed" option available, the answer would be yes.

This looks interesting, and the pricing is high-ish but not absurd IMHO. They offer Intel or AMD processors - I do wish there was an "ARM" option available.

There are a bunch of billionaires, going on trillionaires, working to that goal. If we get to that point money doesn't matter anymore any more than money mattered to the kings.

Basically we are looking at the end of capitalism without socialism replacing it. Instead you will have a hereditary class of kings and queens, and they will have a handful of engineers to keep everything running and a handful of violent thugs to keep the engineers in line and to occasionally exterminate the masses of they become a problem.

I'm aware of that wholesale pricing fucks small businesses, I'm assuming that your business is so much better that you are able to compete without the bulk wholesale advantage.

Whenever I bring up the fundamental problems of capitalism people tell me that it's okay because capitalism is self-correcting. If a business does bad things people will stop patronizing that business because there will be a competitor that does a better job with a better product.

You're actually just kind of proving my point. You are pointing out that it is even harder to compete with large businesses.

So what I'm saying is it's already hard to compete with a large business and now that large business is going to Target you as a potential competitor and get away with it because we don't enforce antitrust law.

If you go tits up because you can't buy them bulk enough to compete that just means you didn't get to the point where they noticed you and crushed you. That doesn't mean they aren't crushing people who get to that point.

Dude...You're literally the one who took personal offense to what I'm saying over a programming language.

No, I pointed out you were being an obnoxious fanboi, and I'm response it appears you are doing your level best to prove I'm correct.

Every point he made about C++ is true. Disagree? Well... Then prove it.

You want me to prove I disagree? I mean I figured it was pretty obvious.

Anyhoo, you'd think a rust fanboi would know better given just how much it borrows from c++. Anyhow...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.johndcook.com%2Fblog...

get a stupid reply.

This is a natural consequence of speaking to you, yeah. You think anything that challenges your worldview deserves a stupid reply because you can't actually think up a sensible one. On the other hand that's also indistinguishable from the replies you clearly think are clever.

I'm not going to take the time to reply to your (or even read) xenophobia. One cannot of course reason someone out of a position they did not train themselves into. Anyhow at least you've not posted any of your weird sex fantasies this time. They are best kept private, I think we both agree.

First yeah we're all going to chime in and say this will backfire.

It doesn't matter if it does. It's a blows up and costs a business some money odds are very good that the savings from wages will more than cover that.

What's worse is because we don't enforce antitrust law if a company goes down to tubes because it relied too heavily on AI it can just buy out any potential competitors and jack up prices on products you need to live and make back all the money.

Second there's basically two possibilities here, either the AI works and they got the fire a bunch of people or the AI doesn't work but they fired them anyway and the survivors have to work harder to keep their jobs.

Remember no antitrust law enforcement so if you get shit canned and try to start a business then you will be targeted and best case scenario you might get a buyout if you are under the radar long enough but more likely they just run you out of business.

Companies don't need good products anymore because they don't have to compete. So there is no floor and they can make things as shitty as they want and if you have a problem with it tough shit.

You could of course just stop consuming all together but at the very least you need food and shelter and medicine and some minimal financial services and transportation. So good luck stopping all consumption.

The point I'm getting at is that fundamental underpinnings of a functional economy have broken down and we refuse to acknowledge that fact.

"The biggest problem with education in the US is the educators. There is no getting past that. Record spending per pupil"

Too bad you know nothing about anything. Educators are buying school supplies because they don't have enough budget to run their classes. If you actually knew any teachers you wouldn't talk this ignorant shit. It's administration and consultants that are eating up all of the funding.

These people are already employed by Meta. They know what to expect... they've been enabling it themselves, after all.

Which explains bsky, what a bugfest.

AI training data was going to be the major problem and sticking point. Previously they could just soak it up for free from the internet but now that the internet is 70% AI slop that's not really going to work.

It does still raise the question of how the name of hell are we going to train AI to do programming tasks when we've replaced most of the programmers. But I guess we will cross that bridge when we come to it. I suspect that over time programming languages will be built AI first and programmer second.

One thing is for sure everything is going to keep getting worse and worse and worse. And we are going to keep blaming the wrong people because that's what we've always done.

Nothing triggers a capitalist douchebag who doesn't care about other people faster than hearing someone say that an economy should work for all its citizens, not only the privileged.

It might be, if demand weren't outstripping supply in most of the world.

As such, that's a truly crap pronouncement.

This is the age of AI-driven scarcity.

You're ignoring duress by society, of which both parties are a part, making it an inseparable party to the exchange.

Internally, wealthy Republicans refer to tariffs as "transfer of money from poor people to us".