It's aggressive but true. Spam traffic exceeded real email back in 2003. He's not even in the right DECADE to declare a first for non-human traffic. It's pure marketing BS that is only remotely true if you accept the conditions he goes to lengths to hide.
Misleading headline statement, no clarifying statements later that is restricted to HTTP traffic, graphs chosen to support the misleading message. Putting out the truth behind an asterisk isn't being honest.
I'm work-friends with one of the project leads on Portal, and I felt terrible for him when Portal launched. It was right after all the Cambridge Analytica stuff that gave Facebook a massive privacy-blackeye. I said, "I think it's a great product but I think this is the worst time for Facebook to launch a product that sits in your house with a mic and a camera." On top, it was a bulkier, less flexible, non-portable version of Facetime/Zoom/video chat on your cell phone or tablet. Never understood the drive behind it because it was an OBVIOUS failure right from the get go.
> Beyond our lifetimes people will live to 125 quite steadily and with great mobility
Possibly, but it'll take a lot of bioengineering. It looks like our metabolic processes really tap out at 120, so we'll need some way to maintain better biological condition body-wide at earlier ages so we're "younger" for longer. Definitely possible though, just hard.
Irrational exuberance rarely transitions to a rational drawn down. The minute the first selfish-actor flood-liquidates, everyone else will too. That's now runs work.
In my opinion the amount of money poured into these companies is the definition of irrational exuberance. And even if you want to call it dread, once they start to deflate people will panic and flee.
Hmm. With respect, I disagree. When the term was first coined, the broader context was "Main St" (ie, retail) investors acting with apparently excessive optimism. Whereas the unfathomable sums being poured into AI by "Wall St" arguably stem from profound but simple greed, a scheme in which the uber-rich are forcing AI and the concomitant bubble risk down the throats of the general public. "Exuberance" has a significantly positive connotation, which in this case I find completely absent.
That's not the problem, the problem is when they take it out of these companies, where it goes after that is irrelevant. Once the exodus starts prices will plummet and lots of people will lose a lot of value.
> "Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head."
While this is factual, the world (and humans) haven't functioned this way since ... ever? It doesn't matter what you think logic is, if the people who are providing the services (teacher, worker, doctor, etc..) are illogical and you need these services from these people.
I see both sides, having a removable dock-cable is nice but then you run the risk of users using low-spec cables that don't work with the dock, and people blame the dock.
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