Yup, from the first availability till today, no shenanigans.

Don’t discount the other autos lobbyists. Some have invested heavily in new factories being built and have many more workers in the US combined. Not to mention they can keep selling gas guzzlers till we burn the planet.

Absolutely not.

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I’m trying not to accelerationist but this clown car is getting pretty fast.

Every time I hear a junior developer say we should rewrite something they have made 0.1 effort understanding, I thank the JS world for not giving a generation or two of developers a well thought out application development framework.

You lost me at shitting on legacy code. My brother in Tux, we don’t rewrite code willy-nilly in the FOSS world either and for a good reason. New code always means new bugs. A shit ton of the underlying code in your Linux OS was written one or more decades ago.

This is because employees in South Korea can “only” work a maximum of 52 hours per week, including twelve hours of overtime. As a result, employees often have to leave work and go home even when important tasks have not yet been completed. For this reason, key employees of the Exynos team are reported to have worked unpaid overtime more and more frequently over the past few years, with the extra hours going unrecorded.

Why is SK’s birth rate in the shitter.

We’ll know if we hear any Big Ag name being raided.

Given everything we’ve seen over theast little while, including the process of non-profits getting taken over by their VC funded subsidiaries; that difference you see is almost certainly a matter of being at a different point in their respective profit timelines.

The author explains in the thread and has links to further info.

Bluesky funding

Don’t forget they’re just another for-profit corporation. They might be selling great chips for cheaper but that’s still just a temporary side effect of their primary purpose - making the line go up.

- A multi-decade AMD customer

At the end of the day the central bank is always dependent on the government. Sometimes at an arms length, other times at a finger length. The government controls the length and gives the authority to issue currency and provides the enforcement needed to ensure it’s one of the few issuers. So it might be more about government competency and its checks and balances.

If they put money supply firmly under the government’s direction, that would eliminate the “technically” argument against MMT that the Fed is independent. Which of course it practically isn’t and these fuckers are going to prove it. If we ever get a worker-friendly government again, they’ll be able to reuse this to pursue a job guarantee program.

Jesus fucking Christ. This should be the top comment people read.

Incredible.

Packing the SCOTUS might have helped with that.

Slash Social Security, add EV subsidies, make them so that only Tesla qualifies in practice.

I find the intermediary classification a bit unconvincing and perhaps unintentionally misleading. It sounds like a nice framework to look at the world and it does describe the particular domain alright and it allows for drawing useful conclusions. Unfortunately solving the problems it highlights would produce marginal gains because I think intermediaries as described are just a special case of something more general. Firms of any kind are acting as intermediaries in the exchange of the products of people’s labor. The effects are all the same, these intermediaries make the exchange easier at the expense of keeping some of the labor products from one end or the other, but usually both. It seems to me that the problem of the platform intermediaries power is just a special case of the power of firms over labor. Which really reduces to the problem of the power of capital over labor. If we somehow solve the platform intermediaries problem, we leave the general problem unsolved. And then if we don’t think in terms of the general problem, we can’t even solve the special problem because the tools needed are controlled by capital. That is the lawmakers who could change the law are paid by the powerful intermediaries (firms) and not by the people on either end of the intermediaries. If we hope to ever solve any of this I think we have to look at the world through the general lens and focus on ways to reduce the amount of capital accumulated by firms from people’s labor. Fortunately there are well known solutions for that and they’re actionable for most people.