My company just did the same thing. Just layed off 15% of staff because of some bad quarters but is now looking into mergers and acquisitions because they think/know the senile microphone abuser will let tech consolidation run wild.

To be fair they haven’t rolled this out yet, so the best they can do is send these letters.

I liked in his presentation how he mentioned how bad LA traffic was and how it takes hours to cross the city, then didn’t mention how all these robo taxis, if they ever become a thing, would just exacerbate the problem.

“Oh but while you wait in the deadlock traffic you can be on your phone instead of paying attention and stressing out” yeah, but I can also already do that on a bus / train and those actually help to alleviate traffic.

Yeah but this is a “needle in a haystack” problem that chatgpt and AI in general are actually very useful for, ie. Solutions that are hard to find but easy to verify. Issues like this are hard to find as it requires combing through your code , config files and documentation to find the problem, but once you find the solution it either works or it doesn’t.

It is a different level of scale, mastodon has about 1 million users spread over a bunch of instances. Threads has over 200 million users on one instance. also due to the network nature of social media the amount of connections and messages sent through those connections can scale exponentially with the amount of users.

These people aren’t completely blameless. Home owners as a class have a vested interest in seeing their property values go up and will take actions to see that happen. This includes not only improvements on the property but also supporting policies to prevent high density affordable housing, school desegregation and public transit. The suburban sprawl and housing shortage were currently suffering through are a direct result of those policies. The real estate wealth of boomers was built off the exclusion of the lower classes and letting them off the hook and just blaming corporations will make us overlook the next generation who inherit these houses and will try to keep the same exclusionary policies.

Just how much of real estate is owned by corporate entities? Looks like they own 3.8% of single family homes, probably a larger percent of apartments but still probably under 10% as most of them are owned by “mom and pop” operations. Thats not enough to cause the housing problems we currently have. We need to recognize housing as an investment causes a perverse incentive to restrict supply in anyone, not just greedy corporations and to lower the cost of housing will require those people using it as an investment to lose money.

The effect it has on housing supply is hard to figure out since there are so many other confounding factors.

It does have a more direct positive effect against displacement and evictions.

So it’s a tradeoff between housing stability on one hand and possibly lower rents for new residents and people moving.

So if your average renter is a family who is going to stay in one place for 20 years while they raise there kids then rent control is good. If your average renter is a 20 something moving around the city every couple years then it may negatively impact them.

Also in the Caribbean it was seen as more economical to work the slaves to death and then import new ones. The conditions on those plantations made south Carolina look like Disney land and the average life expectancy was only a couple years.

In the American south there was more emphasis on keeping the slaves alive and “breeding” them to get more slaves instead of importing more.

This is also why the African diaspora population is a bit less in the Caribbean then in America even though way more Africans were brought into the Caribbean, most of them died before they could have children.

I know rural western states in the u.s. like Montana gave women the right to vote early since there gender ratios was heavily male and they wanted to attract more women to the state. Australia was probably in a similar frontier stage at that point so I wonder what there gender ratios were then.