I thought China wanted more people who could read and write code?

Nobody codes in Mandarin! No, not even Chinese people.

They code in English and for a reason! It's not a great or reassuring reason, but it's a logical one: English doesn't have any accent marks and a simple, 26-character alphabet. This means the meaning of code can be understood by a compiler or interpreter without having to deal with encodings or enormous lookup tables to determine if a character is valid for say, an assignment (e.g. foo = 1).

I've met developers that tried coding in their native languages using Python, which is one of the few languages that actually supports using non-latin Unicode characters and even right-to-left writing. They all say the same thing: It sucks and it's not worth the trouble.

I’ve heard from copywriters who now fear losing their apartments, one who turned to sex work,

One of these jobs is not like the others!

Yes. Please give us all more reasons why it's unrealistic to automate Windows which already costs too much per server/desktop.

Hasn't anyone taught you how to download more?

These dudes could do pushups without using their arms.

Are they only going through half the books or something?

What a childish thing.

I still have the proprietary cable that lets you hook up a 1992-ish Sony Handycam to a TV with RCA inputs.

I know exactly where it is in my attic: Under the S video cables, an original FireWire cable, and the cable that lets you hook up two Atari Lynx portable consoles together in order to play Warbirds against each other in real time.

The Motion Picture Association (MPA), the Hollywood trade association, accused ByteDance of “unauthorised use of US copyrighted works on a massive scale”.

ByteDance: "Yeah, so? Not everything needs authorization. We do not need authorization to say that you suck."

We must never forget that the MPAA and RIAA are villain organizations. They do not serve the interests of consumers. They have been enemies of the Internet at large since the Internet.

As much as I hate AI slop, the MPAA deserves zero sympathy.

"Shh! The dragon will come!"

If only they would actually spend it on things that benefitted the economy instead of:

• Buying land/houses
• Buying successful businesses in order to loot them (typical Private Equity moves)
• Lobbying the government to cut their taxes and reducing social safety nets

I firmly believe that a big reason why wealth is consolidating so quickly is because there's not much for the rich to spend their money on these days. It used to cost a fortune to care for a great big mansion and the surrounding grounds (and you'd have a local economy built on that). These days, it's not even a rounding error in their monthly income from interest and dividends and you don't even need to hire very many people.

There used to be actual luxury services the rich needed to pay for if they wanted to appear better off than the riffraff. Now the common man has access to all those luxuries and more.

Once you've got a couple private jets and a yacht (that you never spend any time on), what the fuck do you need all that money for‽ Even they don't know what to do with it!

Larry Ellison—the original tech villain billionaire—bought a huge private island in Hawaii. He's never there. It just... Sits there. With a small staff and places for his yachts. It's like he wants to go down in history as one of the biggest, greedy scumbags of all time.

[waves hand] It's fine. Just have to 3D print the new body and a regulation that requires everyone take a body of the opposite sex. That way trans people can get the right body and the rich can gain some empathy for trans people real fast.