"Being valued" is another meaningless speculative bubble. What income did that company produce?

They probably are not broadly lying about AI replacement being the main factor. Turns out... Amazon runs AWS for businesses... and also Amazon.com the online retail megastore and logistics service. Every other business is laying people off? Less B2B AWS demand. Everyone is now unemployed? Less consumer demand, downsize all aspects of Amazon.com storefront and logistics. ... I'd actually argue that any serious modern economist should be paying attention to AWS and other enterprise level, scalable server solutions... ... That's a leading indicator of at this point, of broad economic conditions. If AWS and similar departments at similar companies... stop expanding so much, when the rest of the economy seems to be doing ok? Yeah, that means growth in demand for basically core business software infrastructure is stalling, and it'll take 6 to 18 months to filter through to the rest of the economy and become apparent in other metrics.

My mother using something similar to keep track of her passwords for everything. While I prefer a password manager like Bitwarden or Keepass. I would rather her use a note book like this over something like Google or Apples password managers. Or even worse, the same password for everything.

Slowing you down is the main benefit! It helps you to keep more brain time on solving the actual problem, and less on boring syntax crap. Of course, then it gets the syntax crap wrong and you need to waste a lot of time fixing it.

it's less likely that local law enforcement can spy on my communications. Most developed nations at this point have some sort of data-sharing treaty. So some other country not subject to local laws spies on you, then just shares that information with your local country, and vise-versa, and voila everyone on the planet has just skirted any and all consumer privacy protections.

I keep thinking about some of RPs I've done in my life. Hot, vile, smutty text based RPs. I think about them and wonder if their will ever be a time when those words would be considered illegal and I would be arrested for posting them. This doesn't just protect minors. It tags deviance. Some of you may know the darker corners of Reddit. Imagine if an AI flagged your subs. The delete-rebuild cycle doesn't work anymore. Reddit will always know. And if the law asks for suspects for something fictional they will be able to point to all the users of those dark corners. We are moving into a future where privacy doesn't matter and I fear what that means for the kinky among us.

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