So now they will run waves through the property market by recommending people to buy, then to sell, in 3-6 month intervals, skimming off the market each time?
When the answer is not general but particular - "better" or "worse" can be about many things including entirely non-quantifiable and subjective ones like "moral virtue" - but when it's about economy, it's easy to see how the average of "personal" metrics matches stats: things were going on average very well in the last 10 years for majority of people, excluding a slight spike fuelled by free printed money in the era of covid payments, and a slight depression after when inflation compensated for those - otherwise they were almost uniformly well without much visible change.
But the amount of doom-and-gloom messaging skyrocketed in the period and most people tend to believe the news and think that things suck for everyone else, just they are doing ok personally. And something in the middle for people they can personally observe like their town or district.
Idk what's wrong about it. Fixing the messaging is unlikely because positive messages are not newsworthy and not clickable.
I'm within top 40 Upwork freelancers by lifetime revenue and at one point was #11. Directly and indirectly extracted around $15M there.
It's dead. Noting to look at. It's not AI or interest rates, as it seems, the very dream of "getting rich quick through building a software product being a complete outsider" has waned, and people are no longer trying. Of course, it never worked. But it made money.
Y Combinator founders, and proper startup founders in general are not outsiders. They aren't, and never been, Upwork customers, and in fact every sane VC will reject a startup that uses any sort of outsourcing to build their offering, because they know that not just it doesn't work, can't possibly work, but the very idea of trying it shows that you don't know what you are doing and are thus uninvestable.
So i don't mean people like YC founders (i wouldn't even talk to one if i met them - surely there won't be money to make there). These are mostly, people from different spheres completely who just walked into money for some irrelevant reason and decided to start something online, out of random. For almost all of my clients, mine was their first, and last, software project ever.
The only thing that can objectively reduce waste is well, simplifying access to people's data/surveillance capitalism. This way corps will have a better idea of what people want to wear and at which price they are willing to buy it, and products will be wasted less.
They are making the best decisions based on available information. No one trashes products for fun.
This text looks like it was written by AI. But i have every reason to believe that it wasn't. Is it just me, or many people got into habit of writing in "ChatGPT-style" simply because talking to ChatGPT is how they spend most of their time?
I've noticed this too. It might be a chicken-or-the-egg thing though. I think LLMs learned this sort of "punchy" writing style from the blogs of software developer who blog and from Linkedin posts.
I have had arguments about it with GPT-based Copilot. I had to write a difficult paragraph and did go back and forth with it for advice but used at most a half-sentence from it, GPTZero thinks the paragraph is human written. I’d tell it “if I used that people would say that you wrote it” and it would say that it thinks it writes better than most people.
Because they only got there first time around because of Kennedy's promise after he was shot.
It didn't take a moon landing to win the Space Race - by that point Soviets already exhausted their potential gained by surprise and trophy German tech, and stopped trying.
It didn't solve any scientific or exploration goals because by 1969 it was abundantly clear (unlike in 1961) that there's nothing to do for people in the Solar System - U.S. Mariner and Soviet Venera probes proved that it was sterile and incapable of supporting life. And lunar flights were seen as a precursor and ways to debug tech for future missions to Mars and Venus - that were not to happen.
Progress in computers, automation and sensors turned out to be so much faster than anticipated that by 1969, while it wasn't yet possible, it was clear that tech that will enable same or better scientific results on the moon but without people, was just a few years away - it never happened on the Moon simply because that job was done by Apollo - just at much higher cost and risk.
CCD camera was invented in 1969 and it was the final nail in the coffin of Lunar exploration, making the "Lunar telescope" a totally laughable plan. Just imagine, in 1961 they anticipated people flying there and back to collect photographic plates or film from the automated telescope - which as they presumed, had to be there because stabilisation of attitude in orbit with precision necessary to make astrophotos, was impossible and it had to stand at firm ground! Needless to say, by 1969, it was possible and sensors to replace film existed too, and Hubble Space Telescope project started in 1969 itself.
Manned spaceflight is a waste of resources and only continues to exist because of institutional inertia.
People there are tech savvy, trying to push them into government-sponsored spyware will backfire, as they just won't be using "normal" internet at all soon. Phones are sold with VPNs preinstalled so all apps work even for grannies.
Are these for the purpose of selling to non-Brits right? "Being British is supposed to be classy and surely not associated with Trump as much as being an American"?
That might work, but not for selling to Brits because they expect some sort of a local accent. Universal/unlocalised voice does not sound natural or believable to them.
During an opening scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Dr. Jones is surrounded by hostile Russian soldiers, but he immediately observes that Dr. Irina Spalko [Cate Blanchett] "isn't from around here" and he goes on to describe her unique accent, correctly naming her origin as Eastern Ukrain[ian Soviet Socialist Republic].
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