It seems to me like they need to massively improve Homekit adoption first into far more different types of devices. That's when Siri becomes useful to me personally.
I want to at least be able to say "Hey Siri, I'm heading home now", and my heating turns on so it's warm when I get back, my lights turn on 2 minutes before I arrive, any robot cleaning to have finished, oven turns on 5 minutes before I arrive so it's ready to have something thrown in it, my indoor plants are automatically watered so they don't die etc. etc.
Or how about "By the way, it's your best friend's daughter's 18th birthday in 10 days time, would you like me to find some options?"
Start with removing chores and friction from my life. If I had a human personal assistant that's what they'd be doing.
So yes the geniuses early retiring problem is a thing, but there could be a way of managing this IF the government wasn't useless - secure phantom options.
The idea would be that you wouldn't own the actual shares but a fully legal option that you can cash out at a fixed age and would be legally protected from bankruptcy etc.
So the idea would be you could cash out say up to £1m (enough to buy a property) before the age of 30, another £1m before the age of 40, another £5m at 50, and then all of it at 60.
You'd have skilled people remain in the workforce for longer but wouldn't overstay into their pensioner years.
The dollar, energy and bandwidth savings possible globally from getting this right means it should be a UN/ISO level commitment to get it right, standardised and committed to.
I have a friend who works in the civil service. He's a devout socialist.
His bosses boss, who runs a huge department gathered all his staff into a room and said "You can't be fired" to the staff.
My friend has said it's almost impossible to motivate people because there's zero repercussions. They're supposed to come into the office a few times a month, some of them never do and nothing can be done about it.
My friend has targets to meet and he won't be able to because of his reports not caring. He's getting anxious and even me saying "they did say you can't be fired" doesn't help.
Oh and they're spending nearly £1m with a supplier who the boss knows to build a component you can buy off the shelf for around £7500, and the supplier hasn't even built anything for nearly £1m in 18 months. It will probably be mothballed.
My friend is massively disappointed that the bureaucracy is failing at-risk members of society.
Cummings is right. He may not be a nice person, but he's right.
With AI and robotics killing off huge amounts of entry level jobs in the next 5 years, the number of young men who are angry is going to absolutely explode.
Western countries are going to reap what they are sowing.
Feel free to copy and paste this question into your LLM of choice:
"What has happened throughout history to countries with lots of young men who don't have work or money?"
He's too nice to call out the real problem, which is hubris.
Intel got arrogant, remained arrogant and despite getting absolutely pummelled by competitors on share price value, believes it is special.
Intel needs to realise it's not going to catch up TSMC and so should focus on cannibalising all other competitors and moving into spaces where TSMC doesn't operate. It's going to be a lower margin game from now on but Intel can survive. Oh and be the nicest folks in town, not the shit on the people we need like Gelsinger did.
Intel is in effect a Will Ferrell movie character. Character is arrogant, becomes arrogant and stupid in defiance, and potentially finally sees the error of its ways and grows a bit.
So I worked at LMAX during 2009-2011 when Martin Thompson, Dave Farley, Mike Barker, Chris Smith and Danny Yates worked on the Disruptor. It was in use in 2010 inside LMAX.
The heritage of Martin and Dave was video games rather than finance and they had the most input into it.
From a friend who worked in games, the general idea behind the disruptor had been in use in games for a while.
I've just installed and configured KDE Neon Plasma 6 and I'm really liking it a lot. Feels closer to Windows than my other Ubuntu and Xubuntu installs.
Dutch directness, and as a consequence rudeness, is legendary. They'd be world champions at it. Add in a fair amount of arrogance and you've got a reasonable chance of being on the end of what most would describe as them being rude.
Here's an example, Two middle aged British couples go to a bar in Amsterdam, and quietly sit at a table in the corner having a few drinks. The bar then becomes a Karaoke bar filled with student aged locals who are very raucous, spilling drinks etc. At the end of the night, one of the men from one of the couples goes to the bar and gives the barman a tip equal to about 20% of that tables spend. The barman then proceeds to tell the man "I dislike British women". The Dutch barman thought that was acceptable and that there would be no recourse. If that were said in many parts of the UK there's a chance the barman would have a pint glass thrown at his head for saying such a rude and out of nowhere thing.
As a Brit who has been to many, many European countries, I can say there's only really two countries that are really different and that's France and The Netherlands. Neither of their general population really feels any obligation to be courteous or polite to foreigners. The locals from every other European country I've been to have been polite/not rude as a bare minimum.
I currently pay for Pocket but will be moving away from it because I can't stand that the Mozilla CEO is running the place like her own private fiefdom/piggy bank. A 23% pay rise is absolutely nuts considering the performance.
I genuinely think that Mozilla will have to go out of business before she will step down.
There's a hint of red trouser brigade in many of these pubs. Some are beautiful pubs and worth seeing for that but plenty on this list are meh.
The Jolly Gardeners for example is now a pretty who cares gastropub when it used to be called Zeitgeist about 5 years ago and was, by miles, the best German pub in London - obscure regional German beers on draft, genuine German food made and served by Germans, all Bundesliga matches and filled with actual Germans. It's not even the best pub (which also appeared in a movie) on that street.
I want to at least be able to say "Hey Siri, I'm heading home now", and my heating turns on so it's warm when I get back, my lights turn on 2 minutes before I arrive, any robot cleaning to have finished, oven turns on 5 minutes before I arrive so it's ready to have something thrown in it, my indoor plants are automatically watered so they don't die etc. etc.
Or how about "By the way, it's your best friend's daughter's 18th birthday in 10 days time, would you like me to find some options?"
Start with removing chores and friction from my life. If I had a human personal assistant that's what they'd be doing.