Part of the “problem” is the toll is too low. It seriously undercuts the the Moroun Family Bridge tolls so the fear is it will attract most of the traffic. Think of the poor billionaire who somehow bought a bridge
the economy was headed in the right direction as a whole, but those are the bottom weren’t seeing it.
Id go even farther than that. Biden started a lot of good things, not just the better economy, but way too much was longer term and no one has an attention span anymore. Too many voters can’t look at a chart and see “lines goes up” or a schedule and see “next decade is mighty fine”
I still find it incomprehensible that any appreciable number of voters chose that guy, or chose him more than once
He started off with decades of poor headlines as a grifter, narcissist, and failed developer ….. did people really believe that stupid “reality” show creates to establish a new image? But then everyone saw what he did the first time around: even if your only knowledge is “reality” tv, why would you repeat that?
Debt is going into completely uncontrollable territory - you think if aoc wins presidency she can do anything?
In a lawful world, she can’t. The president can only propose. The budget, including taxes, is the responsibility of Congress. Blame republican congressmen for the extra trillions in tax cuts to the wealthy. Blame both parties for decades of kicking the can down the road
It’s a strange thing to think about: traditionally the us military is so highly budgetted that we could afford to lose an excessive amount of high priced equipment and ordinance compared to anyone else. If we spend ten times a potential opponent, no problem
But now in a world with low priced drone swarms and almost as low priced third world missiles, the multiplier is thousands, tens of thousands ….. I believe there were aircraft losses so the multiplier might be millions. Even the us military can’t afford a war with those multipliers. And that’s assuming we could build the ordinance fast enough
Even stranger that I haven’t seen this discussed in news media
Just like with cars. If you always have to have the latest and greatest, need to be seen with “the best”, replace your phone frequently then yes leasing is cheaper than buying. This would be stupid but people seem to do this
Yeah, I do worry about that too. LLMs are good about putting together a professional looking document but they also tend to be verbose and with vague wording. I’m on a project now suffering because the design was really not reviewable. Now we’re trying to work on it and it’s really obvious the design was all bs
He’s ancient and in failing health, near death. Yet his narcissism, his greed, his corruption are stronger than ever. What possible use could he have for the billions of dollars he’s defrauding us? ….. but a grifter is going to grift.
I’ve somewhat given up, in that he’s shown a talent for staying beyond the law and has millions of groveling sycophants: he’s unlikely to ever be held accountable for his crimes in his time remaining. But his minions can. His children can. His legions of cult followers can.
When our psychotic breakdown is over, will we have the honesty to hold them criminally liable?
Does it count to teach them ai? I’ve had this guy in India, working for me on and off for a couple years now. He’s really bright and was coming along nicely … then ai hit
His first like 6 months of ai use were horrible. Absolute junk that harmed the code more than made progress. My code reviews were brutal.
But he figured it out. He’s a heavy ai coder but it works. My code reviews rarely find issues anymore. It’s too early to know about maintainability, but his code looks good to me
So this is key here and it might still be up in the air. I’m generally skeptical and up until July rarely considered ai worthwhile. Even when it had good ideas, it could never deliver.
Then in July everything changed. I’m “vibe coding” despite myself, and so far it’s working. The difference is greenfield, common programming languages, common problems, much less code complexity. The long run is where we’ll see if we shoot ourselves, but there’s clearly characteristics where AI has more of a chance to succeed.
Part of the “problem” is the toll is too low. It seriously undercuts the the Moroun Family Bridge tolls so the fear is it will attract most of the traffic. Think of the poor billionaire who somehow bought a bridge