jlarocco

That had to do more with competition for workers than it did business owners wanting to share productivity gains with them.

Nowadays there are plenty of people, so wages haven't risen to keep up.

1970s? More like the 1800s with the industrial revolution. Workers have almost never seen increased pay from more efficient production - it's the business owners and investors who benefit every time.

People can argue that the workers benefit from buying cheaper stuff, but that's on the other side of the equation.

FWIW, there are knock-off brands on Amazon selling collections of assorted Technic pieces for quite a bit cheaper than Lego. The colors are off, but the quality is pretty good.

I recently got nostalgic and checked Amazon for some Technic Lego sets to tinker with as an adult.

I feel bad saying it after growing up with Lego, but I ended up going with two collections of assorted pieces by some knock-off brands. The Lego sets are much more expensive and almost all of them have obnoxious branding tie-ins. Some of the Technic sets looked kind of dumbed down compared to what I remember as a kid, too.

The generic parts have been fine so far. Other than off colors and no embossed "Lego" logo, I can't really tell the difference. There are no instructions or pre-decided models to build, but making stuff up was always the best part.

IME the diferent components of Azure vary quite a bit. Some of them are great, others are pretty inconvenient or weirdly designed. I personally feel the web UI is terrible. I like that the APIs follow consistent rules and seem to follow good practices across the board. The documentation is hit or miss, kind of like the components themselves.

Honestly that's kind of been my experience with all of the cloud providers I've had to work with.

> It's convenient enough.

It doesn't sound like it.

I thought everybody knew this was a problem. Scrapers vacuum up data but don't have any way tell what's true or false.

It's interesting to have a specific case where obviously false data is being spread, but there's nearly an infinite number of more subtle variations around.

We're talking about the dorm room project of a rich kid who stole the idea from his friends and thinks his users are "dumb f**s".

There's really no reason to expect anything from Meta except for it to do what's best for Zuckerburg.

"Assume people can see everything you post on the internet" still applies when using AI. It's not as newsworthy when you put it that way.

> Do you actually enjoy the smoke in your mouth, burning your eyes and lungs?

TBH I just didn't have those sensations. People wouldn't get hooked if it felt terrible.

My sister still smokes, and every now and then I'll have a few hits of one of hers, and it's great. No doubt I could get hooked again if I wasn't careful.

The silver lining is there's a whole boatload of drugs I never tried (and never will) because I know first hand how easy it is to get addicted.

As a former smoker (I started and quit twice), I strongly disagree that "Smoking tobacco is an unpleasant sensation."

It's terrible for your health, it's "burning money", it literally makes you stink, it makes you winded walking up stairs, and is generally terrible.

But the little head rush you get starting the day with a coffee and a cigarette feels great.

I don't know... AOL chat on a 56k modem (IMO) worked better than Teams and Slack and had most of the features.