That’s not what you said though.

Where do you feel I’ve deviated from this point exactly?

Keep in mind that this is the question at the top of this particular thread we are responding to:

So you believe that customers of a company should have a say how the staff uses their wages?

To which loke responded, among other things:

Morally? Yes.

To which I responded what you then replied to.

I’m not quite sure where you see space for interpretation, but I feel i’ve been pretty solid with my point.

Are you contending unless otherwise specified, people should be mandated to continue spending money with companies?

No. I’m just of the opinion that I’m in no way obliged to disclose to you what I spend my money on, just because I work somewhere you spend money on.

What exactly is the allowed reasons for doing or not doing business with people?

Anything, including having no reason at all, obviously.

Morally? Yes.

How do you figure? I’d argue the opposite and state morally it’s quite litterally nobody’s business what any private person spends their money on. Especially when you’re talking about people outside the c-suite.

It’s also the only thing that is remotely managable. Otherwise, where does that crap start and end?

We are talking about some nationalist populists now (and more than “a donation”), but what about a membership of a more moderate political party? Or say your customer base for any reason is in large part Vegan, should you tell your employee’s to stop buying meat? Should they stop taking money from the non-vegan customers? How is anyone going to navigate this?

I have no real data on whether it’s true or not or what “better driver” even means but there’s some differences in car life i’m sure have some kind of an effect.

Driver’s license aquisition here is more involved and guided. At least in the Netherlands things like having a family member teach you drive for example is not a thing. You have to take out classes with a professional driving school in a car fitted with dual pedals and a professional instructor. Most people take 35 to 45 of those lessons to pass the practical test, which is also fairly ruthless afaik.

There’s also way less space and lots of traffic on fairly skinny roads, lots of different kinds of traffic too like way more pedestrians, cyclists swirving around all over the place, and public transport with different rules around things like right of way (particularly trams). US likes big wide roads, laid out in grids, with not really all that much in terms of other variables to take into account outside of other motorists due to the overwhelming bias towards car ownership.

Car driving is way more of a optional choice here. Especially in the west side of the country. Lots of people her are fine not having a driver’s license at all due to public transport covering all their needs.

Although i’m sure in terms of casualties there’s also other stuff that is relevant. Some of those pickup trucks blew over to here as of late and I think it’s wild something with such a limited visibility is legal. Especially here. I’m a big guy but the grille on one of those RAM truck is chest height for me, which in case of a head on collision means i’ll likely end up under it instead of on top of it.

Assuming AI is really going to take these jobs full stop, something else needs to happen outside of people reschooling themselves for blue collar work.

I understand there might be a temporary uptick in required blue collar work as we prepare infrastructure to handle this bullshit but we definitely don’t need everybody that’s currently doing any kind of office work to be an pixie or pipe wrangler.

There are no AI safe jobs in this context. There are only jobs AI can’t do yet. But they aren’t safe. The remaining people will flood whatever job market is left if something doesn’t change and then people absolutely won’t be making a 100k with no degree. Besides, if AI is really going to take most of the white collar jobs it’s only a matter of time before those robots get good enough to take blue collar jobs too.

Also by telling everybody what to do (become a plumber or electrician in this case) you’re creating the same problem in the long term we have now with all the people that were told becoming a developer was the future and now find themselves with a crippling debt, meager income, and bleak prospects in the job market.

“We need to create new social norms,” Huang said in an interview. “I would advocate that everybody use AI. Just go engage it.”

“Guy who sells shovels wants us to dig holes.”

In any sane country receipt price is what you get back if the issue cant be solved, price matching in reverse isnt a thing.

Samsung allegedly not “being able” to resolve the issue is doing a lot of heavy lifting here as there drives are very much still being actively sold and, in fact, in stock.

Should samsung eat the cost of issuing a new disk for goodwill?

Samsung needs to honor their warranty by replacing a defective product with a functioning product.

And what cost would they be eating? They make products and cover these product under warranty. Replacing a percentage of these should have already been factored into the price. These drives are expensive to us now due to shortages, not because Samsung has suddenly incurred massive additional costs in fabricating them. They just make more money sending them elsewhere.

They say that in a paragraph where they attempt to limit their liability, not in the part where they inform you of their actual warranty policy.

But I guess we’ll find out in time where this ship ultimately runs onto land.

This is obviously more about dust Louis is kicking up than the claim itself.

But samsung has so much money that it is splashing up against the baseboards in their offices. There really is no reason for them to nickel and dime their customers like this, especially not where they are just straight up morally obliged to replace the product.

I sincerely hope this affects them more than it would’ve just honoring these warranty claims like they should in the first place.

I don’t think they will, because at some point we’ll return to the point where SSD’s just get cheaper over time and then Samsung has no interest in refunding you the full amount. This warranty is policy is this way exactly because drives used to lose value pretty quickly.

That seems quite damning to me. We ought to make sure this page is archived, in case the’ll try a gaslight us.

Edit: It is.

It also draws a bunch of negative attention to Samsung for this scummy move. Ideally more media pick this up.

That samsung doesn’t have a replacement drive in stock is a blatant lie. They just want to sell him one for the inflated price.

They never used to give you full refunds when these drives lost value over time. And if they did it wasn’t what you paid origionally. Now their price is ballooned and suddenly they are eager to do so.

It’s extremely clear what Samsung is doing here.

Edit/Addendum that i take no credit for:

Evidently it’s against their own warranty terms: https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/warranty/

In the event Samsung determines, in its sole discretion, that the Product suffers from defects in material or workmanship and does not substantially conform to the published specifications under normal use, for as long as You own the Product and during the limited warranty period, and subject to the conditions and exceptions stated in this Agreement, Samsung will, at its option, either: (1) repair or replace the Product with new or refurbished Product of equal or greater capacity and functionality; or (2) refund the then current market value of the Product at the time the warranty claim is made to Samsung if Samsung is unable to repair or replace the Product.

Removing all the emotion from this, the specific problem with these AI overviews is how Google presents them to you.

Everybody with some sense knows AI’s can excrete total hogwash and it’s answers need to be fact checked down to the most minute detail. Some people take what they get from AI’s as gospel anyway, but that is a them problem.

But Google a: calls these summaries, and b: presents them as the top search result. Both of these things come with a greater than normal degree of implied factuality.

Someone techincally minded will know it’s still AI an subject to the same scrutiny but the population at large simply does not, because they entered a search query in a google search box and aren’t willingly and deliberately talking to an AI.

Yeah, thanks for the tip. I’m at least in passing aware of these solutions, but my problems aren’t just concentrated around not owning a roof.

I also have detached garden house in my yard that I could technically quite easily have 4 or 6 solar panels on, but the problem I have at yard level is that I only have sun to where that garden house is till maybe 3pm on ideal days before it disappears behind the apartment building I live in. Any balcony attached panels would stop receiving direct sun after 1pm or so.

And even the sun we do have is greatly handicapped by copious amounts of surrounding vegetation. To the point I can’t even really get my lawn to grow properly.

It’s a lovely yard because it’s kind of like having private park in the middle of a big (for my country’s standards) city and because we are surrounded by big buildings it’s basicly also very quiet, but that does ofcourse come with it’s limitations.

All that logic is still a choice though. You could also just instruct the user to not press the button unless they’re inhaling and just actually have it be an on and of button. That’s how vapes used to work. Worst thing that could happen there is that you burn the wick, which is only a problem because it’s not serviceable.

What happened to vaping?

I specifically remember refillable vaping was exactly what you had when you vaped. You had the battery unit or a “mod” as it was called, on top of that you screwed a tank that had the coils, cotton and liquid, all that shit could be individually replaced and everybody had their own frankensteins combination of mod tank and other peripherals they liked to use.

Why did that stop being a thing in favor of these absurdly wasteful disposable pens?

There also has already been someone that made a home battery from batteries harvested from disposable vapes.

It is absolutely insane that these “disposable” vapes are legal.

It is wild to me that this wasen’t handled elsewhere to begin with. There is no way to at least somewhat guarantee a fair process with this massive potential for conflict of interest.

A road in of itself is definitely a public interest…

Where they should and should not be built is another discussion.

Serving the public interest is not already a prerequisite? Surely gov’t cannot arbitratily pull this card?

I might be talking out of my ass but i’m pretty sure using imminent domain is not only needed for matters of public interest but specifically needs to be backed by it when you want to use it.