It is impossible to overstate the success of the iPhone, but there are so many recent examples where they dipped their toes in only to fail or be left behind (autos, VR, AI, etc).

What will the next 20 years of Apple look like? Just more iPhones?

In the age of private equity takeovers and the MBA-enshitification of pretty much every product and service, Costco appears to be the only retailer that will stand on the side of their members against those forces.

They are playing the long game--which will pay off incredibly well for them as fewer and fewer companies care about customer satisfaction and quality.

But I do wonder what you mean when you say “cruelty” in the context of cattle.

Having lived in/around rural livestock production most of my life, I can tell you that most cattle operations I am familiar with take excellent care of the their animals. Minimizing stress is absolutely a top goal for them.

Pork, on the other hand, is almost always produced in a horrifying, cruel way. Confinement barns are terrible in every sense of the word. Pigs are treated without respect from cradle to grave.

Since the fee went up to $100k, I’m not aware of any companies still sponsoring hires who need a new H1B

I follow your extrapolation in the first part, but this is where you lost me.

Why is the Iran war guaranteed to have long-term net negative consequences? It seems far too early to predict the outcome with any kind of certainty.

I should have been more specific in my comment. Perceptual hashing allowsfor higher similarity scores between similar looking images.

Lots of cool techniques to experiment with. Highly recommend playing around if you’re interested.

Not super tough to pull off. I was experimenting with FAISS a while back and indexed screenshots of the entire Seinfeld series. I was able take an input screenshot (or Seinfeld meme, etc) and pinpoint the specific episode and approx timestamp it was from.

I read that book as well in my early teen years.

That seems unlikely. What is the point of an economy if there is no one who is actually able to consume?

Offshoring is by far the biggest culprit. Plenty of Jr/Mid roles hiring…but not US based.

…except it is. Health insurance is available on a sliding scale based on income and essentially free for most low income people.

But unless I practically apply what I learned, my retention is quite low.