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New comment by heathrow83829 in "Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost"

heathrow83829 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:21:00 +0000

universal health care can be offered even in 3rd world countries but they're really smart about keeping costs low. they drastically cut the costs of medical service by just offering one or two generic drugs bbought in bulk from china and india rather than all those custom expensive drugs that do the same thing. it does the same thing but at a much lower cost

New comment by heathrow83829 in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

heathrow83829 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:38:23 +0000

the AI bros would counterargue and say that with all the increased productivity, it will just open up more opportunities and thus more jobs. But, i don't think we're seeing that. Net jobs seems to be going down.

New comment by heathrow83829 in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

heathrow83829 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:49:48 +0000

at the scale that google is at, it doesn't make an ounce of sense to hold a company liable for a potential mistruth. what if there's a 1/1000 chance of some error, then the company could be sued millions of times per day.

down vote all you want, but I firmly believe this is an example where the user needs to use some judgement on the information they receive and have some critical thinking skills. google would be right to remove all AI results from germany.

New comment by heathrow83829 in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

heathrow83829 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:03:56 +0000

yeah, staggering. it's utterly amazing how much people care about gas prices. i can't wrap my mind around it. I mean, would people really rather be out on the street rather than get an EV or god forbid a hybrid?

New comment by heathrow83829 in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

heathrow83829 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:44:34 +0000

shelter isn't just a cherry picked item. It's by an far the largest spending category, that and healthcare. I couldn't care less about all the other categories, personally.

New comment by heathrow83829 in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

heathrow83829 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:46:15 +0000

Your own site shows there's very very little demand for entry level SWE which mirrors all the other data we've seen.

BTW, cool site!

New comment by heathrow83829 in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

heathrow83829 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:41:54 +0000

be careful with "real" hourly earnings. if they're using the CPI then it can be very misleading. One need only compare nominal wages vs nominal rents per square foot for the last 50 years to see that actual wages have dropped by 30% and yet the "real" hourly average wage calculated via the CPI is flat, falsly implying that actual wages have not dropped.

New comment by heathrow83829 in "The desperation of NYTimes"

heathrow83829 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:09:09 +0000

NYTimes and the big media papers in general seem to have this entitled arrogance. Like they feel entitled to have an audience or something.

I've noticed similar predatory behavior from car and driver magazine. they would send me a bill marked "overdue" even though I never reknewed my subscription. they would harass me repeatedly over and over saying that I owed them money. It's fraudulent, and I will never subscribe to any print media or media subscriptions again!

New comment by heathrow83829 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

heathrow83829 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:16:04 +0000

Well, usually they would never tell the person the real reason for the firing or layoff anyways. there's no benefit for them to tell you, it just increases liability.

New comment by heathrow83829 in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

heathrow83829 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:37:43 +0000

fb doesn't actually "sell your data", they use for ad targetting and even then, the ad targetting is waaayyy off, in my experience. they're hardly getting any use out of it for targetting me.

New comment by heathrow83829 in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

heathrow83829 — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:28:08 +0000

i think it's more about cutting costs. Usually, cutting costs when there is opportunity to do so is a lot easier than growing revenue.

New comment by heathrow83829 in "Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'"

heathrow83829 — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:52:44 +0000

Didn't google say that AI had increased their company's productivity by 10%? if that's the case, then how can they justify spending 50% to 100% of wages on it?

New comment by heathrow83829 in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

heathrow83829 — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:03:12 +0000

"Deal with it" is the response these CEOs give.

Well, don't be surprised when society starts to regulate or even outright ban AI and data centers. Companies will need to "deal with that".

New comment by heathrow83829 in "Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car"

heathrow83829 — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:31:40 +0000

flat rate taxes are never fair. It should be based on a per use basis. either have a tire tax or some other per mile use tax.

New comment by heathrow83829 in "'You can hear me now or pay me later' Music exec tells graduates booing AI"

heathrow83829 — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:09:03 +0000

We've seen this before. google ceo also met with boos about AI at a commencement.

It's simple: AI threatens jobs/careers and paychecks. And, we've built an entire society that requires you to have a paycheck just to live. So, of course people are going to boo AI.

New comment by heathrow83829 in "I want to live like Costco people"

heathrow83829 — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:19:43 +0000

the biggest problem with white rice is the lack of fiber, the somewhat high glycemic index, and it has the same problem all processed grains have: lacking potassium, iron and magnesium. these days though white rice and other processed grains all come with added b-vitamins (before that started at the turn of the century, there were massive b-vitamin deficiencies popping up everywhere). white rice has less protein than most grains but at 9% of calories, that's still not bad though some variety wouldn't hurt.

don't get me wrong, white rice isn't the worst thing in your diet but i think it's great to diversify with some whole grains and lots of beans (a real superfood), many of which can be had for 2$ to 3$ per 2k calories.

New comment by heathrow83829 in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

heathrow83829 — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:02:28 +0000

the difficulty of bringing produce to market is reflected in the cost structure. 90% of a food dollar goes towards all the efforts required to get food to the customer (transportation, packaging, warehousing, marketing, retail, etc).

this is why I think the solution is to have people grow their own fruits in their own backyards and front yards. customers will save a huge amount of money and it's better for the environment too.

New comment by heathrow83829 in "Heat pump sales rise across Europe"

heathrow83829 — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:15:56 +0000

water softeners in general are pretty bad. they're not great for your health, they're terrible for your soil. and the benefits to pipes and appliances are marginal at best. i completely shut down my water softener.

New comment by heathrow83829 in "I did no work for a year and no one noticed"

heathrow83829 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:50:13 +0000

not at all. the author, said he was getting his obligations done and making his boss's life easier. that's a win for both the employee, the boss and the company.

why do you think it's morally acceptable for an employee to negotiate as toughly as possible for his/her salary but not for their time? It's all a negotiation process. the key thing is, he's meeting his agreed upon obligations. whether or not you do it efficiently (like him) or inefficiently wasting all your time is up to you.

New comment by heathrow83829 in "Meta to cut 10% of jobs"

heathrow83829 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:41:05 +0000

but does it really cover all the layoffs? if a company just slowly oozes out employes via pips or attrition without rehiring, i don't think it will cover the full extent of manpower reduction. i think we need a better metric, that looks at net bodies on the job.