"back of the napkin" logic:

~2M FAANG employees (source: Gemini & this includes all types of employees...is your avg Amazon delivery driver regularly reading HN?)

~10M HN users (source: Gemini (via HN post :)) )

In the US at least the middle class was already being hunted to extinction and it seems reasonable. This is just accelerant on that already burning fire.

Maybe in the short-term but public companies with shareholders won't allow this in any sort of long-term way right?

People are drowning everywhere with inflation and anything that is perceived to lead to a higher monthly bill is going to encounter resistance.

When I quit I get splitting headaches that are way more severe than a typical tension headache. Completely debilitating without medication. Get them for a week or so (also get the muddier thinking but I could live with that).

Fantastic book. I first encountered it...in a coffee shop :) Read a chapter and immediately bought the book for myself.

Gibson (and later Stephenson) were prescient enough to realize that anonymity would be a commodity in the near future.

https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Lupus_Yonderboy

Really excited to see what Apple does with these guys in the upcoming adaptation.

The guy built his own guitar as a teenager and has played it for the rest of his career: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Special

Niche/hobby subs are mostly bot-free.

Of course the family wants it solved right away but there's a reality to this that seems to be overlooked here but is also not unique here. A lot of murders are never solved. Luck is a factor all the time.

What exactly is the expectation here? Is there some sort of wide-spread belief that the world works like an episode of Law and Order and every crime is instantly solved by rolling up your sleeves and doing good old fashioned detective work?

Would assume for the majority of planned murder to be resolved as quickly as these highly publicized cases have been (the Kirk deal took about 2 days also) there's going to have to be an element of luck. Piecing together digital/forensic evidence is going to require time and effort. If it's not an obvious connection (domestic violence etc.) and there's no direct witnesses it seems logical you only have a few outcomes:

A) Going to be solved due to a lucky break

B) Going to be solved after a ton of time/interviews/piecing together forensic evidence

C) Not be solved.

Also he only "got away" because he killed himself. They likely would have caught him fairly soon after this because they had his identity from the car tags. I guess the point is though luck is all you have if it's solved this quickly because it's so random.

It happened when a buddy and I were completely bored messing around with the game and I remember calling my friends and explaining it but no one "got it" until we showed them.

Basically when the "minds" are benevolent deities all scenarios are possible including this one. We can spend our time with cats, we can even turn into cats...as he writes about "Changers" who genetically alter themselves or shift species at whim.

And as always if someone acts up and violates the Golden Rule they get a slap drone: https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone

Would you expect a map of comparative latitudes to significantly change in a decade?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_University_of_Idaho_murde...