EnsignWashout

Nice! Thanks for sharing this analysis.

I thought our primary way of producing new Linux users was sexual reproduction and then indoctrination from birth...

Interesting. I would have guessed that Mint gave ChromeOS a run for it's money, by now.

Yes. By the porn stats, Linux already crushes ChromeOs. Let's not take any advice from it.

It absolutely delay people buying. If you held out for 6 more months, you'd get a substantially faster computer.

That describes most of my life, under Moore's Law.

I handled it in the traditional way: I bought what I wanted, and then I immediately cussed about my shitty timing to my friends the next day.

It’s not like cars would eventually cost negative money and they pay you to take them.

While I accept your point, I feel conditioned to interrupt here and clarify that I absolutely would download a car. There was some unexpected confusion about this, at one point.

Okay. Carry on. Thank you.

"Enterprises might discover that production agent deployments are harder than demos suggest. Hallucinations in high-stakes workflows, regulatory concerns around autonomous AI systems, or implementation complexity could slow adoption dramatically. If the agent future takes 5-7 years instead of 2-3, there's a painful gap where billions in infrastructure sits waiting for demand to catch up."

Yes. AI agents in infrastructure are a fundamentally stupid idea, at their very core.

Learn to write a bash script or pay someone competent to do it.

Almost no one needs a shittier solution that is 1000x faster to implement while 100x more likely to make profit-margin-evaporating mistakes.

Even the idiots calling the shots today are bound to notice this.

There's a third category of adoption to consider: "between 7 years and - let's not fucking do this, it is stupid"

There's a delightful DC Comics Elseworlds story that amounts to this. It was fun.

Sure you harpsichord! Anyone harpsichord do it!

I don't think this is the right community for it...

That's right,

A third person is about to show up and express mild interest, then they will wander off for a drink, but then return and ask to have the rules explanation start over....

I've always liked the idea of the cap being an immediate loss of any legal property protection.

This would not be through any process, they simply instantly legally cease to have any property rights anytime they cannot prove their net worth is below the limit.

Any member of the public can reclaim any piexe of their ex-property, until the not-quite-billiomaire gets a court ruling confirming their not-a-billionaire status.

Then the not-yet-billionaires can figure out how to constantly stay comfortably below the limit.

Or...they can file an updated wealth disclosure every time they attempt to keep anyone from walking away with any piece of their former property.

If they want to avoid the inconvenience of their yachts, cars, pets, plants, fences, lamps, and television sets being repossessed, they can negotiate with their employees unions for collective ownership in good faith, instead.

It'll be fun to see how many of them are too stupid to take a good deal, and lose their stupid toys.