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Rangoth said:
It means that MSFT may go up, or may go down
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Jysin

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Trouble in AI froth land? Zuck also announced a freeze on all AI hires as of yesterday.

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Sanrith Descartes said:
Its truly a copy/paste of the blockchain madness of a few years ago except the name has been changed to AI. Remember tea/beverage companies adding blockchain to their name?
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Patently false. AI products are being delivered to consumers and businesses. Web3 products failed to gain adoption due to complexity of use and lack of demand.

The expectations may be too high right now on AI but this analogy is awful.
 
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Sanrith Descartes said:
Imagine flying on a BA product in today's world.

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Alarming video shows part of Boeing wing breaking during a Delta flight

I opened the window and got scared,” one passenger said.
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I think I mentioned this in another thread, but my wife was on this flight. It was a lot more dramatic than the summary makes it sound.

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Delta plane with ‘engulfed engine’ returns safely to SLC airport

A Delta Air Lines flight that departed from the Salt Lake City International Airport on Tuesday had to return soon after takeoff, upon reports of a flaming engine.
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Falstaff said:
They spent a billion dollars on hiring like 8 people so yeah they should cool it a bit.
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I hope they keep replacing jobs with AI. I fucking love abusing AI until it gives me free stuff.
 
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Borzak

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Jysin said:
What’s your problem with pets.com?
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That was my first thought. That's back when I watched some TV and seemed like every other commercial was DOT COM even on stuff you would never order. I could never figure out how they hoped to monetize some of it, guess they couldn't.
 
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I do love hearing boomers wax poetic about pets.com as if it was the poster child of bad ideas while conveniently ignoring chewy and amazon
 
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Borzak said:
That was my first thought. That's back when I watched some TV and seemed like every other commercial was DOT COM even on stuff you would never order. I could never figure out how they hoped to monetize some of it, guess they couldn't.
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Pets.com had the sock puppet though. Shit is still memorable after all the decades.

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Borzak

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The thing with Dot Com sometimes I wonder about people who were registering a .com for anything and everything in an effort to try and sell them to a business at some point. I know some made out well but seemed like all the time someone was " I bought a ton of .com names and will make my money later". Especially now when a lot of popular names for sites aren't really what you would think would be tied to it. Like Amazon if not for the comany and advertising wouldn't really make you think of a book place which they started with.

I was 30 at the time and a lot of .com talk and buying domains and shit had already replaced idle talk with people that used to be "they had a tax shelter". Plus throw in the fact a lot of people that had some money to invest had never been on the internet or used a computer at all.

I was living in Anacortes, WA at the time about 1-1/2 hours from Seattle and it was on everyones mind and they talked about it often. I was there to help set up a company to get into the computer age on design and drafting and they didn't do anything on the computer. They contracted out payroll and calculated time cards on a calculator and sent that out. They figured out loss/profit on a sheet of paper. Oddly enough company is still around.
 
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Borzak said:
The thing with Dot Com sometimes I wonder about people who were registering a .com for anything and everything in an effort to try and sell them to a business at some point. I know some made out well but seemed like all the time someone was " I bought a ton of .com names and will make my money later". Especially now when a lot of popular names for sites aren't really what you would think would be tied to it. Like Amazon if not for the comany and advertising wouldn't really make you think of a book place which they started with.

I was 30 at the time and a lot of .com talk and buying domains and shit had already replaced idle talk with people that used to be "they had a tax shelter". Plus throw in the fact a lot of people that had some money to invest had never been on the internet or used a computer at all.

I was living in Anacortes, WA at the time about 1-1/2 hours from Seattle and it was on everyones mind and they talked about it often. I was there to help set up a company to get into the computer age on design and drafting and they didn't do anything on the computer. They contracted out payroll and calculated time cards on a calculator and sent that out. They figured out loss/profit on a sheet of paper. Oddly enough company is still around.
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Squatting on domains was all the rage back then. Still is I guess.
 
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