I live in EU. I am totally in support to force Meta down through government's big stick.

While they are at it, I hope they do it to the other big techs too.

Being a "hacker type" (whatever that means) does not equate to being complacent to these companies abusing their economic power.

Then I propose you should support https://noyb.eu/

Their track record is pretty good.

If you support them (I do, they do great work), please set up a yearly subscription. Predictable revenue is very valuable for organizations.

Yeah, seconded, and I also live in the EU.

> Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon will get through easily. They don't have excessive debt. They can afford to lose their investments into AI.

Survive, yes. I don't think anybody ever questioned this.

I wonder if they will be able to remain as "growth stocks", however. These companies are allergic to be seen as nature companies, with more modest growth profiles, share profits, etc.

> Please someone, make me feel something with software again.

Work with what you love, and you will never love anything again.

VS Code won't feature in Google Graveyard in the short term future.

> CEO

> actual work

Doesn't compute.

Value I think is debatable. But most every CEO I have met is the workaholic type.

I’ve met both. Even when I disagree with them I appreciate the ones that actually put the work in. Most recently I’ve worked with a string of them that barely understand how their companies make money and certainly couldn’t do any of the actual jobs there. Performance is independent from them being on the payroll.

Doing work isn't necesearily value, and value depends on perspective.

Like I said, value is debatable.

Yes, you should. Every grift needs bagholders.

> We need higher moral

Like Google? Microsoft? Meta? Amazon? Those staples of morality?

Or like companies such as OpenAI that just stole industrial amounts of copyright to train their models?

Morality has left this building a long time ago.

I hope the result of this is the complete erosion and abolishment of Copyright laws.

If there's any good thing to come out of AI, it is this.

The same question can be asked of any AI investiment.

The answer is "who cares". Use it while they are fool are willing to burn money in the AI pyre. After that we're back to business as usual.

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