Dookieman12

That’s how the grift economy works; you take something illegal, give it a different name, and pretend it’s something new and unregulated. The trick is to undercut all competitors with investor capital and put them out of business as quickly as possible. That way, by the time regulators try to pass laws against you, argue that you’re “essential to the economy” now that you’re the only one who operates in that sector.

Uber - No, we’re not an illegal cab company, we’re a “ride share service”

Air B&B - No, we’re not an illegal hotel chain, we’re landlords who sign one-day leases.

Kashi - No, we’re not an illegal casino, this is a “prediction market”

Earn In - No, we’re not an illegal lender, we’re letting you access your future wages, today

Klarna - No, we’re not an illegal credit card company, we just let you pay in four installments

All this says to me is don’t be in Australia

It’s AU. They say “yes daddy” to every authoritarian, then act holier than thou and call other places a “shithole country” when they won’t lick the boots too.

I don’t believe Richard intended a different message

My prediction:

1. Investors continue to fuel demand, choking supply
2. Plans to monetize LLMs don’t pan out
3. Eventually, lenders call their margins
4. Investors see the called margins and get spooked; demand fizzles
5. AI companies desperately try to liquidate their positions. Seeing the price of components, there’s a rush to sell while prices are high.
6. PC components flood the market
7. Record high supply, record low prices
8. PC gaming golden age

Oh really? What other website do the YouTubers I want to watch upload to?

Even if ALL creators band together, IMO there’s basically nothing the creators can do.

Accurate. Even if everyone started uploading to a different platform tomorrow, the catalog of videos already on YT is enough to sustain them for a while

Well, what is it doing now?

But all the other forms of market manipulation are fine. Lol

If the officers “turned it into” a tool for stalking, that means officers were stalking people with it. Stalking people is a crime. If these are truly “rogue” officers, that means they weren’t supposed to be stalking people, so they should be charged with the crime of stalking.

But they weren’t. And they won’t be.

This is exactly what the cameras are for, this is exactly what all cops are doing with them, and they will continue to be allowed to do it.

New York is suing an illegal gambling operation, calling is an illegal gambling operation

As if the nationwide camera network wasn’t purpose-built exactly for this.

“Gosh, someone came in here and turned our perfectly innocent, nationwide array of facial and vehicle recognition cameras that we programmed to recognize and log everything and turned it into something nefarious while we weren’t looking! Imagine that! It’s those damn dirty no-good rogue officers that are the problem, not our panopticon no one asked for.”

Schools in Chicago finna go plum wild

Steam machine sales numbers are nowhere near high enough for that

Yeah, something is fucky with these numbers. Is there a corresponding drop in Windows/Mac numbers? Or is this due to a large number of new machines appearing out of nowhere?

Precisely. I make calculated decisions all the time. But I suck at math. Even “highly calculated” decisions can be very stupid. In fact, some levels of stupidity are only possible with some level of higher education.

He dove head-first into the so-called metaverse and even renamed his company for it.

Not quite. He changed the name because “Facebook” was in the news too often with privacy controversies and he thought the name change would distance his company from that reputation. Seems it worked.

Continue using Wikipedia. They don’t run ads so traffic doesn’t translate to revenue for them. Just don’t donate and their server costs will become unsustainable once they run out of cash in about 20 years

they wanted to have an official vote on the matter, and didn’t want to be pressured into a decision on the spot

If workers want to unionize, that’s their business. Workers don’t need anyone’s permission to organize. Unionization means conditions are bad and individual efforts to correct them have failed. The company wanting an “official vote” is just an excuse to add friction to a process that requires none.

It would be a terrible thing for this organization to die

If an organization won’t respect the fact that it exists ONLY because of its workers, it would be a great thing if it died and made way for one that will. There are enough backups, we can survive the transition period. I have two, currently; one that gets updated, another from the pre-LLM era.