Comment Re:I suspect this law isn't really about porn (Score 2) 140
Sadly, the insanity is on all (both?) sides now.
Fittingly, we will all suffer the consequences of our failed, onetime marvelous, democracy.
Sadly, the insanity is on all (both?) sides now.
Fittingly, we will all suffer the consequences of our failed, onetime marvelous, democracy.
The U.S. ordered Binance to pay $4.3 billion in fines and forfeiture. Zhao agreed to pay a $50 million fine.
Changpeng Zhao's reputed net worth is just north of US$30 billion. $50 million, to him, is like what you'd tip the paperboy in another lifetime.
Ye olde two tiered justice system at work.
Matrix Scmatricks.
Why in the universe would we need puny humanoids plugged into the Biogrid for energy generation when room temperature fusion is only ten years out?
Is that the death knell for our higher cash back credit cards, or will powerful CC lobbies seek a work-around?
I'm no mathlete, but getting 2% back means it is coming from someone's pocket. I've noticed an increased incidence of shops charging customers more to purchase items with credit, but it's not legal everywhere.
Nerdwallet: This practice is legal in all but four states — Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Oklahoma — additionally, Colorado caps the surcharge fee at 2%. It is also important to note that surcharging is not allowed for debit cards, even when they are run as a credit transaction.
Shudder. Of all the pratfalls and foibles in the way of Skynet domination, the one the computer overlords were least prepared for was pesky copyright infringement? Well, great story Bro, but it's no box office draw, for sure now.
There's a chasm of difference, as you clearly understand, between embracing the introduction of new and potentially contrarian information, and accepting it as likely factual.
All we know for sure, is that some of the things we presently believe are factually incorrect. All of us. Every one.
Somehow, and this is the stretch, we need almost desperately to convey this identical sentiment to our fearless leaders. That single ideal might open the tried and true ideal of reaching across the aisle to listen to an alternative viewpoint, and understanding there might be something to be learned there.
Claw back?
Call it an early Christmas Bonus and move along. Worse things were done in the name of stimulus checks.
This is emblematic of the problem with intelligent discussion of scientific matters in the public forum: allowing the dissemination of information potentially contrary to one's premise becomes a tempting target for obfuscation.
Science should always stay on the side of truth-telling and embracing new information, especially when the information appears contrarian.
A single instance of stating "Masks won't help the public," helped destroyed the high ground scientists and virologists worked so hard to hold.
I would think AI would eventually be very good at biology, farming, manufacturing, education... and running companies... but at the end of the day you still need some people who can read and understand the computer code that's being used in the AI systems themselves. We obviously wont need as many, but I can't see it being harder hit than any other industry.
Or, in the other offered scenario, AI will work too well, though the Arms Race may prove inconvenient
Good AI patches a vulnerability in Google or Apple Pay, restoring security to the PAYMENT SYSTEM for the eleven minutes it takes Bad AI to secure a new vulnerability. Puny humans won't be able to keep up.
There's likely no Goldilocks ending. This AI-envisioned future will fall flat on its face (most likely) or it will create a dystopian future (less likely, but not zero chance) humans don't yet have on the Bingo Card.
Maybe. Maybe that's her incredible sense of honor or her powerful innate sense of self-preservation at work.
Maybe she just didn't love that motherfracker like she used to. Who knows? All we know for sure is that sharing the details of a crime you've committed with another person increases the chance of discovery exponentially. Hell, might as well carry your cell phone to a murder scene.
Ratted out by his own wife who got fired anyway for her efforts. Damn it.
Let's pretend for a moment this doesn't happen regularly, when people with access to sensitive information leverage what they know and trade securities based on that insider knowledge...aaannd we're not just talking about members of Congress and their families... that's not even illegal yet.
Over a long enough timeline, surprise, all of our cognizant abilities diminish.
Fools. That's what makes the angels jealous. Being finite is hard. Being forever gives you too much time to think.
In other news, Amazon appears to favor methods and vendors that comply with their goal of being profitable.
News at eleven. Fiddlesticks... Probably gave away my geopolitical location right there.
C'mon! Even McDonald's stopped advertising how many burgers it sold, eventually, after boasting that it served more than 99 billion cow patties.
The numbers may be misleading. As everyone on
Government leaders have made halting efforts to protect peatlands over the last two decades, but three years ago, when the pandemic disrupted food supply chains, officials launched an ambitious land-clearance operation in a push to expand the cultivation of crops and cut Indonesia's reliance on expensive imports.
It's difficult to look at the big picture with an empty dinner plate.
We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a clever but highly unmotivated trick. -- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"
