Just get other AI to do the reviews...

Seriously, I've used AI to answer questions that I might have posted to a forum if something is working, or I want some ideas on how to do something. I have found the results to vary from helpful to useless. For me, its usefulness is getting ideas, asking it to explain them and then I write the code so I understand what it does, not just cut and paste. What find it most useful for is taking my code and adding comments explaining what it does so someone in the future at least has an idea of what I tried to do, and for writing documentation drafts; since I tend to avoid doing both.

Naked short sellings. It’s crypto so well, rules don’t apply bro.

A number of derivatives allow you to control many more shares than if you bought them outright, thus giving you the opportunity for more significant gains than if you bought stock. For example, if you buy a stock at 10Euros and it goes up 2 Euros you make 2 Euros, if the same money bought 110 options you make 10 Euros (20 from sale less 10 spent). Of course, if it doesn't go up enough or drops you lose 10 Euros when the options expire. The TFA wasn't clear what the token actually had as the underlying assets so it's hard to say what is the benefit and risk exposure.

I suspect they will quickly sour on them as I could see it overwhelm a small business, not just from legitimate queries but from people using it to jam up a business' line for laughs or revenge for some perceived slight. At least Google lets businesses opt out; although it should really be opt in but then Google would need to convince them to use it rather than force them to say no.

Yea, it's just another derivative; and something you can already do with many available choices. From TFA, it says the company selling the tokens is buying shares, but that could mean a lot of things beyond holding the actual shares. TFA goes on to say since tokens are unregulated you have no idea who is buying or selling, leave it rife for manipulation; although no one would do that ever...

There is no bound to stupidity, just ask Einstein.

They will and laugh to the bank.

If people listen to it, what does it matter how it's created? Artists have been using tools to enhance and change music for a long time, this is just th next evolution. Should studios be required to label albums where individual tracks were combined rather than the entire album done in one sitting? This is just the industry trying to protect their revenue stream, and as soon as labels find a way to pay somebody to use AI to generate music that sells they'll be all behind it and pushing for copyright protection. All you have to do is follow the money to see where it is heading...

That seems to be the main qualification for a spot in the administration, not a raid. Someone must have misread a memo...

It depends on how and what they collect, and frankly, if they put it out for everyone to see they should have no expectation of privacy. You post something where anyone can access it and you should expect anyone to access it. If you want your information private, keep it off the internet.

I had one call about a dead relative and simply explained they would not be getting paid. A friend, OTOH, had a hell of a time cancelling cable becasue they needed to talk to the person on the account, who was dead. I suggested he simply not pay it, they'll eventually figure it out.

Clearly, lifetime plans only mean the company's lifetime; even then with bankruptcy and restructuring the company may live on while the lifetime plans die...

I suspect, given they have been doing this for years, they are smart enough to weed out those trying to game the system; and if you drop enough money not really care because their system is working, i.e. getting you to spend lots of money at their restaurant. Case in point. I had a friend complain that some customers were gaming the loyalty system to get extra rewards points. When I asked him how much did that cost him per year, and he said a few hundred dollars; and how much has their spend gone up since they started that? Several hundred thousand to a million or more. So you're spending a dollar to get several thousand or more revenue, right? Don't thinking of them as gaming the system, be glad you developed a system that gets them to open their wallet further. That $1 investment is probably the cheapest way to get the returns you're getting. They're happy and you are hauling money to the bank.

Per TFA,, the restaurant has been keeping notes on guests to better cater to them since pencil and paper days; this is just an expansion of that process. This is a higher end restaurant whose clientele is likely to expect personalized service, just as when they shop at a boutique that caters to their tastes; and the boutique no doubt keeps a notebook on their high value clients as well to better serve them and keep them happy and opening their wallet.. We are at the point where if you don't want people looking you up, stay off of social media under your real name.

I'm not sure that is always true; for example the easy way would be to wait for others to get food and then join in, but they are not very likely to share unless they get something the value in return. So, you participate in the hunting to survive or else you die. The same hold true for us today, the desire for specialization and differentiation drives some to chose harder tasks to create more value for tehir services and thus enrich themselves. If th easy way was always followed in coding everyone wold be using Chromium and FOSS rather than following their own or expending resources buying FOSS alternatives.

Which explains vibe coding.

While that would be the easiest solution, well defined agreed upon standards that are properly documented should allow developers to determine how they implement them. If they want to add extensions, plugins, etc. that's fine but at least implement the standards properly so the base level of functionality is consistent. Then again, that's the problem with any standard; they typically are a least common denominator that a committee can agree on and then everyone goes off and does their own thing to try to differentiate themselves. Me, I'm just trying to keep a website working for Mac and PC users running Safari, Chrome or Edge. Luckily, it's limited to clients so at least the user base is small and businesses so they are unlikely to be using some other browser.

Yea, I use an ad blocker and /. whines about it at times. To bad they got rid of the karma setup that let you block ads if you wanted to.