I'm doing my part!

Running WCG/F@H tasks on computers and phones would be a good use.

Ya.. and there are many, many fewer guns in the hands of even outlaws. You only have to look at literally every other nation that has done it.

They're not trying to "block Meta". They're trying to block the tech.

Well, until it harms YOU, of course. At that point, it's the government failing to protect its people, right?

That's not true, either. There's plenty of evidence of this with all the doorbell cameras out there catching randos going to front doors and car doors simply checking to see if they're locked. The criminals know that trespassing and theft is a lesser charge than burglary (breaking and entering).

These cryptocurrency payments can't be used to fund terror and evade sanctions since all the transactions are public on the blockchain! Also, would anyone like to buy a bridge?

Kalshi is only a thing because Draft Kings and Fan Duel have been so successful. Those two companies are as powerful as they are because New Jersey fought to strike down the federal law prohibiting the gambling on amateur sports in 2018 (Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association).

Oh, how the wheel of 100% predictable consequences continues to turn...

Yes, a fair voicing of "opinions" on labor conditions between one human and one globe-spanning immortal megacorporation. Very fair.

Only true for goods and services where there is perfectly inelastic demand, which kind of doesn't exist. Even demand for fuel is somewhat elastic. Health care has about the least elastic demand. Junk from Amazon has highly elastic demand.

This would certainly happen to a large degree, otherwise Amazon could price themselves out of competitiveness fairly easily.

If you make your money by owning rather than by working, that's true. Higher wages reduce business owners' income, at least in the short term. So next time someone has that opinion, find out what they do for a living. They'll probably say they "run" something.

That would add the requirement for the central repository as infrastructure which is probably not worth it bandwidth/storage-wise when so many gaming PCs are likely to be online at any time, but the possibility of a malware vector (or some kind of sabotage, maybe people would try to DoS a game by sharing corrupted compiled shaders as a form of protest) is worth considering with or without it.

BOINC protects against errors or sabotage in their distributed computing system by having 2 random different users both run the same task and ensuring that the results from both match before accepting the result. This requires centralized infrastructure, but a duplicated work verification system like this could work. Imagine the centralized system acts as a trusted private torrent tracker, only verifying a shader and making it publicly accessible once multiple uploads match. That would make uploading invalid shaders almost impossible since a group would need to conspire to do it with exclusive earliest-possible access to the game/driver/hardware combo.

Those aren't reasons for everyone to be compiling on their own. In a BitTorrent-like system nobody would be "keeping" shaders they aren't using, just sharing shaders they've compiled because they're using them. If nobody's ever done it before for the hardware/driver combination then you fall back to compilation and then share your results so others can benefit and the same work doesn't have to be done again.

Plus most users are probably on one of the latest driver versions so there would be far more hardware than driver variation.

Just like how WaPo eventually went from an assurance that nothing would change to blocking an endorsement of Kamala Harris to no longer publishing any opinions that were insufficiently pro-"free market" for Bezos' taste:

https://www.ms.now/opinion/msn...

On a related note I thought the idea of an IT staffer having time to play CoD at work was a laughably retro idea. In the post-pandemic era anyone who still has an IT job is being worked to the bone.

Yep, The Island and Altered Carbon (also an excellent TV series) were the first two works of sci-fi that came to mind, but Altered Carbon is a much closer match where the clones were brainless vs. The Island (if I say any more it'd be a major spoiler for sure, even mentioning that it contains the concept is a bit of a spoiler).

Probably humanoid robots, it's already happening in China:

https://jingdaily.com/posts/ch...

While I strongly appreciate the elite's desire to highlight influence science fiction, I assert that cosplay is a sufficient means of doing so and directly acting the severely flawed actions of the villains from said stories benefits no one... not even themselves.