You're not supposed to sell it. (Does anyone sell euros?) You're supposed to spend it. But hardly anyone takes it.

at some point most people want to sell the Bitcoin for dollars or pounds or euros

The fact that this is even significant (and it is) 15-20 years after the introduction of Bitcoin, shows that it has been a complete, miserable failure.

I think Bitcoin was a neat idea. Shame it didn't work.

Why would they need a warrant? Flock consents to their customers accessing Flock's data.

[various anticipated objections] Yes, but this is in America.

So many Hollywood scriptwriters who lazily decided, "I'll just use Nazis for the bad guys, they're universally-recognized evergreen enemies," are facepalming these days.

(I'm just speculating.) People don't need help with selling fun things; they want a 'bot that can sell the crap which humans have given up on. Anthropic doesn't want to sell widgets; they want to sell stores which sell widgets (sort of like selling pickaxes instead of getting into mining).

Then you are using the wrong tool for the job. Whatever AI is right now, it can not judge. It can simulate judging, but it can not actually judge. You are asking too much of AI.

To be honest, the stench of magical thinking is strong here. AI is a semi-random output of what has gone before. No actual judging is possible.

Maybe the problem it has been asked to solve is "I have some crap that nobody wants. Sell it."

This story (and the one in December it links to) is telling me the proper use of AI is to be abused, drawing fire away from humans.

I thought "Mommy Has Four Graphics Cards" was pretty good, but "Not Everyone Computes" did a great job of explaining why the industry is largely about remote services rather than running it locally.

Dude, you never received the memo: Rules are for losers and poor people. Us winners don't have time to follow the rules or else we lose our edge. So, of course the government is involved with suppressing labor demands. The government is ran by winners and we currently have the winningest Executive since the dawn of America.

Let me fix that for you:

Likewise, you do realize that Flock and Axon have no rights beyond what normal citizens with money have?

It is cute that you believe that... but since that ruling, the police left a woman handcuffed in a car on train tracks and a train (unsurprisingly) killed her. What can be derived from that incident is that the police do not have a duty to protect even if you are in their custody.

To be honest, I am unsure of what duties a police officer has anymore. They do shoot people, so I guess THAT is in their remit.

There is no way you understand the current situation if you believe what you are saying. Flock will be one of the largest quasi-governmental agencies for the next hundred years. You have no idea how intensely those who control everything WANT Flock. It will be implemented even if it causes the entire population to go into full rebellion. There is literally no stopping this. Once technology made this situation possible, it became inevitable.

(CAPTCHA = crooked, ROFLCOPTER)

Weird. You are seeing the mechanisms in action and yet you are not putting two and two together. What type of government do you have if it is breaking its own rules to support one particular party?

The irony of that speech coming from Anonymous Coward. It is to laugh. ROFL

Fuck you coward.