Comment Re:don't have to walk far to "follow the money" (Score 1) 376
Won't someone please think of the poor chickens?
Won't someone please think of the poor chickens?
Special Economic Zones
We already have right to work states. Just enforce them by blocking interference from outside jurisdictions and that should suffice.
One party system? Not so much. We are sitting on a 50-50% knife edge right now. And the DSA threatens to split the left's vote since we don't have a historical culture of coalition government.
Right. And drugs. Bans worked so well for fentanyl.
I'd bet that they can.
Why not just ban that? And why should the Chinese bother with individual surveillance when they can buy data in bulk?
The bum is ungovernable due to scarcity.
Imagine a world with Star Trek replicators. Bums would be like, "Wine. Ripple. In a brown paper bag." Do you really think you could get them to do anything?
But bandwidth is free. Or so they tell me when they want me to load their tracking/advertising JavaScript.
so they can pool idle processing power for local AI inference and agentic workloads
Where do I send my power bill to get it paid?
Nothing that Superman can't do better.
half of the combined population of USA and Canada!
Soon just half the population of the USA.
[ducking and running]
This was from physical stores
How do you think these "car rental offices and dispensaries" capture and transfer ID images? Pretty much the same way web sites take a picture of your ID. It's just using a specialized scanner. But otherwise an image upload.
allocating scarce resources fairly until such time that humanity has technologically advanced to eliminate scarcity
Scarcity is what keeps humanity governable. If you have everything you need, who can then tell you what to do? Try telling a homeless bum to stop doing something. Give him a house, two car garage and chicken in the pot and he's at your beck and call.
How will breaking search and the browser off of ads help with giving the customer a better browsing experience? And by customer, I mean advertisers. They need the market-oriented search and browser tracking hooks to capture more consumers. And they need them all to work together seamlessly.
So, she's ancient and terrible too.
Old programmers never die, they just become managers.