The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.

Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.

Also I would point out that there's nothing socialist about modern American fascism, considering that there's very little flirtation with collective ownership of the means of production going on (other than Sam Altman getting Trump to consider having the US government buy the gigantic economic black-hole-bomb he's built), but they do enact deals that look a good bit like socialism for corporations the regime favors...

This is only possible because the US has first-past-the-post elections, a clunky and primitive voting method that can enable this situation. Moving to more advanced voting methods like ranked choice or STAR voting prevents a two-party stranglehold from forming.

Agreed, in fact I think that's a major reason to avoid use of non-hybrid PQC.

See also: Android and the ever-increasing difficulty, impracticality, and necessity of getting root access.

I think open source does not need to embrace AI coding, it needs to apply extra scrutiny to it otherwise it will become slop.

They actually do both, they're known to use their Manna-clone system that orders warehouse workers around to "find problems" with the performance of anyone involved in unionizing and fire them as an early line of defense. They've done this with unionization attempts in the US before (at least one of those warehouses did successfully unionize despite that). Shutting down the FC and moving out of town is their nuke-it-from-orbit option when all else has failed.

Penalties are light and unlikely enough in many jurisdictions for employers to consider it a cost of doing business though. See what Amazon's been doing in their warehouses in Quebec and BC for examples. Coincidentally, guess which Canadian provinces have the most videogame dev studios...

Maybe a system where everyone gets a share of collective productivity but has to take a turn at work could make those people feel better. So everyone gets their lifetime supply of food/shelter/healthcare/transportation/entertainment in return for their 5-10 years working or whatever the economy actually needs, so there's no shortage of human labor and nobody feels that there's an unfair division of labor either.

Of course the problem with that is another problem contributing to the current situation, there are people who seek maximally unequal shares of wealth for themselves and would fight an egalitarian utopia tooth and nail. Rich and powerful people who can contribute to the 10,000 year old effort of tricking the proles into propping up the aristocracy.

It's not the worst idea ever but it's worse than better options the billionaires want to distract us from with discussion of UBI, like universal basic services and democratic socialism, ideas where they don't retain as much of their wealth and power as they might with UBI.

I might've gone to one but it seems they're all in the past now. Maybe I'll remember to check next year.

This is a common myth that's often repeated because it's useful, in business for wealth advisors scaring their clients into retaining their services, and in fiscally conservative politics to promote indefinite patience with the ever-worsening moral horror show produced by runaway inequality.

https://www.oakswealthmanageme...

https://jamesgrubman.com/wp-co...

I remember there was a study in the 2010s that found that it takes something like 900 years for a wealthy family to lose its wealth but all my search attempts to find it are flooded with more of this folksy "3rd-generation curse" myth, anyone remember it?

Have they checked out Hildon or Plasma Mobile?

The first country to release an LLM that's like what Claude Mythos pretended to be might destroy other countries several glorious winning seconds before it destroys itself. Winning!

When people start treating these casinos as a source of predictive information is when they'll become the most dangerous:

https://insights.som.yale.edu/...