Now Adobe can leverage AI to more effectively steal IP from customers who were pretty much forced into their shitty and scandalous SaaS extortion scheme.

From what I've been hearing lately, I think there's a decent chance that Adobe will soon be an (admittedly lengthy) footnote in the publishing field. People who have used it for years or even decades are finding alternatives. And Adobe paid a billion bucks to Figma after their failed acquisition attempt - thereby hugely expanding the war chest of a company which is possibly their most dangerous competitor.

I didn't much like Adobe even 15 years ago; now, if they die I'll probably celebrate by buying a bottle of single-malt Islay whiskey and sharing it with some like-minded friends. Death to Adobe!

I agree with everything you said. I hadn't thought of most of those implications yet - I was too busy being happy that we at last have a story fit for nerds and geeks to chew on.

The technical details of this make for very interesting thoughts and questions around interpreting interference patterns among multiple sources of energy whose wavelengths are otherwise way too long for the level of detail promised. If this isn't smoke and mirrors then it's really exciting from a tech standpoint. It's also the kind of thing that serious hardware hackers could conceivably build in a basement in the not-too-distant future.

I was also kinda bummed at the scepticism you noted, but I get it. I think we're all a little jaded about tech claims just now, because tech giants are mostly evil incarnate these days. `When we've been gaslit and lied to so relentlessly for so long, it's hard to maintain optimism. For that reason, among many others, I hope the claims are real and that the product delivers on the promise.

So far NYC hasn't seen a mass exodus of wealthy people due to their "socialist" mayor.

If we want billionaires to pay their fair share, we should start by eliminating some of the tax loopholes that allow them to avoid paying the taxes that less wealthy people have to pay.

These loopholes are many, they favor the ultra wealthy, they absolutely can be eliminated, and doing so is far less problematic than this wealth tax proposal.

Fly a drone around DC and see what happens.

I already proportionally pay more taxes than most wealthy people.

Are you a temporarily embarrassed billionaire? Won’t someone think of the poor billionaires?

Once you hit a billion dollars, the government sends you a silver dollar plaque and taxes all future wealth over 1bn at 50%.

Once you hit 10 billion dollars, the government sends you a gold dollar plaque all future wealth over 10bn at 100%.

We'll throw in a "You won the American Dream" flag plaque.

Are you a farmer? Did you attend college on the taxpayer dime via the GI bill? Will you receive social security or medicare? Then I have some disturbing news for you.

The proposal here was not for the government to BUY the stocks, just like anyone else. It was for the government to TAKE the stocks. For free. In return for nothing.

And, regardless, the key difference between capitalism and socialism (in this context) is who owns the means of production: private citizens, or the government? Once the government owns the means of production (whether they bought it or seized it), then that qualifies as socialism.

This slider isn't exactly boolean. It is totally possible for the government to own some of the means of production, without owning all of it. That just means that we have a mix of socialism and capitalism going on.

You should give a 90 day window so you don't become an enabler of crime.

The bug bounty is there to incite you to look for bugs at all. If there isn't a bug bounty program, or you don't think it will pay out, then don't go looking for bugs.

If you find a bug anyway, and want to do the right thing, then you responsibly disclose it (whether you get paid or not). If you don't want to do the right thing, then you just ignore the bug and don't publish it.

If you publish the bug without giving the company 90 days first, then you are harming all the innocent people who are using that product (by telling criminals exactly how to exploit an unfixed bug). That is an evil thing to do. In some places, lawsuits might fly your way because of something like that.

Made in Sunderland, batteries made in the UK too. EV tech developed jointly with Renault.

Nissan? Isn't that Japanes?

This. Corporations currently have too much power while having no responsibility. In return for corporate protections the citizens granting them those protections should be half owner. AI is just the latest straw in the corporate-behavior-run-amok.

They developed their own processors and have them manufactured by a third party.