I cannot imagine why somebody would choose to bet over something in which the book holder gets to decide what constitutes a successful prediction

Does the bookie have a stake in the outcome? Or are they just brokering between clients who choose opposite sides of the bet, so the house makes the same money either way? This seems like an important distinction as to what Polymarket actually is.

I still believe Idiocracy predicted the Trump presidency...

But it will definitely keep you from getting laid! And yes, I started losing my hair in my teens, and eventually just shaved my head for my wedding rather than committing to spending several thousand a year on hairpieces.

Trump: "I'm going to run Venezuela just like a ran my casinos!" The entire world: Groans in unison.

The leading company of the day always takes on that mantle in those types of stories. They just change the name of the company about once per decade and run the story again. I've been around long enough to see it be Amazon, previously Apple, Walmart, and Nike.

Bullshit.

I read every day, for at least an hour.

My Kindle stats say I have read every day now for 5 years without a day being missed. Much longer than that if you just count weeks.

There is no shortage of good books out there, there is just a lack of wanting to find something that interests you.

This requires involvement from parents as well, so it wont ever be “fixed”. Schools, even the best ones, are not magical places where everything can be instilled into a child, especially where the childs home life doesnt support the school.

So unless they plan to keep a few people around to proof-read the translations and provide contextual translation updates, I see this being prone to challenges

The summary says the translations will be checked and finalized by humans.

Hell, next year they'll write a story framing the human part as a big scandal proving that the AI is dumb and the company is trying to trick everybody into being impressed its technology when it's actually part mechanical turk.

I don't bother with romance novels (they're usually about abusers being rewarded for being abusers, and not really my cup of tea even when they aren't), but AI is not great at translation, is terrible at metaphor, and is horrific at writing.

If they're going to use AI for auto-translation, then I think the best thing they can do is pay for the first 30 sessions of therapy needed afterwards.

Your concern is that Amazon warehouses aren't automated enough, or that they're not trying hard enough to do so?

Over-reliance on an unreliable source is stupid.

Britain has plenty of brilliant minds and is more than capable of building services equal, or superior, to those in the US. It honestly isn't hard - I've worked in the US tech sector and their minds are nowhere near up to scratch. Those that are are overworked, underpaid, and essentially beholden to their employer because the US is a "good ol' boy's club" where executives abuse power and authority on a regular basis. This is not a good way to run a reliable, competent, business.

Hell, give me the seed money and I'll set up an damn cloud provider that can beat the carp out of those in the US. I've been in this business longer than most of the techies working on the US cloud infrastructure but I'm also not blinded by the naive assumptions and political intrigues that have defined the sector thus far.

Since Trump cut their funding and they now have nothing left to lose, they have been a lot more free in criticizing delusional don. The most dangerous person in the world is somebody with nothing to lose,

I don't even blame Tesla too much for going for minimalism in its initial design, since that was the epitome of futuristic at the time, and Tesla was still pretty busy just managing to pull together enough various pieces and parts to build an entire vehicle. But things have moved on and in a lot of ways it seems like they aren't leading the charge any more, or perhaps even keeping up, and in 2026 it is accepted that a luxurious modern interior is not just the biggest possible touch screen attached (and not even integrated!) to the dashboard.

https://medium.com/ekys-exlucs...

The ability to climb stairs?

Come on, we all know what you REALLY can't wait to buy... sexbots!