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Comment What can go wrong? (Score 2) 115

Demand a digital currency so a foreign bank (TrumpBank??) can steal from everyone, simultaneously.

Or, a foreign government disappearing a person's account makes that person, penniless and an un-person.

A foreign resource is controlled directly by the USA and also by Trump: Bad things will happen. We've already seen Trump use crypto-coin to enable 2 pump-n-dump grifts.

Comment Credit card does everything (Score 1) 29

The original advantage of PayPal was, you were almost anonymous: They had a bank account number and an unverified name. At the time, it was an easy way to do online buying/selling. Originally, Ebay would only transfer money through PayPal.

Now, money can't be anonymous, so PayPal functions as a second bank holding your real account, hostage. There's no advantage to that. Also, credit cards are accepted at everyone online shop-front: There's no need to give Personally Identifying Information to PayPal.

While Google Wallet functions as a second credit card, it also, is an unnecessary privacy risk.

Comment Re:Stress is the top killer - most others are BS (Score 1) 34

... no visible health problems.

Research is now revealing that food is more than fuel, it's changes how our body works: Much like drugs. It adds to the idea of good foods and bad foods. Genetics, the usual answer for different tolerances to the same human stresses, may be more about neutralizing bad foods/emotions, less about magical immunity to those stressors and to disease.

The bad cholesterol and other toxins are accumulating in their body: When they turn 50 and the body can't repair itself overnight, those toxins will start degrading their metabolic function: They will get sick. Maybe, nothing serious but it's a message that they need to stop doing that shit. Or maybe, do it much more and make room for young people.

Comment Your money, your responsibility (Score 0) 27

I pay money, walk into a theatre, enjoy the entertainment - or not, and walk out. Online games have used the same model for the previous 4 years: Why are people so surprised it happened again?

To be fair, when I buy a theatre ticket, the manager is quite clear on, when I will be kicked-out. Software servers do not contain the same honesty but given the obvious cost of operating a server, it obviously will be switched-off, one day. One can argue for fraudulent advertising, at most.

If one doesn't like purchased software disappearing, don't buy a game that requires an online account to play: It's called, 'voting with your wallet' and that is your responsibility.

Comment Easy answer (Score 2) 49

Modernizing is a simple process: Build dependable agriculture and healthcare. Ending blood-feuds and revenge-killing is a nice step but not vital.

Then, build trust in the law: When people (*cough* Republicans *cough*) don't trust their leaders, infrastructure fails and a country dies. The usual reason for losing trust in leaders is tribalism: Those leaders enforce extremism (based on religion, race or language) and nepotism: It takes hundreds of years to build a concept of 'common good' in towns and countries. Also, it takes prosperity to build 'common good': Those countries (or states) without crops and minerals to sell, will always be extremist and unstable.

Comment Every web-site is doing it (Score 1) 18

Judging by the lead photo with online news stories, every online paper is doing.

An article talks about storms in Georgia (USA), with associated photo of the recent storm in California. Storms aren't rare, it's difficult to believe that choosing a generic in-a-storm photo is difficult work. An article about a toxic electric generator inside a truck, with associated photo of a generator outside a truck. The story is more difficult to match to a stock image, I'll admit. Again, I think there will be plenty of generic images of trucks.

Comment AI slop costs someone, somewhere (Score 1) 37

... cost of arguing is going to zero.

The article starts with "HR departments" then switches to "MoJ" as the long-suffering victim. I'll address the MoJ side of the issue.

No, the cost of arguing is being pushed from the person with AI tools (plaintiff) to the government. Government itself, is suffering from the labour-into-capital leverage. It's needs to control that transfer of costs. Such as, the lodgement fee depends on the number of pages submitted in the article: The government can set a pages per infraction cost. Then, plaintiffs have an incentive to stay under the word/page limit. People who send pages of AI slop, thus pay for their laziness and miserliness (not paying a lawyer to proof-read). People doing the standard due diligence, pay the standard fee.

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