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Comment Goodbye money (Score 1) 61

aaaaaaaand everyone's wallet got silently stolen by a malicious Chrome extension/phishing email/literally any malware using any exploit ever. Don't worry, the bank can reverse the charges! Unless of course it's a fully digital system on a blockchain. Then that money is already overseas and irretrievable.
I know! Let's make it so you can blacklist those funds on the blockchain and then they're not spendable. That solves the problem. And you know what, once that system is in place, let's vaporize all the money of anyone who says something "racist" on Twitter or something bad about the government or posts a picture of their hunting rifle or supports the opposition party in an election.

Comment Re:Not a good idea (Score 1) 108

You are not suggesting regulation for consumer safety. You are prescribing how these companies must run. The closest analog to what you suggest we have is utility regulations. I think your approach is not workable, bureaucracy regulating is too slow, too easy to capture to be effective. I think assigning liability for specific adverse events (e.g., social media addiction, etc.) and let companies run themselves is the only way to do this.

Comment Re:Not a good idea (Score 1) 108

A social media platform should be forced to operate as follows:

If a social media can be forced to operate in one way, then it can be forced to operate in any way. That is, if you get to dictate, then you only get to dictate while in power, and someone else will come into power and dictate something else.

Comment Makes sense (Score 4, Insightful) 30

If you've ever gotten a quote from Oracle for literally anything in the last 20 years, you might suspect as much as I do that there may be some inefficiencies at that dinosaur of a company. I'm sure they'll take this reduction in overhead and use it to lower their prices. They'd never just replace human support with inferior AI to make their overpriced support contracts even shittier then pocket the savings to make the quarterlies look good so stupid Wall Street dinosaurs who don't know how technology works continues to fork over money without seeing past the veil of what's really going on. That's never how big tech works ever.

Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score -1, Troll) 176

And Fascism does not work very well either, but that does not prevent the current U.S. moving in that direction.

Not even close...not even with ultra liberal side of Democrats pushing facistic actions and promoting facist laws/rules and societal changes.

And all the while to promote facism they are using the term against anything center left to middle right as facist.....making the term meaningless over time much like they've done with nazi and racism....they've overused them so much then just have no meaning anymore.

Comment Re: Is vice signaling the new virtue signaling? (Score 1) 106

Kind of like how any economic system better for people in general is called communism.

nah....we all know that any form of economic system even resembling communism would not be good for anyone...at least not the common folks, only those at the time.

Sure, Capitalism sucks....but it sucks a whole lot less that ALL other forms of economic systems.....history has shown us this time and time again.

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