Is poker "gambling", when skill matters more than the luck of the draw? The worst hand at the table can still win.

For that matter, is the stock market as a whole gambling? And I don't mean that in the typical whiny "waaah, I suck at picking stocks, this is gambling" we often hear; rather, the winners are simply making better use of the available information than the losers.

Relating that back to Spagnuolo - Did he place the bet after all the numbers were compiled and not yet released, or did he make what amounts to good guess based on largely public information he just happened to have a better way to access than you or I? The former would potentially be insider trading (if not for the jurisdiction argument, which is pretty damned solid); the latter just means the losers need to git gud at finding that information.

When Al Gore sells his private plane and mansions and move to Alaska, then maybe we need to get worried. Until then, it is just a doom and gloom book selling money making racket.

This is a general problem with mass market capitalism not limited to the medical sector. Walk into any large supermarket and it's stuffed with ultra-processed food that is not good for anybody. Relatively young adults are increasingly getting diseases of the old and bad diet is a big cause.

The reason that vaccines are real science is that outcomes can be reliably predicted. For prescription medicine the cost effectiveness and possible negative results are closely monitored and very well understood. That's science.

For AI no one can predict the cost./benefit, or even the actual cost. The social and environmental impact is deliberately being ignored. How big is the impact on infrastructure? Everyone knows the cost of water and power is being passed on to the general population while it is equally clear the the monetary benefits are primarily going to a select group of insiders and economic elites.

I'm very familiar with right wing tactics on Slashdot and you fit the bill. It's the pretend rational objection of casting doubt on established norms with a dash of conspiracy theory thrown in to spice things up.

You are a stealth anti-vax propagandist who pretends to be a rational voice. You may or may not use vaccines yourself since your side is ripe with hypocrisy. Do you think anyone in the high level Trump camp in vaccine free? (Maybe RFK Jr, but he has diagnosed holes in his brain due to parasitic worms.)

I look forward to your explosive diarrhea during the upcoming toilet paper shortage and likely hospital admission due to the consumption of tainted mystery meat from an undisclosed foreign location.

One is pure hype and the other is pure science.

We're screwed.

Dell wins a $9.7 billion Pentagon software deal after donating to Trump accounts.

The worst part isn't even whether or not Eats / Doordash suck (and make no mistake, they do) at their core purpose - It's that virtually every restaurant traditionally known for delivering has realized they can cut that nonsense right out of the budget and just push everyone to use a third-party delivery service at the customer's expense.

I know I'm going to sound like a cranky old man here, but once upon a time, food delivery was a sweet job for a late teen / early 20-something - Drive around town rather than being stuck in a kitchen, busting their butts to get the food to you while it was still warm, and were thrilled to get tipped a five. Now, if you only tip these professional "food ransom services" a twenty, you can expect to scrape your food off the garage roof and be named-and-shamed on IG for being such an insufferable asshole as to not pay more for the delivery than the food. And even if you tip "enough" to avoid the wrath of your driver, it's guaranteed to be late, cold, and in way too many cases to be coincidental, missing a few fries / nuggets / whatever. Go ahead and complain, and they'll just ban both the driver and the customer, and good luck getting a refund.

But hey, I have nothing to complain about since I live more than 10 minutes outside a city core, nobody will accept the delivery anyway.

Oh, goody, the website selling our licenses is down. Whelp, toothpaste back in the tube, we can all rest easy knowing that the day is saved!

Of course, the next obvious step if they can't sell them is to simply release the entire batch into the wild. And how dare any of you think this might somehow be the fault of sweet innocent idscan.net for inadequately protecting the highly sensitive data they were grudgingly entrusted with in the first place.

We need a hell of a lot more CEOs in prison, and we need any politicians that requires / supports / allows this bullshit to join them. Of course, absolutely none of that is going to happen because Joe Sixpack has zero clue any of this is going on; and even if he somehow catches wind of it from a Facebook meme, oh well, it's just one more breach, who cares, he gets notices of those on a monthly basis and has been intentionally trained to treat them as junk mail.

Fine, we'll do this the tedious way, since you Meta/etc shills are happy to prove they're incapable of inductive reasoning.

Foreign scammers do not care about the law. Social media CEOs play fast-and-loose with the law and consider fines just a cost of doing business. Governments consider themselves above the law. The "good guys" didn't need this law in the first place.

"You may not use this service unless you're 13 or over" - Poof, every 12YO is suddenly 35. See the problem with your hypothesis?

I know this will come as a shock to many, but porn sites aren't the problem here, merely the lowest hanging "for duh kidz!!1!" excuse available to push these adult-privacy atrocities through - If anything, they tend to be some of the best actors in this situation, if only because they're the most closely watched by puritanical assholes. I trust PornHub far more than I trust Twitter, and I trust Twitter far more than anything ending in .ru, .il, or .in.

Sounds an awfully lot like you're agreeing with me here. Are you referring to a specific situation you'd like to cite?

To the best of my knowledge, gambling requires having some way to pay. Kids aren't laundering birthday cash from grandma so they can place a trifecta on the ponies, dude. Meanwhile, this will have zero effect on gambler-in-training gatchas that let kids bet on loot boxes via Play / iTunes gift cards.

Pbpbpbttttt! I know you are but what am I?
Christ you trolls are tiresome.

Gypsies and homeless probably recycled 90% of it already

You're funny. Tell me, how many under-13s do you think are on FB, despite not being allowed? Hint: All of them.

And I'll be sure to let the offshore scammers know it's illegal, I'm sure they'll be quaking in their boots.

Tim could have made 1987 real by 2022.

https://youtu.be/HGYFEI6uLy0

He made various sizes of Job's last product instead. :shrug:

There are varying interpretations of "shareholder duty" and rent seeking isn't the only valid one.

Kudos for a decent northbridge in the M series, I guess.

I very much look forward to your explosive diarrhea, with additional hospitalization caused by tainted mystery meat from undisclosed foreign locations.

And I still haven't received my $2000 refund from DOGE government savings. Please send me a cashiers check for that amount and I'll pay you back without interest when the money arrives in the mail. Assuming that there is any public mail service left.

The elder half of the AARP membership may get a biased view of the AI bubble.

Other than that this should have zero relevance to anybody.

Oh noes.

It's more a case of the fox being in charge of the chicken coop; or bank robbers gaining control of the bank.

The job of the press in a democracy is to hold officials up to scrutiny.

Both Czech and Slovakia have 2 GW dummy loads to burn off the excess solar production around midday. In effect, it helps to cool the cities by moving midday heat to the countryside.