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Comment Madness (Score 4, Insightful) 215

Let’s see. It’s a modern world, and the president has decided to make big announcements on his own internet platform. Ok, I guess, even though these are clearly public messages that affect the public good. And these announcements cause real money to be made and lost all across the world. SO, he’s going to selectively release the information so that only a few people can arrange their finances to profit from these messages by seeing them earlier than everyone else. Even if only one minute earlier, the information can be used to great advantage. And he’s going to personally profit from this arrangement as well.

He is selling access to inside information.

And half the country gives out a collective yawn.

Comment Engineering time (Score 1) 59

TurboTax is so annoying. It doesn’t ever technically lie to you about all its useless add-ons. But, I wonder how much time the engineers spend creating a good tax filing product (making it easy to use, keeping up to date with new laws, forms, etc.) vs tweaking the hell out of the workflow to subtly (and not so subtly) guide you into giving them more of your money. Yes, I know: capitalism! I’ve got no issue with them turning a profit. I do have an issue with them clearly using various bits of UX trickery, that, unless you are a dolt, are clearly designed to obfuscate their true intentions. With a slight veneer of truth to prevent class action lawsuits.

(Yes, I have moved on from them, which is my ultimate solution. They still are dishonest)

Comment Oh great. (Score 3, Informative) 119

Let’s take a disaster and start experimenting with a new payment scheme, that we know somehow is profiting someone. (Yeah, I know what stablecoin means).

Only in Trump world is this lunacy given credence.

Don’t you like how he took 10 billion taxpayer dollars and transferred it to himself, I mean the board of peace, without legislative approval , and there was nary a whimper.

Nuts.

Comment Metaverse here we come (Score 2) 55

Leaving aside the creep factor, I believe people just don’t want to interact this way. It’s goofy.

We’ve been down this road before with glasses, augmented reality, whatever.

“This time it’s different. It will actually be useful in ways you can’t even imagine!”

Well, that’s a little scary on its face. And I still recoil from the basic use case/form factor even assuming complete benevolence.

Comment He’s a visionary. (Score 5, Insightful) 150

It’s so stupid. Do you honestly believe this will happen, where real money is on the table?

I am sure there’s nuance: he’s saying it *could* happen, I suppose, and only if companies endorse his view. If they don’t, and stay in the dark ages, then that’s on them.

Sounds like the same drivel we get from Muskie.

He’s probably been told by someone he’s not visionary enough. So he gets out there with some projection, because everyone is doing it, and no one seems to pay a price for getting it wrong.

Good grief.

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