The most that traditional currency banking could muster up for single instance losses was a measly $1 billion. This trounces that record. Well done. I'll just keep my money elsewhere. Where it's.... you know. Money.

Nothing is being traded. There are no physical goods and there is no ownership of any company or products. These are gamblers. I hate that our news media is completely owned by these psychopaths

You're buying something of value and you might be underestimating or overestimating the value of that thing but you're still getting the thing. Specifically you are buying ownership in a company.

That's not gambling. You don't get paid based on the outcome. You get paid based on the relative value of the company.

Now if that system isn't working very well for you no shit, we have been deregulating markets for the last 50 years what the fuck did you expect? But that's not a problem with the underlining system that's you refusing to do the maintenance the system needs to function properly. If you stop changing your car is oil it's going to break down.

Gambling is when you are paid based entirely on whether a predetermined outcome happens or not. That is definitely what gambling is. You do not own anything. So you only get paid if the event happens. And there is a specific event that has to happen for you to be paid. That is gambling.

Even without the context we all know who I'm talking about.

I bring it up because dear God this administration is corrupt and in light of the subject of this comment what the hell was anyone expecting?

I think the real problem is about 25% of the population of any given country or dyed in the wool assholes.

From there all you have to do is push people to enough desperation that their brain stop working right. People under enormous amounts of pressure don't suddenly get better or smarter. They make bad decisions and they make more of them.

Like believing a famous pedophile who bankrupts everything he touches is somehow going to reduce the cost of groceries. Somebody who can think straight knows better than that.

>"This immediately came to mind:"

That was perhaps my absolute favorite episode of TNG. It was shockingly good and highly emotive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Pretty sure there was racism before capitalism. It did supercharge large-scale racist endeavors like slavery - which also existed before capitalism.

Maybe it's disturbing to contemplate that there are some portion of people who are naturally like that, without having it forced on them from above. But on a positive note, I do believe they can be controlled/mitigated by societal norms and proper leadership.

I don't get "why." The search results are the same regurgitated crap on multiple sites, obfuscated with redundant paragraphs and word padding.

It could also just be money laundering. I've seen several of these absolutely enormous thefts and they're so large that it's basically impossible to get away with it. You can't move hundreds of millions let alone billions of dollars like this and not have it be readily traceable.

If they catch the guys who did this then yeah we will know but if they haven't caught these guys in a few months then it's either North Korea or one of the other nation states or it's just money laundering. Honestly the money laundering could easily involve nation states like Russia or Iran or North Korea.

If you are curious here is a quick live example. As part of an automated hunt for quotes on something there is a process that tries public contact methods. To avoid spam people use contact forms on websites and try to detect bots but we also scrape their page for contact information. In this case the system failed to detect the form AND incorrectly scraped an example from an email text-box on the form. This is a first pass proposal. It doesn't mention all the routine tests like unit tests on the code and remediating automated checks because I don't want it cluttering up the proposal. But note it proposes both a sandboxed model test for the logic as well as the final production test.

The last bit an estimated token cost to make the change. If the numbers supported it he'd split it into multiple units of work and smartly manage subagents to execute eligible pieces in parallel that are estimated to be big enough to justify it while being small enough to fall within the 'smart window' context size [LLMs seem to get... dumber... beyond a certain fill threshold in their context window]. Company name changed to protect the innocent.

It will take longer for me to write this reply than this proposal to be executed, including building the sandboxed test.

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  PROPOSAL #834 and #833: Someone of Harrisburg's quote form (Ted, 2026-10-29)

  What I found (read-only): the sub's website on record is the franchise page someone.com/harrisburg-il. The form search never opens that page, because it tries /contact, /quote and the home page at the root of the domain. Those pages belong to the national brand, so a form found there would reach corporate, not the Harrisburg owner. The franchise page does carry the quote form. It is built on the Neighborly platform: fields marked data-nbly, labelled but with no name attributes, sent by script. The form detector does not recognize it, which is why resolve returned form=-. The same form's email box has the placeholder "ex. johnsmith@gmail.com", and the resolver harvested that as the sub's email (#833).

  Plan, one ticket under #834 with #833 folded in:
  1. Form search: open the recorded website page itself first, with tracking parameters stripped. A form on the company's own page beats one on the brand's national pages.
  2. Detection: recognize the Neighborly form and fill it through the browser path by its labels. Add an offline replay test built from the saved page.
  3. #833: the resolver never takes an email from an input's placeholder or value. Add a test, and clear sub 1767's stored email through the stage's re-run, not by hand.
  4. Re-run resolve for sub 1767 to confirm the form is recorded. Then reset-form so the contact stage sends the form and the text, as Shaitan said.
    Estimate about 120k.

If you approve it, send "execute 834".

"I am curious as to how well junior and/or new devs do in an environment like that"

I'm not sure 'new devs' is going to be a thing at scale for long. Just a much smaller number of architects/engineers approving and designing specs and even that'll go eventually because you can't direct the AI without giving them the training input they need to train on. I currently have no intention of ever introducing any. Microsoft just got suspended from the H1B program and is offering to pay 60k volunteers for layoffs. Adobes entire portfolio, office, autocad, fusion 360, and many other flagship commercial software products have been reverse engineered by AI and released as free open source projects in just the past month or while not perfect they are WAY closer clones than you'd expect and with bugs being submitted and fixed faster than the real vendors could dream of they'll surpass the official versions quickly. In fact they already do in some ways, all those things are fully cross platform on linux and mac and have apis tied to every functional aspect so your AI can automate using them without a GUI.

"BTW, if you have automated testing for *all* of your code, count yourself very lucky. No company I've worked at in my 35+ years has ever given me the time to create everything needed for full testing"

That is definitely fair. A big advantage here is that it's up to me and I could scratch build everything with that in mind from the start and the fact that I can have AI build the tests from the spec and as it goes while building the code itself. Even every routine operational script monitoring disk as a test suite that has to pass after any bug fix. It's pretty comprehensive but 'everything' is a strong word.

"Reviews are 1 way I mentor the juniors with things like "while what you have works, those 5 lines can be done with 1 line like *this*" ... or "did you know we already have a tool that does that, which you've duplicated so you need to use that?" ... or "I see you've solved for the happy path, but did you consider what will happen when you get input like *this*, which I've seen with 3 customers?"

This is what I do with the proposals/specs from the 'Ted' the developer AI. Not the code itself because I never even look at it. Ted's biggest habitual problem is overfitting his design to the exact thing that went wrong when a couple changes to his design produces a solution that solves an umbrella of problems. But 'Ted' has a constitution guiding him and a calibration system, he searches for lessons and principles in my correction and builds and adapts his own internal calibration over time. His calibrations become part of a semantic vector db that augments his memory. He also has a craft library [we aren't depending on fragmented memorization in his weights] so any manuals, documentation, vendor resources get captured and similarly indexed. That's all important because it transfers when I swap out models. I've tried to utilize some basic form of the scientific method in each step of this so every piece builds a logical model of operation that builds over time.

The data centers people hate are the ones powering the AI slop engines, not the Internet. There's a reason traditional data centers never bothered anyone.

... offline capable and redo E-Mail with default encryption and signatures. And in a universal time tick of 3 hours for message passing and updates.

Problem(s) solved.

You go to the right schools and you meet the right people and you get to pretty much do whatever you want. And you get into the schools because your parents get you there and their parents got them there.

If the working class had half the solidarity of the Epstein class we would live in a Utopia

It's not a product it's capital. It's not something you sell the people it's something you use to make things.

It's a labor saving device. Automation. In other words a job killer.

There are studies that clearly indicate that factory automation is responsible for approximately 70% of the Lost middle class jobs since the 1980s.

We have been automating away high paying jobs as fast as we can for decades and AI is just another extension of that.

The Epstein class doesn't want to sell you products. They don't want to have you as an employee. They look back at the Kings and emperors of old and say, that should be me. I shouldn't be dependent on consumers and employees.

They are planning a new world and you're not part of it.

And because nobody gets it unless I say it this way, like George Carlin said it's a big club and you ain't in it.

For some reason one Carlin says that everybody understands but when I explain it it's right out the window.