Itâ(TM)s not a âoefreeâ country though. There are limits on everything. One person owns a thing and you canâ(TM)t touch it without permission.
We might have a lot of choices, within a confined area like what shampoo to buy from three different holding companies that might mean itâ(TM)s actually two. But we canâ(TM)t just take that shampoo without buying it.
We also have a duty to society; or we can watch it fall apart, which is what we are doing.
The prediction market is gambling, and thereâ(TM)s no protection at all against rigging. For instance; someone bet a good deal of money that Trump would bless Allah on Easter Sunday. What are the chances they had access to the script going to the teleprompter? Weâ(TM)ve actually had military strikes and peace deals predicted.
Somehow, they made something worse than gambling in a casino and gladiators spectacles and we can bet on life and death now.
And itâ(TM)s like decriminalizing dangerous drugs. It can make things better but only if itâ(TM)s not commercialized and easily accessible. If there are support systems to help with addiction. If there is opportunity for people to live happy lives.
When there is no hope, addiction gets worse. And thereâ(TM)s nothing better to improve profits and numbers of butts in pews than a crumbling hopeless society.
We can incrementally improve but easy access online gambling that favors inside information is the wrong direction. Iâ(TM)d rather trade this freedom for free college education.
Being able to create a run time app in another app is a huge security hole.
I remember back in the day when Flash was not designed for object oriented coding I could interpret text as code objects. So basically, I could do anything. And due to the nature of browsers at the time, I had to learn to check for a variable in a browser window to make sure I wasnâ(TM)t running code after a window was closed. Meaning; I had access to every window of a browser until the app itself was exited.
I did not abuse my power but i could have done a lot of abuse.
I expect targeted surge pricing. Like plane tickets will go up in price if they know you searched before, or if you mentioned a wedding or if someone close to you is also buying a ticket.
And the it might get so random as to base prices on willingness to pay. Already this is happening with delivery services and taxis.
And then it might be; late at night, last store open and they can raise the price of baby formula because they know you are out.
And then it might be that you said something in social media that suggested we raise taxes on the wealthy. So you end up paying more at the grocery store.
Once an AI agent can be assigned to track and connect each customer to a profile, the profit potentials are endless.
Itâ(TM)s like buy one get the second half price at CVS. And the half off price is higher than any sane store.
Are you really this naive?
It makes sense for you realize the Epstein Class is afraid of anyone who is not them having privacy or rights. They donâ(TM)t want to depend upon us participating because itâ(TM)s on our best interests, they want us complying because we have no choice.
Crypto is useless. Do I really need to remind anyone that crypto is useless?
There is no specific need for bitcoin in the world, it's a solution looking for a problem.
If I had a bitcoin, I couldn't do anything with it other than sit on it and pray that it's worth more some day, but still, in order to derive concrete utility from it I would have to first get rid of it and convert to real money instead.
It's a very formidable waste of resources, akin to growing tulips instead of something useful.
You can't eat tulips. Well even with tulips they might be edible but you could probably grow a lot of potatoes for all the work you dedicate into cultivating a rare tulip.
Theyâ(TM)ll block porn right after the ability to create it with AI is easy to download and use.
Humans are notoriously clever at getting around censorship.
But also , I donâ(TM)t want to be around the USA when itâ(TM)s run by Christian Nationalists. Iâ(TM)m not that much of a freak. Thereâ(TM)s no hate like Christian love and no perversion like the repressed.
This is all about control and continuous warping of minds.
The âoeto avoid all the liabilityâ excuse would hold more water if anyone, anywhere in the big corporate world were held liable for software on phones.
I suppose theyâ(TM)re giving âoefor the childrenâ a rest so they can cycle back to that one day.
Some people who are about to be fired train their replacement. What do we do when AI is good enough that it doesn't require intensive training and an army of support people to calm users down when it fails?
Works well for the rest of the world. Like the metric system, and everything else that is not retarded.
In Portugal we have a $10 billion datacenter being built by Microsoft where a large thermal power plant used to be... it uses sea water for cooling just like the power plant used to. Beachgoers love the warm water. Sea water is not exactly scarce and there's no shortage of shoreline in Malaysia...
My new PC boosts instantly. What are they trying to improve? With oodles of RAM and absurdly fast SSDs there is nothing slow about a computer these days.
Well copyright and privacy are dead for all but the incorporated.
And I wouldnâ(TM)t bank on a paid email account not being used for AI scraping.
There are no standards any more. Not even much of a pretense.
Seen on a button at an SF Convention: Veteran of the Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force. 1990-1951.