... was how to disable it.

After scanning that many people, what are the odds of misidentification duplicates? It is a known problem with finger prints.

Nice

>"I run a very small boutique hosting service and traffic has more than doubled since AI, all attributable to them. OpenAI in particular just seems to come along and hit like 30-60K links per day, no robots.txt rate limiting, just a "gimme all your data" scraping posture. Amazon is by far the worst, "

Oh, there is far worse now. Last week my club website was hit by a full-on distributed bot-net scraping our wiki. Up to a dozen hits per second from 250,000 unique IP addresses all over the world (but mostly Singapore and Brazil addresses). All of them ignoring robots.txt. All of them pretending to be people/browsers. It crippled the old/small server, so I took the content down and the traffic continued for 5 MORE DAYS still requesting various links into the content, until it finally started tricking to 2 or so per minute.

Spotify offers lossless... I recently enabled it.

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2...

They only use water because it is cheap. They can cool with no water use if needed. So a data center water tariff would change things dramatically.

I've written about this before, but it bears repeating. My father worked for several supermarket chains as a department manager. I don't mean that he ran the delicatessen for one market, he was the delicatessen supervisor for the entire chain. He told me once that if a market was doing very, very well, it would have a net profit margin of 2%. Now imagine what all of those CC fees are doing to that.

This is the problem
Armies of Vetocrats whose only job is to say no
And even bigger armies of NIMBYs and their lawyers
Meanwhile, Chinese companies can build stuff
And yeah, they aren't perfect. The term Tofu Dreg (exceptionally poor construction) comes to mind
There was once a time when it was easier to build stuff in the US
And it's way worse in the EU

I like that old time rock and roll That kind of music really soothes my soul

And where were you The Day the Music Died?

Well, bear in mind that nobody outside the US cares (or even heard about) about Youtube or Disney TV.

Hey, yo! Y'all heard about the Zune? I heard it's pretty dope, yo.

No flying cars, no vacations to the moon, no energy too cheap to meter. But god damn, at least we'll have superheroes running (or flying) around and delivering public service messages.

>"If something goes wrong and the child needs expensive lifelong medical care for an unanticipated problem, guess who will be first to shout "NOT IT!"

And much worse if the unintended issues go undiscovered and procreation happens and then those meddled genes get scattered throughout the population. Then what? Oh, we can fix that too?

I am surprised nobody has brought up GATTACA yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Even if there are no immediate physiological or psychological downsides for the "designer babies" (and that is a tall claim), what does it mean for those who are not?

Remember, I did specify lakes as a place where a ship would need a pilot.

Are you sure it wasn't the North Carolina bankers?

Or, California wankers?