And your owners and creditors get to raid any intellectual property you have. It's not free for Google to take.

I don't understand why this is so difficult for you to understand.

Leaving the value judgement aside. Even a failing business has a right to its own intellectual property in a capitalist society. Letting the vultures loose on any business that is too small to succeed is a pain straight towards corporate hegemony. Especially when media and journalism are what gets vacuumed up. I suspect Google, Meta, etc were targeting the news media intentionally an not simply as a consequence of desperately seeking more clicks.

For some definition of "voluntary" and for "capitalist". I have a lot of questions about what people on this site think is or isn't capitalism. Mostly people seem to think it covers an area much larger than the economic and legal systems necessary to implement its literal namesake.

Start reading your history book starting with a palace economy. Then check in every few thousand years until you get to capitalism.

As for personal ownership, also existed before capitalism. And the argument is a bit of a red herring as I neither confirmed or denied that there is personal ownership. Although I will assert that without regulation you can't have a fair and free market, you'll just end up with various iterations of self-dealing and Phoebus cartel.

I'm not sure what improving capital means.

Capitalism is about raising money among investors (capital) and the legal frameworks to shield participants from liability.

Whoever told you that capitalism has anything to do with markets or free markets was either lying to you or parroting ignorance. Markets existed before capitalism.

It's already spent for the most part. It's in the hands of Nvidia, data center contractors, and real estate brokers. Maybe they'll reclaim a portion of it for the real estate, but the GPUs are going to be worthless in 5 years.

Maybe a Republican will bail them out. But I wouldn't count on the GOP being in control of POTUS or Congress in 2 years.

oof. Yea. I think a better policy for StartTLS is to refuse authentication if it isn't activated. Doesn't totally prevent clients from sending their auth over clear text or to a MiM, but at least the bad client won't silently work.

Just unplug the old insecure protocols by default. Break stuff if it is going to be leaking credentials on the wupd Internet. Don't trust that MS tests their software with anything but their own IIS suite. (Which probably dropped unencrypted / unsigned POP3 as a default option decades ago)

This is "victory" because the Dems like the environment, so stopping anyone from knowing about it is ergo "beating the Dems".

Same reason the Republicans were all about demolishing the ACA (an act written by a Republican and then edited by Republicans because the Democrat proposals weren't acceptable to them). The ACA was voted on by Dems and therefore had to be destroyed, the fact that it has led to many Americans being without any healthcare at all and more than a few dying as a result is considered an acceptable price to pay for killing something Democrats voted for.

"Victory" is not about doing anything worthwhile, it's about "owning the Dems".

Of course they colluded with foreign powers. However, it's irrelevant. Since the legalisation of corruption (Trump abolished any enforcement of corruption laws), the US has slid from an already disastrous level of corruption into total degeneracy. It will take years, maybe decades, simply to root out all of the evil that is now in place and by then those who committed treason will either be safely overseas, or their records will have been "accidentally" destroyed, making any investigation impossible.

I would point out, though, that the countries the GOP has historically strong ties with also have extraordinarily high levels of corruption - and have done for a long time - and nobody bothers to do anything about it. This is what Trump is relying on. Once corruption at this level is normalised, everyone just accepts it and moves on.

Worse, I just don't see any serious will to fix the issue amongst any of the other political groups in the US. The Democrats aren't being honest with themselves over why they lost in 2024, and have swung so far to the right themselves that Ronald Reagan would have considered them right-wing extremists.

This is something voters can fix, but almost half of Americans have totally disengaged at this point and the other half believes themselves so powerless that (to use a Douglas Adamsism) they're only concerned with preventing the wrong lizard from being elected.

So every website on the Internet ?

about $100B revenue by the top 5 companies. It's amazing, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle have raked in billions since 2022. And all they had to do was spend about $1T to do it.

So if you want to get into an amazing investment opportunity, I can help you turn $10 into $1 without the use of AI. Without needing to build data centers or boil the oceans. Simply mail me any amount of money you wish to invest. And I will within 5 business days send you the profit back. Up to 10%!

Methodology to determine causality varies (that is, did the person die from the jab or something else), but for the set of COVID-19 vaccines specifically and taking data back to 2020 the number is dozens to hundreds of deaths. Not millions.

Both death and life-time disability are possible outcomes both for infectious disease and for vaccines. It's an exercise in statistics to attempt to do the least harm. MMR vaccine deaths are very low for example, but infant mortality is high for measles, mumps, and rubella. With complications in children such as loss of hearing, loss of sight, and intellectual disability. And for adults a very high risk (70%+) of developing arthritis. Where as the MMR vaccine does not carry these same complications.

We've been applying this technique to other species on a large scale and world wide for 60+ years. Everything we do has some consequence. We should only do it when the benefits outweigh the consequences. And the models of what the consequences of SIT (sterile insect technique) might be are treated very pessimistically because we know that we don't know everything.

SIT is at least superior in many ways to how we currently control mosquitos in areas of the US that are getting a surge of West Nile virus (like my neighborhood). My local ecosystem doesn't need non-native mosquitos that spread disease, here we have Aedes aegypti (the yellow fever mosquito) and Aedes albopictus (the Asian tiger mosquito). Usually county spends out a truck spraying a larvicide such as Temefos. Of course spraying pesticides all over where your children play and bees work has risks too.

Before being publicly traded they were privately traded. Any start up that IPOs already has a board and shareholders. And often even shareholder elections, at least for the voting class shares.

Having a practical way to cash out is what being public means. And unfortunately that can also lead to management (board or non-board) playing fast and loose with goals and reporting in order to pump up a stock price. So that employee and executive alike can bleed off some of their holdings as a tidy little bonus. Even at the expense of business interests. (I'm not saying Anthrophic will do this, but I've seen it happen elsewhere in the tech industry)

nobody has any idea what AI is going to need 5 years from now, let alone 20 years. Don't tack garbage onto DNS that is bound to be irrelevant, I don't even want to see an IETF RFC in the listing on AI because these documents are meant to be for long-term use. Anyone designing for AI today is not forward thinking.