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Comment Cool, I guess (Score 1) 78

As long as we can still tax them less rich people on the roads means less crowded roads for everyone else, though I'd still prefer mass transit. Either way this seems more practical than flying cars that will grind birds into a paste, crash into random delivery drones, have no range as flying is way less energy efficient than ground travel, and etc.

Really these just seem like "helicopters that are less of a deathtrap than helicopters"

Comment So security cameras = bad? (Score 3, Interesting) 131

Security cameras can give evidence that anyone that walks by them was there on the timestamp, even if they had nothing to do with the crime. And in this day and age there can be half a dozen on any given street, showing everyone that walked by all day. They show you, what you look like, even what you have with you if they're somehow good. Everyone's fine with security cameras, if asked you'd answer "of course police should be able to look at them if a crime was committed nearby!" but change this to "a security camera but only showing someone's cellphone was in this rough location" and now it's bad?

Point being, these arguments seem pretty equivalent, just something to think about.

Comment Negative Sum Game (Score 4, Interesting) 46

A positive sum game is a game where everyone can benefit by playing.
A zero sum game is a game where the total benefit is fixed, for someone to win someone else has to lose.
A negative sum game is where where playing it causes everyone to lose. I.E. "A game of global thermonuclear war".
AI investments are threatening to go into negative sum territory, if all these billions of dollars don't pay off all these people will have lost their jobs just to waste money. Great depression 2.0 here we gooooooo.

Comment Pyramid Company (Score 5, Insightful) 74

I'm utterly impressed by this new version of the classic pyramid scheme. Just keep making new companies by showing investors you were successful before so they should pony up all $ and only own say, 30% of the company. And then he has one of his older companies buy one of the newer companies, giving the newer company a "valuation" of some ridiculous amount of money the market would never actually give it, which will of course be an all stock deal with no cash so it doesn't actually cost him anything, in fact he gains more control of both companies! And this is a "deal" he can do at will since he owns both fucking companies. This gives the impression of yet more success because hey it was "worth" all that money right?

And now he's trying to put out to yet more investors his ultra mega unified company in an IPO, totally worth trillions of dollars because that's the new number someone managed to teach him. And in order to make it appear to have value he'll just buy yet another company! Most likely he'll buy this new company (companies?) with, an all SpaceX stock deal, which of course they should accept because after all, SpaceX is a company worth trillions of dollars!

Comment They looked really cool (Score 3, Interesting) 180

I mean, look at this thing,it was a sci-fi Gameboy Advance doohiky before there was the GBA. But then I recently learned Japan had minidisc during the 90's, and just look at this cool thing, that's even cooler, I'm pretty sure it's what Neo hands some guy at the beginning of The Matrix, and kid me is jealous of how cool this looks.

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