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Comment Lube up and spread wide, taxpayer (Score 1) 59

Because the government mafia will protect a monopoly on the complicated extraction of money from you to be ruled by tyrants who celebrate the killing of little brown children around the world. Maybe consider withholding federal taxes this year instead of marching on one Saturday every few months for a participation prize.

Comment Uh.. all routers are made in foreign factories (Score 1) 175

So unless there's some miraculously fastidious chain-of-custody supply chain integrity processes and surprise in-person auditing going on that reach back from factories to and include all suppliers, there's little hope of proving electronic equipment isn't implanted with malware.

Comment Pollution incoming (Score 2) 125

Santa Clara County, California has more Superfund-registered hazardous waste sites than any other American county because of previous generations of chip manufacturing fabs and suppliers. Austin will repeat history if it doesn't closely regulate and monitor this if it is ever built.

Comment Because they want to charge some customers more (Score 2) 192

And not just using loyalty program coupons for hidden dynamic pricing, but to instantly change prices based on the weather, world events, dynamic manufacturer collusion like with Pepsi, and who's near the shelf. Algorithmic price gouging incoming.

Comment We are currently clean on OPSEC (Score 1) 86

Said every government illicit cloud, wearable, mobile, app (including Signal), and AR game user ever.

This happens over and over again: Strava 2017-, FitBit 2017-, Pokémon Go 2016-.

Take away all of their personal devices on base or deployed to be legit electronics "sterile" and give them some sort of "secure VPN remote access" to them back home without sensor forwarding.

Comment Zuck "build it and they will come" and indecisive (Score 2) 10

He's been spending $20B+/yr on CapEx (I'm xMeta) without a concept of a plan. And Sam Altman, Nvidia, et. al. billionaires have been chasing him the whole way to get the best tulip bulbs and flying cars. They're draining so much of real and financialized funny investment money and driving enormous phantom economic activity that it's hiding structural and real worse conditions everywhere else except defense and aerospace contractors. The cost burdens and other externalities on the rest of society and the world as this situation falls on individuals isn't getting appropriate attention. The techbros and naive, idealistic optimists pushed trickledown economics, worker "retraining" (without as much pay), and "greater leisure time" myths.

Comment An iteration of what retail was already doing (Score 1) 72

Loyalty programs with personalized coupons offers dynamic and discriminatory pricing, but the use of e-ink tags that change prices based on time of day, price (fixing) markets, and closest physical proximity shopper gives them more power to charge some people more and others less. We will inevitably see the rise of professional shoppers and group buy platforms buying items on behalf of many other individual shoppers for bigger discounts and possibly attain some sort of collective buying power.

Comment Re:WTF is wrong with this guy's brain? (Score 1) 114

Sama wants to plunge 100% of human effort, stored wealth, and material into data centers but without a concept of a plan of why except some hand-wavy thing possibly including AGI simulating one organic brain of maybe a mouse. He just wants to play with the survival of everything on a pipe-dream hunch.

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