Right, this is an indictment of policing in America, not Flock.

But since you clearly cannot trust the police, you double cannot trust them with access to Flock.

You cannot keep the police from getting access to Flock, therefore the only reasonable thing to do to Flock is destroy it.

Yes, this is only* because the police are corrupt, but since they are...

* Yeah, and some other people too, this hyperbole is for the purpose of the discussion in scope

I think we both know that ship has sailed

It's no capitalism -- it's corporatism and mercantilism. A tariff makes the market non-free.

Tariffs can be used successfully for revenue generation or to re-balance trade and monetary inequalities. They (as are all taxes) are a disaster when applied for social control or behavior modification.

Electric utilities are the definition of a natural monopoly. As such, they need to be regulated so tightly that they can't even fart without government permission. Most utilites can't increase prices without begging/bribing the government for permission. I guess that's the real problem: bigger monopolies can afford bigger bribes.

Remember when the British government "protected" their domestic car manufactures by require all the parts to be made in Britain? How's the British car industry doing today, after that brilliant move? Most historic British car brands are now owned by foreign parent companies. Tata (India) owns Jaguar and Land Rover. BMW (Germany) owns Mini and Rolls-Royce. Volkswagen (Germany) owns Bentley. Geely (China) owns Lotus, and SAIC (China) owns MG.

I, for one, believe we should modify the genetics of the entire human population to make sure they never, ever produce another Trump. Who's with me? "If you want to make an omelette, you have to break some eggs!"

I've been saying agentic AI is a bad idea from day one. I've worked enough with computers that frankly I don't trust them a bit even without them having free will. AI acting on it's own judgement is truly a nightmare!

Agreed, the problem has always been there. The prediction markets just made it a lot more difficult to enforce the existing laws banning insider trading. Honestly, it should be illegal for ALL politicians!

I agree a lot with (regulated) capitalism and fiscal conservative. Trump is neither.

I think the point is that insider trading should be a lot more illegal than it already is and should carry 100 year prison sentences. If you have any more knowledge about an event that Kalshi bets are being placed on than the general public, then by definition you are insider trading. Needless to say, lots of bets on Iran war events are coming from inside the White House, and yes, those people deserve serial jail time!

That sounds like one of my sci-fi story ideas: an assassins guild entirely paid by betting on when people would die. Great to see we now have the infrastructure in place to make that dream a reality!

The white hats understand the problem much better than most government employees. Who better to do a penetration test on poorly designed government systems?

Good thing we hardly are made out of any bacteria.

Wait...

In which subfield is development not happening rapidly?