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by gmd63 1y ago
Not all humans are practitioners of the terminal gamesmanship that is infecting our economy and government. It's about electing, promoting, and buying from the right people, and having the courage to properly punish those who have betr
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by gmd63 1y ago
Good question. I suppose it's adjacent to the intent behind electing a felon career con man who committed sedition.
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by gmd63 1y ago
I don't understand this assumption that crypto transactions are nobody's business. That's a feature of cash payments, which from what I understand can only be emulated in crypto by transferring control over a non-custodial wa
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by gmd63 1y ago
We can, via laws. In the US, there are anti discrimination laws for protected classes in some areas. You won't find that Nazis are a protected class, but if you would like them to be you can run for office and try to pass a bill and se
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by gmd63 1y ago
If you don't like it, start another payment processor that doesn't cave to pressure. Where are all the free market proselytizers at? I expect all of you complaining about this to never once complain on legal grounds about Apple&#x
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by gmd63 1y ago
Why would anyone be concerned with the industry vs the economy? Especially when it’s an industry engaged in foul play? Any dollar “lost” as a result of customers being able to cancel results in customers gaining more money to empower indust
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by gmd63 1y ago
I don't buy that argument. The issue is companies deliberately built complexity on top of their existing systems to make it harder to cancel. The added complexity that costs a lot of money to fix is a result of their unfair and decep
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by gmd63 1y ago
His FTC delayed the implementation of this massively popular rule long enough for these judges and lobbyists to find some rationalization that allows dark patterns to proliferate. If the Trump FTC reissues the rule I'll change my view.
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by gmd63 1y ago
Another value destroying milestone of the felon seditionist's megagrift administration It is trivially easy to capture the intent to cancel and allow customers to execute in one click. Any business that does otherwise is actively expen
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by gmd63 1y ago
The issue is that many folks rely on and even manufacture financial illiteracy as part of their "business" It's extremely easy to give people what they want: a quick way to cancel a subscription. It should be criminal to deli
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by gmd63 1y ago
Yes, and creating documentation is an exercise in understanding the whole experience. Often, nobody on the team truly gets it.
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by gmd63 1y ago
These types of "Aaackshually" business strategies are repulsive, and are evidence that these people who wield immense responsibility do not deserve it.
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by gmd63 1y ago
> it is better to grant 10 bad men access to information than to deny that access to 1 good one. I disagree when it comes to a tool as powerful as AI. Most good people are not even using AI. They are paying attention to their families an
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by gmd63 1y ago
They might say they want it, but like a wise parent guiding the BNPL spending habits of a teenager, government is right to step in and stop shopkeepers from seeking to cheese their way through business (only in the short term) by relying on
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by gmd63 1y ago
Metrics on X have lost all of their credibility since Elon took over. The guy likely juices his own numbers, floods posts he likes with botted engagement, etc. Likes are private so he can delude Trumpers into thinking they're popular i
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by gmd63 1y ago
So if you cozy up to the mad king, he'll tell you what he plans to do with appropriate notice. This is the least American tyrannical bullshit I've ever seen in this country, and nobody should be condoning it. The most important th
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by gmd63 1y ago
It's so painfully obvious to anyone paying attention that his whole character reeks of fraud. How this news could ever come as a surprise to anyone is a testament to how poorly our mainstream and social media outlets have informed the
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by gmd63 2y ago
The main use case of technology and AI is to sway public opinion. Elon Musk is one of the richest men in the world and that's where he spends most of his focus. If you're building technology, know that this is the endgame, and pro
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by gmd63 2y ago
Which ten regulations did they cut to introduce this anti-free speech one?
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by gmd63 2y ago
Why not just copy and paste the model and change the name? That's an even more efficient form of distillation.
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by gmd63 2y ago
No. The people, over the course of long periods of time, voted for agencies to exist, through laws, that are controlled legally, according to laws that have evolved over time. What is happening now is those agencies are being illegally co-o
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by gmd63 2y ago
From my stint at a big corporation, the person I knew most closely who "succeeded" the most (for themselves, not for the company) would routinely interview for competitive offers and threaten to leave. I saw on a few occasions thi
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by gmd63 2y ago
Exactly as you say. AI is imagined to be the wealthy nepotist's escape pod from an equal playing field and democratized access to information. Win at all cost soulless predators who find infinite sacrifice somehow righteous love games
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by gmd63 2y ago
I've understood that social media companies deliberately do not identify as editors because they don't want to be responsible for generated feeds of users. Is this wrong? This is why I'm asking to see evidence of a specific p
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by gmd63 2y ago
When people see Milton getting locked up for four years, it's in no way proportional to the upside of making out with thousands of lifetimes worth of average honest work. If others who had done similar crimes before him had received mo
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by gmd63 2y ago
Agreed. TikTok allows people to speak into the app, and to receive speech, but the act of organizing and strategically disseminating the speech is not speech -- it's societal scale hormone regulation and should be controlled for the he
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by gmd63 2y ago
I disagree. Trevor Milton, the Nikola Motors fraudster CEO will be out after a laughable four years. That's a complete joke.
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by gmd63 2y ago
That article says nothing that suggests Hindenburg is "part of the problem", only that they had received requests for information in line with an investigation.
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by gmd63 2y ago
If you don't support the current punishments, which evidently don't deter the crime, what's your idea of how they should be strengthened to adequately deter financial crime? I'm not trolling.
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by gmd63 2y ago
That's not even close to comparable. You vote for elected officials to pass bills that are attempted and sometimes failed. And often failed projects produce things of value to society so I'm not sure how you would factor that in,

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