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by maxwell 4y ago
> ban advertising altogether Not going to happen in the U.S. What is possible though, is banning billboards. See Maine, Vermont, Hawaii, and Alaska. Billboards are visual pollution, and blanket bans (as opposed to content bans) are const
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Twilio's CEO backs remote work as tech peers push return-to-office(seattletimes.com)
5 points by maxwell 4y ago|1 comments
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by maxwell 4y ago
And the East Coast?
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by maxwell 4y ago
The way to do that in a manner that doesn't simply empower multinational corporations, is to uncap the House of Representatives by repealing the Reapportionment Act of 1929. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapportio
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by maxwell 4y ago
Don't those all lose a lot of money, except ads?
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by maxwell 4y ago
Who believes this could harm innovation and limit consumer choice?
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by maxwell 4y ago
I probably wouldn't break up Apple myself, but would require lifting the ban on other web browser engines and app stores on all operating systems. For Alphabet and Meta, I would likely pursue criminal charges for conspiracy to fix pric
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by maxwell 4y ago
They use that line of argument specifically to avoid antitrust scrutiny.
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by maxwell 4y ago
I've been playing through Metal Gear Solid with my son, seemed on cue to me. (Joy Division is Kojima's favorite band.)
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by maxwell 4y ago
Great move. This will increase local competition and wages, diversify ideas and design, and make shareholders more money than as a single entity. As with Standard Oil and AT&T. The U.S. should continue investigating splitting up Alphabe
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by maxwell 4y ago
My Xi satire created with Craiyon a few months back: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_5lZo6UlVlY
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by maxwell 4y ago
Maybe he should find someone more qualified then.
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by maxwell 4y ago
What would you expect in a monarchy?
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Declassified Records Show Bush's Oil Business Was Probably a CIA Front (2018)(deepstateblog.org)
103 points by maxwell 4y ago|28 comments
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by maxwell 4y ago
And why federal governments make the best health insurance carriers. Brokers, medical billing staff, and other middlemen serve no purpose other than increasing cost (in order for an inefficient, openly colluding private cabal to invest prem
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Bretton Woods II ended today (2022)(pacemaker.global)
1 points by maxwell 4y ago|0 comments
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Markets erode morality (2021)(frontiersin.org)
1 points by maxwell 4y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 4y ago
Odd to open asking what actions Americans can take, and then closing with a bizarre appeal to a noble wealth hoarder. What can we do? Uncap the House. Repeal the Reapportionment Act of 1929. The billionaires easily bribe 435 reps, several t
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by maxwell 4y ago
> IBM's logo Am I missing a joke...? https://www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade
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Maze Terminology(amazeingart.com)
1 points by maxwell 4y ago|0 comments
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Code Page 437(cp437.github.io)
1 points by maxwell 4y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 4y ago
CBDCs are programmable: whoever controls the CBDC can decide where it is or isn't spent.
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by maxwell 4y ago
Sure, if they haven't already, you know, killed everyone.
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by maxwell 4y ago
ARPANET and TCP/IP were military tech first.
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by maxwell 4y ago
The limiting factor may now mostly be cost. Notice where the funding is coming from on this though. Seems like the initial use case is more killer robots than robot butlers: situational awareness and target identification, under the guise o
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The Last Invention of Man: How AI might take over the world (2017)(nautil.us)
1 points by maxwell 4y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 4y ago
Reminded me of this scenario: https://nautil.us/the-last-invention-of-man-236814
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by maxwell 4y ago
Looks useful for killer robots. Sure enough, DARPA funding. https://www.darpa.mil/program/machine-common-sense
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by maxwell 4y ago
The Richard Pryor impression has a bit too many tired idioms but gets the closest to just plainly conveying the information with some empathy, whereas the others read as mostly bullshit (in the sense of https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by maxwell 4y ago
Seems like just a higher level of abstraction: prompts become input for generating high-level language code output. It's an electric bicycle for the creative mind (how long until the first one-person unicorn?), I don't anticipate

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