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maness300 ,

The entire point of maximizing profit is charging the most while expending the least.

It's a game of seeing how low people's standards are and trying to lower them even further.

As customers, the secret is to have higher standards. Unfortunately, this generation prides itself on avoiding conflict at all costs so they just take it up the ass and beg for more.

maness300 ,

Copyright and patent laws need to die.

Only idiots think that work wouldn't get done without them.

maness300 ,

Solar alone can't meet humanity's energy needs without breakthroughs in energy storage.

Most energy we use the grid for is generated on demand. That means only a few moments ago, the electricity powering your computer was just a lump of coal in a furnace.

If we don't have the means to store enough energy to meet demands when the sun isn't out or wind isn't blowing, then we need more sources of energy than just sun and wind.

There is a lot of misinformation being perpetuated by the solar industry to fool people like you into thinking all investments should be directed to it over other options.

Please educate yourself before parroting industry talking points that only exist to take people for a ride.

Scientists Use WiFi to See Through People's Walls (www.popularmechanics.com)

“We developed a deep neural network that maps the phase and amplitude of WiFi signals to UV coordinates within 24 human regions. The results of the study reveal that our model can estimate the dense pose of multiple subjects, with comparable performance to image-based approaches, by utilizing WiFi signals as the only input.”

maness300 ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)

maness300 ,

How about pragmatism: real solutions to real problems.

maness300 ,

Now you're getting it!

How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity (www.wired.com)

"This is the story of the revelation in late 2013 that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable—that its blockchain would actually allow researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users with even more transparency than the existing financial system."

maness300 ,

Yeah, but retrieving actual useful currency from that wallet becomes nearly impossible.

Then how do people set up drug empires built around it?

Use your brains.

maness300 ,

Or nearly impossible, as evidenced by the litany of small-time vendors who have been operating for years.

On a side note, where are you getting this information from?

maness300 ,

You said drug empires, not guy selling 8 balls and 10 packs on a darknet market.

Yeah, because those are the ones LE focuses on. So we can agree that players both big and small are able to cash out on cryptocurrency and your initial point is wrong.

I’m not going to provide sourcing

Lol, okay. You can just admit you don't have one.

maness300 ,

I have never even heard of any of the publicly available blockchain forensics databases, or reviewed any of the ample examples of reporting and analysis on the subject.

That's not what I asked about and you know it.

I asked how you know about vendor money laundering techniques, which you failed to provide a source for.

it’s extremely well covered

If that's the case, then you should be able to easily provide a source instead of flailing around like you're doing now.

so stop being a lazy twat and look for yourself.

You made the claim. You provide the source or you admit you're making stuff up.

maness300 ,

I'm asking for a source for their information.

maness300 ,

Are you going to link to a specific post, or just the whole forum and pretend that satisfies the criteria of 'source'?

Hey guys! I found a source for everything! It's called Google. Just cite it at the end of all your papers.

Why is it so difficult for you people to admit you make stuff up without a source? Lol.

maness300 ,

Why is it so difficult for you people to admit you make stuff up without a source? Lol.

maness300 ,

What if, and hear me out,

What if...

What if... we just ran them when people weren't in the room? 🤯

Crazy what happens when you can come up with your own thoughts instead of parroting reddit comments ad nauseam.

Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term (fortune.com)

Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term::Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.

maness300 ,

Good?

Why don't we want machines doing the work we don't want to do?

Oh right, white collar workers want to hold everyone else back so they don't have to adapt.

Where have I seen this before...

maness300 ,

New technologies are eventually used to disenfranchise and disempower people.

Lol, what? Are you familiar with the Luddites?

maness300 ,

That would only happen if people thought the disparity in wealth should shrink instead of grow.

maness300 ,

Any grunt who works for these companies gets exactly what they deserve.

maness300 ,

Why are so many other nation’s CEOs so selfish?

Because Japan has a culture of honor.

The rest of the world is built around opportunity.

It's why Japanese companies made better products than everyone else for so long. They actually cared about what they did and raised standards for everyone else.

maness300 ,

Counterpoint: the Internet still exists as it did back then, but relatively smaller compared to what it's become.

You just need to find the right people and content to interact with, which is harder now because there's so much more garbage. I'd say they have grown in absolute numbers.

maness300 ,

They still need to make the system appealing to users.

If users had higher standards, then Google would have to meet those standards or lose out on business.

maness300 ,

There's some theory on this and it goes beyond conservatives.

Once, the internet was small enough that whatever happened on it could be seen by most users. Now, things can go viral in one 'part' of the internet and people in other 'parts' would have no idea what was going on.

The solution to this is to recognize that the internet should be treated as more of a local place, where we interact with the communities and people we want while ignoring the ones we don't.

We can't expect "the internet" to share any overarching views because there are too many people from too many places online now.

maness300 ,

I wonder why Firefox isn't listed in their mobile web browsers.

maness300 ,

Startpage.

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off (www.ign.com)

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off::An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.

maness300 ,

Just downloaded the original Assassin's Creed from JC141 and I'm having a blast.

It's crazy how much ubisoft games have fallen.

maness300 ,

wahhhh

Imagine how blue collar workers felt when their jobs were being automated.

maness300 ,

Why is it that when a human impersonator mimics a voice, it’s just fine. But when a computer does it, it becomes a huge ethical issue?

💰💰💰

We're just seeing how white collar workers react to their jobs being automated akin to blue collar workers'.

maness300 , (edited )

Well yeah, but that would require white collar workers admitting the disparity in wealth should shrink instead of grow.

They still believe those who have more deserve more, and those who have less deserve less.

They are still progressive up until it fucks with their wallets or forces them to use their brains.

Just look at how mad they get when you point out that their criticism of AI is identical to blue collar criticisms of factory automation.

The one thing the left and the right can always unite on is greed.

maness300 ,

Competition if always good for end users and results in overall better quality of product.

Except in the case of ports...

I think instead of leaning on absolutes, you should just acknowledge that more options are good in this case. From a practical perspective, end-users do not benefit from Apple restricting the app stores allowed on their phone.

maness300 ,

Nah. As an Android user, the only other OS's I'm interested in are ones that further embrace the Linux ecosystem.

maness300 ,

then it becomes an a gray issue.

It does become a gray issue. But usually they're greedy fucks too, so I don't care about them.

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