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Comment · 1 month ago
Using images for rounded corners.....ugh. I forgot all about that.
Comment · 3 months ago
Its almost like Google selling Boston Dynamics was a bad idea.
Comment · 3 months ago
Hamas only exists because Israel wouldn't stop killing Palestinians.
Comment · 3 months ago
The north of Israel has been completely evacuated. But yeah Iran didn't do any damage. lol
Comment · 3 months ago
All this talk on why mass immigration didn't work. But never says that Europe is the reason all those immigrates showed up. Europe's policies supported US and Israeli wars that created those mass migrations. So now Europe is on the hook for the results of those policies.

So grow up and take ownership.

Comment · 5 months ago
It doesn't, these companies are building their own little kingdoms and robot armies. They don't care about the economy when they can control everything.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
This is a nice story and how it played out is great for Switzerland. But the ways listed on how to fix it, wouldn't work in the US. See companies in the US have already worked around what worked for Switzerland.

The different levels of governments in the US are corrupt. Sometimes from town all the way up to Federal. Actually its definitely completly corrupt at the Federal level. A politician or Judge has already been bought to make sure a case like the Swisscom lost. Would never happen here.

So before we have any progress in really any industry in the US. We need to desperately clean house with our politicians, attorney generals and judges.

Comment · 7 months ago
The stock market is a very large Ponzi scheme. 401Ks are indexed Ponzi schemes. Once the ultra wealthy can disconnect their wealth from any one country, using crypto tokens. The stock market and 401Ks will probably crash. You usually want to do this on a generation that has no real voting block. So it will probably happen when GenX starts retiring.
Comment · 8 months ago
Again this is different in a Capitalists society vs a Socialist one.

In a Capitalists society everyone is pitted against each other trying to out compete the other at whatever the cost. Safety in this environment is thought of at the end after a lot of suffering because one group has to win it all. Damages can externalized.

In a Socialist society we build basic rules and we compete within them. Thinking of safety as we build something and refining those rules as we build it because at the end, we are all affected by it and get to benefit from it.

Comment · 8 months ago
I think this isn't about guns but more about seeing and controlling what people are printing. Guns is just the excuse to monitor.

"Hey I see your printing a replacement part for you washer. Well that is a patent part and you will need to pay to print that."

Comment · 8 months ago
I think the reason tech didn't help productivity until the late 90s is pretty obvious. The internet was missing. Computers needed the internet to make them useful to everyone. So the question should be.

What is Ai missing that will make it useful to everyone?

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