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Well, of course. They wouldn't be able to research and implement innovative excess billing without excess billing.

Your overpayment today funds your children's and grandchildren's more effective overpayments.

It's your legacy.

JD Vance urges billionaire Peter Thiel to help bankroll [alleged billionaire] Trump campaign.

FTFY

Haven't we been saying for years that corporations getting away with everything will never change until CEOs start going to jail?

Simple solution: Only let contracts where verifiably senior company technical employees are to accompany equipment in war and peace, and to have all technical data in their possession, verified unencrypted.

After they're all dead, the president signs an executive order confiscating all on-site data and equipment, and authorizing military to repair. This would also be spelled out in the contract.

Effing great.

It's shocking how so much can be unsurprising yet still shocking.

On the other hand, what good is [effectively] owning executive agencies if you can't use them for your own ends?

There won't even be any pushback from department analysts and lawyers, since they'll all have been replaced by loyalists.

My phone is hidden in its case. It's just a shallow black tray with a screen. I barely remember what the phone looks like.

I think the only compelling use case that applies to every IoT user is selling their data; the user as product.

In that sense, every connected device is just another implementation of the exact same thing: a surveiling data collector. What the user thinks of as the device's main purpose is a mere implementation detail.

I had peanut butter toast on sourdough yesterday. The Man knew nothing about it. Bwa ha ha ha!

In the future, AI will write our manifestos for us!

> For example, you may not: Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.”

Ah, the old Microsoft "Cannot use our compiler to develop a compiler" restriction.

"This free app syncs across devices"

If you're logged in to the app and web site, what needs to be synced?

> It's basically reduced them to a Chinese vassal state.

I like to think of them as North Korea's client state.