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Personally I think there should be escalating punishments for crimes to avoid the "350th burglary" and I thought often history was taken into account but I don't know California or San Francisco's laws. So, first time caught shoplifting should be a fine, second should be community service, third some jail, fourth could be more jail, etc. That doesn't really address the danger involved in actually catching a shoplifter. You really just need more police or a way to recognize shoplifters (facial recognition?) at that point so that regular individuals don't have to become enforcers of the laws. It seems most of the tools that could be most effective are being banned or defunded in certain areas of the US. There should be ways to account for false positives, such as confirming a facial recognition software's results, that the person actually was in the area etc.

NFTs are mostly manipulated markets. No that picture of a bitcoin symbol did not sell copies to 300 people for $1000 each, netting them $300,000. It sold to the same person who made the picture 299 times and 1 person who got scammed into thinking there is a market for $1000 images on the internet, netting the owner $1000.

No they banned him from posting while he was still in office.

Twitter will ban the American President but is afraid not to listen to the Indian government. I guess they choose what political parties they want to support.

I see this too. Almost every asset class is moving together. When interest rates can't be dropped further then the real problems will begin. Banks have built floors into their loans so that variable rates can't drop below zero already. At the point when interest rates drop below zero, lower interest rates will actually harm the economy rather than help it and then we'll see everything come crashing down.

I don't think there is a time in the last decade where I received a "relevant" ad. The most relevant they have been is spamming adverts for products I already purchased.

We have wealth taxes. They are called property taxes and inheritance taxes.

It appears sites regularly add or remove items from their trending lists, both by manual review as well algorithms which are essentially automated manual review by the person who wrote the algorithm. That kind of control is the same as a Newspaper determining what headlines you read and what stories get the most attention, basically controlling the conversation and making editorial decisions.

Depends how much is being ordered. Some people live off of delivered food now. 3 meals a day at probably a minimum of $10 per order in delivery or 'surcharges', same thing. That's 900 a month.

This is a real issue. I didn't think it was actually forbidden though but maybe that changed. For years Arco gas station had discounts for using cash.

In countries with working currencies like EU and US, yes almost all crypto is speculation. BUT, countries that have poor banking system a poorly managed/trusted economy don't have access to even banks, let alone investments and stocks. Crypto lets those people participate in the global market.

Right. The algorithm should just identify videos that need to be reviewed, not ban them. It should also be a sliding scale. If a video has 5 total views, it shouldn't need a ban or a review because no one is watching it. Places like this chess channel with a million subscribers and hundreds of thousands of views per video should all easily get a manually review. Automating bans for channels with that level of a following is just lack of respect for their content producers.

Sadly I've seen worse for a subscription service. For example, Birchbox, a monthly makeup service will autorenew for you for a full year and won't allow cancellations at all. Also obviously you can sign up online easily but can't cancel there, you have to work through their customer service, like most of these sites that try to steal your money. I guess treating customers who already left you doesn't matter much to these companies and in some cases like Birchbox I'm surprised what they are doing isn't predatory and illegal.

I love excel but it feels like it's UI based abilities have been left in the dust. It's like development of excel and VBA stopped and even reversed to make things function worse. A few new features, forms, buttons, etc. would be a god send for more complex systems.

Tinnitus can be persistent, intermittent, or change sounds, tone or pitch. It is all in the same category.