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i imagine that paying out would set a precedent or provide future discoverable evidence that they want to avoid. fighting (and winning) might have allowed them to continue their chat bot system without needing to change anything.

i did this for a while (non military) and the entire reason was i found the motion to read the watch much more ergonomic. reading an "outside" watch requires twisting my arm or lifting my elbow in a somewhat uncomfortable movement. on the inside felt like an easier movement to read the dial.

"disable its tokens" "freezing 326 wallets" no indication from this article that the tether has been seized / transferred

would love to read more if you have a link [edit: re CIA connection]

maybe not the distinction you meant but the UK is still in Europe (the continent) and to me, European is a word based on location not membership of the European Union (which the UK left)

oops yeah, sounds absurd, i was falling asleep when i wrote it. p sure i was thinking about the first few months of covid lockdowns in the US as a comparison when i was writing the reply

perhaps not rights to have a job in general but there is value in thinking about this at least at the national scale. people need income to pay taxes, they need income to buy the stuff that other people sell. if all the people without jobs have to take their savings out of the banks then banks can't loan as much money and need to charge higher interest rates. etc etc

if 30% of the working population loses their jobs in a few months there will be real externalities impacting the 70% who still have them because they don't exist in a vacuum.

maybe everything will balance itself out without any intervention eventually but it feels to me like the rate of unprecedented financial ~events~ is only increasing and with greater risks requiring more intervention to prevent catatastrophe or large scale suffering

from one perspective we already have fully autonomous cars, it's just the making them safe for humans and fitting them into a strict legal framework for their behavior that needs finishing before they're released to the general public (comma.ai being a publicly available exception)

wow this ticks so many boxes for me, really cool !

would gladly watch a full length video of it working. i'm already imagining a future where some guy with a big plot of land has solar powered electric heavy machines building him a gigantic dirt pyramid non-stop. (hopefully there are more practical uses too lol like assembling flood barriers)

i imagine that the current setup drives more ad views than what this tweet proposes : (

it's a sad thing i notice in so many sites and apps that the tiny chance of getting some money out of the small % of people who click the pop up ad or choose to sign up for the email list or whatever incentivizes the company to provide a worse user experience for the rest of the users

edit: i guess context matters though. if i'm driving with my phone on the dash, having a one click "gas station" button is pretty nice. in an ideal world, the phone would determine when im driving and only show the button then

i'm not a fan of adobe but they are an industry standard and have a deal for 50% off the full suite 1 year plan which strikes me as a decent deal

a company could derive value from increased headcount if investors or shareholders perceive it as a valuable metric and reward the company with more money or a higher valuation regardless of other metrics.

i wonder if companies have seen increased valuations from saying they are hiring for tons of positions without actually following through on the actual hiring

is he pro unions and employee owned companies ?

thanks, i really enjoyed watching it