goodmythical
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Accusing them without due evidence is sloppy, but it's not like the claim carries genuinely zero possibility of being true.
What? Why would anyone work at a company paying them that much less than they pay the contractors?
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>It scanned my disk without my consent during onboarding, which is already a very bad start
Not really sure what you expected a program meant to scan your machine to do outside of scanning your machine given a privacy policy telling you the extent of what they might collect.
edit: Also, literally everyone was talking about this exact vector when claw/hermes/etc launched as the direct reason requiring that "you have to buy the machine it'd be running on": so that un-auditted software exfilling who knows what data doesn't sit very conveniently in your own personal /home.
Or we'll be at war with a super intelligence.
Or we'll be pets or slaves of a super intelligence.
Or we'll not be.
One of the four, probably.
And that manure is an excellent natural fertilizer?
And that outside that, worms exist? And they poop?
Oh, and that if you were to take bird shit beets and worm poop beets and mash them up and extract chemically pure sucrose from both you'd have no way of determining which came from which?
Assuming that you do know all of these things, you're saying that horse shit and worm poop is fine, but you'll be damned if a bird is involved?
I mean, I can see where you're coming from. A potatoe coming from a toilet is probably not as clean as a potatoe coming from a sterile lab, but that's not what you're saying. You're saying that the toilet has somehow altered the physical chemical compounds involved in the structure of the potatoes rather than has potentially added other chemicals to the mix that was the potatoe. The starch is the same in both. The starch = the starch. The starch and the toilet =/= the starch and the lab because the toilet =/= the lab, but those are different arguments.
Who pays the tax in 'anonymous' p2p schemes?
If I upload to a french server from a ukranian server that I seed through a swiss based VPN using a norwegian seedbox that I paid a friend for in cash, how does the french government bill me? Do they subpoena the ukranian server to see where the data come from? Does the swiss government, not seeing any legal issue with my data, comply and hand over my norwegian server? Does the norwegian seedbox provider or my friend at the company foot the bill because they've no record of me?
What about networking stacks in which the requester can't necessarily identify where the data genuinely originated? Suppose I torrent a genuine Linux ISO in france. Do all of the peers get fractional bills? Or is it on the distro maintainer? What if the data didn't really originate from any of the peers but was fetched for me by the peers and the peers don't tell me (or therefore the ISPs) where they got the data from?
What if I put, say, VLC in an encrpyted zip. The ISP and therefore the french gov would see this as data coming from me since it doesn't hash as VLC, but they also can't prove that it came from me if I demonstrate that it was actually downloaded from a forum.
What about anonymous data? If 4chan is mirroring images for me that I uploaded from a McDonalds and a french frog downloads it, how do I get a bill? Does 4chan eat the bill or forward it to the McDonalds? Does the McDonalds eat the bill or hire a tech to cross-reference cameras and IP logs? What if I paid for the food in cash? Do they check some mythical "who owns this laptop" database provided by google/meta/microsoft? What if my laptop isn't in those databases? The local McDonalds is forced to foot the bill as they can't provide a patsie?
If I send a friend a video on via facebook messenger, who foots the bill? Facebook didn't send the data, I did. Is facebook going to rewrite it's eula to allow them to bill me for "woops your friend was in france at the time"?
This may all seem like hand-waving what-aboutism, but there are legitimate questions at hand. If public data is expensive and there are routes that do not result in billing, why would anyone choose the expensive route for any reason other than ignorance of the free route? If those who know would choose the free route, how is france going to collect all, most, or any of their booty?
I don't have VideoLan's internal metrics, but if they're saying it'll cost them millions they're saying they deliver over ~18tb (or ~36tb for a tax of 2million) to french peeps per year
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If it was believed that they be purchasing N, then that belief was priced in. If they only bought N-1, the price needs to be adjusted to reflect the new information.
Here, the argument is "the more hardware we have, the more compute we can sell, the more compute we sell, the more profit we'll have" and so investors were expecting a higher level of profit and now are not.
All of this is why stock value and company value often share little with each other. The people working at the company and the people investing in the company have different views of what one small piece of the company is worth. You'll see PE ratios vary by sector, over time, by strength of underlying economy, near lows/highs etc. Any company's value is only set by what people are willing to pay for it at any given time.
We're willing to spend god knows what shooting rounds that cost entire mortgages to save miltary lives and project a presence of power to deter acts of terror/war, but then are also totally fine having people way as much as 4 or 5 people, eating several days worth of sugar for breakfast, smoking tobacco, putting 3 cups of coffee in a can we drink 4 or five of in a day, do next to nothing to adress recidivism of all classes of criminal, drag our feet kicking and screaming in to a semblance of modernity in worker protections...
In all seriousness, poem is a single syllable for many.
All on page 956 if you'd like to check ;)
https://archive.org/details/merriamwebstersc00merr_6/page/95...
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