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Comment · 1 month ago
Well, even if you're right, try proposing those bills and then reckon with the deafening wails of the "free-market-big-government-taxation-is-theft" crowd. And the politicians that are in the pockets of BigCo that will say that kind of stuff.

Policies are simple a lot of times. Politics against the interest of big money isn't.

Comment · 1 month ago
What I got from parent comment, and I agree, is:

If I trust you know what happened, and trust you to know what to do so it doesn’t happen again, why do I need to know? And how will I know (and endorse) your decision if I don’t know what happened?

It seems weird.

Comment · 1 month ago
Except if you don’t know the details, how will you be able to make an informed decision on what happens next?

- We’ll just fire joe - Ok cool

I agree with the parent comment. You need SOME level of detail, otherwise your decision might as well be a guess.

Comment · 2 months ago
Yeah, username checks out
Comment · 2 months ago
They’re absolutely not that incompetent. They’re on the pockets of people who profit directly from this.

Follow the money, and all that.

Comment · 2 months ago
We also have a bunch of agents and harnesses for free
Comment · 3 months ago
Except these programs keep your people alive and healthy and able to work and consume and live. The other money just kills people. And it’s also not just about this “operation” (aggression war). It’s about the whole military budget. Come on, now.
Comment · 3 months ago
No. The point is that people are using AI for this, which was the question your parent comment was answering.

Humans select the wrong targets, computer select the wrong targets. It’s just that people really don’t care unless it’s hurting their bottom line.

Comment · 4 months ago
Probably from actually paying human beings for their work
Comment · 5 months ago
Lots of countries around Brazil are taking pix. Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay.

And you can totally expand the idea. The fact that you need national id for pix doesn’t mean the idea “doesn’t scale.” It means the current implementation of it is not focused on use by visitors.

I really don’t understand what you’re getting at, it seems like a pretty narrow view of the possibilities.

Meanwhile US citizens are using paper (cash and cheques) for lots of transactions. Or one of the big credit card corporations.

Comment · 6 months ago
Rioting is undemocratic…

Yeah, I guess we ARE hard-working sheep and get what we deserve…

Comment · 6 months ago
> Or that they're targeting the mass retail market, where people are technically ignorant, and "unlimited" is required to compete.

So… Marketing has taken over, just as parent comment said. Got it.

Comment · 7 months ago
Postponed my ios update as much as I could. Things are now brighter, bigger, full of animations, and somehow worse to read and use.

Some buttons are so big and colorful and confusing that I feel like I’m using a child’s toy, or windows xp. This is horrible.

Comment · 7 months ago
Guy sees a lot of problems stemming from wrong assumptions, bad management, bullshit jobs “needed” by the capitalist mode of production and profit motive, badly conducted wars, what have you.

Guy concludes the problem is “collaboration”, in general.

Yeah, no.

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