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"Every day, people on X say Bitcoin is going to $100,000. Most of them own Bitcoin. Under the government’s theory, selling before it hits that target is fraud."
I find this to be somewhat a non-sequitor.
If a public figure mentions their opinion on higher Brent crude, water utility prices, or precious metals prices, that's not dealing with securities. There's a difference, no?
The GRANOLAS European, nutritious pharma/tech/defensive mix:
GlaxoSmithKline (now GSK)
Roche
ASB Holding (often associated with ASML)
Nestlé
Oracle
L'Oréal
ASML
SAP/Sanofi*A - Often AstraZeneca or Air Liquide (Most commonly AstraZeneca in the top driver lists).
*O -Oracle is a US company, but sometimes included in broader European-focused discussions: The "O" is typically Olin (the most cited list by Goldman Sachs includes Olin).
Got me thinking about breakfast.
Do they still accept cash?
I feel that it's not only because they wouldn't be able to track consumers with complete reliance on their own payment model, but also that they are unwilling to let other large corporations have that data themselves. US needs to encourage better privacy laws. It's an easy win for the electorate. The rest of the world cares even less for its people's privacy.
Walmart: "get cheaper product and pay for a system that gives less choice and quality."
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That gave me flashbacks to last year's Core PR/force push tribal vibes.
I have no more respect to give to anyone than I have for FOSS developers, though I don't donate as much as I should to the maintainers of software I use.
I guess the ethos of the handfull of projects that serve the 90+% of ai and social platforms are not necessarily as conscientious.
Interesting, that where one platform alienates its userbase, another one gains traction.
Okay. Thanks for the upshot. I read more and got a better idea.
Thing is like the article states, any of this can be done, has been done, .. and ultimately will be done. If it wasn't Grok, it'd be ChatGPT, I guess. I suppose the only difference is that it doen't have the reach.
Pretty sure, it wouldn't be so different 'share image' 'upload to facebook'. Something seems off to me. There's undoubtedly a campaign against the 'free speech media'.
I feel at a loss, whenever I hear of people self-harming because of ChatGPT, or indecent deep-faking on x. Probably because I don't use eith, never have, probably never will. Besides I don't share images of myself. If I was a celebrity, maybe I'd be a bit pissed over CGI rendering of myself. But am I even allowed to say it just sounds so overblown?
I don't know.
I'm read words: crusade, spicy questions, inherent risks, safety engineers, safety watchdog, safety team, safety tests.
Now, I've never used Grok before but I use other agents all day, every day. None of them seem remotely harmful. WTF is the problem?
Is the problem that it is training users to be national socialists as opposed to rainbow warriors, because, I'm pretty sure that if Grok trained users to ask about pronoun usage and holding hands together to defeat the evil that is carbon dioxide, I'd want some pretty stringent safety tests so my kids would not fall victim to the perils of socialist globalism.
Ahhh, gotcha..
Stupid damn sexploitationists!
Looks like the market price didn't really moonshot. Wonder if that had an impact.
The creep factor risk got too high for me to justify going cheap on accommodations.
I've hardly ever used Airbnb. What creep factor do you mean? Price wise?
It could be argued, I suppose, that much of humanity leaves home in the morning, walks into an office, switches on their employer's pc, boots into windows (which the company rents) the fibre (rented) links to the cloud services (rented) etc..
I think the gambit for everyone wanting to get the same services at home and spend our lives doing just that is a joke. That's not to take away the points raised about hardware being problematic going forward, but 1+1 doesn't make 3.
They'll be need for cloud services and compute, for some people with some needs.
I concede. You do always bring up good points, jajaha
Something about money and fools are always parted. But still, without these kinds of inefficiencies, the network doesn't get tested. I'm sure there's more insiduous actors that purposefully devise ways to test networks. Plebs help us prepare for this.
That was what I was thinking of. Guess that's quite a different deal to regular rail.
On another note, I have seen Windows 95/98 startup screens covering huge billboard-type displays on shopping plazas in modern metropolises in Asia in the last decade. I'm guessing old OS usage is more widespread than most people think.
Also remember reading something about when Adobe EOLd Flash, that caused problems for a lot of infrastructure, back in the day.
I tend not to think of all 16 or 17 y/o as 'kids'. Seems a little ridiculous to see people supporting something that has absolutely no capacity to allow for the individualistic variables of human mental development.
Didn't a rail network have a crash in Lisbon recently? Kind of have to wonder if dated IT systems are a reflection of wider infrastructure issues.
While true to a degree, do you always have to make such a pessemistic diagnosis? I think I was in the niaeve camp about what L2 all means. Probably operated at a loss. But nowadays, I claw some sats back, encourage others to keep going but not expect anything back other than some knowledge. I know you do the same but..
Think, all those plebs that do learn to set it up, compile software and run a node on their own hardware. Learning about actively managing it, about problems with liquidity, network discoverability and topography. Nobody becomes a Rene Pickhardt over night!
You've gotta live and learn, man.
Yeah? I disagree.
Jerome might stand there like a cardboard suit expressing the reverence of the private institution masquerading as a public one, with even less of personality than his predecessors, thinking Benanke and Greenspan (as I faguely remember) but I was under the impression the Fed answers to the current administration (evidently erroroniously.)
If, for example, the polit-bureau of the CCP wanted to adjust the repo rates set by the PBC, would the PBC be able to disregard and stand in the way of what the administration asked for?
We live in a time of competition where private interests are protecting their own, subverting public interests. This industry leader versus that industry leader, the secondary benefit to the public, is only a secondary benefit. But now that we've have hit inflection point, power is able to interfere and subjugate national interests.
There's no wrong or right. There's just actions and reactions. Also there's no national policy that favors stability and there's no recklessness. You might say there's policy that favors the status-quo, and obviously that's true as the status-quo is nothing to do with neutrality, it's to do with prevailing power dynamics. All there is, is a consortium of interests that moves to acrue power, as power abhores vaccums. As they say.
I don't think I'll subscribe to any streaming service that either has a restrictive moderation policy, or wants to serve me ads. I was hopeful for Rumble but it's disappointing, so far.. I don't mind the algo serving me reactionary content and having an erroneous assumption on my interests, but my attention has limits, and it'd be so easy to put right.
- Focus less on inflammatory and sensational media
- Offer in a broad range of topics and opinions
- Allow a natural trending discovery through voting
- Attract and retain quality content through donations with a choice to be a verified user (for large donations, and declared for sponsored content) or unverified for tips without having to involve my name, age, gender or other identifiable data.
Like all the best sites right now, you shouldn't need to dox yourself to supporting content you are interested in engaging with, that allows natural discovery, meaningful statistics, and would help to retain quality content and discovery.
Thanks for the hilarious write up!
when asked about how to manage a sandwich, MPs also struggled to take a bite.