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It seems to me that since AI is built on the collective works of the workers it's replacing any profits should probably be taxed at 100%

In 2021, Ulbricht's prosecutors and defense agreed that Ulbricht would relinquish any ownership of a newly discovered fund of 50,676 Bitcoin (worth nearly $5.35 billion in 2025) se…

It doesn't look evil enough for this timeline...

Can we leverage blockchain to fight back against this kind of stuff?

I think Gene Wolfe is the one of the greatest authors of all time across any genre. I highly highly recommend the Fifth Head of Cerberus which is 3 short interconnected novellas an…

I think the problem here is what you're really asking for is DRM free content. None of the content producers themselves are willing to license their content that way so it would be…

I mean it's pretty straightforward right? There are now more dollars in play all after the same amount of goods, each dollar has less purchasing power. Why are you so quick to thro…

I don't think you realize just how much of the money has been printed in the last 2 years. See fed balance sheet over time: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recent…

I predict a massive backfire on this one.. I know Netflix is struggling but as competitors (see HBOMax) get better and better now is not the time to both raise prices and give peop…

And what value has been created?

Pretty soon you're going to be able to replace "Man" with "Everyone who bought crypto."

Why does my $500 Samsung Galaxy Book Flex have the webcam in a tiny little bezel and this thing has a giant notch?

I think if you ever want there to actually be content you need a way to grab users and make it easy for them to start generating it. When you say "it's a chicken and an egg problem…

I'm not criticizing your business model, I'm just saying as a user who doesn't care about your business model and is just curious about podcast discussions your homepage isn't opti…

Reddit never started by taking me to a giant signup page for a paid subscription. As someone who was mildly curious and might have checked it out of you presented something interes…

Imagine if there was basically 0 cost carbon capture device that ran completely off of solar power and didn't just store CO2 but also expelled oxygen and miraculously created usefu…

Forget about "with a battery" - everything should have an off switch. Rebooting hardware like the Amazon Fire TV is so annoying, and it's not like it doesn't like up or crash...

I don't know that they ever realize it's exactly the same as the product that costs 1/10th the price but that doesn't mean it isn't.

They do it because advertising works.

It's almost like we're operating in an economy where it's easier and more lucrative to be a huckster than it is to innovate and create something useful. Maybe part of this is just …

This is Hacker News, at least build an app to track these or something...

Sorry to be clear, when I say competition I mean non-lego or knockoff toys, things like LOL Surprise or Shopkins, or Paw Patrol figures.

I can speak to this a little, the issue is that the sets are designed to not be as friendly to rebuilding. The walls and floors to buildings are made out of very specific pieces th…

Legos are still one of the most satisfying toys to buy your children. Yes they are expensive, yes it's annoying that a lot of them are built just once. That being said when you loo…

I'm not sure how much mental math you're expecting but you might consider building in a side calculator.