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Isn't this a matter of tort law rather than regulation?

> Without renters there would be no housing Ponzi scheme If by "housing Ponzi scheme" you mean house prices increasing then this isn't necessarily true. Even in a world where priva…

That sounds dangerously close to victim blaming. Obviously if Co-op were negligent in their handling of member data they're also guilty of something. But even the best organisation…

My understanding is that V2G (vehicle to grid) requires transfer switches etc to be installed to your home electrical setup so you don't accidentally backfeed electricity into the …

> Only a completely closed-off environment with no access to the internet could prevent this. Even then, an LLM running locally could still operate.

To play devils advocate, a lack of sanctions also allows countries to advance technology at a tremendous velocity. The Ford Motor Company's dealings in Nazi Germany and the Soviet …

> To me buying new cars is just throwing away money Why should a car manufacturer care about your preferences if you're never going to buy new from them? It's annoying but people l…

> Beyond that, the chinese EV brands are in market capture mode right now. The competition is cut throat and the margins are extremely thin. BYD is profitable. Admittedly that's mo…

Perhaps the next big programming language will be designed specifically for LLM friendliness. Some things which are human friendly like long keywords are just a waste of tokens for…

The Romans never referred to the Greeks, Jews or Egyptians as barbarian. If they did it certainly wasn't with great frequency. It almost always targeted at the tribal Anglo, Celtic…

Quite the opposite. AI will enable the creation of ever more macros and guide users to make even more elaborate pivot tables.

They've adopted a different flavour of devilishness. See VSCode versus Visual Studio, or their approach to AI. Bill Gates would've bought OpenAI. Satya shares their mission of deve…

In hindsight, it would've been worthwhile for Microsoft to tolerate heavy losses for a decade on Windows phone. Like they did with Bing or Azure. In the 2020s every serious app dev…

I suspect it's more of a human nature problem. Perhaps a good work culture might allow you to delay its oncoming slightly past 7 people - but eventually all large social groups get…

There are performance benefits to using DB functions in situations where you'd otherwise have to pull lots of data out of the DB. For example, if you wanted to find which of your s…

In fairness, FTX had a profitable bankruptcy [1]. So it's still better to be scammed by Jane Street alumni than to be scammed by the usual alumni of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan etc [1…

When companies were operated by royal charter and owned by aristocrats there wasn’t much meaningful distinction between dividends and taxation. > They also had no euro, no socialis…

That’s never been the European way of doing things. You can’t beat America at being America. From the East India Companies to Airbus, strong European companies have been made aroun…

> They can use their bank account to buy crypto and then pay the ransom. This is actually more difficult than it sounds. Most banks and crypto exchanges won't allow a person to mak…

I believe OP was referring to a P2P crypto situation, rather than the BuyMeACoffee platform adopting stablecoin support. So I'd send crypto to your address, then you'd trade it for…

What's the alternative? Subscriptions aren't affordable for poor people, government funding creates a conflict of interests, and so does relying on philanthropists.

Netflix should try out a free tier which is entirely monetised by ads. Even if it only contains a subset of their library. Just imagine how much money loveholidays or Jet2 would pa…

To play devil's advocate, many successful developer focused companies have gone down this route successfully. Neon, Cloudflare, Firebase, Github and many more have all made free ti…

Visa/Mastercard can demand merchants meet certain standards of consumer care in order to participate in their networks. No consumer business can operate without access to those car…