Move fast, break things, pay fines.

Scammers make FB a lot of money.

EU is making a rule that would make FB liable to the financial damage of the scammers if they don’t remove scammer posts. Of course the platforms scream bloody murder.

Seems they got really tired of people bringing burner phones when visiting the USA.

Yes. They’re busy buying everything already. They just need a financial crisis to get the rest for pennies on the dollar. After that it’s time for neo-feudalism.

and I owned nothing

Companies love that, until everybody is completely in debt and they learn you can’t seize property from people that don’t own anything.

“Hacked” is a bit much. It’s probably like the cameras on insecam.org, cameras plugged into that internet with no password or still on factory default like admin, 0000, 12345 and the like. That’s the security level of hanging a “keep out” sign on your bedroom door.

Japan has a habit of doing this. The birth rate cratered, productivity is not that great and economic growth is famously low. Most workers do a form of performance theater, an actual “we pretend to work”.

private consultancy

Yeah, there’s your answer.

Their whole shtick is to bullshit and confidence game their way through their career. Of course they’re going to be impressed by the rock solid bs and confidence of AI.

The training data for a lot of robots comes from tele operation so that form factor is going to stay important for some time. And making the whole plant basically wheelchair accessible isn’t worth it for now. There are variants with a wheeled base but once you add in some balancing for heavier objects and kneeling to pick stuff up it’s not much cheaper.

So, it’s a DAI requirement

There was a clip recently from a former silicon valley worker, saying that AI was everywhere, the talking point of every part, and basically the god they all worship. They can’t understand other people not wanting this.

Except they see stockholders and investors as their real customers, and us as the plebeians they can dump their stuff on and be grateful for the experience. That’s what you get when speculative future value is the only thing that counts.

Except they see stockholders and investors as their real customers, and us as the plebeians they can dump their stuff on and be grateful for the experience. That’s what you get when speculative future value is the only thing that counts.

He probably means for anyone with at least 100 million in wealth. Everyone else just doesn’t matter to him.

They’ve learned they can get away with it.

“No bail-out, no economy” basically.

It’ll end with 9 out of 10 packages returned and a lot of companies complaining about that.

And that’s how you make sure these kids will never want to have kids of their own.

Let’s just build a new web based on the old BBS terminals, and 16 color images. Too much graphics was a mistake.