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bywill4
026 @01:33AM
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Attached to: 2026's Breakthrough Technologies? MIT Technology Review Chooses Sodium-ion Batteries, Commercial Space Stations
Agree.
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bywill4
026 @01:31AM
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Attached to: Fully Electric Vehicle Sales In EU Overtake Petrol For First Time In December
Giving the major automakers a challenge is good. The 70 year up escalator of car prices via unneeded features and unnecessary extra computer chips needs competition.
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bywill4
026 @01:25AM
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Attached to: Urban Expansion in the Age of Liberalism
Everyone other than the family homeowner has a vested interest in keeping homes as expensive as possible:
1. City / county government gets more property tax revenue from a more expensive home as some jurisdictions exempt a fixed amount of the property value from taxation
2. Water / Sewer get higher fees, need to maintain less pipes, less water flow and infrastructure per square mile for larger homes
3. Bankers / Wall Street - They originate and securitize mortgage loans which only works if the loans are above a certain dollar amount. A $40,000 loan on a small home is likely too small to package up and sell on wall street as a mortgage bond
4. Real estate developers make more money per house for larger houses since connecting utilities are cheaper (less homes per acre) and similar build/sell cost per square foot of the home
5. City /County / State / Federal government want larger cities sprawled out to increase budgets and jobs and GDP via more road building, more traffic, more gasoline tax revenue
6. Real estate industry want more commission from selling homes.
Small homes under $50,000 are a threat to the up-front and ongoing jobs and tax revenue from an individual home.
Refer to the government panic about EV cars where they don't get gasoline tax revenue and increased the yearly license fee to offset the loss in government revenue.
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bywill4
026 @01:13AM
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Attached to: Apple Tells Patreon To Move Creators To In-App Purchase For Subscriptions
So, does a large charity who has an iOS app in the app store which accepts donations both in the app, on the web, and in-person have to funnel all the donations through the iOS app now?
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bywill4
026 @01:10AM
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Attached to: French Lawmakers Vote To Ban Social Media Use By Under-15s
Expect massive government campaigns to pay for newspaper advertising to inform and warn young people about the dangers of smoking and other practices.
The newspapers will gladly take the advertising revenue to avoid bankruptcy and provide "unbiased reporting" of what the government is doing.
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bywill4
026 @01:07AM
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Attached to: French Lawmakers Vote To Ban Social Media Use By Under-15s
The twin lures of gossip and reputation smearing works well to draw in large numbers of women addicted to social media.
The same social media draw explains the appeal of the Tea App with its "quadfecta" of (gossip, reputation smearing, shaming, doxxing) of men by women who'd never met them with the necessary plausible deniability of "protecting and safety"..
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders Volume 23, March 2016, Pages 152-165
Associations between compulsive internet use and the autism spectrum
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bywill4
026 @12:57AM
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Attached to: Kernel Community Drafts a Plan For Replacing Linus Torvalds
The kernel team should keep the leadership small since there are many, many people who would use a public position as Linux public face to turn the Linux project into a political platform far away from operating systems and computers.
Typically, those will ask for representation on the board in the name of fairness, then nominate like-minded activists, sit quietly for a few years while continually getting like-minded activists on the board. When they have a board majority, they turn the organization into a political one advancing political and social causes well outside of the original purpose of the organization.
It has been done to many single issue nonprofits before, which change the nonprofit from its original mission to one of agitation for a different cause favored by the activist board members.
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bywill4
026 @12:47AM
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Attached to: Google Settles $68 Million Lawsuit Claiming It Recorded Private Conversations
Google had over 300 billion USD in revenue in 2025.
A 68 million dollar fine is tiny.
That is like a person making $50,000 USD per year getting fined $12.
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bywill4
026 @12:42AM
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Attached to: Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic
Mozilla has wasted 25+ years of just going along with whatever new complexities are heaped on top HTML, JS, CSS, and HTTP instead of pushing for replacement standards of the core layout, styling and programming part of the web.
They pushed back on micro-features and pushed for browser standards without addressing the large problems with a 30 year old set of legacy standards.
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bywill4
026 @12:37AM
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Attached to: Citigroup Mandates AI Training For 175,000 Employees To Help Them 'Reinvent Themselves'
"The adaptive training platform lets experts complete the course in under 10 minutes while beginners need about 30 minutes."
So, will the time to complete and error rates be used in evaluating employees for merit pay increases, promotions and retention?
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bywill4
026 @12:34AM
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Attached to: Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The news media got a list of 148 video tapes rented by Judge Robert Bork and published the list.
Judge Robert Bork was not confirmed to the US Supreme Court even though the Senate confirmed him as a federal court judge 4 years earlier.
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bywill4
026 @12:29AM
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Attached to: Experian's Tech Chief Defends Credit Scores: 'We're Not Palantir'
Somehow one of Eperien's competitors, Equifax, "lost" the credit reports of 160 million Americans to hackers, paid a 'cost of doing business' fine + free credit monitoring and remains to this day in business. Equifax somehow is now worth 25 billion on the stock market - https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNY...
So not really believing what the credit reporting agency (for profit companies) have to say.
Equifax data breach https://archive.epic.org/priva...
Successive government regulators only seek a large monetary fine instead of reforming the companies and industry.
Oligopoly
- Domination - A small number of companies control the market.
- Interdependence - Actions by one company (changing prices) heavily influence the companies.
- Barriers to Entry
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bywill4
026 @12:19AM
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Attached to: Software Company Bonds Drop As Investors' AI Worries Mount
There have been billions of bonds issued in the last 3 years for AI companies, data centers, and other industries tied to AI.
The usual international banks, hedge funds, private equity, etc. have bought, loaned, leveraged, yen carry trade, and got credit default swaps on that AI related debt.
In this chain of lender/borrower/insurer, there are many companies who have hedged bets on the debt and if any of them of medium or large size goes insolvent, it will cause a 2008 style race to the exit selling pressure for this debt. Net, net one or more of those hedge funds, banks, private equity, etc. will go insolvent and fail; causing a domino effect on the others.
In 2008, all but the US treasury and other central bank debt wend down in value, meaning that companies could not borrow money, people could not refinance homes, buy cars, etc.
Without this lending and ability to borrow, insurance companies quit writing policies or cancelled insurance coverage for commercial buildings, causing the mortgage lenders for those buildings to demand the mortgage to be paid in full.
This means that hundreds of thousands of small to large sized employees will not be able to borrow short term funds to pay paychecks resulting in massive job losses. 2008 was close to a great depression level event with only the government coming in as a buyer / guaranteer of last resort to stabilize the economy (the lender of last resort). It essentially says that the government will print money to buy any debt, even near worthless debt, to prevent a cascading series of failures of companies and banks.
This is not entirely new, it happened in the UK in 1866 as told in the 1873 book Lombard Steet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The US federal reserve has done just that in 2008.
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bywill4
026 @12:01AM
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Attached to: Software Company Bonds Drop As Investors' AI Worries Mount
Agree with the comments. AI spend and contention for IT budget dollars is a way to cut and decommission legacy thorn in the side SaaS and ERP systems.
Shifting even 5% of a large company's IT budget from projects X,Y and Z to AI will force a detailed look per line item at each and every IT project's budget and value to the company.
https://www.cio.com/article/38...
How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure
Feb 21, 20256 mins
A Grant Thornton
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bywill4
6 @04:33PM
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Attached to: Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM
It would help to know how much he was paid to give the speech.
It would help if these personality X made comment about topic Y during a speech included how much the person was give the speech.
" Meanwhile, speaking is my main source of income, and the extra price of a business class ticket would be a lot more useful for me if I can spend it on something else" from http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/...
Asking for the same reason why nearly every memoir by someone exiting a political organization, news organization, industry, ... has to have "dirt" to sell the book and speaking tour.
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