DuckDuckGo still does that, and it generates UUIDs too, which is nice.

Yeah, I read that he has somewhere around $300M. Not a billionaire, but not poor.

That’s the thing though, options are generally relatively short in duration, with most being a few months. The longest options are around 1-2 years out.

Could AI stay keep its hype for 1-2 years? Probably. Will it? Who knows!

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Looks like very mixed returns. Which is what you’d expect from a strategy of betting on areas that are significantly overvalued.

Again, I don’t think it really does.

Let’s say I identify an officer that shot a pepper ball at a protester. Let’s say I report it to the news, file a complaint, and file a lawsuit. Here’s what I expect to happen:

• news agency runs a small piece on the incident, perhaps naming the officer, perhaps not
• police does an internal investigation and determines the officer was acting within their duties
• lawsuit is dropped because I don’t have standing (I’m not the victim), and if I did have standing, the agency might get fined and the officer retains their position

That’s not real accountability IMO, real accountability would result in the officer getting investigated by the AG or something and potentially jailed for using excessive force.

Nah, I played it 2-3 years ago and it was totally fine. The only bug I recall was at the end with the helicopter sequence, and it was really frustrating. Basically, I had to set a framerate cap to 30 FPS to progress the game (60 might work too, but I needed a cap).

There’s one impactful decision soon after and then a cutscene that’s based on that decision, but otherwise that’s the end. So if you run into the bug and don’t want to fix it, just watch the ending on YouTube or something.

“The CEO said in a meeting that they want to use AI to replace QA”

This sounds like it would be on the edge if the company is publicly traded and there’s a chance that information wasn’t communicated to investors, especially for something like video games where launch bugs could make or break initial impression and thus sales.

“Wanna hear about this cool bug I found today?”

This is probably fine if it’s unreleased and has been fixed. It’s probably not fine if it’s in a released product and hasn’t been fixed.

The longest term seems to be about 2 years.

Can we assume his puts aren’t for 2026, but at least 2028 or later?

I don’t think you can buy puts that far out. The longest seems to be about 2 years, so I guess January 2027?

Good thing Burry isn’t a billionaire, he’s a fund manager.

The solution IMO isn’t to make a bunch of rules to try to make them act better, the solution is to increase accountability. That means:

• end qualified immunity - when tried in court, they should be held to similar standards as citizens
• change how investigations of police officers happens - AG role should change to protect the people, not the state

At the same time, we should increase salaries of police officers to encourage good cops instead of power hungry cops, and perhaps have cash rewards for officers who turn in other officers for criminal violations.

If we focus on laws to force police to act better, they’ll just give themselves a pass.

He’s not, he’s merely asking to be worth $1T.

I’m trying to avoid using the term fascist, because it means something specific but nobody can really agree what that thing is. For the purposes of this discussion, I’d prefer to say “authoritarian”

It’s more that people probably know what it means, but choose to misuse it to smear their political enemies, and then other people who don’t know what it means repeat it.

Here’s a clear definition in case you or anyone else that reads this isn’t clear on it (or pick your favorite dictionary, it’ll be similar):

A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

Is a network of cameras with facial recognition fascist according to that definition? No. Is it useful to people pushing for such a government? Yes. Is it useful to other authoritarian systems of government? Yes. Is it useful to non-authoritarian systems of government and non-government entities, including private citizens? Also yes.

I wouldn’t call traffic cameras invasive because they’re only at (some) intersections.

What if they’re at every intersection, stop signs included?

If the only thing that turns something into an authoritarian system is scale, then it’s not the system that’s authoritarian, but the way they’re used that is authoritarian.

I oppose red light cameras not because they’re authoritarian in and of themselves, but because they can be used by authoritarians to screw people. I oppose Ring doorbells not because they’re authoritarian, but because the corporation has control and can hand that data over to authoritarians without consent from the owner (or be compelled by authoritarians).

“Authoritarian” is an adjective that describes people, governments, or policies, not inanimate objects or software systems.

A private citizen recording people in public and the government doing so are fundamentally different

Exactly! The capability to record the public isn’t authoritarian, the government policy of recording the public is authoritarian.

This may sound like a pedantic point, but I think it’s an important one. If cameras are authoritarian, then ban cameras and the problem goes away right? The government will just use radar, track financial transactions, or something else entirely, and you have the same problem.

The real problem isn’t cameras or facial recognition, but that the government tracks people. To solve that problem, we shouldn’t ban the various ways the government can track people, we should ban the government from tracking people. Don’t b regulate the tools, regulate the people using the tools.

Why would it? The article merely mentions that he’s posting his nonsense on existing .gov domains, which is something he can totally do as the President.

Yup, it should be “Ubisoft claims Assassin’s Creed games are innovative.”

I’d be concerned regardless of the companies they partner with, or if it’s completely government controlled.

The problem is the surveillance itself. It stated decades ago, accelerated under Bush, and has expanded with each administration since.

It’s cheaper in the long run, which is probably about 5 years, maybe less. Those fees are astronomical.

In fact, I’d be willing to donate some time to help a small business transition to Postgres.

Here are a few options, this isn’t exhaustive:

• release source code
• release server binaries, like Minecraft and others do
• release server API docs and help the community build their own
• disable the online bits
• move the online bits to P2P to not need a server
• embed the server in the client to allow people to host

There are lots of options here.

Us Americans fought a war over that nonsense, and it’s looking like we might need to again.

Common UK, figure it out.