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I’m constantly getting bot checked these days because I do a lot of stuff when casually browsing to prevent being fingerprinted and tracked between sites. I wonder how often they just mark anyone not making them selves easy to identify as a bot.

Largely comes from shit heads who use open VC, especially on FPS games, to say heinous shit, given that it’s pseudonymous and they’re not likely to face real consequences from it.

It’s less of a thing these days simply because the novelty has worn off and pseudonymity is less of a protection than it used to be, since a bad reputation in an online community actually means something if you spend a lot of time there.

But, a loud obnoxious idiot shouting slurs or spamming them in text chat tends to paint a whole community in a bad light, creating the stereotype.

They’re only going public with 5% of the shares to constrain supply and push up price and thus net evaluation. They’re also probably going to have to get rid of Xai as it is a dead weight on the company as a whole.

It’s going to be very messy and if people want anything to do with it, probably best to wait a bit longer and buy when it’s dropped substantially in value.

I’d really recommend the book “Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America” it’s a really fascinating to read about just how… absurd it all was.

Funny thing from history, western railroads in the US were a really interesting phenomenon of nonsense. Like, people are familiar with a few common tidbits, like them building long winding routes to pick up as much land as possible.

But more interesting is how they were marketed to investors. Eastern railroads were built between existing urban centers and hubs of commerce where there was already demand for transportation, western railroads were being built in to areas where that really wasn’t the case. The idea being that once they were done, demand would spontaneously appear because of their presence. This did happen to some extent, but often the demand that appeared was far smaller than expected and not high enough value to generate enough revenue to pay the debts the railroads had taken on during construction. So they were constantly going bankrupt and going out of service, meaning that the people who had moved there and created demand were suddenly cut off and left stranded.

Of course, the real money in western railroads was in the railroad construction companies who massively over charged the railroad companies and pocketed the difference, and of course they moved as slow as they could get away with. The people running the railroads of course had no issue with any of this, because they didn’t own the railroad companies, the investors did… but they did own the construction companies that they hired.

It was a huge scam built on the promise of a new technology and the fantasy of use cases just materializing once the capacity had been built. It caused several major economic depressions in the late 1800s.

Good thing society learned from this and never fell for that con ever again. I’m sure this has no barring to AI datacenters.

Roughly speaking a legal document stating what the author lets people do with their open source code. There are multiple types of license.

The core element is basically saying “I have released this code as opened source and anyone can use, no one else is allowed to claim it’s theirs and own it.”

Depending on the type of license there are often additional caveats. Like saying anyone who releases updated or altered versions have to release them under the same license or that people using it can not sell it.

Because the industry is consolidated enough that it’s possible for them ignore consumer preference and focus on high margin, low capital investment projects to pump stock values.

Now there is a set of new competitors not beholden to the pressure of the US/Japanese/European/Korean stock markets that are threatening to take massive market share, (Chinese EV companies).

at a certain point all you can do is laugh. Like, there is so much being left on the table, so many legitimately useful applications, but they only seem to care about chat bots and robots, because their conception of useful and powerful isn’t a better product, but how they can substitute capital expenditure for labor.

Managing people is hard, developing new products is hard, implementing new technology is hard. Selling vapor wear to other business? Easy. Taking in a bunch of investment on outlandish promises and then selling the company before you have to deliver? Easy. Making usage numbers go up by forcing something infront of users? Easy.

“ I simply spend more of my free time preparing my self meals to feed my self at work, why are you complaining about being priced out of using communal dining spaces to get food?”

Simplified “I have devoted more of my time to labor related to work because my access to resources has been reduced”

If nothing else it’s just inefficient. Like, a cafeteria or food court is going to provide meals with less overal labor spent than everyone making their own bag lunch. If people want to bring their own lunch, good for them, but economic pressure should not be forcing people to internalize additional labor costs by adopting a less efficient method of mid day meal preparation.

“Well, to get people to consider if our method is potentially applicable to their situation and needs, we need to give it descriptive names that sound dynamic and cool to get their attention. If it’s not right for their needs they’ll disregard it of course.”

The business idiots: “Hmmm, yes, fancy words, trendy, apply it immediately to everything so I can say I “over saw implementation” on my resume next time I hop jobs”

That’s what black block and IR dazzlers are for.

I wouldn’t even say it’s all that controversial? It’s just… really dumb?

Like ok, yah, if it was a no holds bar “everything is on the table, get your meth ready” then maybe it would be controversial.

But like, they’re not allowing anything illegal, for obvious reasons, and they’re not allowing anything that the insurance for the event won’t allow. So… the actual list of things allowed here that’s not allowed at other events is pretty short, and most of it isn’t all that potent.

Oh, and they’re run by a DTC supplement company… that this is basically a giant ad for…

Like the whole thing is a grift, they’re playing up how “controversial” it is for the marketing, but like, no one’s trying to stop them? It’s a low rent knock off sports event trying to market its self on edginess.