You could argue that a heavily debt-based business that requires years and years of more debt before becoming profitable would respond to rising interest rates quite negatively, but, yeah, the whole thing is already enitrely irrational.
I’m keeping some popcorn in reserve for OpenAI’s IPO.
Are you talking about the collapse of the AI bubble hurting us? I mean, sure, but what’s the alternative? There isn’t one. The sooner it pops, the more money that will be available to develop businesses that can grow the economy. Right AI is gobbling up investment capital and driving up the interest rates and inflation of the price of tech hw is stunting consumer and business tech, contributing to overall inflation, and making actual products people want to buy more expensive, ie less sold…
I’d like to say that this economic collapse could not have come at a worse time, but I think bubbles like this are only possible when markets are no longer competitive, everyone is broke as shit, and people have to invent fantasies to make investors think line will go up.
Edit: Oh, and I just thought of a REALLY big benefit of an early pop: people’s retirements will be less exposed to AI-first and AI-only companies which are almost guaranteed to fail. If OpenAI raises 2 trillion, it’s going to be getting a lot of that from institutional investors investing other people’s money.
I’d probably have better luck shorting stocks if I could trigger a (rightful) panic like this guy can.
But because this one pushes the relationship as a part of the game play, everyone fucking suddenly hates it…
Yup. This might be what makes the difference. Misogyny is still the root issue, of course, but players have to deal with a woman as a main character with agency instead of as a subservient sex object and they don’t like it.
As far as “woke” goes, pretty nuts to say strong women engaging in criminal activity are a political fabrication and not, you know, an actual reality. See: cocaine kingpin (queenpin?) Griselda Blanco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griselda_Blanco
I think it’s the social rule of never saying something good about something bad, the inverse being never say something bad about something good. Tribalism.
That pallet of NIC’s: oof! I thought there were complicated methods in place to assure that didn’t happen.
As for the math, cheating is a problem because it drives players away. Whatever the math is, there is a number of innocent players that could get swept up in a ban that would be acceptable if enough cheaters were also kicked out. I’m not talking morally, just the viability of an online game.
Great! I’m glad you found a good answer! Thanks.
The US Government informs the press of hacks because and when it suits the interests of the US Government, not because it’s required by the constitution.
I for one, would dearly like to know the exact KIA figures since our latest adventure, and an open assessment of our bases in the region, but, guess what? Telling me would not suit the interest of the government, so they don’t.
“How dare you imply that the President’s intention was self-centered and at the expense of the good people of Venezuela! He would never!” is what I imagine the people downvoting you are thinking.
This is SOP for our gerontocracy. Both Reagan and Biden were non compos mentis for parts of their terms.
And, heck, Nancy was clearing Ronnie’s schedule through an astrologer, so Grok isn’t even the wackiest WH advisor we’ve had.
There’s a reason CEOs love AI more than anyone else. The vile servility of an LLM is what they think is normal human behavior.
The press knows about Chinese spying because the US government tells them. This isn’t a first ammendment issue.
I can’t verify that each CPU has a unique id, the way a network card does (MAC address), but it might be a trade secret, who knows.
As far as banning innocent people, if the math is that one cheater drives away 100 honest players, it’s better to ban up to 99 honest players to get to that 1 cheater.
Fingerprinting that is that hyperspecific is the one that’s actually flawed. If you could circumvent a hardware ban by rearranging your RAM sticks, it wouldn’t be much good.
As it is, the CPU is the one most stable, expensive, and difficult piece to replace, so it makes sense to ban on that alone.
But, I do agree that cheaters are really slimy fuckers, so what you’re saying is certainly possible. I remember a kid that had his grandmother bring his computer into the shop to see we could evade his hw ban, talked his grandmother into agrreing to buy him a new GPU right in front of us before we turned him down flat.
What about this story to you is in any way implausible?
Yes, the US is a much more open society in that way.
It wouldn’t even make the top 100 list of things this administration has done that look really bad.
What would you base that conclusion on?
I’d say it’s likely, because so much of our (US) infrastructure is run on a shoe-string budget and nobody is really ever held accountable for breaches; whereas I imagine in China heads would roll if, say, a foreign actor shut down the power grid.
If you’re doing spying, you enter a different job code on your time sheet for those hours.
Trump just said in a response to a question about our $40 trillion debt (jesus, that’s a lot of zeroes), “You know, inflation, certain levels of inflation, will also pay off that debt very rapidly. Very rapidly.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-just-soft-launched-higher-inflation-as-the-new-solution-for-rebalancing-the-40-trillion-us-national-debt/ar-AA2dpocG
So I hope that cash isn’t USD. Honestly, all currencies look pretty bad right now. And if Trump triggers Iran into destroying the Middle East (and maybe triggering Israel to nuke, if Trump hasn’t already), the only thing that’s going to be worth a damn is cigarettes and penicillin.