I think they're saying that businesses getting unsolicited offers from the LLM is similar to regular people getting unsolicited offers from businesses.
You can actually act on the advertisements and coupons, though. And the companies who sent those offers to you are obligated to abide by them. This potentially would be like if you got a BOGO coupon in the mail and when you tried to redeem it, they just pretended like it didn't exist.
"Whoa, whoa, slow your roll... when I said I wanted to support the artists, I was talking about ensuring they receive a fraction of a penny! Ain't nobody got $15 to throw around for an album!"
The way I see it, we all should pirate music and buy as directly as possible from the bands/artists we want to support.
I shelled out quite some money for musicians whose music pirated when I was a teenager. Ethically it may not be 100% sound, but if I apply the golden rule ("Treat others the way you want to be treated") it is totally the way to go for me.
I have a controversial question; In the UK, they have blade runners who take down CCTV. I would have expected a more aggressive response in the USA, considering the culture. Is this not happening?
The gutless liberals that dominate your country’s preconceptions of “the left” are not your anti-police state faction, but you do their work for them by conflating the two. The anti-police state faction are the ones habitually being physically brutalised if not outright murdered by the cops while the media wags their finger at them for their apparent lack of civility.
Many of the flock cameras in my city were disabled by bashing in the solar panels or damaging the camera lens. Unfortunately, flock's contract is such that the city pays for repairs/replacement
Given the utter lack of enforcement on actual nuisances (noise / burning violations, 'eyesore' / private property abuse via trash / abandoned things / unsanctioned business actives in residential zones, petty theft prevention / enforcement) and the aggressive enforcement on any revenue generation laws that target citizens who will responsibly pay?
I anticipate the apathy to continue, and the bill to be passed along as some form of regressive tax.
i live in oregon and a bunch of the flock cameras have been vandalized.
a lot of the oregon towns/cities decided to cancel or not renew their contracts though, so I think they just let em get broken and then didnt pay to repair them.
The evidence for ULEZ is solid so seriously bringing it as an example of white knight activity whole they're at best malignant, brainwashed goons doesn't help anyone: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67653609
I don't understand? I did some basic research, and it doesn't seem like these cameras have air quality sensors. How exactly would some Android cameras reduce pollution?
The "blade runners" this other guy loves so much, are vandalising enforcement cameras on the boundaries of the London's ULEZ area, allowing the very dirty, polluting cars to enter the area without paying a significant fee (that is intended to keep them out).
Somewhat, but the legal cosequences for getting caught and brought to court if you don't have a few thousand to drop on a lawyer will screw up your life. So it happens less.
Not to mention the risk of dealing with trigger happy and corrupt cops.
It isn't good but I doubt the UK punishment would be nearly as harsh or expensive and the possibility of death isn't on the menu when the cops come to arrest them.
I mean we're also increasingly being terrorized by our new gestapo, so far with limited resistance. We aren't really the "radical freedom defenders" we like to claim to be...
Americans are largely cowards. You can see this as we're still mostly afraid of accurately defining and educating about genocide and how we all contribute to it by going to work every day, as well as afraid of feelings that arise around it.
I hope to one day contribute to a geoglyph of asphalt from torn up roads, if that's what's regenerative for the land I'm with/on/of/from/being and what the stewards of the land we gave back identify as needed. Would contribute to a geoglyph of anything else, too.
I want to build community through making visible-from-space-sized art projects with those from all around. And then go back to the plague pod I live in that's large enough to meet everyone's needs while keeping population density low enough to get rid of the plagues or make them a much smaller threat.
This probably won't make you feel any better, but banks don't really loan out money that's not theirs. When they lend money, they literally create it out of thin air. Creating that money has a cost, which is what ultimately limits how much they can lend, and having more deposits can lower that cost somewhat, but there's no direct connection between the money you deposit in your account and the money that the bank lends to someone else.
The modern world would collapse in about a week if banks were not allowed to loan out deposits.
The ability to satisfy needs now and pay for them in the future is why you can have a house, why governments can build infrastructure, etc. That’s the only reason that banks really exist. Keeping your deposit safe for you while providing convenient access via cards, checks and other rails is just a wonderful side effect.
After a few thousand years of civilization we don’t have anything better that could allow you to satisfy current needs with future income. Direct loans are just vendors acting as de facto banks, at much higher risk.
A bank product that doesn’t loan out your deposits is called a safe deposit box. There’s your solution.
> The ability to satisfy needs now and pay for them in the future is why you can have a house
The housing market has been greatly influenced by the ability to loan vast sums for housing, and without that we would have a very different housing market but we would still have one.
I think banks should lend but it's probably fair that we have controls on lending, and I think we should probably tighten them up especially around housing.
The problem isn't really that banks can create money. Ultimately it's up to the people whether they trust paper IOUs or not. The trust in IOUs happened organically and would happen again, unless you suggest they should be outlawed (ie. it's illegal to write a piece of paper saying "I promise to pay the bearer..." on it).
The problem is the governments can bail the banks out. After 2008, trust in paper IOUs (or their digital equivalent) should have plummeted, leading people to seek to store their wealth in other ways. But it didn't, because the governments stepped in and said, "nah, we need this to work, so we'll pay their salaries and bonuses with your taxes".
Bitcoin was intended to be a solution to this problem. There's nothing stopped people creating derivatives on top of Bitcoin and trading those. But nobody, no government nor anybody else, can just print more Bitcoin.
The fact that it's not listening to you does not mean it's not listening to anyone.
Our MPs are listening to the faith-based organizations bankrolled by American interests. They are listening to the Catholic Church, the Church of England, and their equivalents in the other faiths (they all condemn "vice"). They are listening to anti-porn organizations. They are listening to "think of the children" groups. They are listening to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch. They are listening to Mumsnet. They are listening to censorship-enabling companies. They are listening to anyone with money and an interest in defining power structures to further entrench themselves.
They are listening, just not to the apathetic, individualistic know-it-alls who don't engage in politics and then complain that it's all shit.
When I was a teenager I played World of Warcraft for 5 years. During that time we did "raids" where 40 people have to pay attention and communicate, sometimes for longer than 8 hours, with people from around the globe.
If teenagers can do it, adults can do it. Period. And if they can't, skill issue I guess.
I’m absolutely shocked that people think this example is a good comparison here. If only our jobs were exactly as stimulating as a video game, and the outcomes didn’t matter at all - then maybe we could use WOW raids as evidence.
Mostly because it’s a lot of fun to get in one room and play together. They’ve pretty consistently said that they’re not even sure that it’s a net benefit for winning.
I've copied your sensitive product source code before leaving for lunch then released it to the public for free. Why are you mad? We all die eventually...
Your misunderstanding of the point is wild. It’s not a comparison to battery/assault. It’s a reframing of the interaction to help understand the relationship at play here.
Privacy is not a crime.