It won’t be long before the internet is just bots talking to each other and advertisers paying them to do so.

I vividly remember the Digg migration and Reddit is so very much like Digg these days.

I’m 50 and really don’t watch movies almost at all any more. They tend to be so formulaic and too long to watch at home at night. If I’m going to watch something it will likely be episodic tv series. I do still play video games on the regular though.

I used Borland Turbo Pascal and C++ all through school and I have to agree, these were the most intuitive and efficient IDE’s I’ve used.

This was cringe even in the '90s.

I can’t imagine who would ever pay $700 to upgrade from a ps5 for this.

If nothing else it enforces readable code which I think is a good thing.

It’s the lack of anti trust enforcement in the USA that causes this. There is little to no competition left in many markets.

It’s traceable but also possible to hide your identity, especially if you are a major criminal or government under sanctions. Especially when compared to the traditional finance system (in which they also tend to be pretty good at hiding their identities and transactions).

It’s a great platform for being able to transfer money that would otherwise be under sanctions and for storing criminal profits. And that’s probably what it will always be for.

The only way to get this rich is by exploiting others and almost definitely breaking laws. These people all have a screw loose somewhere.

Well if all the good mods leave and you only have the bad ones left or people who come in just to profit, you get this.

Shocker

Legend

Maybe something from My config will inspire you.

This is one area where I am vehemently in support of IP protection for all the writers and artists’ works being used. Unfortunately, unlike when it comes to suing individuals who copy something, the wholesale theft of generations of art and writing by AI companies is just being let slide.

Honestly I can’t argue with that. That’s the reality of the situation. But emotionally they still deserve a bigger piece of what they created.

The value of anything is what people are willing to pay for it, full stop.

The share price literally wouldn’t be what it was if people weren’t literally buying pieces of the company at that price. So it’s very literally saying what the company is worth on the open market. Even with all your obfuscation, that’s still the case.

The company’s valuation in a public company reflects the price that people pay for shares, so it shows the value of the company on the open market. The employees created this value, so it does indicate how much they each created quite accurately. And you would think that they’d at least get a representative percentage of that at least. I mean if you paint a painting and someone pays $1m for it, you get $1m gross. You make the software and IP that’s sold for $100m and you only get $100k a year, that’s kinda wack.