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NewLogicon OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be: closed-source and for-profit

That is marketing spin, his offer was freely licencing their patents in exchange for free usage from other big automakers which he knew would never happen.

NewLogicon The Twitter Files

Wait until everyone hears about ITAR restrictions...

NewLogicon The Twitter Files

He is the direct line now, that's what he paid 44billion for.

NewLogicon Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

The answers is because software developers have leverage to improve their working conditions. The answer is to reduce exploitation in other industries not increase it for FAANG company staff...

NewLogicon "The Social Network" synth sounds

I came here to post this exact same fun fact. Had some fun listening to all of the Ghosts collection when I learnt that.

NewLogicon "The Social Network" synth sounds

The Gone Girl soundtrack is probably their most similar score. Bit more downbeat and slow but still very good.

NewLogicon Core US Inflation Rises to 40-Year High, Securing Big Fed Hike

Remember everyone at the Fed who refused to raise rates last year and hand waved inflation as transitory still has their job. They only started accepting inflation as real after introducing stock trading transparency rules which forced many to start unwinding their personal portfolios [1].

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2022-02-18/fed...

NewLogicon SPACs are warning they may go bust

I generally think Rocket Lab will be a successful SPAC story (eventually). They are so far ahead of the remaining small sat launch market that they while rise to meet SpaceX and Blue Origin in the reusable launcher market.

NewLogicon Netflix cracks down on password sharing, but early efforts in Peru are a mess

Exposure and relevance in pop culture, once people stop talking about your content you're done.

NewLogicon US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982

The top 10% of individuals own a record 89% percent of all the stocks [1]. Using never before seen measures to support the US bond market and at one stage buy individual corporate bonds has created a market in which participants believe they will always be back stopped by the Fed. Hell they are still doing 60 billion of monthly bond purchases (extreme monetary policy) [2] when inflation is printing multi decade highs. I have seen it quoted that in order to repair the Fed balance sheet by "running off" their purchases it will take them close to 30 years of continued "tightening". This is the new normal for centrally planned economic policy in the US, socialising losses to the government balance sheet. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-... [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/15/fed-will-aggressively-dial-b...

NewLogicon US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982

This pandemic has crushed the middle class to prop up asset holders and wallstreet. Tense times ahead.

NewLogicon Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide

The US taxpayer will backstop Intel no matter what, purely because of the fab business.

NewLogicon The rich get richer and rates get lower

This time the banks have learnt the govs of the world aren't willing to let anyone go under, so have been making out like bandits lending out cheap money.

NewLogicon As cargo shipments boom, ship strikes imperil whales worldwide

I do wonder if the world will "re-invent" ekranoplans so to speak. Improvements in engineering design, tooling and material science could make them economically viable in a niche of the global economy. The youtuber Mustard [1] has a great video on the mad ideas of Italian born Soviet engineer Robert Bartini. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD7xiWWs-bs

NewLogicon Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship

Not to worry that is just the "terrorist" hashes

NewLogicon Apple’s Mistake

This is classic what-aboutism, yes they are both equally bad scenarios. Apple is just one-step closer with capability already deployed.

NewLogicon New Leadership at Blizzard

Crazy Bobby is not even a billionaire considering how unethical his leadership methods are.

NewLogicon ISS loses attitude control after Nauka module docking

Being reported as a flight computer state machine fault. https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/14208042826857922...

NewLogicon Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud

Auto pilot full self driving is fraudulent and been coming next year for half a decade.

NewLogicon Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement

Tim is a bean counter at heart and everything Apple has been marketing spin for decades.

NewLogicon Fastly Outage

Even amazon.com styling is borked for me

NewLogicon Ignoring Docker updates is a paid feature now?

Wow docker company has so little goodwill left to erode. Truly rock bottom.

NewLogicon Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data

Don't have to look too far to see regulatory capture in action. Facebook pulled all news in Australia [0] to fight a (bad) link-tax legislation and "won". It was politically untenable.

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-03-03/facebook-news...

NewLogicon The absolute worst scenario happened

The exact same thing is happening in Australia in regards to farmers and fruit picking labour. With international borders shut they are unable to exploit foreign workers and complain that young adults are refusing to relocate for $5 an hour hard labour jobs.

NewLogicon German man loses 400k GBP about $500k in Twitter Bitcoin scam

To think how many scams have been prevented because the target played Runescape or WoW

NewLogicon GitHub, fuck your name change

Thing is... nobody really has a valid reason to be offended. In this case context matters and the English language is an evolving construct.

NewLogicon The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo

Google takes not invented here to an extreme cross-team level. Their internal promotion/reward structure must be utterly broken that this exact scenario seems to keep playing out time and time again. I'm honestly surprised shareholders haven't started asking questions about the serious mismanagement of capital allocation.

NewLogicon White House signals coming antitrust push with Tim Wu appointment

Good, the US government has been missing in action since the Microsoft litigation. They have allowed lobbying money to completely dismantle the idea of public interest monopoly break ups.

NewLogicon One hull crack located in ISS, another one suspected

It was actually the side-mount design that made the least sense. It left the heatshield completely exposed to ice and insulation strikes.

NewLogicon Rust for Windows

I would suspect by the time that product releases, AMD will be allowed some 5nm fab capacity for a future Zen product release.