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The 'abuse' in that scenario being the fact that the parents are ignorant or uninvolved enough to let it happen.

Traditional assets, like:

- Real estate

- Gold

- Art

- Collectibles

- Shares in companies

- Loans to companies and countries

So... Things with intrinsic value and often tangible uses. The only thing in that graph somewhat comparable to Bitcoin is money, since it's also part store of value, part currency.

I've been on the internet since I was about 10 years old (I estimate). My parents knew (and understood) maybe 10% of what I did on there. As a minor, I did multiple criminal things online, some of them successful, others not so much. If I was a kid in 2023, I probably would've been arrested at some point in time.

Because of what I know about the internet and because I know what kids will do with unlimited access, I think much of this burden should be with the parents. For every successful Omegle taken down, 3 more unknown ones will pop up. But major platforms like TikTok are also massive sources of grooming and parents happily give their 10 year olds a smart phone.

As long as parents are never held accountable for their kids online behavior and the blame is put on service providers, this will only get worse. I know many examples of parents who track their kids' phones because they're scared something will happen to them in the real world. Meanwhile, these same parents pay no attention at all to where their kids venture in the online world, let alone with who. Parents need to be educated on this, fast.

Thanks for sharing Harry Mack, never heard of him, but this took me down an emotional rabbit hole. Amazing what music can do.

I've personally never scaled a B2B&C company from 0 to over 1 billion users in less than a year, but I do feel like it's probably pretty hard. Especially setting up something like a good support organization in a time of massive labor shortages seems like it would be pretty tough.

I know they have money, but money isn't a magic wand for creating people. They could've also kept it a limited beta for much longer, but that would've killed their growth velocity.

So here is a great product that provides no SLA at all. And we all accept it, because having it most of the time is still better than having it not at all ever.

Don't even have to go to China. Here in the Netherlands the amount of MG, BYD, NIO, Volvo, Polestar, Zeekr or XPeng on the road here is immense. German manufacturers are complaining people don't want EVs, but that's BS. It's just that the EVs people are actually buying are either American, Chinese or Korean, because they're not insanely expensive.

I just opened a lease car comparison site. Under €650 a month I get 11 German(-ish) cars to choose from. 10 of which are VAG, 1 is BMW. In total, however, I have 180+ cars to choose from, many of which are much cheaper than the German ones and are way better equipped.

> another thing I'm wondering is about jurisdiction, since most of this occurred offshore and didn't involve US customers

This is complicated, but often it's possible to try someone in a single country, especially if it's their home country. In CSAM cases this often happens, the facts might happen in Asia, but someone is tried in their home country. I know the law in my country has provisions specifically for this and murder cases among others.

Yeah, debit disputes hardly every happen. Debit over here is only used with a card present that has a chip. Any transaction over €25 (I think) requires a code. Skimming is virtually non existent and 'card not present' debit transactions don't exist.

Like I said, it's a very different world when it comes to payments over here. Apps like Cash App of Venmo are also don't really exist, for example, because banks already provide similar functionality in their apps without transaction fees.

Debit is the standard in my country for pretty much everything... Holds aren't actually common and even most hotels ask you to pay the room in advance for short stays. It's a very different world and something like credit card debt isn't as prevalent here.

In my country, pretty much everything is debit. A debit transaction costs maximum about €0,25 over here. This would've been about 0,1% of the total transaction. A bank transfer would've been free. Meanwhile, VAT would've been 21% and income tax probably close to 50%.

So I doubt the transaction fee is relevant at all in my garage's consideration to offer me a 'discount'. This nearly doubles his net income and saves me 21% in VAT, just because it's off the books.

I recently got a 'discount' for paying my car maintenance in cash. I got cash right next to the garage just to pay in cash. Of course this discount isn't because the owner likes cash, it's because he can just grab the cash and not pay taxes, which is why I got a discount in the first place.

The paying in cash and not being traced part is directly connected to a criminal act. Wonder why governments aren't liking cash transactions.

Use localstorage!

Kidding, of course. I don't think there's a way to track users across sessions, without storing something and requiring a 'cookie notification'. Which is kind of the point of all these laws.

Guess what, literally every web site you visit can do this based on IP geolocation. If you're really concerned about this, use a VPN.

And he actually did it in 1.4 seconds himself, if I remember correctly.

I use the one from my ISP, unless they're having issues (hardly ever happens). The reason for this, is that in my country, my ISP is tied to strict regulations on (for example) resale of data. Switching to another DNS provider opens me up to all kinds of shenanigans that my ISP would be held responsible for.

This is the same reason I don't use a VPN by default at home.

This takes me back to my time as a student, when on a winter sports trip a girl in the group tore both ACL's in what I heard was a relatively low speed fall on skies. From what I heard it took a long time to recover and I'm not sure if there was ever a full recovery.

You comment made me do a bit of research. Apparently the owner of Insider is Axel Springer, which in Germany is compared to Fox News. So I guess that pretty much answers the question (to me at least).

Others comment that thermal prints don't last long, but that's all dependent on the print material. The typical receipt fades after a couple of months, but Brother has small label printers that are often used in archiving and those labels can last for decades.

So just take some time to find the right medium for your needs and thermal printers can be a decent option.

Correct and the previous commenter is practicing some clear 'US Defaultism'. However, unrestricted Western consumerism is a massive part of what's happening worldwide. We all want cheap everything and nobody is stopping western companies from using the absolute worst suppliers and production methods for everything (exaggerated, but not much).

Companies like 3M, Bayer, Dow, Shell and BP are polluting the whole world directly. Companies like H&M and Primark are doing it indirectly by using the cheapest supplier for mass market crap they sell. I recently heard that most bamboo fiber (which westerners buy because they think it's environmentally friendly) is produced in China, because the chemicals needed are extremely toxic and hard to properly process. In China they are just released into nature and as long as the Chinese company says they don't do that, the western companies can say they buy 'good fibers' and turn a blind eye to the pollution. This way we spread our love all around the world.

> We are not on some subreddit for a reason.

This has other reasons though, like the fact that this site has better moderation and better users in general.

> pasture requires more water than many crops

I see this argument often in the discussion around meat (beef, mostly) consumption. I also see the counter that most of that water goes straight back into the ground and most of the rest goes back in after it goes through the cow.

The counter seems logical to me, but I am probably missing something?

> Non single use plastics are a major problem.

And they're everywhere. I bought a sweater a couple of years ago. It's made from recycled PET bottles. It felt like a nice thing a couple of years ago. Now I realize that every time I wash it I'm releasing micro plastics into the sewer that might not get filtered out.

> I wager $50 five-ten years, that we'll be churning out content that an experienced artist is capable of.

I wager $50 that 'artists' will still exist and that this becomes a tool for those artists if they just accept it. We all have phones that can make great photos, yet I still paid for someone to photograph my wedding, because they are much, much better than anyone with a phone. Just understanding all the knobs of generative AI takes a lot of time.

I feel like the only thing actually impacted by this soon is the stock photography content farm game. Because if stock imagery is good enough, AI generated images might be good enough.

A lot of the tagging, from what I understand, comes from image recognition that detects some of that stuff. For the clothes you could just scrape clothing web sites, since they often categorize already.

> Is it the word micro that causes the issue? Services are way easier and more logical when they are verticals

I think that the word micro is indeed the issue. Once they stop being micro and just become services, it pretty much becomes a Service Oriented Architecture. So why keep calling it microservices?

> worth considering that utility, government, and infrastructure software may be under different kinds of constraints than what you're used to.

I worked on a government project where new software was being built on COBOL because they had those devs available. No commercial company in their right mind would build any new applications in COBOL, but government is a different animal.

I guess the guy with 18 years of experience there might be well suited for the job then!

> i'd love to know whats going on in that team.

Seems like a good time to rewatch Silicon Valley and watch Hooli scramble to keep up.

> I am not on the development side

The same, pretty much. I moved into architecture and having such broad knowledge really helps with being able to talk to pretty much anyone.

> Facebook and Google are still alive

Well, literally billions of people accept their privacy agreements and actively provide them with data from their phones by using their software. That's quite different from an unknown party telling other companies whether you're reliable without your knowledge based on data neither you nor your provider ever agreed to give them.