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Most jurisdictions copy the main tenets* from each other, to make it easier for actors to enforce in their region - i.e. GDPR -> CCPA.

Still have to convert to USD, and most of the reliable exchanges are KYC, meaning they likely need to know your customers' identities.

Doable, but probably not good for an adult toy/porn site.

Google tried this already, where you could pay $0.02 or something to not see ads on websites. Instead, they would show cat pictures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor

IIRC the problem was is that their network wasn't universal. While it works on some ads on some websites, there were still non-Google ads that it didn't work on.

They were but it was done through trying to push their own crypto on everyone.

Realistically for adoption there just needed to be a micropayment using existing currencies.

>DeepMind has made very impressive demos and papers, but they have yet to add one dollar of revenue to Google's bottom line.

DeepMind has researched and developed features that exist in many Google products today, e.g. Wavenet: https://www.deepmind.com/research/highlighted-research/waven...

GP asked for critical articles and received them. Changing the requirements to be for the last five years is moving the goalposts, by way of a no-true-scotsman.

Which makes you wonder why it was never applied.

I just did. Can you elaborate on why they think Wikipedia is lying?

There haven't been criminal convictions of federal democratic politicians in the last 5 years to report on.

Also, it's moving the goal posts.

Facebook is only up 30% since 2018.

Comparitively, NASDAQ and SP500 are up 69% and 55%, respectively. Even GOOG is up 100%.

Facebook is performing worse than the natural growth of the markets, so maybe moral is important?

Are you genuinely asking for examples, or are you just declaring your opinion in bad faith?

NPR reports on DNC mishaps and criminals all the time:

- https://www.npr.org/2017/11/16/564593737/sen-al-franken-accu...

- https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/12/505309059...

- https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/19/529119721...

- https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/04/568336597...

- https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/02/20/172480780...

BBC just had their state-affiliated label removed.

https://twitter.com/BBC

If it's such s small infraction then it should be easy for Musk to say they were wrong and correct it, right?

>To say that NPR doesn’t receive a significant portion of its budget from the federal government is a lie

Do you have any evidence of this? Less than 1% of NPR's funding comes from federal sources, according to wikipedia.

Hot or Not was a popular site, and Facebook was created to be that but exclusively for college students. It was called Facemash.

So you're okay with your bank assisting ISIL in their weapons transactions?

What about illegal activities outside of the law's jurisdiction?

Do you though? What's your opinion on abortion? Because every libertarian I've met is pro state-enforced pregnancies.

Well, yeah, "Cancel culture" is a pejorative - i.e. When people I don't like do it, it's nasty cancel culture. When I do it, it's noble boycotting.

Political belief is human opinion, and not a protected class.

Is your position that there is no human opinion for which de-banking is acceptable?

And there are movies that make you use your imagination too. They're not that different.

>It's solitary, sedentary, and passive.

People probably said the same about reading at several points in history. It's about how you use the technology, not the technology itself.

It's the other way around. Google announced two days ago, same day as GPT4 (hence why not many people remember it).

Outer Wilds is probably one of the top ten video games of the last decade. It's not perfect but it mixes the groundhog's-day mechanic with Myst-like elements, all under a folk space genre umbrella.

I almost wish for amnesia to be able to play it for the first time again.

I mean, I'm pretty sure DVD players had it when FF/Rewinding first.

Also the Joi character in Bladerunner 2049.

Yeah by the same logic we die every night when we sleep.

You'll have tiered processing, just like today. You can slum it out with limited simulation capabilities, or if you have a job you can afford the premium processor hours.

And then you'd have the first court case and prison sentence for a non-human consciousness.

Which is just one step closer to the simulated hell for uploaded consciousnesses that get naughty, from Surface Detail by Ian Banks.

I hope not. You can permanently alter (i.e. for decades) the climate in a region by creating an algae bloom.

>When used in bioreactors*

When used in a sealed climate-controlled chamber that produces the ideal conditions on land for an aquatic plant specie.

IIRC it's ridiculously expensive to scale algae bioreactors, while trees grow and maintain themselves. I wish algae was easier to scale because it does have great potential.