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Sam Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, Kenneth Lay - and hundreds if not thousands more.
The SEC is a regulatory agency, not able to bring criminal charges. The above-named for the most part had to be prosecuted by the Department of Justice or sometimes state attorneys.
I hope Valve takes this opportunity to turn its toehold with Steam OS into a full-blown invasion of the desktop/laptop market and destroy Microsoft's monopoly while the latter is so focused on creating everything an actual user doesn't want:
- virulent data mining
- wanton privacy destruction
- worthless UIX changes
- clumsy, useless "agentic" integrations
- disgustingly overpriced "licenses"
- software as a service
- planned obsolescence
etc.
"I didn't violate a red light. I wasn't even driving, the AI was!"
"The AI said you did, that's 50,000 yuan please."
To use it in war is abhorrent.
On mobile, I can still read direct links to reddit posts that crop up on HN using Firefox for Android. Can't say same for the Twitter, which just says, "You need to enable javascript." Well, I won't.
That's like saying fiat currency is just as valuable as lithium deposits. It's the hubris of the West.