It’s also known as Price Discrimination, and depending on the details and jurisdiction sometimes it IS illegal.

Laws need to be updated to keep up with tech, and ENFORCED.

Congratulations!

That’s why in rooting for a small mom and pop competitor to the space, like checks notes … Intel.

We’re fucked aren’t we?

I don’t know the context for this microblog, but I don’t think whats happening in Iran is what he was thinking of when he said “digital horrors”.

I remember seeing footage of bombings from the Bosnian war in the 90’s. Well before digital video on the internet was popular, it was just on cable TV.

I don’t know Lauderdale personally, but he has a funny YouTube channel and seems cool enough that I’m gonna hold off on judging this without context.

I never claimed Uber was 100% safe. There’s also plenty of cases of non-sexual assault and robbery. There’s way more cases of simple negligent driving resulting in injury and death.

Uber’s own data indicates 99.9998% of trips in 2021-2022 were completed with no safety incident. Now if you want to discredit that self-reporting as biased, fair enough.

What would you say is the threshold for justifying gender segregation? 99.9999%? 99.99999%? 99.999999%?

Transphobes will use any excuse to be transphobic.

I’m not sure what your point here is.

I’m comparing gender identity to other forms of protected identity: race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.

I’m not making any judgements about any group being superior or inferior to another. You’re the one doing that. Being “physically imposing” is subjective and variable. There is significant overlap between the largest women and smallest men, and that’s just staying withing the confines of binary cis people. Not to mention… Guns exist. Cars themselves are weapons far more dangerous than any human regardless of gender.

Building a just society means we need to leave behind our biases and fears. To judge individuals not on the circumstances of their birth but the content of their character. That means discarding the luxury of pre-judging people, not just when it is easy, but also when it is hard.

I’m sure a lot of anxious Nazi’s got a lot of peace of mind in the early 1940’s too.

I sure a lot of anxipis transphobes got a lot of peace of mind when Trump banned trans people from military service.

Giving anxious people peace of mind it’s the point of segregation. That doesn’t make it right or good.

It’s shocking to me how so many people I know who are woke as fuck and quick to shout down any bigotry are so quick to drop all of their principles to hate men.

Segregation never works, and only serves to foster fear, hatred, and division within society You cannot define what a “woman” is in a way that excluded trans-women without also excluding some cis-women with them Your gender identity is what you say it is. Others should do their best to remember any pronouns or name changes Crime is too complicated and nuanced to be reduced to statistics, which are often used by racists and bigots to justify racist and bigoted policies It’s racist to cross to the other side of the street when a person of color comes walking towards you on the side you currently are on. It’s up to you to “Men” are evil monsters who cannot be trusted and need to be locked away

It baffles me how so many people can have all of these ideas, including the last one, and not see the cognitive dissonance there. It’s succumbing to fear and hatred, the same methods of divisive propaganda that has harmed every other group.

Uber stopped doing then, but their own data through 2022 claims that 99.9998% of rides ended without a safety incident.

Most sexual assault is committed by abusers who know their victims, not random strangers.

The vast majority of sexual assault is by people who know the victim, not random strangers. This is Uber trying to capitalize on fear to sell a more “premium” product they will inevitably charge more for, not actually helping anyone.

I can’t help but I imagine JK Rowling tweeting some day about how she used this feature and was appalled to be driven by a trans-woman.

A lot of white people are afraid of black people. Should we let people choose their driver by the color of their skin? Their ethnicity? The language they speak? Their sexual orientation? Their religion?

Discrimination is bad for everyone else, but somehow for men we just say “eh they have it coming”.

He would have given us 4 years of government gridlock because the Supreme Court and Congress would have absolutely shut down anything he tried to do.

Which still would have been great. I just don’t think he would have accomplished much of his agenda.

Source?

Because that’s not what things looked like in 2024.

Harris supported the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action deal with Iran to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program. And she condemned a January 2020 military strike against top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and co-sponsored unsuccessful legislation to block further military actions against Iranian leaders and targets.

This article is using every trick in the dystopian playbook to try to emotionally appeal to people. Protecting women, especially the young girls!

“I think we have to develop solutions that put the responsibility back into other places like public authorities, owners of spaces, police forces,” she says.

But she still comes out and says what she really wants: more power vested into private, wealthy owners of spaces, to the state, and to the police.

Surely nothing can go wrong. Surely this is about equality for everyone and it definitely won’t disproportionately impact men of color. Surely this won’t run afoul of any tricky edge cases like trans people. Surely this won’t be used to deliscriminate against the poors while still allowing anyone in an expensive suit to do whatever the fuck they want.

• owned by Israeli billionaire
• based in the UK, subject to UK laws
• chief tech officer was previously the CEO of a Bitcoin exchange company and was convicted of fraud for stealing from it

For those who don’t want to read several pages of unnecessary text telling you what you probably already know:

The math, while pretty involved, may tell a straightforward story (if you’re interested in the details of our analysis, see the Appendix). OpenAI has contracted 900K memory wafers per month from Samsung and SK Hynix. Partner commentary seems to indicate that’s a monthly number, so that represents 10.8 million wafers over 12 months. In terms of demand, a fully built-out 10GW Stargate cluster would require ~3 million GB200 Bianca Boards. Each board requires ~50% of a memory wafer in total; split between the HBM3e stacks embedded into its two B200 GPU (~30%) and its 480 GB of LPDDR5X system memory (~20%). That puts total wafer demand for the entire cluster at ~3 million wafers.

Therefore, according to our best estimates, OpenAI likely needs less than 30% of the 10.8 million wafers it’s planning to buy

So this is just putting some numbers to what a lot of people already guessed. The AI companies are not just buying a ton of RAM to build out their data centers. They aren’t buying enough other components to even use that RAM. They’re buying it so that no one else can.

Do I believe China is engaging in a campaign of global intimidation? Heck, I’d be more surprised if they weren’t.

Do I believe they were using ChatGPT, product of an American company, as a “diary” to document the process? Absolutely not.

The distinction is usually “can the rewards be converted to real-world currency?”

Casinos use poker chips, and they have exchange counters or machines that can directly convert those to/from real money. So that’s 100% gambling.

Go to a Dave and Busters, use a claw machine, or am IRL gacha machine? You don’t get money. You get an item, or tickets/points that can be exchanged for an item, but not money. Theoretically you can take that item to another market and sell it, but that’s a completely separate transaction that does not involve the party you got it from, so that’s not gambling. Not anymore than buying a Beanie Baby in the hopes that it’s worth more in a couple years is gambling.

According to the article, it is 3rd parties that are exchanging these digital rewards from Valve with real-life currency. This is not new: there have been a handful of lawsuits over the past decade trying to go after Valve for this. Every time, Valve points out that they cannot control these 3rd party sites and that illegal gambling activity violates their terms and conditions. Valve has even offered to cooperate with governments to help them go after these 3rd party sites, but afaik that has not happened.

There have been lawsuits from Florida, Connecticut, Washington, and federal RICO cases that have all been dismissed pretty early on because what Valve is doing is legal.

You could argue whether or not they SHOULD be legal, and whether these governments should go through their (hopefully) democratic processes to pass laws to that effect, but so far the courts have ruled in favor of Valve. And I am skeptical any such law would be passed democratically, because… People like loot boxes.

Wanting your own people to out-reproduce and conquer other people is a thought process that is thousands of years old. Heck, that might be why the Neanderthals and Demosivans went extinct.

“Go forth and multiply” is a Christian doctrine for a reason.