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- Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 1 day ago:
Waymo “presumably” paying for what they destroy isn’t the same as saying yes, they will 100%. Its pure speculation.
And its not a goalpost move, driving puts you and everyone else at risk humans have been tested and insured to drive. This thing is like in BETA version.
- Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 1 day ago:
Difference is a driver can be held accountable.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 days ago:
The same people that experimented on him psychologically in college are the same people who prop up Palantir.
Not saying I agree with what he did or what you said, but facts are facts.
He was part of some of the same experiments that were a part of MKULTRA.
- Comment on Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick 3 days ago:
Probably use some AI bullshit to scan what you’re watching/doing on it and block the sites that way.
- Comment on Apple Joins Google in Offering Passport-Based Digital ID 4 days ago:
I bet UK will. Soon.
- Comment on Apple Joins Google in Offering Passport-Based Digital ID 4 days ago:
Of course you can, but none of them will ever be in a position of power and the only two parties you can vote for both support shit like this, as you said.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 5 days ago:
Have you tried the above yet? Try it.
And if that doesn’t work contact their customer service and say you don’t have the option to use another device and you need to set up SMS verification or you’re going to have to consider another card. I bet it will work.
- Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 5 days ago:
Puts on red!
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 5 days ago:
I do SMS however before I had this phone I had a regular stock android phone with the Capital One app on it and I wonder if yours isn’t working maybe you can use the app on a stock android and set up SMS verification on that, then switch to the other non stock androids phone and I bet it will work.
You might not have to take this step, but if it isn’t working with SMS verification on the Brave browser try that and see if it works.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 5 days ago:
I use capital ones website on graphene OS and have full access even to temporary cards and all that.
It didn’t want to play nice with Vanadium so I had to use Brave browser just for the banking stuff. I have a friend who uses cashapp and chase banking that way as well.
Only thing that doesn’t work is tap to pay and its only because Google are dicks and won’t allow it. Small price to pay to not have one of their spyware loaded versions of android on the phone though in my opinion.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 5 days ago:
So in my imagining of how this would work out I think you could buy it outright maybe if you wanted and avoid the subscription OR get it subsidized somehow where insurance or government or facility you’re in pays part or most of it and then you would be stuck with the subscription model for using it. Kind of like you lease it from them, sort of. I could maybe even see where if you buy it outright you don’t pay the subscription but upon death it goes back to the company/facility but I think that will be a new way of doing things. It might even be a part of the condition for the overall subsidization of the industry. This is all just guesses though but I don’t think its that unlikely if you think like a greedy VC.
The reason they would do this for this technology in particular is because the end goal would be having no more cnas and stuff like that you would eventually after many many years of perfecting the technology be able to have these robots do all of that.
The long term projected profits will be insane. Again, this is just my guess but I believe it would work out very similar to this.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 6 days ago:
You’re forgetting those eye watering return charts they will be promising. The government will probably give them kickbacks or something similar to get it established at first. They have definitely done this in the past to help businesses (Texas Instruments, Foxxcon, Amazon, Volkswagen and many others they spend about $200 billion a year doing that)
Also when someone dies they don’t get buried Egypt style with their robot, that unit would be the property of the company/insurance/facility and go to the next person. Although I will admit mortality rates among elderly is something I didn’t consider but disabled and injured or otherwise handicapped people will be the customer base as well.
And I don’t know if I said it in this comment or the other one but getting them into facilities/hospitals will absolutely be the end goal of all this but they have to go slow and test it all out first which is why I think getting them into homes will be the first goal.
- Comment on Chat Control isn’t dead, Denmark has a new proposal − here’s all we know 6 days ago:
“Yet, the Danish Presidency still leaves a door open for mandatory scanning by planning to introduce a “review clause.””
Taking it down brick by brick one step at a time.
- Comment on Apple quietly released this year's BEST laptop 6 days ago:
Its because its essentially an ad and presented that way.
- Comment on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 6 days ago:
Land of the free!*
*Terms apply.
Welcome to the police state. Its been many years in the making but now they are perfecting it.
- Comment on The People’s Answer to ICE: Crowdsourcing Community Defense 6 days ago:
As soon as it really started gaining any kind of traction to be comparable in size and scope to the government they would try to kill everyone involved. And I hope wouldn’t succeed but…
They don’t give a fuck about what the constitution says, sadly.
And sure sure National Guard someone will say LOL they’ve killed us before and they’ll do it again because they are still government controlled.
- Comment on IBM Unveils Digital Asset Platform as Demand for Tokenization, Stablecoins Grows 6 days ago:
That’s usually for people who trade crypto so they stable up during dips or whatever then buy back in.
Personally I think it defeats the whole purpose of a decentralized currency to have it tied to a Fiat dollar. Would be more beneficial to have it tied to a resource of some sort or something similar for some semblance of “stability”. In my opinion, of course.
- Comment on IBM Unveils Digital Asset Platform as Demand for Tokenization, Stablecoins Grows 6 days ago:
But that’s just the problem isn’t it? You highlighted yourself how untrustworthy the US government is.
So what if you live here dude? Can’t easily get Euros and shit although gold and silver is an option for now until they pass a law banning gold again like they absolutely did before.
So what then? Put it all into their dollar? Fuck man idk. I definitely hate memecoins and shit but crypto as a whole doesn’t really seem like that bad of an idea to me. You can hide it a lot easier than gold and silver and they can’t bring a sniffer dog that will find bitcoin in the backyard.
Sure they have electronics smelling dogs but if you memorize a seed phrase and don’t write it down its yours forever so far they can’t read your mind and extract it from you short of torture but even then they have to know prior that you had it before and that you didn’t forget the seed phrase.
I agree crypto has a lot of scammers and ignorant shit attached to it, but I also agree that blindly putting ALL of your eggs into the fiat basket isn’t the best idea either. I think diversifying between certain (definitely not all) cryptocurrency and gold and silver is the best bet. I know I know people will hate me for saying that but damn I don’t understand why people know to hate the government but LOVE their money and don’t ever question that at all.
- Comment on Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value 6 days ago:
Oh man I want VIABLE Linux phones to be a thing so so bad.
I love Graphene but Google just makes it harder and harder for them to do what they do and eventually I’m afraid they will find a way to shut most of their functionality down completely. Despite graphene has discovered critical vulnerabilities many many times over the years and helped Google by immediately disclosing them.
Linux phones need to happen and I would love to see it happen soon.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 6 days ago:
Because this is much easier to exploit than people you have to pay fairly. Sad, but very true.
Like everything else in America the value of capital is the only thing that matters! See the healthcare system as it is right now if you need proof of that.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 6 days ago:
Yes it is depressing and dystopian and frankly super fucked up.
Which yes, leads to a win for corporate America. Land of the free!! They will remind you.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 6 days ago:
See, this guy gets it.
Its all about extracting every single penny possible and stretching what employees you do have to pay to the maximum limits achievable.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 6 days ago:
Once they figure out they can get these in every home and force people to pay the subscription fees that will climb up in price forever and ever until the heat death of the universe they will make sure every single elderly person that wants one has them in their home.
This will be easy to subsidize because they will exploit overseas labor forces by paying them pennies on the dollar of what they have to pay anyone in America or UK or Canada and the charts for long term growth through the subscription model will be eye watering.
Mix this in with exploiting the industrial labor force of places like China and Vietnam and Taiwan and this thing probably costs them $5K or less to make per robot.
Remember it costs the CONSUMER $20K, not the dickheads in suits doing all the number punching and the businesses they work for.
Keep in mind that by doing this they essentially will be able to end home care work for most people except very qualified specialists that not every one will have to use. And even then they will still have this thing doing laundry and dishes for them while the specialist only does certain specialized actions maybe like testing or something similar the robot won’t be able to do.
But think of the future potential, they will remind you at the business meetings! “Eventually this will be able to take those jobs over too and even eventually after that will be able to do open heart surgery and we can charge the HOSPITALS the exorbitant subscription fees indefinitely. We just need to be the first ones to dominate the market”
Doesn’t matter if it’s overhyped or even a bit untrue, see how AI companies operate.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 6 days ago:
Ah but see when the suits learn that they can save even as little as 15 nickels a day by replacing all of their home visit nurses with these and pay people pennies overseas to operate it they will JUMP on it.
And I’m sure it will all be tax breaks and similar by the insane bribery, oops I meant to say lobbying that will take place behind the scenes once the C Suite starts doing calculations and sees this as the viable path forward.
You underestimate how much greed will play a part in this process.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 6 days ago:
There is no shortage of exploitative low wage labor force that can learn to do anything though.
Not saying I support exploitation of workers, but its a true statement.
There’s a reason all the call centers go to other countries that don’t pay people very fairly. This will be no different.
Its probably not going to require certification and stuff like that I’ll be willing to bet because it is going to be a loophole that they don’t need it to operate the robot.
This is all just a guess, but I bet you it will work out like that. By the time this really gets cooking and streamlined AI will probably have taken over most of the call centers anyway so all those employees will jump on a chance to be a part of this and it wouldn’t be too much different than learning how to play a video game or something similar.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 6 days ago:
For sure. Imagine if your grandma fell and couldn’t get to a phone fuck a life alert this thing can call emergency services immediately and in the maybe not so distant future drive her to the hospital itself.
I do agree that it could be a privacy concern but the benefits for certain use cases like as you described far outweighs any privacy concerns.
- Comment on China: Major solar manufacturers report steep losses amid continued price declines and high inventory levels, raising concerns about overcapacity across the PV supply chain 6 days ago:
Not if you live in the US I bet they’ll slap your ass with a 150% import tax fee or some ignorant shit.
Just like how they did with their EV’s.
Good ol’ “free markets” and all of that.
- Comment on Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft 1 week ago:
Soon they will all be lobbying for digital ID and mandatory identity verification every single time you connect to the internet because they don’t want to be held liable for what you choose to do on it.
Just another erosion of rights for the American people. No surprise there.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 1 week ago:
Well don’t you know?
All they value is money.
- Comment on Mullvad Leta shutting down 1 week ago:
Man I use Mullvad’s VPN and their DNS servers and I had no idea they even made this!
Seems like they didn’t advertise it very well I knew about their browser but never heard of this.