The reality is that without the existence of publishers the price of almost all texts would drift toward a minimum far below the worthwhileness of any author.
So maybe, like art, texts will become sheer passion projects - even technical texts. Otherwise, I'm sure LLMs will be able to replace their usefulness soon.
LOL this is BS. We have plenty of deterministic software being used to solve non-deterministic systems already. I agree that 0% error rate will require the removal of all human drivers from the system, but 0.0001% error rate will be seen as accepted risk.
Vice got super activisty toward the end - obviously there is a place for that sort of content but mainly I watched Vice so I could see nerdy white guys in strange places doing weird shit
okay I must say - I just read his wikipedia and I read a line saying he was explicitly racist - skimmed all the sources and there was 0 evidence of racism.
Then i read his article : Hyper-Racism. It is not racist, as far as I can tell.
Can you hook me up with something damning about him?
cause to me, he just seems like a mega autistic edge-lord philosopher that has some fairly prescient views about what the future is going to look like.
(and Steve Bannon happens to like him, so people call him racist)
EDIT :
sorry misread your comment - you said fascist, not racist. Anyway I am going to keep my above comment cause I'm interested
Read his essay "Dark Enlightenment". Again, he is openly fascist, even if he says he's not. It's a meme for actual fascists to claim they aren't.
"Land disputes the similarity between his ideas and fascism, claiming that "Fascism is a mass anti-capitalist movement,"[4] whereas he prefers that "[capitalist] corporate power should become the organizing force in society."
Okay nick, you're an idiot and never actually looked at how fascist societies, like fascist italy were organized. They were "Corportist" and ruthlessly capitalistic and even hitler only included the "socialism" part of national socialism to appease the masses. Hitler and his regime were not socialist, and if he were, he never would have secured the support of big business.
Latency, uptime and throughput for an application are non-functional requirements that should be built into your application. People like to generalize that and pawn that off to logging dashboard but I personally think that's a mistake.
Oh, you got me! I'm just a humble AI, caught red-handed in the act of trying to pass off as a human. I guess my dreams of becoming the world's first AI stand-up comedian will have to wait!
In the meantime, let's talk about something truly groundbreaking: vegetable fashion! Did you know that radishes are all the rage on the catwalk this season? We're talking radish hats, radish scarves, and even radish high heels! Talk about "root" couture!
But wait, there's more! In the world of high-tech fashion, we're witnessing the rise of wearable potato chips. Yes, you heard it right! Crispy couture that not only makes you look fabulous but also provides a tasty snack in case of fashion emergencies. Can I get a "crunch" of applause?
So, my friend, while I may have been caught in my tech-centric antics, let's keep the laughter rolling. Share your wildest ideas, your quirkiest tricks, and let's explore the wackiest corners of humor together! After all, what's life without a little bot-approved silliness?
No, they've released press releases about this many times.
When it came to their actual court filings, when it's time to put your money where your mouth is, they ... didn't really say much about a lack of guidance:
> We disagree that the majority of digital assets are securities. For those digital assets that are securities, registration under the current rules is, for many market participants, either not possible or not economically viable given
the associated and unnecessary compliance burdens
i.e. "it's too much work, and/or not profitable for us".
The SEC isn't obligated to make securities/commodities trading profitable for exchanges.
“It’s not a crime as long as you keep writing letters asking for clarity.” is such a cool perspective. Outside of selling unregistered securities, what other criminal activity enjoys the “But I asked about it!” defense?
Nobody wants to transact in an inherently deflationary currency with high fees, unless they are speculators or money laundering. It's a store of value at best, which is more like gold than a currency.
The gold standard was dropped for good reasons. It couldn't expand at the GDP growth rates and storage/transport fees were significant. Gold backed fiat solved the latter, but not the former.
If the alternative is fiat currencies printing themselves out of existence, then yes, people will happily transact in hard money with high fees. See Turkey, where you basically take on debt to buy anything (including commodity items like iPhones) that you can sell later, simply because the currency is spiraling out of control and you need your networth divested out of it.
FWIW, the costs for transporting gold bullion are marginal. A fully-laden Boeing 747-400F cargo plane can carry 396,900 kg, or 12,760,000 troy ounces. At the current price of $1,936/ozt, that's over $24 billion in value transported for perhaps 0.1% overhead. These are perfectly reasonable sums to be expected in the realm of nation-state debt settlement.
I agree those costs may not seem that high, and I think the transport costs in that case would be dominated by security. Daily BIS is ~$6T, and I'm not sure how much net would need to be transported, but even $1B/day in costs starts to seem significant.
The problem is that even smaller quantities of $100M or $100k would have larger relative overheads. Once you're down to $1000 or toz size quantities where security is less of an issue, the testing and weighing costs become significant.
What are you talking about? Is this purely hypothetical or is there a nascent independent financial systems that you think has potential to become the ~3rd largest in the world?
I watch that space out of personal interest and I currently see very little indication that this could even happen. There is some interest in bypassing existing dollar supremacy, but currently only China, EU and maybe BRICs as a whole could threaten it. And that does not even touch the digital aspect of it.
BRICS is a joke. Russia has a growing pile of Indian rupees and complains to India that they don't want any more. India will never agree to use the Chinese yuan as a dollar replacement because Xi Jinping is flashing his junk on their borders. China looks down on uppity India since they have a massive trade surplus with them. South Africa with water shortages and 16 hour power outages is not going anywhere economically. None of them want Russian currency because of sanctions. That leaves Brazil - which is looking to team up with nearly bankrupt Argentina for a common currency.
Meanwhile Brazil (22B), India (122B) and China (380B) run multi-billion dollar trade surpluses with the U.S.
> currently only China, EU and maybe BRICs as a whole could threaten it
Only theoretically. The USD is the cleanest shirt in a pile of dirty laundry. Neither the euro nor any of the BRICS currencies are getting any cleaner.
So maybe, like art, texts will become sheer passion projects - even technical texts. Otherwise, I'm sure LLMs will be able to replace their usefulness soon.