He agreed to pay the State of Washington $400,000 for the scheme.

https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...

Nate Silver implied Florida was in play in 2024 for Democrats, then it went +13 R. This is after he spent 9 years clinging to polling which systematically undercounted Republican support due to either sampling bias or shy voters, or were simply outright fraud in other cases (Selzer's Iowa poll).

It's almost impossible to be in poverty in the United States unless you're willfully trying to do so. It's certainly impossible to starve. There are free food programs in every city.

Comments like these are usually driven from ideological places or jealousy, rather than a factual linking of billionaires to poverty. Any given US billionaire is likely providing over 1,000,000 direct and indirect jobs for starters.

Look at evil Jeff Bezos, who created a platform in which basic necessities are sold for margins that are frequently 0%. Previously 'local business' middlemen would charge 50% margins to impoverished locals. Undoubtedly Amazon has lowered the prices of goods. That's merely one example.

Is fraud a problem or not? Should we have standards at all? Does patient safety matter or should we let fake nurses put patients at risk KNOWINGLY?

If someone asks ChatGPT "hey chatgpt, where are spots in my city where a lot of people hang out on the street", then uses his car to mass murder 18 people, you want OpenAI to be on the stand? Sounds like an objectively insane position.

In a world with broad liability as you desire, the person who rented a hostel room to Luigi Mangione while he plotted murder should be held liable for aiding him, despite knowing nothing of his intentions.

Please provide ChatGPT/Gemini marketing materials advertising it as good for mass killings.

If someone asks ChatGPT for places where a lot of people will be around in a city, intending to mass murder but not revealing as such, you want them to be liable? Seems absolutely crazy.

Knowing that bug COULD exist, means that you cannot be sure that messages you send in Signal will make it to the recipient you intend given the poor quality. This means the E2E encryption is fundamentally broken, by the way. Because the client is lying to you about the true state of who it's about to send to.

The recipient text has fundamentally zero relationship to the true recipient of the message given that bug.

Having the UI and message sending code reference two different versions of state is incredible incompetence.

I never once said all foreign nurses or bad, nor did I say I dislike them. I pointed out widespread, institutional level fraud that puts patients at risk, exclusively by foreign NHS staff.

It's worrying you can't respond to the argument without strawmans. Is patient safety a concern for you or does politics trump it?

Send a GIF to Contact A, Contact B receives random private images? Absolutely inexcusable slop code project. This class of state management bugs should not be possible with a well-architected client, period.

Signal's E2E encryption is more like End 2 Random End.

Do you have evidence that there is a widespread, institutional fake qualifications problem with native NHS nurses? Please provide evidence. This is what would show that foreign workers in the NHS do not drag down standards on average.

For this reason, it's hard to trust them. The encryption quality is irrelevant if the slop coded client is blasting random photos to random contacts.

Build a new luxury apartment, and someone moves from a mid tier apartment into it, and someone moves from an affordable apartment into that, and so on.

Price is a function of constrained supply. The type of supply is not important to increase the numbers.

That's the risk you're taking, and likely, why he was chosen.

Before then, they were rolling out fast internet. Telstra's cable network (aka. BigPond Ultimate at the time) could do 100Mbps fifteen years ago!

Today, the Australian government continues to stomp on the neck of the free market. Numerous initiatives for faster and better privately operated fiber wholesale networks have been sunk by the government, including TPG and others.

TPG wanted to roll out faster AND cheaper fiber in the inner city. Government said no thanks, we'll keep NBN with abysmal upload speeds to protect our investment.

Make no mistake, the Digital Markets Act was a shakedown of US tech. How do I know? Known EU monopolist and enshittifier Booking.com was initially given a gaping and blatant carve-out from the law. Additionally, the DMA has never been used against any European tech, even the most egregious operators.

EU is also the hub for global illegal gambling operators, issuing cereal box licenses to shady operators via Curaçao, which they merely pretend to care about. So moral and righteous!

The handwringing would be valid if the DMA was used against EU tech. It isn't, never will be, and was written to explicitly exclude them.