Because it seems that for being so obsessed to be prepared for war the only ones affected are the working class. The rich are just wasting resources away like if there was no tomorrow.

I just see austerity 2.0 to cut citizens rights, cut services to the working class and transfer as much wealth and power to the super-rich as possible.

I am all for Europe being prepared for war. That is a necessity. So, I am all for better health care, better education, less dependency on foreign gas and oil, better funding for goverment programs ... real measures to be prepare for the worst and less bending over to rich foreign interests.

Who send it?

> And while cryptocurrency are certainly popular with criminals, it is far from the only option for hiding transactions.

Start by removing the cryptocurrency option, that's an easy win. Go after other options afterwards. Removing cryptocurrencies is not going to stop all the crime but it will stop a lot of it and push criminals to more risky and easy to trace ways of getting money.

> how to you expect them to stop well organized international gangs, sometimes backed by nation states.

Removing their financing like cryptocurrencies. All that you say is that crime is impossible to stop. Bollocks. Start by banning Bitcoin and other crypto-crime-enablers and continue from there.

You gave zero arguments to why cryptocurrencies should not be banned.

The technology is there and it is used to track the average citizens every move. But when it comes to rich people then the money goes and comes without control (and without taxation).

Cryptocurrencies are a great solution to enable criminal activity. Their only use and highly appreciated by terrorists, criminals and dictatorial governments around the world.

And Linux development and adoption helps everybody not just France. A win win.

We need judges and policymakers that punish harshly this behavior and force companies to compete in quality and price instead of lies and competition elimination.

No. LLMs do not confabulate they bullshit. There is a big difference. AIs do not care, cannot care, have not capacity to care about the output. String tokens in, string tokes out. Even if they have all the data perfectly recorded they will still fail to use it for a coherent output.

> Collapsing the dimensionality is going to be lossy, which means it will have gaps between what it thinks is the reality and what is.

Confabulation has to do with degradation of biological processes and information storage.

There is no equivalent in a LLM. Once the data is recorded it will be recalled exactly the same up to the bit. A LLM representation is immutable. You can download a model a 1000 times, run it for 10 years, etc. and the data is the same. The closes that you get is if you store the data in a faulty disk, but that is not why LLMs output is so awful, that would be a trivial problem to solve with current technology. (Like having a RAID and a few checksums).

To keep the goverment accountable is a duty of every citizen and the only way to have a functioning society. The failure is to let the goverment be arbitrary and cater to the powerful instead of following the rule of law and applying it equally at all levels.

Why is not this a criminal offense? They are hurting business for profit (or for higher valuation as they probably have no profit at all).

Why are corporations allowed to do with impunity what could land even a teenager years in prison? Is there no rule of law anymore?

The five-year and ten-year penalties kick in only when the government can show the offense caused at least $5,000 in losses across all victims during a one-year period. https://legalclarity.org/what-are-the-punishments-for-a-ddos...

You are not wrong.

Yes. It was nice when corporate taxes were high, xenophobia was seen as something bad, and movies could focus on smaller problems satire.

I hope that we go back to the socialist era of the USA with unionization, safety nets and welfare for the working class instead of for billionaires. Movies could just be silly again.

IBM is not in consumer products nor services so we do not hear about it.

One way is that the law applies to everybody equally. That has been the way it works for many years, not perfectly, in democratic countries.

There is another way of working were the law is not blind. Laws are applied based in who is the one affected. This is what big tech and the ultra-rich have been advocating for. The law applies differently to nobility and aristocrats than to the working class.

So, for all this big tech companies the law is clear: I can copy from you, you cannot copy from me.

(That is horrifying in case that anyone needs me to spell it out)

Neoliberalism at its finest. The world moving towards conservatism has left us with this model: The working class takes the hit of each crisis from small to big.

It is not a sustainable model.

Yes. I have noticed that is close to impossible to get good deals on flights, hotels, or even good discounts on-line. Sellers have all the information from consumers that they need to maximize their profit and extract the maximum amount from consumers. Dynamic pricing is making it a personalized experience, so I personally pay the maximum I possible can.

No room to get a fair price anymore.

It says a lot about the current economy that consumers have no money. Will companies just stop making consumer products?

In a world where consumers have less and less power, products are designed to please CEOs.

Money is power, as inequality grows and concentrates the average user/worker/citizen has less power and their voices matter less. Today's Internet is designed for the needs of big corporations, users are there just as another product to be sold.

Is this not just the strategy of all platforms. Spy on all customers, see what works for them and copy the most valuable business models. Amazon does that with all kinds of products.

Platforms will just grow to own all the market and hike prices and lower quality, and pay close to nothing to employees. This is why we used to have monopoly regulations before being greedy became a virtue.

You missed the point. More tests can be detrimental to the patient's health as increase the risk of unneeded medication or surgery. Also many test like x-rays have their own risks. To do them for the sake of it increases overall mortality.

So, to not over test is not just cheaper but better for people's health.

Marketing and entertainment are supplanting news and knowledge. I hope that the people that is pushing back succeed.