Google doesn't claim authorship over that which they index.

Plagiarism doesn't need to be harmful for it to be bad, and my intent wasn't to harm anyone anyway. My intent was that I could use the authors exact words to pretend to make a unique take that I claimed to have authored.

I still get ads that I'm interested in in that niche; I just choose not to click them because I think my wife will kill me if I collect any more board games :)

But Instagram, despite me only using it to keep in touch with friends via DMs, seems to know me very well. I get a lot of ads for puzzles and board games and video games, which are right up my alley. I've purchased a nontrivial amount of stuff from Instagram ads. Very few were life changing, except maybe an electric nail clipper which is the only way I can clip my infant daughter's nails. But the rest are all fun stuff that I've gotten value from.

And FTR I do use an ad blocker both on my browser and my modem came with one. I guess the modems one isn't great though because I still see Instagram ads.

I hate random English words as company names. The other day I saw a company called Runway and it seemed interesting. Turns out there's quite a few companies called Runway or with a product called Runway, in the same industry.

Same with Bolt.

And I hate that Meta is now the company name so I can't look for meta stuff without also getting results about the company formerly known as Facebook.

This doesn't need to be X, BTW, but if everyone's gonna use X may as well meet people where they are.

I don't know how they will enforce it but the fact that they want to control it is concerning.

If the company goes to $0 then I own a portion of nothing, and so does everyone else who owns a share.

With prediction markets you don't own anything, and regardless of the outcome, someone can still win if they "bet right"

That said, futures and derivatives seem similar to prediction markets but I don't know enough about them to say more.

Yikes. I am all for banning prediction markets but I feel like this is overreaching.

But when I compare company roadmap this year to a few years ago, you can't tell that any needle has moved at all in terms of technology and features.

That said, we're kinda in a weird era where the optics of AI usage is more important than anything because investors want to see it, because they think it will give their company a leg up on the competition, which is not necessarily true!

Realistically I probably need $5m and I'd be set for life.

If I had $10m instead of $5m I don't see how my life would meaningfully change.

I'd say they built something a lot more complex than a simple recommendation engine.