Yep. Also Catholic official “recommended ideology of state” was distributivism last time I checked, which is something of a holy mix (can’t be unholy mix in this situation) between anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-syndicalism with a conservative touch.

It has its downsides, but the upsides are that limiting immigration, legal inequality, racism and fascism are in theory not allowed there.

(Just in case someone thinks Peter Thiel and such people’s ideas are what Catholic church recommends, and they surely want to make such an impression, - no.)

Probably because they are. Could have made it a text otherwise.

And next you lose them

It is exactly that. One may have a backtest. You’ll see that real calls will be falsely detected.

What “modern AI” even means, you are arguing about taste of oysters with the people who have eaten them, unlike you.

Oh, of course you can’t have a backtest with a proprietary centrally hosted model until it’s deployed. Shit-shit-shit.

They have job openings that people simply aren’t applying for, it’s not a question of funding.

It is. Double the pay, see how many people there are. If still too few, double it again.

I’m certain it’ll be less money wasted that on this bot done the lawful way, with proper compensations to victims and their families. We are not considering the situation where it’s not.

They’re getting too many phone calls to handle and many of those phone calls should not be going to them in the first place. What should they do?

Hire more operators.

Contact centers have not been invented yesterday, it’s just plain bullshit this simple task is somehow hard today, when it has already been simplified far beyond what people in year 1977 dreamed about.

It’s the actual job of the government, BTW, and not playing Caesar with real armies or playing Master of Orion with real systems.

Maybe the ability to court-martial them for things non-criminal for civilians.

I remember it when good websites didn’t have any business model at all because there weren’t anyone busy with inventing it, all people involved spent their effort on making the website valuable.

The business models were in TV and radio outside of the web.

I’m not old, I’m 29.

An argument in favor of having a gun, at least if you’re a democrat politician.

OK, seriously every era is unique and the same as all others at the same time.

Reminds me of that anecdote about Napoleon and a respectful young soldier offering to help him with something cause he’s taller, and the answer.

“That can be straightened out.”

XMPP is a standard and doesn’t have mandated UIs.

If you want a voice chat, then Mumble. It’s very narrow, just for games.

In cyberpunk dystopia you could buy normal things, just most wasn’t it.

OK, guys, now what you have to remember for the next 4 years is that papers and documents are not what forms a society. People are. And if the system was built well enough, people will be able to restore it after the next election.

Ah, yes, of course. That’s also the distinction of Russia’s situation from more classical kinds of fascism. Bad things happen, but the regime doesn’t put them under your nose. Intimidation happens, but there are no public executions Nazi-style. Propaganda happens, but it’s boring and one would think ineffective, except it still sticks, similar to advertising, - they’ve learned some lessons. Nazis were more interesting and imposing, but less efficient. This is state of the art.

Same with today’s monopolies, oligopolies, rotten electoral systems, censorship.

Everything has been optimized to the last cent. Not the good old days, when the bad guys were generous with impressions.

Reminds me of Boussenard’s sentiment on new uniforms in his children’s book on the Boer war - no more nice glares and colors, just khaki everywhere - a symbol of efficiency, because camouflage now is treated seriously enough.

Like Intel’s tick-tock. Worker movements and fascisms 100 years ago were the “tick”, and now is the “tock” - boring, depressing, deadly efficient.

I think I’ve read US military and navy etc have their own parallel Internet, a few actually.

Not in the sense of it being an American company, but in the sense of it being a bit less of a mess.

Intentional spying yes of course.

Has been done before by whom and for what?

Say, the particular case could have been a failure because of Android not being a very good desktop OS, or the hardware being too weak. I can’t think of a precedent though, even such.

Deemed impractical by whom and for what?

Say, if it was a braindead monkey or an Apple fanboy, then irrelevant.

It’s an intentionally designed system, so that everyone falling out of line by themselves would hurt only themselves. It’s the point of governments and militaries than everyone can be replaced.

It was always so.

Strikes are supposed to be “suicidal”.

The problem is that western cultures after 60s manufactured expectation that there’s no such thing among necessary ones in life. That you live for feeling nice, comfort, good things, peaceful politics. That risking your life to make a statement won’t be required from you. That was initially counterpropaganda to communism, I think.

I’ll dare note that in the beginning of the previous century financial implications of such a strike for a worker were not just that, and it involved also possibly serious physical damage (without easily available surgery and care) and detention.

I would really like to find it in myself to do something like that, it takes a certain state of mind and a certain feeling in the air, because how do you start when nobody is yet doing it.

I would personally argue that fixing the law means getting rid of the notion of intellectual property all together.

Perhaps now - yes. 20 years ago one could argue, but today in practice it, as it was intended, simply already doesn’t exist. Those holding the IP are those having enough power to insert themselves in a right place. The initial purpose is just not achievable.

In my own reasoning someone copying me is the highest form of flattery and i would still have an edge understanding the properties of own idea better then the copycat does.

Yes, if the artist thinks that. And no, if the artist expects to make some money from every copy.

Its a huge limiter on human progress and absolutely non sensical in situations where multiple people just happen to have a similar idea.

That’s true for patents and technologies, but not true for art and software, where it’s improbable to just come up with the same thing.

Naturally such idea of abolishing copyright receives lots of criticism from many people because we would have to solve other problems that copyright now aims to fix but i don’t think that justifies the damage it does.

Now - maybe. There are a few traditional ways, like authors reading aloud pieces of their creations and people buying tickets to such performances, same with music. And models with paying forward for a request, like crowdfunding or an order.

But personally I still think some form of it should exist. Maybe non-transferable to companies and other people other than via inheritance. Intellectual work is work, and people do it to get paid. It’s just not good enough if the returns don’t scale with popularity.

Fanfiction and non monetised use is not at all exempt from these laws but rather tolerated by the copyright holder.

Should fix that in law, based on the commonality of such use.

IP companies use every such opening, we should too.

combination of plausible deniability (wizard uk boarding school isnt that orginal)

Except they even use character names from HP.

Publicity - maybe, would be funny.

I agree. I had a “pleasure” to experience the difference.

That also involved learning that human society consists of apes, real danger is always very close and no police will help you against it, thus right to carry arms is paramount. Preferably allowing you to kill a tank.