If AI makes a programmer appear more productive instead of slower, it's means they're slapping code together with great haste producing a ton of bugs, and they're going to need more engineers to fix those bugs, thus increasing headcount and showing how AI improves productivity and saves mon- HEY WAIT A MINUTE
D'oh, I mixed up the big conservative papers that start with W...same problems though, just minus the conflict of interest.
This, the WSJ is transparent about its bias at least, especially now that it's owned by Jeff Bezos. But between being a financially unstable company to start with, selling a stale product that had filled its niche, getting slapped with massive tariffs by Trump, the WSJ chose to blame the trustbuster who attacked the boss' company, which is letting political axe-grinding turn into bad journalism.
This is the kind of attitude that has resulted in workers now taking home 60% of their share of productivity today vs. what they got in the '70s. If anyone figures out a counterbalance to ownership-class power other than collective worker action, let me know.
This is the second time parody metal band Psychostick has foretold the future of US politics, first with "Political bum" and then "Numbers" - complete with muppets!
They were probably most concerned with ensuring that it wouldn't question the primacy of supporting free markets:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fnewshour%2Fp...
Everything old is new again:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdamagedglitter.com%2Fpro...
I'd guess the device was one of these:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
Let's wait for some precedent or at least a strong hint of inclination before we assume that future Dem presidents will also take the wannabe-dictator path from now on. While all future US presidents will have the opportunity to be mini-dictators until some much-needed guardrails are added, so far only one party (and in fact only one man) has taken it.
A Twitter-branded Mastodon instance might have a decent shot at success just due to the branding advantage, nothing since Twitter has been as well-known as Twitter.
If you parked the Venus zeppelin on Mars it wouldn't offer the inhabitants enough protection from the cold or radiation. But that's a minor issue next to the fact that it would explode due to the lower atmospheric pressure.
I guess you missed this part:
The firm’s findings still contrast strongly with those put forward by three Australia-based academics, who estimated in 2019 that based on transactional data from 2009 to 2017, one-quarter of all 106 million Bitcoin users engaged in crime, and that by 2018, illicit finance accounted for around $76 billion a year, or roughly half, of all transactions in bitcoins.
Cryptocurrencies have transformed drug trafficking by enabling crime syndicates to cut out street dealers and sell directly to customers around the world through darknet markets, as well as peddle higher-quality narcotics, said Sean Foley, a finance professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and one of the report’s authors.
“Chainalysis is trying to tell us about the total consumption of cocaine in Australia by telling us about how much cocaine has been seized,” Foley said. “It’s very difficult for me to meaningfully comment on the methodology because they don’t really tell you what they do.”
That's because most blockchain activity is wash trades, so everything else is small in comparison. Here's something to get you started:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moneylaundering.co...
Reminder to all readers: Monero and zcash exist, off-chain transactions (including cash-for-wallet deals) exist.
The difference is that Visa transactions are overwhelmingly for non-criminal purposes, while cryptocurrency transaction are (excluding wash trades) overwhelmingly for criminal purposes.
I'll just leave these here:
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https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rand.org%2Fpubs%2Fcomm...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dw.com%2Fen%2Fnorth-ko...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.queensu.ca%2Fiigr%2Fre...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moneylaundering.co...
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens. -- Bengamin Disraeli
