Sold off my stocks to pay off my house in a cheaper part of the states. If they don't want my 5 years of institutional knowledge on their front end systems, or abilities to hire and attract talent, screw 'em.

During the day, they are recharging, silly!

While it would be significantly cheaper if the government owned and operated the telecommunications infrastructure and defended it from foreign countries, the people who charge you too much to connect your home to a switched network have paid off all the politicians they need to to keep themselves rich.

Any real war with China is likely to end with Nuclear weapons, and since the US isn't a one-party state, we're likely to be the target.
So escalation of a trade war that might turn into a real war is really not what we want.

When you say legally correct, it depends on country and state laws. Ages vary - a lot of the Roblox policies depend on the user's age and country of origin, so you use the PolicyService:GetPolicyInfoForPlayerAsync method and look at the results if you want your game to enable functionality on a per-player basis. The table it returns tells you something about all the features of your game that must be unavailable to a player based on their location, age, and even parental controls. This functionality gets updated, and if you create a game with prohibited functionality without correctly implementing the policies, it may be removed by moderation or be restricted to verified 17+ users only.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcreate.roblox.com%2Fdocs... is the documentation.

The first part of that right is "A well-regulated militia being necessary" - the 3rd word is where you get permits. Although the common meaning of the phrase seems lost in 21st century American English, it was well established in meaning when it was written.

Are you allowed to own a tank? What about a fighter plane? How about a nuclear bomb? These things are regulated. How / by whom? The government regulates these things. If you are in the military and are training to be a tank driver, you get a license to operate the tank. Similar for a fighter plane or a nuclear bomb. It doesn't mean you own the tank or plane or bomb.

There are a group of human beings living in America who commit crimes like driving on public roads without licenses, and when the police scan their plates and discover that the vehicle's registration has expired and/or the owner's license to drive is expired and they do a traffic stop, they argue that it's their constitutional right to "travel" on public roads.

Search YouTube for "sovereign citizen" - you can spend hours watching ignorant Americans getting pulled over or showing up in court and saying the dumbest things in front of a judge that is trying them for a crime. They think that something they read on the internet gives them actual legal rights, when in fact the internet can be wrong.

AI might take some of their jobs, but nobody will pay the same for the resulting work, and the lawsuits are going to be more expensive.

Imagine two companies, one with AI to solve a problem, and the other using people, when the first is mired in lawsuits, and strikes and violent threats against their CEO. The second one gets all the customers.

You can fix the USA economy with a 10 cent per kilowatt hour tax on power used to train AI. Maybe with 20 cents, you can also reduce the national debt.

Seriously. There needs to be something good coming out of all this wasted power.

Reporting on companies defrauding their investors if true is not a bad thing, but taking out a large put position and _then_ claiming all the bad things about the company that are reported all at once, that's sus as hell. That sounds a lot like fraud.

Companies like this need to have their short positions demolished. This past year has been awful for game developers. I hate these "research" short sellers who put out "news" that's wrong in an effort to make some money. The SEC should investigate these people, but much better would be if everyone bought up Roblox to $50+ put these people out of business.

Roblox has about the same standards as any other website with regards to account signup. You fill out a form and put in a password and/or 2FA source. Why should it be any harder than that?

Regarding purposes to create a new account, they include:
1) Wanting to not show that you play games popular with another gender.
2) Testing games that you don't want to show up on your continue list.
3) Different friend groups
4) Noob to godly replays in older adventure games that do not support multiple character starts
5) Developing on the platform from a stealth account
6) You lost your password and didn't set up a recovery email

And oh so many others...

When you talk about the anonymous people on the internet, everyone is a perv. Roblox spends a ton of money each year trying to make the 70+ Million and growing daily active users "civil" to each other, but I hang out in the Discords with these people, and it's clear that nobody is watching the next generation, teaching them manners or even spelling when interacting with others on the internet. Otherwise Discord servers for very popular Roblox games wouldn't have squeaking voices join the voice chat, scream the "hard R" and leave. If you don't know what that is, look it up in an incognito window.

Tix was an interesting currency, but the moment you could buy Robux with it, people botted the platform to obtain it. Censoring people down to being able to talk with emojis like a twitch feature is a cool idea, except then people will just hang out on Discord instead. Largely, that's what people do anyway, ignoring Discord's 13+ year old requirement.

I understand your complaints. You can't put the genie back in the bottle and go back to 2013, when Roblox wasn't popular, had a handful of mostly teenage users who were mostly building simple games and cooperating, and the internet was a much slower place. Parents and other adults and teenagers with malice, including scammers from around the world joined in the games. Roblox went public and now that it is public, it is on the road to profits, and that involves biggering (reference to the Lorax). Go buy some Thneeds!

Not only have people moved away, many have moved far out of commuting range. Forcing a return to office will force those people to quit, and depending on the circumstances, they will leave before suitable replacements are made, disrupting the services that the government can provide. There is _no_ upside other than for businesses that depend on full offices. That's assuming that these employers haven't filled their offices with new staff since the pandemic ended, in which case they do not have the space for the returning employees.

I did some searching. It seems to me that these things aren't yet practical, but they are certainly complicated. IBM has a quantum computer with 1,000 qubits that they charge you $1.60 per second to access and run your program on. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.quantum.ibm.com%2F -- my gut feeling looking at the documentation is that we're still in the infancy and that you have to "design your own quantum computer" with the API in order to make ASIC-like circuit pathways and then run them on IBM hardware.

I still feel like we're a few decades away from quantum computers being useful. The hype is very much real. Read the documentation and look at the pretty pictures of how you can make a circuit with a ripple adder in it... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.quantum.ibm.com%2Fg...

Look at that: a 3-bit quantum adder! It's like 1960 called and you get to build your own CPU out of vacuum tubes! In 21 years, we'll get to a 16-bit CPU with multiplication and division for only $3,000!

Generally, think about this: The Earth is less than 8,000 miles in diameter (ignore the fact that it is not a perfect sphere). So it's about 4,000 miles from your position to the center of the Earth. Now go up 1,200 more miles and form a perfect sphere. Put 100,000 things in orbit up there. How much space is there between objects? A sphere with 5,200 miles in radius has a surface area of 4 Pi radius^2. So you have 12*5,200*5,200 = 324 million square miles. Say you have 100,000 satellites in orbit, and you put them up there evenly distributed, they will have 324M / 100K = 3,240 square miles to themselves.

Now, realize that these satellites will all be at different altitudes and in different parts of their orbit, they will be going in different directions at different distances... But still, if evenly distributed, each would be in the center of a space a little smaller than the total surface area of the United States (3800 sq mi).

Unintentional collisions between objects at those distances is possible, but so very unlikely. With regards to spectrums, usually those vary by country and you need to buy them at auctions.