riskable

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The fact that we all send 2-3% of nearly every monetary transaction to a completely unnecessary 3rd party that set these fees when real people did the processing instead of computers.

Visa, MasterCard, and American Express do not need to exist. There's no excuse for fees on financial transactions. They should be free because there's absolutely zero cost to raise one account by $ and subtract that same amount from a different account. It's the cost of a few computers doing basic arithmetic.

It's insane that we allow this.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago

Each one should have a picture of Charlie Kirk on it. To celebrate his legacy, of course! So everyone can understand the lesson he taught the world. So others with the same beliefs can follow in his footsteps!

"It's worth the cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths [...] so that we can have the Second Amendment". Charlie Kirk, 2023.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Time Travelers from the future might recruit an entire school bus's worth of geriatric retirees to prevent such a thing from exploding 🙂‍↕️

[–] riskable@programming.dev 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I rarely ever downvote unless it's racist/sexist/bigoted nonsense or complete bullshit/misinformation. I don't downvote people I merely disagree with.

I upvote clever jokes, insightful comments, and anything I think isn't pointless. I upvote a lot, haha.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 49 points 1 month ago (7 children)

antifa, the decentralized far-left movement

What bullshit is this? Being against fascism isn't "far left". I mean, what kind of bar have they set, here? If someone is straight up communist are they far, far, far, far, far left? There's so much between antifa and "far" left that you could fit dozens of countries in that space.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There will be an explosion of AI services like ChatGPT that do exactly the same thing but much cheaper. They'll run FOSS AI models that didn't cost them billions of dollars to train and run on purpose-built hardware (i.e. not GPUs). "Big AI" will pivot to government contracts.

As that fifth year comes around, companies will be announcing products that have these purpose-built chips inside them that can do a whole heck of a lot of stuff without requiring a constant connection to the Internet. Think: Toys, appliances, and very fancy cars.

Every single piece of software will have been rewritten by AI so many times with so many clones it'll be hard to distinguish good stuff from bad. The situation will become so problematic that every app store/repo will insist upon some kind of supply chain certification and possibly 3rd party verification.

AI tools that search the Internet on behalf of the user will crush ad-based businesses like Google and Meta. The AI will automatically filter out the ads and other cruft from search results and return just the search results the user wanted in the first place. This will result in free search engines becoming even worse and paid search will become a necessity. It'll probably get incorporated into plans like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc bundled plans where you pay for a certain amount of photo storage/whatever and get premium search as part of the bundle.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

I gave you +1 online points for this comment 👍

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

TL;DR: Turns out he gave a sheet.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I bet you were blocked from winning. In fact, if you look closely at this conspiracy theory you'll see that all the pieces line up!

[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Every journey begins with a single step.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I've seen this movie I think.

"Carbon monoxide" is just another phrase police use to hide supernatural events a la "gas leak".

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