Leverage buyouts are just a symptom of the problems in the system

In theory, leverage buyouts make perfect sense, kinda like a mortgage. You get a loan to buy something with that same as a collateral.

The fact that these usually ends in worse conditions for everyone is not because leverage buyouts are the problem, but the private ownership. Toys r’ us should have been owned by the workers, man utd by the fans, as so forth

Yeah, it is so people think that the ai companies are seeing the next, not-yet-public versions and are scared, they must be so powerful, right?

Altman has been claiming chat gpt made him feel dumb since 4.5

Last time we tried killing Nazis. Worked fine

i think it is more:

• sillicon valley elites should be in charge of the government, and the people should never question the new government, which should get all the money. that new government will be built by sillicon valley enginers and ai, instead of focusing on apps.
• the people only are good for the army but will get basic necesites (I think, that is what the “free email is not enough” point means)
• yes religion
• yes eugenics

I have to counter this. Yes, the 5 books are amazing, top notch low fantasy. 4 and 5 start to lose the plot a bit, but still good. But at this point it is unlikely that we will get an ending, and the 5th book ends with massive cliffhangersand unresolved plots. Hard for me to recommend it to someone until/unless it gets finished.

losers with no morals know that there is no easier, self-selecting mark for scams than the maga cult

you might enjoy Cortazar’s Preamble to the Instructions on How to Wind a Watch

They didn’t memtion selling hardware as a way of selling digital assets. They included selling hardware as a way to convert the digital currency in steam wallet to real cash. The process of “selling skin in marketplace -> use those funds to buy a steam deck -> selling the deck for cash” is straightforward, and all allowed by valve.

Other platforms have people circumventing the rules and restrictions in order to sell digital assets for cash. In steam, they are included and supported by valve (and valve profits immensely from it, by selling the keys and getting a cut of most sales)

But the argument as to why valve is enabling gambling and other companies that also have lootboxes arent relies on that the skins in valve’s games have monetary value that is both directly influenced by valve (by making some skins rare), that players open loot boxes in hopes of getting the rare skins (because the common skins can be bought in steam’s marketplace for cents) and that the skins can be exchanged for real money (either by buying hardware with steam wallet cash and selling it, or in the third party marketplaces that valve allows, protect and promotes (yes, valve has closed accounts of some third party marketplaces, but only those with gambling. The ones that just allow buying and selling for cash are explicitly protected by valve, as shown in the filing).

I do agree that the children argument is weird. Gambling in illegal in ny for all, not just children

the main argument seems to be not that steam has games with loot boxes in them, but that steam allows people to exchange the assets for steam wallet cash, which allows people to buy real products (games AND hardware), so it is equivalent to money. And steam is obviously enabling that system. as far as i know, xbox, nintendo and playstation don’t have that in their systems

(also, NY argues that valve knew about and did not enough to stop third-party marketplaces that work with real money, based on internal communications, which might not be the same (or just be harder to prove) for the other companies)

Legally emigrating to a new country takes a lot of effort, but even doing it illegally (by buying a ticket and overstaying your tourist visa) would take at least a few thousand dollars, for the flight plus expenses for a few months while you find some income

"We are working on a technology that will accelerate climate change while hopefully making most of the population unemployed in a world where unemployment means you barely get the basic necessities of life, if even that! What? Why are you all booing?

Great, i always struggled playing YYZ, but the new version of “… … …” makes it so much more manageable

so you don’t only dislike common mushrooms (fair, you eat what you want) but now the whole Fungi kingdom is garbage?

but that is ok because i read ayn rand and if they didn’t actually deserved it they would have squandered it all and she is a really smart and totally honest woman who wouldnt go on social security and if she did her situation is different you dont get it

that is exactly what it does

the fewer repeats is for when you listen to the same playlist multiple times, not for the sequence itself

and that is what spotify actually does: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2025/11/shuffle-making-random-feel-more-human

yeah, i was confused as aparently milei has decided that argentina should just be the us and israel’s lapdog, so i was confused and surprised that we would have voted in favor of human rights. it being in 2021 makes it make sense

Differently types of risks. Giving a 3rd party access to your full cloud storage has massive privacy concerns that he is right to want to avoid.

oh, this is not to pay for health care. it is to sustain the carry trade scam that both the american and argentinan goverment are involved in.