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Unfortunately I can't use that inside my Android app, Sync. I could set it to open all external links and Firefox but I'm not sure if that would be more or less annoying.

Wow, it takes like 15 clicks to decline all of the tracking cookies on that website, that should be illegal.

I think that is more like an advanced auto pilot which can also steer missiles to their target but only if fired by the human. The OP article says they're banning AI from making the decision to fire the weapon.

I'm not positive but this looks like Lake Mead near Las Vegas. The water level is dropping so quickly that the boat ramp is only paved up to a point and then it is a temporary dirt and gravel path they've made down to the water because the water level drops so quickly they constantly have to reposition the boat ramp, mobile-docks, signs, etc.

You pay extra for the exposed brick look in hip downtown loft apartments!

My understanding was that it was a real and legitimate trading platform had it not been for trading using customer deposits.

I don't know what their business' profit margin was, but I suspect that the amount of money they were making legitimately, such as from trading fees and margin interest, seemed like peanuts compared to their total customer deposits and how quickly the value was increasing as the price of crypto increased.

During the run up, it was almost impossible to lose money investing in crypto, everyone doing it thought they were a trading genius, so it was pretty tempting. I'm sure SBF and others there had been doing it and thought they could be billionaires if only they had the seed money. I think it started slowly at first, borrowing customer money to invest, try to make a good return, and the customer never knows.

If crypto had gone up forever, this plan may have worked. As crypto started going down, they had to invest more and more to try to earn back losses. They had to increase the credit limit of Alameda research multiple times before maxing it out.

I picture that like a gambling addict betting their house in order to win everything back. If they keep doubling their bet, eventually they'll win and be in the green again, right?!

This meme format is used to express disapproval of the action being described, such as destroying mental health. The image in the comment being downvoted comes across as transphobic, despite the disclaimer at the bottom.

Yeah, some of them are way too technical for me as well. Only some of the articles end up getting reposted to lemmy though, when I browse directly on hacker news, I tend to find a good mix of articles that are less technical but still interesting.

Check out Hacker News. Their mission is to only allow thought provoking posts and to not allow enshitification or dumbing down of their platform.

Users can still post content but it is more highly moderated to maintain quality. The users tend to be techy so user submissions are higher quality than average reddit/lemmy posts.

There is a lemmy community that reposts articles from hacker news but now I just browse it on their website or using the Android app Harmonic which I recommend.

If you were a corporation, becoming a monopoly would be your wet dream. As a company becomes richer and more powerful, it gains more influence over politics. It's a feedback loop that gives them more and more power until they are monopoly. It's not the government that drives this, it's the corporations driving the government.

Capitalism is the driving force of almost everything that's wrong in America. [1]

I agree that bailing out a corporation is not very capitalist, but that is not the primary goal of corporate lobbying. I believe it is mostly about keeping their industry legal, unregulated, low-taxed, etc.