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I don't doubt this description of what happened, but the sad irony in a company whose product was producing tools to generate archival copies of images, not recognising the value of retaining archival copies of images... facepalm.

I read that as "playing Grandma" and thought that was a pretty clever game concept.


Is that true, that it's money that belongs to people?

OpenAI isn't spending $1 trillion in hard earned cash on data centres, that is funny money from the ocean of financial liquid slushing around, seeing alpha.

It also certainly is not a cohort of accredited investors putting their grandchildren's inheritance on the line.

Misaligned incentives (regulations) both create and perpetuate that situation.


Right, because that is a national emergency on the level of severity and immediacy of a foreign military invasion - which is the actual legal arguement put forward.


Google says

> RuBee is an acronym for "Radio U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing",

Weirdly not related at all to Zigbee's naming origins, in spite of their technological similarity.


RuBep? As ever, the fastest way to get a correct answer on the internet is to post an incorrect one:

> The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Inc., the international governing group for such technology, has designated P1901.1 as the technical designation given to the RuBee technology, which was named RuBee by Visible Assets. "There is no real reason we named it RuBee," said Mr. Stevens. "It actually was named after the song 'Ruby Tuesday.' It just sounded good."

https://theproducenews.com/print/pdf/node/1355 (PDF)

I'd assume "ZigBee" was also an inspiration.


An idea compressed down into a single character is elegant and efficient.


Single grapheme ;)


And be completely unaccountable in criminal court, for the consequences of their actions.

Don't forget that one. All the rights, none of the responsibility.



Yeah but think of the automated age discrimination during resume/CV screenings.


Why do we encourage microsecond scale HFT and tout its virtues, yet shut the market down for the majority of every day?

Why not go all the way and have markets running 24/7/365?


The NYSE and NASDAQ are planning to move to longer trading hours, 22/5 and 24/5 respectively.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/nasdaq-jo... (https://archive.ph/JySaV)


And while at that. Remove all circuit breakers. Let the markets be free. Whatever they do. Rocket up or down.


We tried laissez-faire unregulated markets in the 1920s and it didn't go well for anyone but the robber barons.

Maybe you expect to be one of them, but you'll probably just end up in the soup lines with everyone else.


> We tried laissez-faire unregulated markets in the 1920s and it didn't go well for anyone but the robber barons.

yes, let's keep creating too-big-to-fails instead and reward them with bailouts for their mismanagement and borderline criminal misconduct.


>yes, let's keep creating too-big-to-fails instead and reward them with bailouts for their mismanagement and borderline criminal misconduct.

Or maybe we live in a world where nuance exists and there are there are more options on the table than anarchy and oligarchy?


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