This is why I alway bring a street urchin with me when I shop for groceries. I make sure he has a cellphone & wifi enabled. We carefully walk down the aisle side by side and the e-ink price tags start flashing. They usually settle on a price that's halfway between the personalized price for him and I.
There are a lot of positive outcomes from this technology: more revenue in the pocket of the family who own's Canada's biggest grocer & REIT, and a deeper relationship with the neighbourhood vagabonds for me.
Whenever I think to myself "how did things get this bad?", I also force myself to think, "how did they get good, in the first place?"
Today, we are building the Torment Nexus. But yesterday, we were building the Vietnam War, the Holocaust, etc. etc. Things can get worse, but they can also get better - we just have to do our small part in making them better.
The left is focused not on the correct thing (albeit a thing worthy of support), and the right refuse to acknowledge the benefit of regulation / legislation and are totally disenchanted with the possibility of politics while they just just blame the left for all their problems.
The thing about banks: AML is for the small fry. The big money launderers walk in the front door as VIPs, they don't have to sneak around.
A good recent case is how TD Bank actively helped cartels launder money. An interesting scenario from the past was BCCI, a bank founded to lend legitimacy to criminals (I'm sure it wasn't the last of its kind).
My sibling has spent a year looking for a dev job in the UK without success. Bear in mind that even with a work visa, employers are so conservative that they don't want to touch anyone with an unusual work situation. There is also an anti-immigrant vibe, a general economic slump and a lot of their tech ecosystem sounds like a kabuki show.
I think more people should be aware of Unit 731. Japan has done a fantastic propaganda job, labelling themselves as the land of Pikachu and catgirls. But they've also the land of wild racism, WWII human experimentation and brutality towards the people they conquered. And they're unrepentant for what they did.
> I think more people should be aware of Unit 731.
They wouldn't. CIA was also doing human experiments yet, although we live in a democracy, nobody held them accountable.
You see, as long as a government cannot be held accountable by its own people, all bets are off.
CIA controls all western media, so good luck "making people aware".
The CIA is definitely scary. I’m not sure why people reach for old medieval guilds or Ancient desert pantheons to describe an evil unaccountable shadow government when we have the very tangible CIA already there.
> caring more about the artistic and craftsmanship side of life during the AI boom
In the past, I did not enjoy HN, and did not participate. But over the last 2 years, I realized that there is a small group of artistic and eccentric people on HN - it takes an effort to ignore the sea of content that's not interesting to you, and spot people who are on the same wavelength as you.
With that new approach, I find myself making new friends, discovering cool blogs and contributing more than ever on here!
There are a lot of positive outcomes from this technology: more revenue in the pocket of the family who own's Canada's biggest grocer & REIT, and a deeper relationship with the neighbourhood vagabonds for me.
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