Does buying the book give you license to digitise it?

Does owning a digital copy of the book give you license to convert it into another format and copy it into a database?

Definitions of “Ownership” can be very different.

Don’t you need money to stop Venice sinking?

some dude out of Silicon Valley hears about this, and hacks up a system that just uses a $30 webcam, an AI model that detects fingers (trained exclusively on pudgy white fingers of Silicon Valley executives)

Hotdog / not hotdog

Private banks should mean they can fail without the government stepping in.

Beyond the services of a basic checking account and ability to send money, banking should be private.

• I know nothing

• I don’t believe the information

• I believe but don’t care. <— The US is around here

• I care but I don’t act

• I act but without effect

• I act with effect

The word “Atrophied” seems very out of place.

Congress also holds a lot of the blame.

The US army is much larger and better equipped than the Canadian army.

What % of the US army would be happy to obey an order to invade Canada. At what level if seniority? What justification could be given to sure up the troops?

I think you could read it to children.

It’s gonna bite her in the ass.

1.5-2 hour documentary on this guy … Know of anything like that?

How about a podcast?

https://techwontsave.us/elon-musk-unmasked

4 special episodes between 40m and 1h in length.

There’s nothing he could do to make me think more about him,

Elon the celebrity. Totally agree.

However Elon the presidentally empowered technocrat does have me thinking about him.

Aren’t HIPAA violations federal crimes that can be intsa-pardoned by Trump?

You are missing a piece of the analogy.

After each key press the size of the letters change, so some become more likely to be hit than others.

How the size of the keys vary is the secret being sought, and this training requires many, many more monkeys than just producing Shakespeare.