Remind me again what Russia did with your country the instant it got the chance?

And here I thought I’d never see a lower form of wit than punning.

Let me guess. Dumped by an art girl and anxious about the $600 you invested?

If the general bulk of appreciable-quantity tech investors suddenly found out in granular detail what is actually being done with their money as opposed to what they were told, it would probably cause the biggest crash since the Great Depression.

Yes, because it perpetuates demand.

I guarantee you at least 75% of the histrionics are coming from astroturfing competitors.

In doesn’t matter. Sophisticated models are open-source and have already been forked and archived beyond all conceivable hope of regulation. There’s no going back.

Because it relying entirely on the dominance of the iPhone isn’t really a post-Jobs action. It’s actually the exact opposite: relying entirely on something he captained in order to make sales.

They also removed the headphone jack from the phone, so it doesn’t really count. Airpods followed the Sony approach: telling your captive audience they will buy the thing or suffer.

Yeah but that’s just marketing bullshit, just like how in real life, (normal and attractive) people don’t pull out a Nintendo Switch and pass around joycons to play Mario Kart on the phablet-sized screen at trendy rooftop cocktail parties.

Is this the “Zionists killed the gold standard” guy?

“Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is reprehensible, bloodthirsty, and a clear example of state gangsterism. Accordingly, we given given him a score of 7.3.”

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Man, it’s so disappointing that this sanctimony, or some variation of it, is the second comment on so many inane news threads. What do you think you’re contributing?

So you’re saying that governments should waste tax payer money

Stopped reading there.

No. I’m saying what was in my comment. The right interpretation for what I say is the one I already gave you.

It’s costing 4.5M a year to keep those documents

I cannot stress this enough, that is nothing. You’re hand-wringing over an amount of money that falls under the scope of a rounding error in any first-world country’s budget. If you want to talk about proper use of resources, a properly-functioning legislative body shouldn’t even be able to afford to think about it, let alone discuss it, they should be dealing with a full session’s-worth of projects that cost 100—100,000 times as much. If you want to talk about proper use of the taxpayers’ money, it doesn’t involve elected officials derelicting their actual duties to hem and haw over something that costs under $50 million on the national scale. For a government to have taken any action on this at all is a greater wastage than any potential savings. Seriously, imagine being paid by the public to ensure things are run properly, and then spending your time on the clock discussing whether or not the government should save $4.5M per year by switching brands of floor wax in all of the public schools. People have been tarred and feathered for less.

But that shouldn’t constrain us to recording on paper.

If you’re going to argue with me, spend less time on smug pontification and more time making sure you actually know what my point is.

Okay now do everyone else too

Why? Better in what sense? Better for whom? I think spending the money on ensuring that paper records are preserved is worth it solely because it monkeywrenches tampering and fraud, so diverting that money would always be worse no matter what it goes to. Money spent on maintaining public parks would be better spent on curing cancer, does that mean we defund parks? Money spent on a necessity is not a waste just because there are other necessities.

Also, even assuming you’re right, who cares? I just spent $1.50 on a cup of coffee. That money could have been put to better use, but it wasn’t, and it doesn’t matter, because it’s $1.50. This was my original point, functional states don’t have to even think about this cost, they can literally afford to forget it.