In general, a free market only works (even in theory, let's not even get started on the practice of it...) when _there is no assymetry of information_. Otherwise it's just fraud, one party mispricing things because the other party knows something they don't.

It's why we require public companies to disclose their finances. How could a person, even in theory, know whether to invest otherwise? It's why we require sellers of houses to deliver an independent inspection report. Etc etc.

The converse is also why HFT companies make more money than croesus.

Come on... This thread has people saying their small website went from 1k requests a day to 100 requests per second. What would you have them do to mitigate this, I wonder? I would rather not have to have an anime girl picture stalling the website load for 1s, but I'd rather have the anime girl and see the website than no anime girl and no website.

If you're worried about giving money to these corporations, why don't you buy second-hand? It's not like a 9 month old TV model suddenly is obsolete. An excellent TV from 3 or 4 or 5 years ago is still excellent today. Resist turbo-consumerism and just buy second-hand!

When they were shoved in yes, it's terrible. But the effortless way they were incorporated in games like Super Mario Galaxy is something special.

I've played more MK Wii custom tracks, on split-screen multiplayer, than pretty much any other multiplayer game for the past few years.

The custom mkwii wiki has 17,000 articles https://www.mkwiiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

Relevant video from one of my favourite youtube channels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwnphd_QUXo

> I'm using frontier AIs to monitor every last one of them

The jokes write themselves.

You don't track the activities of your elected representatives? How else would you know if they did what you voted on them for? How is this a joke?

This is not numerology, 13 and 22 are synonyms for Lula and Bolsonaro, used in common speech by every Brazilian.

Pirated files will never be higher quality than the source. If streaming is the only thing left in the future it will be the limit of quality.

I heard the other day there are a few shows that are streaming in 4K (probably low bitrate) but the discs are only HD.

You could also — get this — have people write a cross in a piece of paper, fold it and put it in a locked box, monitored at all times by delegates of the different candidates/parties.