shanghaibebop

joined 2 years ago
[–] shanghaibebop@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why ban them? Just tax them as luxury items like what Singapore does and slap tolls on all roads like what Japan does. Tokyo has wonderful roads and very little traffic for such a large city.

[–] shanghaibebop@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

High interest rates depress growth stocks and lowers asset valuation multiples.

Good time to buy.

[–] shanghaibebop@lemmy.world 68 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s not the manufacturer, it’s a 3rd party information aggregation site.

[–] shanghaibebop@lemmy.world 68 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why not. Cheaper rent for ailing urban areas, and more incentives for residential construction.

[–] shanghaibebop@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You sure about that? because if it's Google, that particular method of doing this would be easily discovered.

Also, the scary part isn't that they could do this by listening to your phone, the scary part is that they DON'T need to listen to your phone to do exactly that. Much easier to identify multiple devices coming from the same network (both physical and social), and then figuring out query interests, and then send ads down the same pipelines.

[–] shanghaibebop@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait til we get gen AI-based reviews. It will literally become indistinguishable unless there is some sort of purchase verification, and even then, what's to stop sellers from using services to spoof reviews by purchasing their products?