Lots of people saying they don’t like the idea of this here. How many people works at companies whose bottom line is driven by researching website visitors to make their ads unforgettable?

Both kinds of people are here. People who complain about social media, arms, pollution etc and people whose job contributes to it.

There’s no point in expecting a homogeneous experience here.

Ads are automated, no human involved into the actual research of a specific visitor. It's still creepy, but less personal. Some people can accept this line. But I also guess, with AI this line might be moved again.

The deeper reason is probably, machines are following rules, and they do it equally, focus on their specific job, without any hidden agenda. Humans are different, they have personal opinions and their own agenda, they can even be abusive. This is taking control from the people, and many people don't like losing control.

Does that imply you have to like it or be labeled a hypocrite?

Life isn't a series of black or white choices, but full of multifacetted grey areas where some bad will always be mixed in with the good.

I can very much dislike restaurants sleuthing me even if I have sites with add revenue.

I do not care for their imagined 'marginal service improvent potential'. For excellent service and good food, you do not need to know anything about me beyond my reservation and any food allergies me or my party might volunteer.

Of course you can like your targeted ads/data collection and not the restaurant's targeted experience...the restaurant isnt paying you!

So yes you're a hypocrite, but no one really cares--most people are.

In fact, many people on HN work for Google.

Funny, the scenario you described is exactly what Elon wanted to do!

https://openai.com/index/openai-elon-musk/

> In late 2017, we and Elon decided the next step for the mission was to create a for-profit entity. Elon wanted majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO. In the middle of these discussions, he withheld funding. Reid Hoffman bridged the gap to cover salaries and operations.

The median American net worth is $192,700. Elon’s net worth is $393.4 billion, so if I’m doing math right he’s about 204,000,000x more

I think you might be an order of magnitude off.

The NSA does not do either of those things

They do on occasion pass their intel to other domestic agencies which then do the field work of parallel reconstruction and locking people up.

Additionally, the NSA has been silently sabotaging computer security for decades with their exploitable backdoors, making things worse for everyone.

IIRC Amazon has a 2 years 401k match vesting period.

Interesting.

per this article, Amazon 401k has a cliff vesting on matched funds at 3 years of employment. After reading around, it seems like 3 years is the legal maximum for 401k cliff vesting, with 6 years permitted for incremental vesting.

https://www.consiliowealth.com/insights/breaking-down-amazon...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3331 The agenda of the president does not matter

The resistance at Trump’s inauguration has to do with Trump’s immigration and environmental policies. Which undoubtedly are within his lawful executive powers.

This assumes that DOGE has actually found something in their "audit", which seems dubious given TFA

Perhaps this FAQ will help you https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2024-11/MVSDefec...

The Tulsi that pushes Russian disinformation? That should do well for rooting out lying. Also some facts: Intelligence services did not lie us into the Iraq war - politicians did. Politicians manipulated intelligence reporting to fit their narrative. Since you seem to like conspiracy theories, it should be obvious that this was so Halliburton, the company vice president Dick Cheney was CEO of, could profit from government contracts. Guess what CEO will now profit from government contracts due to all the lying from the current slate of politicans.

And by conservative parents as domestic terrorists, I assume you mean the people convicted of crime due to their actual criminal actions on Jan. 6?

> And by conservative parents as domestic terrorists, I assume you mean the people convicted of crime due to their actual criminal actions on Jan. 6?

I think he means parents who made threats of violence against school boards.

It makes the whole world blind

No, there'd be one person left with an eye. They could just dodge the last blind person.