It's not different in any way. "Corporation doesn't like it when you do it" is apparently the number one cause of "trouble". Especially in the US where they can bankrupt you with legal fees even if they have no actual leg to stand on. Less so in other countries.
Anyone can be bankrupted by corporations over literally any bullshit claim. They can afford to lose in court and still win because their objective never was to win in the first place, it was to burn your money through legal fees. It's essentially abuse of the legal system by the rich to keep the poors in line.
Big companies with deep pockets will even bankrupt other companies this way. For an example, look at how Sony sued playstation emulator companies over the most bullshit claims possible, got an injunction, killed their profits and then it didn't matter that they lost in court afterwards. In my country, the judge would have estimated the profits the smaller player lost as a result of Sony's frivolous lawsuit and forced them to pay it all back on top of the legal fees.
Are Bitcoin ATM's still a thing? There used to be one in a coffee shop near where I lived. If I deposited cash and wore a facemask and sunglasses, how would anyone ever know who did the transaction?
A couple months ago, I was incredulous when I noticed about a half dozen of them on google maps within a mile radius of where I am in San Jose. I haven't gone looking for them physically, though.
in reality, no, they don't know who I am. Back when LocalBitcoins.com facilitated face to face trades for cash around the world, you just had to have a high rating from previous transactions. Now... how safe do you feel showing up to meet an anonymous guy in a bar with thousands of dollars in Benjamins? That's the downside of being anonymous. /edit: The downside of operating completely outside the system.
/edit 2: I should also clarify that I never cashed out my casino's BTC in this manner. That obviously wouldn't make sense because anything that touched a casino wallet would be traceable to that nexus. I only used it to bring extra spending cash and rent money to countries where it was hard or expensive to transfer USD through banks.
> Terms of service for various companies and other long and boring documents.
OK, fine. Do you have a working example of this? e.g. he's a contract, and please find me the unfavorable and / or non-standard terms. People have tried this before with no success, and it would be great if someone finally made some headway here. Even more points if the GPT things find onerous terms, but says, "hey don't worry about this non-compete bit, it's not enforceable."
> Salesforce will print money for a few more years until someone makes a less awful CRM solution and just crushes their business.
This statement undervalues the lock-in Salesforce has. One should probably make migrate-from-Salesforce tool and sell to all the new VC funded CRM shops. You could be selling shovels during a gold rush.
Yeah, aren't there already a lot of CRM products? I know Close.io is particularly useful for salespeople, but I'm not sure of any that could touch the dominance of Salesforce in the enterprise.
Absolutely. To compete with Salesforce, you need to not only do literally everything Salesforce can do, you need to be compatible with all the horrific hacked in integrations that companies have made, and do it better enough where it’s worth the complete clusterfuck that switching off Salesforce would cause.
Absolutely. Back when I worked for a bank as a junior analyst, we were one of the first to jump on the Salesforce train. The software was garbage but Salesforce bought the handful of us many four figure dinners. I don’t really give a fuck how annoying the software is when I’m eating a $90 steak with a glass of $200 wine.
> This floored me. One because in my mid Atlantic area nearly every house has a heat pump. When house shopping many years ago we never saw a listing that didn't have one.
Is this really possible? Is every house in this area less than 20 years old, or occupied by a well-heeled and environmentally conscious homeowner?
That area us probably TVA or.other place near that territory where electric is very cheap. So of course heat pumps are popular, they don't have much gas infrastructure, and evem where it exists heat pumps have been cheaper for decades.
It is the Northern Virginia suburbs. The homes I was looking at were mostly built in the 80s-90s because that's roughly the band of growth where I could afford to buy.
Interestingly enough, gas was something of a premium feature. It was generally just used for the water heater and range. The homes with gas were out of my price range.
I agree, it's impressive. But still not at the level of useful. For example, I would never use any of these generative art images in company ads or marketing materials. They're not in the uncanny valley, but closer to that than something one would commission from a designer.
