The fact is that major tech companies are investing billions in this.

They have literally invested billions in every single hype cycle of the last few decades that turned out to be a pile of crap in hindsight. This is a bad argument.

And by “pizza shops” you mean that one pizza shop that tried it back before BTC got really expensive?

You are thinking too small. Even if only one of a thousand companies in one of dozens of third world nations develops an alternative that is enough.

The difference is that 100% of crypto-currency transactions are stuff like that and only a small percentage of USD transactions.

They have the ability to shut it down for all practical purposes by simply banning its use for transaction by legitimate companies in their country.

All you are describing really only suggests that American democracy has been dead for even longer, not that it isn’t dead yet.

There aren’t many industries where results that are correct in the very common case everybody knows anyway, a bit wrong in the less common case and totally hallucinated in the actually original cases is useful. Especially if you can’t distinguish between those automatically.

Can you name some of those uses that you see lasting in the long term or even the medium term? Because while it has been used for a lot of things it seems to be pretty bad at the overwhelming majority of them.

All that really tells us is that the people who defined the term were remarkably stupid.

Also a bit sadistic to be honest. Bringing a new form of life into the world only to subject it to PHP.

Most people have the concern that the Trump concept is being copied to their country’s politics now.

Not while you are showing them you are still on there.

That doesn’t mean leaving now isn’t better than staying.

The rationale is that it’s better for them if they use their software without payment instead of using a software from another vendor without payment.

More importantly it is better for the company if they use their software without payment instead of developing some sort of competitor (open source or proprietary).

I think the problem is that ActivityPub doesn’t scale as well as email does thanks to the constant need to update and cache data from each instance one of your users interacts with.

Sounds incredibly dystopian to me, sort of like that whole idea of letting universities decide whether crimes on their campus are prosecuted that seems popular in the US for some weird reason.

Mostly AI is total shit as a search engine replacement. About the only bit where it is semi-useful is if you can only describe what you are looking for in words that describe what you mean as a semantic sentence but not as a set of keywords. And even then it is mostly useful to find a set of keywords to use in a proper search engine.