Not having to make a Google login would be a big benefit to me. Google is getting their data early

Completely agree. I hate kids being stuck in a Google ecosystem. Apple’s classroom app is really good.

This is ridiculously oversimplified, because there is no real market in housing. It is illegal to build in all of the places people want to buy. The purchase of housing by hedge funds isn't a problem on its own, it's simply a symptom of the bigger problem of supply restrictions.

The funds themselves say in their financials that they view housing as profitable because of the various restrictions on supply in every desirable city. They explicitly say that if those restrictions were lifted they would not be able to make money in that business and they would exit.

There is absolutely artificial scarcity in the housing market, it is one of the biggest problems we face as a country

Incumbent owners preventing the construction of more supply to maintain their own property values is not "free market". This is very basic stuff

He's on the AI beat, if he is unaware that a chatbot will fabricate quotes and didn't verify them that is a level of reckless incompetence that warrants firing

Yeah! We can call things reckless incompetence without calling them malice!

The state of California can classify some driving under the influence cases as operating with "implied malice". Not sure it would qualify in this scenario, but there is precedent for arguing that reckless incompetence is malicious when it is done without regard for the consequences.

Some companies have enough of a track record that they should be nuked from orbit, and "Company bad" is all that is worth saying. Meta is one of those companies. Palantir is another. Not holding them accountable and acting as if we should continue engaging with their products is part of the reason we are rapidly sliding towards dystopia

That’s never true. Comments that are off-topic and lies never contribute to useful conversation.

It's not off topic to point out that the company being discussed is evil and should be put out of business

Thanks for affirming that ignoring Ars comment section and Ars in general was a good decision -- I can stop wasting time seeing comments like yours.

enjoy the taste of Mark's boot

Yes exactly. Way too many people who ought to know better are like "this is cool!" and when disaster happens are going to have egg on their face

If they want to abandon noblesse oblige we can certainly go back to the old way of evening things out. Their choice

So he was willing to make a business deal with the country that executes gay people, as long as HE wasn't in danger? Legitimizing their regime is perfectly OK if it doesn't affect him? The fact that he was negotiating with them makes that incident look even worse for him, not Gawker