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Why would the answer to this question matter in any way?

It's not a war anymore, wars are between armies, not civilians.


Yes and no, Safetynet and Play Integrity were also major attacks against computing.

I mean, why even bother to run flights at all in this scenario?

They could cancel 80% of flights and keep the rest to pretend they are still an airline.

Cancelations would be more profitable than the flights themselves.


80% would be way too much, the consumers would catch on and probably not buy tickets anymore. But don't worry, the airlines' best MBAs will be hard at work calculating the exact percentage of flights they have to fly before it starts hurting the bottom line. And once all airlines start doing it, they could bring that percentage down - what are the consumers gonna do if that's the only way to get to the destination?

Exactly. These supposed benefits of deregulated markets dissolve when the sellers have pricing power.

They still have to offer replacement flights, and if the replacement flight isn't reasonable they have to refund. They can't just keep your money.

Don't forget that a lot of flights are business flights. Fortune 500 companies will negotiate deals with the airlines, and they will ensure that getting there matters. Sure the CEO flys the company jet, but the next level down rarely does, but they talk to the CEO and will ensure that the chosen airline will get their people there by contract (wherever there is), if the airlines start failing to get people there on time these contracts will change since the large companies have enough money to matter. Those who fly a lot (again likely for business, even small businesses sometimes have someone flying several times a week) again are people the airlines need to make happy as they will go to different airline if there are problems.

Which is to say they can screw the "common man" who rarely flies, but most of the business is people who have enough power to to to airlines that treat them well and at that point it normally isn't worth screwing anyone.


I imagine the class action lawsuits at that point would bankrupt them

Presumably pre-emptively nullified by that arbitration agreement when you accepted the T&C to purchase the ticket.

Arbitration is not automatically in their favor. It is cheaper by far than a trial (in most cases), but they need to be at least somewhat fair or the whole thing collapses next time the government changes.

Class actions lawsuits only work if the courts and legislators have an interest in consumer protection.

That's why I'm not using Google accounts for anything important, I left gmail in 2014 and I really advise everybody to do the same.

You never know when the hammer can drop.


This. I simply don't understand why some people rely on Google given the risk level, impact and their no-recourse-except-maybe-public-shaming policy.

Google doesn't capriciously deprecate things in a short amount of time. When they sunset features, there's plenty of warning. They'll tell you that there's a hammer, that it's going to drop on you in 6 months, which is plenty of time for you to get out from under it. Which, I mean, I'd rather there not be a hammer, but it's not like they're gonna announce on a Friday that they're shutting down Google Keep on Monday and I need to wreck my whole weekend in order to save all my notes.

The hammer isn't shutting down a service, it refers to your Google account getting banned for a violation or whatever reason they feel like.

I'm not afraid of them deprecating Gmail, I'm afraid thar I wake up one day and the account is banned without recourse.

Yeah, same. I still have a gmail account that just forwards emails, and I update the email on services as they come on. Being on your own domain for email is just better.Though, I use a service provider to handle the mail server itself

They have some other secret sauce for sure, there's tons of cheaters on console which is a vastly more locked down platform compared to pc.

I don't want integrity on my mobile so why would I want it on my desktop?

Exactly, remote attestation is only acceptable on your own devices with remote attestation servers that you control.

For example, it would be completely fine to implement remote attestation where devices issued by companies to employees verify their TPM values with company's servers when connecting via VPN.

All other such activities directly infringe on ownership rights.


I don't see the value of remote attestation period. Especially when we talk about the mobile world which is a jungle where even the manufacturer itself doesn't have the full picture of all the code running on the device.

Yeah sure it's guarantees that the device is more or less similar as from the factory... and then what? What am I supposed to do with that information?


It can be valuable on devices *you own* with servers *you own* when the devices are not physically present (or even if they are).

You can get PCR values and decide if the device you are talking to is tampered with. That way, you can set a higher bar for hackers.

This is completely different to what this topic is about, I'm just saying that there is a case where it can be useful.


I'm not sure how they are going to make money from this. LinkedIn has to be one of the most worthless dataset in existence for training an AI, half of it already looks generated by a LLM itself and the rest is low value content.

Even if it was free I wouldn't include it in AI training.


> Will they for a dive bar with a bunch of old CD's and DVD's? Or for a funeral?

Not sure where you live but yeah they do, in France they even asked a school to pay for the kids singing a song, they make hairdressers pay, they absolutely would ask a funeral to pay.


Outside of Europe, this is also a thing in Japan.

> Just imagine getting into Tokyo subway with a stroller for 2 kids. There's a reason why Tokyo fertility rate is below 1.

That's a nice theory but all over the developped world, the countryside has lower fertility rate than the cities.



I tried again recently and I see absolutely no difference. If there's been some improvement, it's very subtle.

There's a big difference with their benchmarks and real world coding.


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