matjoeman

I agree but at least the PoS cryptocurrencies seem to have solved the energy use problem.

By this argument any website is wasteful. There's always a "better thing".

"Oh you sweet summer child" is such a condescending thing to say.

Google is a tech company.

It's always only going to be useful for things like buying drugs, cases where you want to skirt regulation or you really want privacy. Which is fine. It can have it's niche. Pretending it was ever going to be more than that was a mistake.

They have rescinded this policy according to the article.

They can. It's in the TOS when you make your account. They own everything you post to the site.

It's fine to praise people for doing the right thing and also criticise them for doing the wrong thing.

That feels like time well spent.

Eating Disorder

I agree. I think 'two-faced' is the best i've seen based on OP's various comments in the thread.

Right but I assume the parent meant that the AI could guess what the original function and variable names were based on the code, and may be even clean the code up by deoptimizing it too.

Trying to make sense of decompiled code is pretty hard for any large code base.