Does buying the book give you license to digitise it?

Does owning a digital copy of the book give you license to convert it into another format and copy it into a database?

Definitions of “Ownership” can be very different.

Don’t you need money to stop Venice sinking?

some dude out of Silicon Valley hears about this, and hacks up a system that just uses a $30 webcam, an AI model that detects fingers (trained exclusively on pudgy white fingers of Silicon Valley executives)

Hotdog / not hotdog

Private banks should mean they can fail without the government stepping in.

Beyond the services of a basic checking account and ability to send money, banking should be private.

Congress also holds a lot of the blame.