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by 9rx 4mo ago
Yes, but that does not preclude layering individual bargaining on top. The collective bargain could simply be something like "you may not track employees", while still leaving each individual employee to negotiate the compensation
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by 9rx 4mo ago
A union is merely a group of people who agree to work together for a shared benefit. That doesn't mean that there cannot be individual negotiation, nor does it mean you can't get rid of bad performers. There is no reason why it wo
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Working in tech until you are able to do it is sage advice, but getting employers on board is difficult. Usually being able to do it is a prerequisite to begin working in tech in their eyes.
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> they are monstrous mind warping engagement machines. No doubt kids will choose social media over cleaning their room. Would they choose social media over going outside to play, if society still allowed them to do that? The "boob
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by 9rx 4mo ago
To the greatest degree of our understanding, the mid-career slump happens to some people because priorities can shift mid-career. Kids/family starts to grab more attention, seeing life as more than a job and wanting to live it to the f
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> The problem [...] is addiction. Is it? Only around 10% of the population will develop an addiction (of any kind). About the same rate as the population who live chronic sedentary lifestyles, which comes with equally (or maybe even wo
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by 9rx 4mo ago
A full answer is somewhat dependent on specific implementation details, but the simplest approach is much like the simplest way to acquire alcohol or other age-restricted product as a child: Ask someone else to act as an intermediary. Get a
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by 9rx 4mo ago
The compromise is that it is either really easy to work around, effectively defeating what it is trying to do, or it becomes tightly locked down to trusted devices only, destroying the free internet.
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> When did we have to stop waiting for crops to grow? When we started producing more than basic things like food that are heavily dependent on the environment. In the knowledge-based economy, the only thing that meaningfully stops you
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by 9rx 4mo ago
The only thing that is significant is that shift brought us to reaching peak human productivity. Prior to that, humans were not able to be as productive. Consider agriculture: You might be able to be maximally productive some times of the y
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by 9rx 4mo ago
I've been in the industry for 30 years. "UNIONIZE" has always been the suggested answer. Always. But nobody ever steps up and actually does it, even despite the people being already socially united through platforms like HN,
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Obviously wages and productivity had to decouple. Wages measure human labor, while productivity measures all output, including that which comes from automation. ~50 years ago is when automation started to become more than a curiosity in ind
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by 9rx 4mo ago
To be fair to the parent, jobs require capital, and big tech owns a big chunk of the capital, and thus do own a big chunk of the job market even if they aren't putting it to work. Which is part of the underlying problem. Those with cap
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> (think booklets) That's what PDF is for. CSS is for documents, but namely documents for screens, and on screens you want consistency with all the things on that same screen. > there’s a load of templates (and frameworks) on
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Everything is a religion to at least a small group of people. LLMs are no exception. It is currently not broadly adopted religiously, but it does have qualities that could see it become a much bigger religion over time, especially as more a
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> I think the thing companies forget is that a lot of them can't remain functional if a shrinking percentage of the population can afford their products. Why not? Apple, for example, had billions upon billions of dollars in cash.
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by 9rx 4mo ago
It is for styling documents, but nobody (except for maybe designers trying desperately cling to a job) wants every document to have a bespoke style. I want to use a style created by experts that is consistently shared with every other docum
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by 9rx 4mo ago
It is a hard problem. That is why in the pre-browser days a small number of entities did the hard work and gave the rest of us mere mortals tidy APIs to make use of their efforts without everyone having to painstakingly duplicate what they
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> I'm asking for productivity in the sense of "accelerating the businesses pursuit of its existing goals" rather than quantity. The current business goals around the use of AI is essentially the startup model: Throw shit
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> When people are pessimistic about the future, they have fewer children. But also, statistically, the richer you are, the fewer children you have. Why do you think those who are seemingly in the best position to be optimistic about th
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> I.e if you automate workers out of labor, who are we selling these AI services to? Those who were formally workers? Remember, money is debt. It is an IOU that, sometime in the future, allows you to receive something of value (e.g. fo
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by 9rx 4mo ago
In the beginning apps and SQL were co-mingled. Oracle eventually came along and noticed that people wanted SQL on the network so that many different apps, running on different computers, could all access the same data. But then people reali
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> most people like the social aspect of work, but not being beholden to their boss From what I see out there "being beholden to the boss" is the social aspect people like most. It is what gives the work purpose; knowing that
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> They certainly knew what they were doing. Based on what? Sure, the one guy managed to hack up the first version of C, but it took a complete rewrite and some major changes to become what we would actually recognize as C. Not exactly
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> That sounds like a roundabout way of saying that the capital owners have captured the gains from productivity without increasing the compensation to the workers. What do you mean in a roundabout way? It says that quite explicitly. &
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Exactly. Hence why productivity has increased while wages haven't. Wages have increased alongside the productivity increases of those wages, of course, but wages are decidedly for human labor, by very definition, not robot (computing,
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> Stop excusing them What is there to excuse? Your quote confirms that they simply don't know what they're doing as was already established. Not that anyone should expect them to. They're just regular average humans, sam
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by 9rx 4mo ago
I suppose. That special case is that it is evaluated statically, whereas duck typing is evaluated dynamically. That's the whole difference between them. They are otherwise identical concepts. But who is to say that dynamic evaluation i
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Pay raises have kept pace with human productivity gains. Robots have pushed productivity well beyond the human capacity. But robots are not willing to work for free either, so...
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Funnily enough, Go's generics were designed by the same guy who introduced monads to computer science. Everything comes fill circle.

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