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by ChiMan 1y ago
The problem with that solution is that it would work too well, making it unattractive to lawmakers who need the issue to maintain their careers.
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by ChiMan 1y ago
Major free-rider problem, this is—one, however, that property rights could protect against: You own your data. If the OpenAIs of the world want to ingest your data, they pay you for it.
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by ChiMan 1y ago
Uses in AC and clothing seem like obvious use cases.
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by ChiMan 2y ago
The more fundamental question is: If mass layoffs are so necessary, then who’s responsible for the unnecessary mass hiring? In any mass layoff, fire that person first. Get to the root of the problem.
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by ChiMan 2y ago
With AI, I'd say white collar work should become less like factory work. Generative AI is non-deterministic, the opposite of factory work.
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by ChiMan 2y ago
In four years, they’ll revisit the complexity. Facts may become simpler then.
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by ChiMan 2y ago
Best drug suite for productivity: Copious running and moderate weights and calisthenics; moderate coffee, including occasional midday coffee with L-theanine; a protein-rich diet with minimal sugar and carbs generally; in bed by 9:30. If you
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by ChiMan 2y ago
In other words, the parents protect the kid from real life. No thanks.
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by ChiMan 2y ago
The way to see this is that we’re all individual contributors, from the janitor to the CEO. Because if you’re not an individual, then what are you? And if you’re not contributing, then what are you doing there? When you manage a project or
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by ChiMan 2y ago
The moral of the story: Don’t quit your job unless you have an employment contract for another one or if you have a reliable, growing side hustle that generates enough income to live on. Real life bites hard, and $80k is peanuts.
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by ChiMan 2y ago
I think we can expect sophisticated criminals to start using AI to rewrite their correspondence.
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by ChiMan 2y ago
Any information asymmetry will produce incentives to exploit Brandolini’s law. If you pay attention, you will begin to notice frequent examples.
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by ChiMan 2y ago
Sitting for 20 minutes is about all I can bear. A little voice in my head says to get up and move after that. I don’t mix in standing; I just make an excuse to go to the printer. I’ll stop feeling guilty because of it.
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by ChiMan 2y ago
Not sure a better stimulus for work has ever been discovered or invented. If times are tough, maybe it’s because there wasn’t enough free coffee.
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by ChiMan 2y ago
Read the court cases, where Team Trump had dozens of opportunities to present their evidence and were thrown out of court—dozens of times.
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by ChiMan 2y ago
The same can be said of spreadsheets. No, they’re not for “calculating.” They’re for mapping your problem so you understand it. The calculations just come along for the ride.
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by ChiMan 2y ago
Finland is part of NATO. The US and Canada should collaborate with it too. Sharing knowledge is a perfect way for European NATO allies to carry more of the collective defense burden.
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by ChiMan 2y ago
Funny how they don’t mention the time your employer doesn’t get from you while you commute. I returned to the office mid-Covid in part because, when remote, I was working too hard at home. At the office, I was able to waste time during the
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by ChiMan 2y ago
It’s a law of managerial capitalism that serious success at any firm will first create a culture of executives and managers who compete for company teats and later a company of vultures, pecking at the carcass of the mother the executives a
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by ChiMan 3y ago
Sounds like sports are good for kids, and contact sports are good for boys. Who knew?
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by ChiMan 3y ago
Call your mom.
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by ChiMan 3y ago
Tokyo is jam-packed with ads and loads of neon. When I lived there, I loved the visual effect. It brought the city to life and visually reaffirmed the economic bedrock of any modern city: Commerce.
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by ChiMan 3y ago
Sounds like yet another manifestation of the fake rationality that was so popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We already have a calendar that is universally understood and works perfectly well for any day-tracking
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by ChiMan 3y ago
Brought to you by the Gas Station Owners Association of California.
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by ChiMan 3y ago
Why haven't Benioff and crew been fired? Layoffs nearly always demonstrate errors in the judgment of the executives who did the hiring in the first place. And now the massive new hiring shows yet another error in the layoffs. It's
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by ChiMan 3y ago
There is a simpler way. If it’s data about you, it’s your property, wherever it’s stored. As such, you, not the software company, have the right to sell it if you wish.
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by ChiMan 3y ago
>The Enron folks shrugged it off. They believed in the company and believed in the work they were doing. In my experience, one should, in a corporate environment, take most seriously what is shrugged off and discount anything taken serio
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by ChiMan 3y ago
I've never understood the attraction of the iPad for travel with any hint of work. Today's modern laptops, whether a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, or the typical corporate 14-inch Lenovo, take up so little room and weight that it&#x27
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by ChiMan 3y ago
At some point, internet connections will be fast enough to make them indistinguishable form a local machine. Today, that is not true. In my own job, I straddle cloud-based and local machine-based software. Overwhelmingly, the cloud-based so
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by ChiMan 3y ago
He needs to get fired. The job of a CEO is to steady the ship during temporary economic anomalies. The inability to see life and policy under Covid as such an anomaly and to get misled into a hiring binge demonstrates shocking incompetence.

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