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by Draiken 1y ago
You're giving a lot of credit to marketers when they usually spend a budget without care and then report they had x views/likes/impressions taunting that as a success. It's a bullshit oriented industry with almost zero s
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by Draiken 1y ago
Or, you know, Chinese businesses acted like businesses and capitalized on the orange man's stupidity and naturally went viral. The tinfoil hats come out pretty quickly when China is mentioned but Occam's razor still applies here.
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by Draiken 2y ago
This is minority report bullshit. If you have a known murderer that is free presumably he's already paid for his crimes, no? So luring him into doing it again is extremely anti-ethical to me. There's no pre-crime... yet. This is w
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by Draiken 2y ago
I've seen plenty of humans hallucinating many things unintentionally. This does not track. Some people believe there's an entity listening when you kneel and talk to yourself, others will swear for their lives they saw aliens, the
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by Draiken 2y ago
Because this makes no sense. Do they advertise that there's no support when you pay $20? I'm gonna take a guess that they don't. They are getting paid by their customers and if they can't sustain their business (which in
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by Draiken 2y ago
Then hire support. They are selling a service and getting lots of money for it. They should be able to support like any other company.
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by Draiken 2y ago
Like the American one where unelected billionaires control the government and the populace. I always find it so surprising how people really do believe individuals have any real power despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It's
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by Draiken 2y ago
IDK if I agree with you, since in theory modern socialism tries to spread power, although it never quite worked like that in history. Maybe that's an utopia. > A capitalist democratic society is about the only type I know of that tr
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by Draiken 2y ago
Or, you know, profits. Capitalists only care about profits. I live in a country where we have many protectionist tariffs and the locally produced goods are expensive and lower quality compared to imported goods which guarantees profits at t
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by Draiken 2y ago
The line must go up.
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by Draiken 2y ago
> Power and money aren't the same thing. Kind of are in a capitalist society. Sure you need extra steps but it's still power. No need to go far... Elon is living proof of that. Other billionaires do the same but they don't
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by Draiken 2y ago
You're basically describing one way the rich dodge wealth taxes and saying we can't do it because it's hard to figure the value of some things out. I don't deny it's very tricky and people will absolutely do their b
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by Draiken 2y ago
It's not a moral judgement. Morals have nothing to do with how power works. Society does not benefit from small groups owning enormous amounts of power. Whether they're kings from "divine right", corrupt nepo babies or e
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by Draiken 2y ago
In my experience, people that simply attack other people instead of contributing to the discussion are the ones that want the "moral high ground". That statement is in no way moral. Not sure why GP assumes that. It's simply n
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by Draiken 2y ago
Yeah, if we had very effective wealth taxes, I could see it being less relevant. Right now, it kind of works as a very rare wealth tax and is probably dodged quite a lot by transferring ownership beforehand. I'm no expert since but I&#
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by Draiken 2y ago
This leads to what we have today: insane levels of wealth inequality. Everyone that inherits fortunes from their parents get to live life on easy mode while every one else is poorer, with less assets and barring winning a lottery ticket, no
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by Draiken 2y ago
Just like every single car in existence where you can get in and mess with anything inside it? This analogy makes no sense at all. Once you break into a car, you can quite literally do anything to it. The keys to your home part is simply ra
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by Draiken 2y ago
I'm sorry but I have to call BS. >Salaries of the remaining people tend to go up when that happens. You're telling me with a straight face that after a company replaces part of its workforce with tech/automation, salaries
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by Draiken 2y ago
Do I really own Intel/Tesla/Microsoft by buying their stock? No I don't. I can't influence anything on any of these companies unless I was already a billionaire with a real seat at the table. Even on startups where, in t
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by Draiken 2y ago
What is wishful about my comment? I've used and still use AI, but it would be wishful thinking to say I'm significantly more productive. As you just said: in your personal projects - that 99.9% of the time will never be seen/
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by Draiken 2y ago
Yes banks employ less people. In my country there are now account managers handling hundreds of clients virtually. Most of the local managers got fired. I find it easy to say from our privileged position that "tech might replace worker
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by Draiken 2y ago
Because a high level developer will still have to fix all the shit the AI gets wrong, and therefore won't be "2x more productive" like I read in many places. If they're that much better with AI, they were likely coding g
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by Draiken 2y ago
Being privately owned by a man with near infinite resources means it can stay online however long its owner wants, whether it's successful or not.
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by Draiken 2y ago
I assumed you meant behavioral interviews where companies try to "match" you with personality types through word association and other questions. Pseudo-science that I've seen used in multiple supposed tech companies. When I
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by Draiken 2y ago
If the company is doing behavioral Q&A interviews, I hope they're getting as many bad applicants as possible. Adding a load of pseudo-science to the already horrible process of looking for a job is definitely not what we need. I&#x
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by Draiken 2y ago
Many changes require multiple smaller changes, so this is not always possible. For me the commit message should tell me the what/why and the diff is the how. It's great to understand if, for example, a change was intentional or a
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by Draiken 2y ago
Same exact thing (or worse) happens in private orgs. But we don't even have access to it. I mean, we don't have to go far to see this. Nepotism is illegal in many countries for public institutions, and rampant on private ones. Thi
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by Draiken 2y ago
I disagree. If you look back and all you see are commit messages summarizing the diff, you won't get any meaningful information. Telling me `Changed timeout from 30s to 60s` means nothing, while `Increase timeout for slow <api name&
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by Draiken 2y ago
But at that point, does it fit a startup definition? In my view, startups always involve rapid growth and VC money to achieve it. If the company doesn't meet that criteria, isn't that simply a regular business?
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by Draiken 2y ago
Neither. Success is never determined by hard work. It's always a combination of many other factors and at best hard work may contribute a little. Otherwise the billions of very hard working people struggling to feed their families woul

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