FatherOfCurses

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   by FatherOfCurses 5mo ago

   While it is true that there are people who do not admit they are wrong when they factually are, your assertion glosses over the fact that most of the people we maintain in our social circle are people we trust through our experiences with t
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   by FatherOfCurses 5mo ago

   Sneering at "kids these days"
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   by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

   As an antidote to this I would like to offer my experience in the industry in the mid-90's specifically around Garth Brooks. I've never been a fan of his music, but at that time he really seemed to be focused on ensuring that as m
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   by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

   All grocery stores are introducing self-checkout as a way to reduce staffing. It's not a shadowy conspiracy, it's a legitimate fact. Many customers would much rather check out with a person.
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   by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

   Too bad the store owners introduced a way to give customers more control over how merchandise exits their store.
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   by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

   Drinking has been declining on its own.
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   by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

   Incremental change isn't a thing? Focusing on one health area, which will certainly be a massive undertaking, instead of trying to wipe out all unhealthy things at the same time?
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   by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

   Boss: "Just slap something together for the meeting with the Big Cheese this afternoon." (Engineer internal monologue) "OK I'll just agree to everything during setup, I can just tear it all down later." Six months l
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   by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

   I'd bet that Amazon is getting access to chat data (no matter what Anthropic says publicly) and possibly even the ability to change the model to drive business to either Amazon retail or AWS. "Claude I'm evaluating whether I
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    OK Ayn Rand.
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    You are taking the statement of "toxic individualism" to mean "all individualism is toxic" rather than "certain parts of individualism can become toxic if not followed." It is possible to say "some things
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    "How dare people want to spend a portion of their lives not being advertised to." There are plenty of ways to promote your product. Injecting ads into agents and PR's is not the way to do it.
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    I wonder if a band could put together a live stream concert published to a private stream sent to a movie theater. A bunch of fans of the band could get together and have the concert experience with fellow fans but not have to pay as much a
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    > People get touchy when this is brought up, but young recruiter women aren't attracted to them and are biased Age discrimination is real (I'm 56) but if you honestly think this way age discrimination isn't your biggest pr
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    We tell ourselves scary stories about AI because humanity is rife with stories where a new idea or technology has had unintended negative consequences. AI bros just care about selling their product to another company and cashing out, they h
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    He is so not any of these things. He is pro Elon's wallet.
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    seconded
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    > profits will come later Holy crap, is it the year 2000 again?
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    Thanks. I don't want to take any credit for coming up with it organically. I have worked in several service roles throughout my life, and have gotten first-hand exposure to how upstream decisions impact consumers and service workers. I
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    This ignores the fact that as a society there are certain desires that are agreed upon as harmful, such as CSAM. Everything must have its limits. You use the words "so called addiction" as if addiction is not an extremely well-doc
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    And online sports books have the same reputational incentives, but don't seem to be suffering any damage.
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    A few thoughts about the world this situation exists in: 1. Whenever I am dealing with a problem, I always try to say to the person helping me "I know you are not the person responsible for my issue." My goal is to help them not f
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    by FatherOfCurses 6mo ago

    For me the gold standard take on "selling out" is "Hooker with a Penis" by Tool.
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    by FatherOfCurses 7mo ago

    Why keep the goose that lays the golden eggs alive when you can kill it and get all the golden eggs today?
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    by FatherOfCurses 7mo ago

    Arch + Wayland finally got me dailying Linux for non-business use instead of Windows or Mac about a year ago. I admittedly have riced out things a bit but it is the most pleasant computing experience I currently have access to. The only pai
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    by FatherOfCurses 7mo ago

    "Enterprise Java" Factories! Factories everywhere!
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    by FatherOfCurses 7mo ago

    We need a cheap fast way to turn vacant or underutilized commercial property into carbon sinks. Like some way to fill up an empty parking lot at an empty office park or strip mall with portable self-watering containers that contain somethin
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    by FatherOfCurses 7mo ago

    In an economy that depends on consumer spending, you can only wipe out so many jobs until no one can afford to purchase consumer goods.
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    by FatherOfCurses 7mo ago

    Did you do the security setup for Jurassic Park?
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    by FatherOfCurses 7mo ago

    So is prioritizing corporate profiteering.