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by Frieren 1y ago
> When mutual funds share revenue with plan administrators, employees get higher costs and lower performance Capitalism is optimizing money extraction. Why make better products or give better service at better cost when it is possible to
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> The move comes as air traffic controllers have missed their paychecks due to the government shutdown. Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration screeners are among the essential government employees who are req
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The USA needs a national ID, it will help to avoid fraud, to get socialized health care, etc. To collect data just for police enforcement is horrifying and it will increase the control that goverment has in private affairs without proving a
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> Why cash cut deaths? For many living across rural sub-Saharan Africa, getting to a health facility, and paying for care there, can be difficult, especially when pregnant. Extra cash seems to make those decisions easier, as long as heal
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by Frieren 1y ago
Privatize profits socialize risks. This is not capitalism, this is just old-fashion feudalism with a new technological aristocracy on top.
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by Frieren 1y ago
Working in a craft for yourself at your own pace is a joy. Working for others in a corporate environment is hell and will kill you. Let's make sure people understand that difference.
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> Labor is a major cost, and cutting it is one way to bolster profit margins. This also shows that big corporations do not expect growth. Investing for growth is the best strategy unless the company is sure that there is no more growth
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> Think of Afghanistan as an example, A country that has been destabilized by foreign invasions again and again. The last one from the USA. It is not about culture, it is about been ruled by outside powers that do not allow for internal
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Savers in Sweden conned out of millions in AI-powered scams(sverigesradio.se)
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For that, you already have classical programming. It is great at formal logic math.
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> There's no such thing as "moral" in nature, that's purely human-made concept. Morality is 100% an evolutionary trait that rises from a clear advantage for animals that posses it. It comes from natural processes. The
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by Frieren 1y ago
This is not about spying, but fighting money laundering, persecuting war criminals, even common crimes. To spy on law enforcement that is trying to fight crime is not a good thing. Israel is not the world police.
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> You can be anywhere (on a boat, train, lying on the couch, in a stadium watching 18 innings of baseball) and using Claude Code on the web on any mobile phone (in a browser.) As it builds stuff, it's instantly deploying a review a
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> (I can imagine LLM operators jumping on the opportunity to sell some of these new barriers, to profit from selling both the problematic product and a product to work around those problems.) That is their business model. Use AI to creat
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> A description of what changed is very useful when browsing through git logs. Doing a blame on a file, or just looking at the diff of the pull request gives you that. The why is lost very fast. After a few months it is possible that the
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by Frieren 1y ago
> Doesn’t really tie in to actual markets involving physical item. - A designer brand has admitted to destroying its own products. Coach confirmed that it purposely ripped up bags that were returned to its stores, even if the bags were s
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It is obvious that Amazon wishes to replace all its employees for cheaper alternatives. That is true for all big companies. How realistic is this plan that is the question. American companies lie so often about the feasibility of future cap
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> Do you think offshore call centers are also "workarounds" for work permits? Yes. And I hope that call centers were forced to be in the same country that the recipients of the call. If it is not worth the cost, then they shoul
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> it's not directly relevant to every thing An increase in populism is a direct result of higher inequality. When people experiences a fair system, populism is rejected. When people lives in an unjust society populist will offer ea
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> The information and knowledge that populism severely damages the economy is there and is in the public domain, but the media increasingly acts to hide that from the public or distort that information so that much of the public never ge
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> I make significant efforts to fight against this More powerful people, the ones profiting from economic crimes, are fighting to keep scams legal. And they are the ones that create confusing laws that blame victims for falling for scams
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> On HN it appears in every thread about someone being scammed, but it was most obvious in the recent threads where JPMorgan was defrauded by a startup they acquired. Seemingly 1/3 of the comments were from people commenting that J
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by Frieren 1y ago
> I think this is a minor speed bump and VC’s believe that cost of inference will decrease over time and this is a gold rush to grab market share while cost of inference declines. It could also be that you give too much credit to the mar
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> Most companies just aren't important enough to worry about "AWS never come back up." But a large enough of "not too big to fail" companies become a too big to fail event. Too many medium sized companies have a
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> It was always possible to create these kinds of images. Only you needed to be (or find) a highly skilled yet unscrupulous artist to do it, which didn't happen in practice. Because that human being would have been sent to trial and
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> "GPT-5 is really good at literature search, it 'solved' an apparently-open problem by finding an existing solution" Survivor bias. I can assure you that GPT-5 fucks up even relatively easy searches. I need to have a
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by Frieren 1y ago
> News is an incredibly bad vehicle for anything involving public responsibility. In the USA, for sure. But news can be and are informative and helping in other places.
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> total death factors are not that interesting And this is why people die from very preventable diseases. News have a social duty to inform the public, when that part is removed all that is left is sensationalist and partisan pieces. And
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> Apple had two separate teams competing against each other on this topic That is a sign of very bad management. Overlapping responsibilities kill motivation as winning the infighting becomes more important than creating a good product.
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> But why would anyone opt-in to that? 100% this. Nobody wants to be tracked, it is dystopian, it is dangerous. > I don't think there's a safe way to opt-in to selling your data Exactly.

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