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by Herring 10mo ago
Try have your engineers pick up some product work. Clients do NOT want to talk to bots.
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by Herring 10mo ago
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
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by Herring 10mo ago
Humanity being the first species to go extinct because it was more profitable than continued existence.
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by Herring 10mo ago
This resembles the "Natural Language to SQL" trend of the early 2010s, which largely failed because business users required 100% accuracy, and the "translation" layer was too brittle.
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by Herring 10mo ago
It's just investing vs extracting/exploitation. Both can get you rich, but one is short-term and the other is long-term. Consider what that means for sustainability and the future.
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by Herring 10mo ago
It's a recurring theme. At the time of the Civil War, the Mississippi River Valley had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the US. https://www.history.com/articles/slavery-profitable-southern...
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by Herring 10mo ago
As Churchill said, Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing … after they have tried everything else. Last time it took a depression and intense widespread economic pain for them to pick up socialism-lite. I don’t expect it to t
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by Herring 10mo ago
Efficiency isn't that important if the input cost is low enough. Basically the utility is throwing it away (curtailment) so you probably can too. CAPEX is really the most important part of this.
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by Herring 10mo ago
I like the sentiment, I really do, but nobody (outside a phd program) pays you to learn. That's just not how society is set up. If FAANG companies could get away with hiring high school kids at min wage to prompt all day they would. We
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by Herring 10mo ago
> manufacturing consent I think it's more like smearing/projection, like Republican conspiracy theories about Democrats being pedophiles. Guess where the real pedophiles were hanging out the whole time.
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by Herring 10mo ago
I bet the ex employee doesn't even have to be Chinese. I'm not, but get me FAANG-level salaries and decent working hours I'll 你好 all you want.
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by Herring 10mo ago
The track record says China will probably just buy Taiwan. If you hate invasions so much, you should probably focus your energies on Venezuela. Looks like Trump might start a war for Christmas.
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by Herring 10mo ago
In the US, bigots instinctively recognize and protect each other like impostors in Among Us.
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by Herring 10mo ago
It's extremely important if you're interested in social stability. Unhappy people have a tendency to turn authoritarian and lash about, hurting both their own society and anyone who looks different.
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by Herring 10mo ago
That's kind of misleading. HK had a lot of civil freedoms (rule of law, independent judiciary, freedom of speech). China explicitly blocked earlier democratization. The vote only managed to get through after the 1989 Tiananmen Square c
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by Herring 11mo ago
There's an affordability crisis hitting the whole country and getting worse (inflation). It's like a guy who has been stabbed saying "I am ABLE to walk". Not for much longer! Check this out - https://data.worl
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by Herring 11mo ago
Yeah that’s part of the gaslighting. It takes 2 seconds to realize it’s wrong, but people parrot it like Fox News talking points. Every profession attracts people who enjoy it, eg lawyers tend to enjoy adversarial debate. Lots of countries
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by Herring 11mo ago
Yeah none of that fever dream is real. There's no "after" a civil war, conflicts persist for decades (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Myanmar, Colombia, Sudan). Check this out - https://data.worldhappiness.report/ch
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by Herring 11mo ago
It probably depends on the society you start out with, eg a high trust culture like Finland will probably fare better here.
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by Herring 11mo ago
American culture actively punishes compassion, then gaslights you about it. https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/te... Look at all the professions on the bottom right: Teachers, therapist
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by Herring 11mo ago
Give it time. The first iPhone sucked compared to the Nokia/Blackberry flagships of the day. No 3G support, couldn't copy/paste, no apps, no GPS, crappy camera, quick price drops, negligible sales in the overall market. http
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by Herring 11mo ago
Marx died in 1883. Things have moved on a little since then. Some parts of the economy are great under state control: monetary policy, military, infrastructure, healthcare, education, safety nets, etc. Some parts prefer a mix of public and
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by Herring 11mo ago
Sometimes the perception of speed is just as important as actual speed. No I'm not bitter, why do you ask?
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by Herring 11mo ago
Dude go figure it out yourself, it's not that hard. I remember discussing inequality with friends in 2014, and probably knew about it since Occupy Wall Street (2011). Or earlier. At this point if you still don't get it, with a bil
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by Herring 11mo ago
You're not thinking at a systems level. Check this out - https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart . The US is increasingly a miserable place to live in - in large part because of pay not keeping up with housing/sch
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by Herring 11mo ago
As a general rule, it's unethical people who like to ignore ethical issues for their own benefit. And there's plenty I can do. Studying the issue & preparing a move, to name two. You want to roll over cause that's your la
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by Herring 11mo ago
> I own your tools therefore I own everything you do with them Like I said, madness. It's like slavery was technically outlawed but a lot of America strongly disagreed. And they're posting on HN.
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by Herring 11mo ago
I'm just tired of re-litigating this issue. Discuss with your favorite frontier model. Roughly, productivity has been outpacing pay since the mid 1970s, and I wrote about this in another comment here. There's just so much confusio
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by Herring 11mo ago
Those economic policies were a backlash to the 1970s Civil Rights pushes. You can always count on racists to destroy themselves rather than to stop abusing others.
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by Herring 11mo ago
What do you mean "we"? The rich are much much richer than they've ever been. The stock market is soaring. Companies are seeing record profits. GDP is through the roof. http://web.archive.org/web/202004282

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