Izikiel43

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by Izikiel43 5mo ago
This reminds me of the second half of the Hyperion cantos by Dan Simmons
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by Izikiel43 5mo ago
> But then I learned humility, and I don't believe in good intentions anymore. I don't either, I agree with that's how they sell it, the problem is that the marketing works and good intentioned people rally behind it, so t
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by Izikiel43 5mo ago
> Both (i) and (ii) have led the government to this dark place, thinking they're doing good. You can summarize a lot of government actions of any spectrum with: "The road to hell is full of good intentions"
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by Izikiel43 5mo ago
Here, I translated it for you ( https://translate.kagi.com/?from=linkedin&to=en_us ) "We’re basically using our own staff as guinea pigs. Our AI usage has spiked 600% lately, mostly because everyone from HR to market
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by Izikiel43 6mo ago
Often I get asked to spot someone while their lift and I don’t mind, maybe you had bad luck.
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by Izikiel43 6mo ago
Don’t leave your house if you don’t want to interact with people
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by Izikiel43 6mo ago
I did comp sci, I sucked at this stuff, and I have a masters. Low level stuff? Os? Distributed systems? Multithreaded code? Now that’s more on my alley
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by Izikiel43 6mo ago
They should live within their means and save 15% of their income if possible.
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by Izikiel43 6mo ago
The guy has a masters in compsci and mechanical engineering, he has done both python and c++ afaik for his projects
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by Izikiel43 6mo ago
I have a bridge to sell you
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by Izikiel43 6mo ago
> Seattle Source for Seattle? I know there was a state law a couple years ago allowing for more housing, but I haven't seen reports of its effects.
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by Izikiel43 6mo ago
Fun fact about Empedocles, in Argentinian Spanish slang it means the one who is always drunk
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by Izikiel43 6mo ago
For now
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by Izikiel43 6mo ago
> Probably is not fitted for writing operating systems kernels Midori would like to have a word with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system) https://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11
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by Izikiel43 6mo ago
Here it would depend on how much those boxes are paying.
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by Izikiel43 7mo ago
First, you are thinking of people whose main source of wealth are assets, not income. Also, I don't think inequality is a problem, it's better that than everyone being equal, because as history shows, even then, there are some tha
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by Izikiel43 7mo ago
Yeah, those are just pretty words without the power to enforce them, like everything else the UN does
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by Izikiel43 7mo ago
They weren’t that lax with immigration enforcement, Biden was the exception, Obama deported a ton of people, enough so to get the “deporter in chief” moniker. Also, you can pay taxes without legally residing in the us it seems.
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by Izikiel43 7mo ago
There are a lot of international students in the US for whom the fee doesn't apply as they would be changing status, not getting a visa.
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by Izikiel43 7mo ago
The fee only applies for consular processing, i.e., people outside the country. There are a bunch of people in the country as students in US universities with an F visa. If they get a job, the employer can apply for an h1b, and the fee does
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by Izikiel43 7mo ago
> asylum seekers that are abusing the procedural rules, despite not having a solid claim on asylum. Out of curiosity, isn't that the same case as what happened with the Biden immigration surges, at least Venezuela? And now the curr
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by Izikiel43 7mo ago
I agree, if you are doing layoffs, you should be banned from the following year H1B visa lottery. If you really need some extraordinary guy, there other visas for that.
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by Izikiel43 7mo ago
This guy alone is trying to raise Finland's birth rate.
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by Izikiel43 7mo ago
They caught it 3 times already!? I missed 2 and 3 it seems.
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by Izikiel43 7mo ago
> The USA is not good at progressive taxation The top 10 percent of incomes pay 76% of all income taxes, the top 5% pays around 55% of all income tax. I would say it’s pretty progressive.
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by Izikiel43 7mo ago
Globalization was great for poor countries, not so much developed economies.
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by Izikiel43 7mo ago
> The core insight: That's a telltale sign of ai written text.
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by Izikiel43 7mo ago
> Also a state housing complex nearby with mentally unwell people screaming all night outside. I think this would be the greatest annoyance to me, the other stuff becomes background noise eventually
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by Izikiel43 8mo ago
What he said and what you say do not contradict each other. Iran can be a puppet of the USA and have a great economy as well.
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by Izikiel43 8mo ago
> Don't see money as the only goal? That’s easy to say when you have money, it kind of sounds like “let them eat cake”

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