Muromec

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541.
by Muromec 9mo ago
Sounds like autorun on usb drives all over again. They cant learn
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by Muromec 9mo ago
What is the point of stringrays anyway? It's a thing that exists, so I believe it does something, but I can't figure out what exactly. They can go through the area, catch a whole bag of IMSIs and then.... what? What capability doe
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by Muromec 9mo ago
I would write a twit about government doing the authoritarian tilt so other people can do something about it. Raising awareness is important.
544.
by Muromec 9mo ago
Because the door being open makes it possible for opportunistic thieves and even kids to steal something. If the police knocks on it, it's actually better to open it. Otherwise they will still get in, but you will also not have door af
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by Muromec 9mo ago
The moment this is rolled out is the moment government will start figuring out how to insert itself into the chain of trust so it will not matter.
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by Muromec 9mo ago
Other companies can see the code, that isn’t a problem. The problem with LLM is the idea that the code leaks out to companies other than LLM provider. That’s something that can be either solved for real or be promised to not happen.
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by Muromec 9mo ago
>Things aren't perfect in a lot of countries, but what is happening in the US right now is absolutely unique It's not unique. If anything, it's inevitable regression to the mean. Entropy rises eventually and does this
548.
by Muromec 9mo ago
But... Mamdani offered free childcare and affordable housing and won. It's not that far from feee everything.
549.
by Muromec 9mo ago
It's not like the dems did either of those things. Spectacles actually matter too. You need to know which one to perform and that requires certain understanding of your audience
550.
by Muromec 10mo ago
The stronger form of it is "Inaction in the face of oppression supports the oppressor."
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by Muromec 10mo ago
There is a lot of everything and I got lowballed with 85 today (with three mandatory hebeas corpus days, while the rest of the team is in a different country lol). I'm not sure where the UK part comes from zo? Nobody upthread mention
552.
by Muromec 10mo ago
It's both really and that's why the scale is capped. Union shops still have compensation levels. If your pay is defined as 85% of a scale L8 and the collective agreement says it gets increased by 2 and half percentage points each
553.
by Muromec 10mo ago
The likely two outcomes are -- 1) the upper limit of salary band for everyone in the same role is raised high enough or 2) the high performing person is leaving to a place that pays it with a band or without.
554.
by Muromec 10mo ago
If you talk about before AI bullshit started, the numbers kinda make sense actually. >I think the most I heard of was someone making $10m/year and being deathly afraid of a layoff. Jeez, some people.
555.
by Muromec 10mo ago
Sure. The situation before: The hospital has 100 beds, 30 in personnel and some amount of equipment to maintain, repairs to make, etc. They get funding from the ministry based on that. Then the head of the hospital pockets some of the allo
556.
by Muromec 10mo ago
I rounded up a bit for nicer numbers, but it's more like 75-95 than 50-80 this year.
557.
by Muromec 10mo ago
There aren't 10x ers, but there are definetly 0.15xers
558.
by Muromec 10mo ago
>A decent engineer in the US could make 5x their equivalent in most European nations. Staff+ engineers at FAANG could make 5x that. People in a good position tend to not like rocking the boat. So... 500k is the normal pay and 2.5mil is t
559.
by Muromec 10mo ago
>Reminder that unions don't have to do anything about salary. The union is the party that negotiates my annual salary increases that are not performance related. They will however not negotiate it up to FANG level because it'
560.
by Muromec 10mo ago
>Why the fuck would an union cap anyones salary? Is this an American thing? Huh? If you have a collective agreement, all the compensation ranges are written down there. You get level 11 comp contract and your manager puts you at 85% of t
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by Muromec 10mo ago
Ukraine an interesting moment with the recent (as in less than 10 years ago) health reform. The change was not in the ownership regime, but in funding (preallicated fixed amount vs post payment for itemised coded services). Once the incetiv
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by Muromec 10mo ago
>Companies pay that simply because they can get away with it. Which is usually called "market price". The latest thing I heard is "threemodal market", where there tier 1, is US subsidiaries, tier 2 is local it compani
563.
by Muromec 10mo ago
>Btw, why are you so defensive about the fact comp is so low in Europe? It's lower compared to the US and to US companies offices in EU in absolute numbers, it's the fact. Why it's lower in general -- because the cost of l
564.
by Muromec 10mo ago
I got it that you were talking about the real situation and you personally have to live with flatmates while making 80k p/a, but it turns out you don't even live in Germany. My feeling are hurt by this and the fact that your math
565.
by Muromec 10mo ago
You mistyped Epstein visa
566.
by Muromec 10mo ago
Not me. I guess the GP wants to save 1k a month in case the nuclear war happens and drives a car to eat kebabs for breakfast, lunch and dinner. That sounds about right for American, so the saving are going towards health issues down the lin
567.
by Muromec 10mo ago
I'm not saying it's the law, I'm saying it's the practice
568.
by Muromec 10mo ago
Sorry, I misread 80k p/a for 8k monthly. You have a point. I would not get two bedroom two bathroom apartment for myself alone however. Or live in Berlin for that matter. Few years ago in Holland it was something like 100k salary == mo
569.
by Muromec 10mo ago
> So after rent you're left with what, 1860 euro? Good luck getting through the month with that money in Berlin. I’m confused. Is Berlin more expensive than I think it is or you never cook yourself? ~~~Add: how do manage to pay more
570.
by Muromec 10mo ago
>at least we are not throwing away our status as a superpower for the dumbest of reasons. If you would choose to believe, all of this is a strategic play to get off the resource curse (aka the Dutch disease), with resources in question b

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