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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Relevant: https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1604513283972767745 Quote: 1960's Futurists: Automation will free mankind from meaningless tedium to focus on creative pursuits only human beings can master.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
You won't pull yourself up by your bootstraps with that attitude! You can learn to play the violin and be homeless( Typical slacker complaining instead of just being willing to multitask).
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Thank god they worried more about the stock's impact and dragged this out months as separate 'small' layoffs instead of caring about people and making it a single event. Who cares about employees anxiety, their trust in the c
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
I'm guessing you missed this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191206 No copyright on an AI if it was machine generated, which the training is. Great catch kmeisthax!
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
In that scenario the original artist is granted copyright and assigns it to the company. Another option would be for the artist to 'license' the work to the company and keep copyright ownership themselves. Since there is no origin
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
It is the digital equivalent of cash. That is the whole point. When you buy something with cash, can you just reverse the transaction later? The good reason is what use is a person to person payment system where the person receiving money h
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
I did have to configure SMS manually on my Pixel to work with Mint and that cleared up any SMS issues. Have never had any voice call issues.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
I can get money in my kids bank accounts within minutes, with no fees, all from my banking app and without giving access to my money to some other shady techbro company. Seems like a pretty great use case and one I use every month.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
I Zelle my kids money all the time and only needed to know their phone numbers.
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Zelle is very clear it's not reversible. Like very very very clear. It's how it works, so the person on the other end has a guaranty you won't just claw the money back after you complete a transaction. Pretty weak to blame th
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Alternative take, people loved them when they didn't know much about them and thought of them as smart, but then they opened their mouths.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
The Fed wants to push unemployment. To save the economy previously they injected tons of money and need Billionaires and big businesses (because the injection process is not directed to your average mom and pop) to use that money. Now that
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
I've heard aerospace companies have standing checks in place to ensure that they never go above being composed of more than Y% ex-Boeing employees be it management/design/floor workers so that they don't end up with the
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Shocker that management taking away the livelihood of tens of thousands of individuals due to management failures can not be reduced to a positive email.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
To add to the doom and gloom. https://www.science.org/content/article/common-tire-chemical...
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Farmed fish are fed pellets made of wild caught fish though.
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Imagine someone just flying a helicopter through a forest scraping up the wildlife in huge nets, picking out the snails, and dropping the rest of what they scooped up to their death. Yet it happens all day every in the oceans and no one car
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
The tech industry sure has knocked their standing in other people's eyes down a ton this last little while.
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As the old 'Ukraine just has to have no agency for there to be peace'. Remember the Minsk II Agreements were based on the predicate that the 'little green men' WEREN'T Russian soldiers. Which even Russia now admits
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If only there was some sort of 'insurance' to hedge against this that the bank could have availed themselves of.
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And millions of Americans getting the identity stolen and dealing with the fallout. The IRS doesn't care that it was someone else working under your identity that didn't pay taxes, they want their money.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Custom ground source heat pump my friend :) side benefit (energy cost) free hot water.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Huh? My Lennox basic middle America furnace already does this if I am understanding your comment correctly.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Is that still true? I think a group of tech influencers existed in the past but I don't see any evidence that continues to be the case. I guess they could all exist in discords I don't have site into. Previously you could see tren
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Really? They have been saying 'this year marked the first decline in China's population' for 30 years? Because that is what China stated this year. Also that they had over reported their population by 100 million. For 30 year
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Ding ding ding! Crazy people don't get this and defend this as totally normal ignoring this company has actual suicide prevention nets to prevent their employees from killing themselves because the companies employment practices at tha
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Dcow says this in a discussion about a company that has to put suicide nets in their factories to prevent their workers from killing themselves.
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Is someone doing the same task 60 times a minute in the hospital that entire shift minus a lunch break? Do assembly line workers for Apple get treated the same as hospital workers? Not eve close! Do hospital workers have to ask permission t
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We don't want people crippled from abusive levels of hours doing a task at high risk of repetitive stress injury just so that Apple doesn't have to deal with shift changes. They are trading lifetime quality of life issues for thei
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Yes, let's take these high repetitive stress injury rate jobs and tack an extra four hours on. Of course the workers will do it, they don't have a choice. But their body's won't for long. But that's a sacrifice Appl

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