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by ROTMetro 4y ago
But were are talking about an AI whose purpose it art, so it only make sense to compare to humans who are art professionals. A human whose profession is art can draw a hand, or at least get an approx. close number of correct fingers. And at
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Hahaha. During COVID, our warden just flat refused to receive mail, because they couldn't 'lose' peoples compassionate release requests when received via certified mail like they did when you tried to use the internal 'g
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
A sheet of that went for $2500 in the feds during COVID in 2021. $750 to the inmate inside that got it in, $750 to the inmate that sold it, and the rest to the non-inmates. Edit: The saddest was when they stopped letting people get pictures
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Guess where prisoners get all those books they read? From family in the mail. Guess how they stay in touch with what is going on in the world. With magazine and newspapers. Oh, they are replacing that with free tablets? That is so nice. Wai
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
How much growth has Facebook stock had from the first day Zuck was in charge until now? I mean you need to take people's entire tenure not random periods of your choosing.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
The Santa Cruz I grew up in, with vibrant cultures from hippies to punkers is gone. All the people that lived there have been forced to move due to lack of affordability, and the people and local culture has been replaced with immigrants. W
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
But is this MORE technological? Using smartphones imparts way less tech capabilities on the user than does using PCs, and definitely doesn't push users to learning new things (how many people are discovering IDEs on their phone and lea
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Considering older people tend to use computers and be more tech savvy while younger generations only interact with tech on their phones it will be interesting how this turns out.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Do Swedish companies pay a lot into health care? Can you recover the cost of the IT equipment already paid for since these are existing employees?
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
And those people become lazy because they put A LOT into the company those first 1-3 years. And after they coast a bit, they usual come back strong because 1. They are intimately familiar with the corporate culture and the internal software
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
As someone who threw away too many years writing medical systems for the American market stay away from this industry segment. Do you want lower pay, rent seeking companies, CFO centric not end user products, and the personal stress that yo
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
But people that know that industry segment don't want to work at Epic ;) So crappy employer/crappy industry based on government rent seeking not product quality/crappy pay/crappy location = no thanks brother.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Costco seems to do a pretty good job at saying no and they have not had repercussions.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Ex con here, lived in the halfway house. No one, and I mean NO ONE took Amazon warehouse jobs. And that is saying a lot. We took jobs with metrics requiring we pull 60 pieces of cardboard per minute out of garbage and trash from a 75mph con
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
I ordered a pair music monitoring speakers. Only one came in the box. Amazon wouldn't accept my return because I only returned one speaker, not two. I had to fight them on the weight of the 'two' speakers they shipped me and
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
With Valve's take on being one of the few companies to stay in Russia, with details on how to get around sanctions stickied in their forums by official forum mods for quite a while after the sanctions were put in place (and with no res
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
+1 for Wise. I regularly send funds to Zaporizhzhia and they are received almost instantly.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
California allocated 7 billion in 2022 to homelessness. There are 172,000 homeless in California. So that is $40,000 per homeless person, per year, in just state funds. Lot's of people keep a roof over their heads while making less mon
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
As always surfing teaches much about this. Fighting the current is futile and achieves nothing but exhaustion and likely the need of others to come to your aid once you give up. If you simply move laterally (while fighting just enough to no
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Member when Carly Fiorina shut down HPs calculator division because it wasn't PROFITABLE enough? Pepperidge Farms remembers. It's not enough you make a company profit, it depends on the quality of that profit to the stock to deter
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
If you only have the capability to ban 10 people, you are going to be very judicious in who you ban. If you can ban an unlimited number of people, you will ban people up until it has a financial impact as long as business feels the ban is a
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
What happens when businesses create their own shared oisd image recognition list for un-welcome individuals and people start getting blacklisted from everywhere?
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
My grandparents ate tons of meat despite their income level. Why? Because they lived in a small rural town. City folks not wanting to pay the true cost of living in a city and be able to live like they live in a small rural ag town (while m
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
How would lowering your revenue and decreasing the competitiveness of your paying customers (because they now have to pay MORE than their competition who probably already have lower operating costs because they are operating out of a lower
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
We are not talking about video games. Business software that gives a company some edge, give the company using your pirated software a greater edge because they don't have the expense that the legitimate company paying for the software
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Add then they can unfairly compete with the people that DO pay for your software because their very not having to fairly compensate for the benefits of your labour yet still gain from it puts them ahead of some 'sucker' who pays.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
To make life and death decisions for people requires you have hubris and faith in yourself. I can't imagine what would happen to my hypercritical/overthinking self if I was a doctor making life and death choices, some resulting in
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Well this account is burnt now and linked to whatever account next posts a bavarian looking ring on Reddit. Someone with a super strange post history on Reddit is this very moment making such a post just for the lols.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
People feel like civilization is a corrupting influence nowadays (look at books pointing blame at agriculture for our downfall). That is why Paleo caught on. So I would call it the 'primal diet' to harken back to ye olden golden t
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Because going through layoffs is extremely stressful for people, and sometimes it takes them years to get their career back on track? Because people might be in the process of things like closing on a house, or worse, in the middle of build

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