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The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the US Construction Sector(bfi.uchicago.edu)
2 points by Sevii 4y ago|0 comments
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by Sevii 4y ago
I think people over focus on poor performers when in reality layoffs are a great chance to get rid of teams and departments that don't make economic sense anymore.
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by Sevii 4y ago
You mention a lot of the negatives of cars and express frustration that people won't budge on the issue but the reason you run into so much opposition is because cars are the most empowering invention for the average person ever. For m
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by Sevii 4y ago
My biggest problems with TypeScript are that it regularly gives me null safety bugs even after I add guards. And I can't really trust the types typescript offers. I've been using typescript for a year now and I just want to go bac
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by Sevii 4y ago
The issue is that financing changes what is available in the marketplace for you to buy. There are cheap new cars that don't break down every year (ex. toyota hilux) that are not sold in the US. Because it's more profitable to fin
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by Sevii 4y ago
Medical resources will always be limited. There is no way to get around the fact that people are willing to spend nigh infinite amounts of money staying alive a little longer. There is no way around rationing. You either ration through the
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by Sevii 4y ago
I suspect if in this hypothetical you were really on a space station you would have to get really good at begging.
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by Sevii 4y ago
If 1% of the population taking a day off would cause billions of people to starve why do you think you would have the option of not working? You would starve because at carrying capacity nearly all of your income would go to food. There wou
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by Sevii 4y ago
How does UBI make things more sustainable? UBI doesn't do anything to reduce the human population or create more underground oil reserves. All UBI does is replace bullshit jobs with welfare payments.
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by Sevii 4y ago
There isn't enough 'natural' food production to support 7 billion people with foraging and hunting. The premise of the article is bad. You don't have rights that don't make sense in the current era. Today it is impo
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by Sevii 4y ago
The default state is 'all the land is being used to make food already'. That is the normal steady state in Europe throughout history. UBI is equivalent to the feudal aristocracy in getting paid based on land without doing any work
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by Sevii 4y ago
The people with dividends were able to lobby to have their taxes lowered.
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by Sevii 4y ago
It's not going to be half of the population. We are approaching a world where 1% can contribute useful work and the other 99% cannot contribute anything beyond entertainment. Then the question is why should the 1% accept a governance s
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by Sevii 4y ago
For a counterexample imagine you are born on a space station where it costs $1,000,000 per year to provide air for you. Should you have to a work a job to breath air? The problem of universal basic income strategies is that they only work w
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by Sevii 4y ago
It is weird that software engineering (especially cloud and web) pay very highly while other highly skilled jobs like hardware programming typically pay much less. My suspicion is that its related to capital requirements. A web dev has extr
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by Sevii 4y ago
He's not saying anything about chip design. His post is based on the assumption that to get the error rate low enough for chip manufacturing they require high iq line workers which are in short supply.
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by Sevii 4y ago
Citadel has 2600~ people, Jane street 2000~ while google has 150,000~.
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by Sevii 4y ago
85% of water use in Utah goes to agriculture but people focus on lawns because they can see them. Most water issues in the west are caused by contracts made back when nobody lived there and there was tons of water to go around. Now those co
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by Sevii 4y ago
Fundamentally, prison is about preventing prisoners from committing additional crimes against the populace. We can talk about retribution and rehabilitation but those are justifications for why we used x method instead of y method. Prior to
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by Sevii 4y ago
The point of not deploying on friday is to reduce the risk of getting paged over the weekend. It's a quality of life move for the oncall team. No deployment strategy will change the fact that deployments are the leading cause of outage
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by Sevii 4y ago
It is bizarre that this required a law when as a private sector employee I can't even use Apple Notes on my work computer.
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by Sevii 4y ago
You probably are not calibrated correctly to how many interviews you should be doing. One out of seven is a pretty good success rate. For me I just did interviews until I started to get bored during them and that's when I started getti
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by Sevii 4y ago
Why can't we increase individual people's holdings of USD proportionally like a stock split? Instead for legacy reasons the government creates money in a way the dilutes the currency holder's position. People perceive this as
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by Sevii 4y ago
This article ignores the pruning that is happening. A human evaluated every output from ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion for 'things humans care about' and if it didn't make the cut deleted it. All the spam output from these mode
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by Sevii 4y ago
I think we will continue to be surprised by how effective GPT-X and other LLM models are at coding tasks. The main reason is that unlike math programming is a field where dozens or hundreds of correct solutions exist for every task. All an
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Can ChatGPT Write(sledgeworx.io)
2 points by Sevii 4y ago|0 comments
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by Sevii 4y ago
The problem is that each additional features imposes costs on those users who don't need it. An example would be JIRA. JIRA is designed to have every feature possible. But as a cost it is hellishly slow and is hard to find anything in.
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by Sevii 4y ago
If they are doing work on alignment they've failed entirely. They created an AI that actively lies to people about its capabilities.
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by Sevii 4y ago
We may need to rethink what exactly 'understanding' means in the context of ChatGPT. It's capable of a bunch of things that classically would be defined as understanding. We can claim that language models can't 'und
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by Sevii 4y ago
They already manufacture he toyota hilux at scale yet you can't buy it in America.

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