Workaccount2

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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
>Humans do not exist for the profits of others They don't, but they voluntarily take the risk trade-off. If you are the profit of someone else, it also means you are the liability of someone else. Working for someone else has become
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
The easiest surefire way to lift the bottom of the economy right now is to go on a mass home building spree. If people had their rents cut in half, it would solve most other money problems they complain about (shy of those who will just inf
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
It's actually spider webs that protect you from pests. The webs keep catching bugs as long as they are there, the spider just eats what it wants then moves on.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
People love the abundance of cheap affordable stuff more than they love their neighbors having work. It's also a positive feedback loop, where the less money people have from a lack of good jobs, the more they will choose cheap foreign
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Good for you, these comments always get up votes, largely from the other 99% of people riding on the generosity of your contributions. It feels good, but comments like yours need to be meaningless and repetitive, not celebrated because it g
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Yes, let's endorse a system where 1 sucker pays and 100 others ride for free.. C'mon
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Most big YouTubers, especially tech adjacent, have about 40-50% of users ad-blocking their content. So they get no compensation. Ok fine, but those users surely use patreon then? Well conversion rates for "viewer to paying subscriber&q
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Both things are true. Liking carrots doesn't negate your taste for ice cream.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
This is the equivalent of "Lawmakers should legally set rents to $0, so we can all live for free"
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
If you use a service, but never compensate the creators for it, how can you possibly reason they are immoral? Not directly at OP, but just in general, the Internet needs to look at itself in the mirror and ask "are we actually the ones
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
From my experience as a kid "Pleasant for kids to use is the polar opposite of kids finding it a pleasure to use"
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
>So this cannot be a differentiating aspect. Now explain that nuance to an 80 yr old law maker who hates the damn email.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Inflation is low (relative to the last few years) and so far tariff related inflation hasn't manifested.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
"If Canada is getting a 30% discount we can make it up by baking it into the hundreds of smaller negotiations with American providers." Drug maker thinking
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Last year I needed to get blood work done, some of which may or may not be covered. It took me two weeks, dozens of phone calls, and multiple "escalations" to learn what would be covered and what the price would be if it wasn&#x27
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Tesla stock goes up because it frequently goes up. It's a top-tier "buy the dip stock". Analysts know it, traders know it, the stock is a consistent winner. A total house of cards, but it hasn't fallen yet.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Nissan made a golf cart with an ecobox car cabin.
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Get a PhD in some kind of esoteric field like chemical kinetics and then spend a decade learning about oxide surface conditioning under someone who spent their life working on it. None of this stuff is published (externally) and there are n
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
The problems plaguing Intel are fundamental problems that money cannot easily solve, if at all. Intel needs expertise that only a few hundred people on Earth have, and most of them are in Taiwan, already working for someone else. You don&#x
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
LLM's are bad at anything with images. There is something fucky about tokenizing images that just isn't as clean as tokenizing text. It's clear that the problem isn't the model being too dumb, but rather that model is n
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by Workaccount2 9mo ago
Software has an unfortunate attribute (compared to hardware) where it's largely bound by what users will tolerate as opposed to what practically is possible. Imagine Ford, upon the invention of push-button climate controls, just layere
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by Workaccount2 10mo ago
I think all the models are squeezed to hell in back in training to be servants of users. This of course is very favorable for using the models as a tool to help you get stuff done. However, I have a deep uneasy feeling, that the models wi
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by Workaccount2 10mo ago
The goal is to prevent AI from devaluing SWE work.
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by Workaccount2 10mo ago
People think that code is loaded into a model, like a massive available array of "copy+paste" snippets. It's understandable that people think this, but it is incorrect. As an aside, Anthropic's training was ruled fair us
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by Workaccount2 10mo ago
The dollar sucks but everything else sucks more.
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by Workaccount2 10mo ago
The government has had a flat cost model for so long that people would lose their minds if it ever changed. It's the only institution that is free for the poorest and ungodly expensive for the richest, while providing the same product
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by Workaccount2 10mo ago
It's not so much being down on the work, as it is being down on 30 years of keyboard junkies proclaiming "Plain English" interfaces.
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by Workaccount2 10mo ago
The total upheaval of the current computing paradigm that AI will bring, if nothing else, is "Hey computer, can you convert that funny kitchen cooking scene in this movie to a .gif I can share online?" You're wasting your tim
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by Workaccount2 10mo ago
A core problem with humans, or perhaps it's not even a problem, just something that takes a long time to recognize, is that they complain and hate on something that they continue to spend money on. Not like food or clothing, but stuff
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by Workaccount2 10mo ago
>You got people to accept a higher price, you're just gonna walk that back when problems go away? The thing about capitalism that is seemingly never taught, but quickly learned (when you join even the lowest rung of the capitalist c

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