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by abeppu 3y ago
I'm surprised to hear that! I was under the impression that often when people are fired, they get little to nothing, except perhaps a token payment in exchange for some agreement to waiving rights to pursue litigation, or a non-dispara
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by abeppu 3y ago
If the author is going for severance, isn't that less likely if they're being fired for cause, vs part of a layoff?
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by abeppu 3y ago
> Amazon won’t fire me Is that still true? If the goal of the company was to move from loud, scary, expensive "layoffs" to push people to quit (cheaper, less scary to the market), surely, "we're firing this one person
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by abeppu 3y ago
Commenting on topic on social media posts is not "solicitation". If all comments are unwanted, then don't put public posts on social media. If you post on IG about Gaza and someone comments with a different viewpoint than you
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think that's borderline abusive. A message is not spam just because you don't want to see it. A good faith expression of a viewpoint in an appropriate context is not spam. If Meta is doing a bad job picking stuff for your feed,
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by abeppu 3y ago
Looking at the actual report, I really disagree with your assessment. It sounds like there's a bunch of nonsense in there where Meta is _not_ living up to its own policies, and is flagging stuff disingenuously. > Human Rights Watch
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by abeppu 3y ago
While I agree that one's views on censorship should not be based on whether one agrees or disagrees with the views presently impacted, I don't think your comparisons are reasonable for multiple reasons: - Stalin and Hitler were _s
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by abeppu 3y ago
Hmm, I think when the author gets to imagining an "infinite dataframe" to deal with conditioning with continuous variables, it's kind of revealed that this isn't the best way to build intuition. Worse, sometimes we talk
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by abeppu 3y ago
This is already a thing. Santa Cruz (and I think a bunch of places in CA?) have an a rule that lowers the assessed value of your property for tax purposes if it is your primary residence. However: - the size of the benefit is small - my und
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by abeppu 3y ago
I dunno if this is a fair reading of the situation. - Microsoft is famously a company that has engaged in anti-competitive practices in the past - I think the norm of trying to directly contact a party and ask them to fix something before c
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by abeppu 3y ago
IANAL, and I'm genuinely curious -- are these customer non-compete clauses actually illegal? These clauses do seem clearly anti-competitive, but is that enough? Your complaint mentions attempts to "acquire and maintain monopoly po
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by abeppu 3y ago
> This would explain why 99% or so of the US population's lived experience is that we're currently in a recession yet the economic statistics make it look like the economy is booming. In the context of reporting talking about
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by abeppu 3y ago
... though that is itself a concern with Bard right?
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by abeppu 3y ago
Setting aside the institutional failures within Harvard, shouldn't this also pose legal problems for the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation? I am certainly not a lawyer, but I thought the tax-benefits of a non-profit were supposed to be tied t
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by abeppu 3y ago
Building a platform for spatially aware communication and coordination seems pretty valuable. But it seems pretty unrelated to AI. Their only other blogpost is also a vacuous AI buzz piece. I can only guess that someone not involved with th
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by abeppu 3y ago
Words mean things. This word doesn't mean what you want it to mean, either according to the other people in the thread you're interacting with, or the source you decided to cite. Etymology is not the sole determiner of meaning. We
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by abeppu 3y ago
Sure, there's a spectrum. Maybe you think union busting or the tipped minimum wage are also ethical concerns. But forced labor with trafficked children has to be at one end of the spectrum that has to fall into any definition of unethi
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by abeppu 3y ago
This article is about Mars. But in 2021, Nestle and Cargill were involved in a Supreme Court case, where it was decided that the Alien Torts act could not used to bring suit by plaintiff who allege they were child slaves, trafficked from Ma
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by abeppu 3y ago
Literally nothing in the definitions you're linking to mentions anything about owners. And the definitions given at points just re-enforce the ambiguity. Definition 5 is "To apportion (more or less evenly)." I think one could
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by abeppu 3y ago
Would the crudest flat rate scheme be unappealing to people just above the threshold to which it applies? Sure. I don't think anyone's seriously advocating for Bezos and the successful small business owner to be paying the same ra
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by abeppu 3y ago
Of the criticisms to Piketty, not having done the math isn't really one of them. I don't have Capital and Ideology close at hand, so I can't check how he worked it out, but consulting some other sources: - the top 1% in the U
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by abeppu 3y ago
... yes and no. E.g. some baby bonds proposals with backing from recognizable names would: - have benefits which scale inversely with family income, rather than being 'universal' - be accessible for specified purposes, like educat
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by abeppu 3y ago
> That unearned boost is already available to anyone who manages to bequeath sufficient amounts of wealth to the next generation > but being bequeathed a sizeable inheritance in the first place at least implies that one's attitud
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think that muddies the water as much as saying that someone who supports UBI also must support foodstamps and housing vouchers. The point is pursuing greater _equality_. We are all heirs to a society that has produced enormous value; why
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by abeppu 3y ago
I also think it's worth calling out that his follow-up, "Capital and Ideology" in its latter sections includes several suggestions for counteracting the trend to increasing inequality. One of these is basically that _every_ p
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by abeppu 3y ago
But: - natural language is flexible, computer languages are less so. - "pretty decent English" still includes hallucinations. I've seen companies whose product demo for generating marketing copy just makes up a plausible revi
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by abeppu 3y ago
Absolutely it's not a simple ask. But research in program synthesis was making interesting progress before LLMs came along. I think it would be better to ask how ML can improve or speed up those efforts, rather than trying to make a ge
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by abeppu 3y ago
Humans are unreliable, but we are also under normal circumstances thoroughly and continually grounded in an external world whose mechanics we interact with, make predictions about, and correct our beliefs about. The specific way we're
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think this is "how to think about coding assistants and your task" but none of this is "tackling" their unreliability. While coding assistants seem to do well in a range of situations, I continue to believe that for co
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by abeppu 3y ago
... and even in the current context, where some companies really want more people to work from the office, and many offices are vacant, I still have yet to see any job ad say "commute 3 days a week and we'll give you an office rat

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