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by ageek123 5y ago
I don't see how this is a class issue. Everyone who owns an index fund benefits when oil companies are profitable. And when energy prices increase because of moving to more expensive sources, billionaires are much less affected than no
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by ageek123 5y ago
Is there any methodology whatsoever for these conclusions? It sounds like some kind of baseless speculation.
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by ageek123 5y ago
The article says he "left Google to protest the company's firings of its own AI ethics researchers" but there's no evidence of that -- for example, his farewell email did not mention that at all, and AFAIK he hasn't
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by ageek123 5y ago
It's amusing that in the US, the people who are most upset about this are largely the same people who argue most strenuously for Twitter to do more censorship.
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by ageek123 5y ago
This hypocrisy from the folks arguing to reinstate this deduction is staggering.
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by ageek123 6y ago
So basically, centralization with lots of government control over the centralized entities? Decentralization sounds a lot better to me.
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by ageek123 6y ago
Why is the Alphabet Workers Union filing lawsuits on behalf of people who don't work for Alphabet (e.g. the woman in this article)?
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by ageek123 6y ago
He didn't even mention the two who were "ousted," but Bloomberg feels compelled to align with its ongoing anti-AI narrative by using a deceptively-worded headline (sequencing trying to imply causation).
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by ageek123 6y ago
I think they meant get from the government (unless you believe in an extreme collectivist view of the economy and think all wealth fundamentally belongs to the government, not the person who received it through voluntary transactions with o
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by ageek123 6y ago
https://doxa.substack.com/p/googles-colosseum is a pretty good treatment of this topic.
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by ageek123 6y ago
It's hard to understand this chart. Also hard to disentangle correlation from causation...
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by ageek123 6y ago
Techdirt actually are a "free speech advocate" if you look at their past history of articles.
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Kubernetes project proposes making using non-inclusive terminology CoC violation(github.com)
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by ageek123 6y ago
Am I the only one who goes crazy when they see someone write "outsourced" when they mean "offshored"? These are different concepts.
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by ageek123 7y ago
Because it's art moreso than science or engineering, thus much less subject to constraints like physical limitations.
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by ageek123 7y ago
I think the parent comment warrants a <citation needed>
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by ageek123 7y ago
How about allowing housing construction near where people work, instead of forcing soul-crushing, expensive commutes?
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by ageek123 7y ago
Also, critically, the US government (mostly) allows this. Many other countries have laws or regulations that impede the dynamicity of the economy and disincentivize entrepreneurship (or at least incentivize it less).
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by ageek123 7y ago
Huh? If the government wanted to ban facial recognition, they could do it. Our democratic system absolutely has the power to ban it. It hasn't been done, presumably because there isn't a public consensus that it should be banned.
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by ageek123 7y ago
Most of the problems described in the article are the direct result of the city's refusal to allow adequate housing construction to keep up with demand.
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by ageek123 7y ago
There have been some studies that show that if you remove housing, then the r>>g effect goes away (at least over recent decades; I don't think these studies went back to 1870). We could fix a lot of the rent-seeking problem with
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by ageek123 8y ago
Wait, there are people who don't realize that when they can't get an assigned seat when they book the ticket (and it's not because they bought a special fare that doesn't allow a reserved seats), it's because the fl
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by ageek123 8y ago
Trust me, companies would love to have at least one woman on every interview slate, and not just for women candidates. The problem is that the ratio of women engineers at the FAANG companies is such that this would put an incredibly unfair
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by ageek123 8y ago
I love how the headline is "Google Employees" instead of "35 Google Employees." I guess the latter would make it too obvious that this is just Techcrunch pushing an agenda.
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by ageek123 8y ago
I'm not sure why the NYT is trying to make this sound somehow nefarious? All political movements have slogans and talking points.
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by ageek123 8y ago
Even if you taxed estates at 100% you wouldn't contribute any meaningful amount of money compared to total government revenue or expenditures. So let's be honest, it's about punishing wealthy people (and accepting all the dow
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by ageek123 8y ago
> Should society be allowed to try to give the poor but genetically gifted children a boost in life? Nobody’s suggesting that parent’s shouldn’t use whatever resources they have. But to a certain extent it is zero-sum. The way you boost
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by ageek123 8y ago
The article gives no measure of how many tech workers have adopted this mindset. It seems to largely be a narrative driven by journalists and a relatively small number of activists in some of the more high-profile tech companies (who are si
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by ageek123 8y ago
Nice thought but Benioff is a liberal, so this seems unlikely.
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by ageek123 8y ago
They don't like competition.

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