alexashka

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by alexashka 2mo ago
It's been true my entire adult life. When I came to Canada almost 30 years ago, IT-job immigrants , let alone people who've grew up in this system were already doing 'buy real estate, rent it out, profit' and their da
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by alexashka 2mo ago
If only someone had written by many considered the greatest philosophical text about it, freely available online at project Gutenberg :) They call it The Republic.
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by alexashka 2mo ago
> why would they need consumers anymore? That was the exact line of thought, coupled with resources are limited (marketed as climate change), that led to the 1 child policy in China and many other decisions that shall not be spoken of.
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by alexashka 2mo ago
Is it just money laundering? The entire tech sector seems to amount to entrenched mega corps and finance bros who know how to fill out the forms to automatically get a fancy university graduate with a CS degree a few million and split it 3-
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by alexashka 2mo ago
Cool. Signed up for Lovable, chose a web template, got this: "When remixing a template, I agree to take responsibility over project security, compliance, data, and operations. The templates are provided for educational purposes and do
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by alexashka 2mo ago
When I express a slogan, I am fully aware that it lacks nuance and is not to be taken literally. Pedantry is not a counter argument, it's a deflection. We are not in court.
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by alexashka 2mo ago
She probably had the epiphany that life is short and she's already rich. It takes a surprising amount of time for nepo babies to realize life is about more than making sure you're doing at least as good as other nepo babies you gr
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by alexashka 2mo ago
Or, just ban advertising. Humans are only now figuring out pointy shoes are bad for people's feet. This species is wrong about almost everything when it comes to its own well being and like pointy shoes - it's a completely unneces
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by alexashka 2mo ago
> A new and growing fear I have is that AI cuts off some of the most well-trodden pathways to intellectual growth Good. No more growth. There is nothing anyone needs to 'intellect' more of to make anyone's life better. Not
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by alexashka 2mo ago
There's wage slave layer, nepo baby layer and the in-between. Author has discovered that his 'working hard' to be at the bottom of the in-between layer pales in comparison to the invites others receive for simply showing up.
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by alexashka 2mo ago
> Your brain is a prediction machine It's not. > I am afraid doing nothing is inhibiting that function It isn't. > I think it's perfectly healthy to not want to be a vegetable Not having an opinion about everything f
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by alexashka 2mo ago
> Why even read? To understand. For most everyone else, it is to momentarily feel some sort of way. The difference is what the parent describes as a revelation, to him. You see, for people who crave to understand, living among people who
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by alexashka 2mo ago
You are using 'basic' economics to predict the future with 'absolute' certainty? Rhetorical.
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by alexashka 2mo ago
> It's very easy to make lazy, shallow dismissals that leaders like Dario/Demis/Sam are acting purely out of self-interest Pointing out the endless stream of lies and self serving half truths these terrible people engage i
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by alexashka 3mo ago
The 'arguments' are not meant to persuade, they are meant to establish and entrench an overton window (regarding 'AI' in this case).
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by alexashka 3mo ago
> I just don't know why it would actually be true that everyone at the top is a villain History. Also, nobody said 'everyone' or 'villain'. How Paul Graham of you.
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by alexashka 3mo ago
Now do factory farming. Just another room, right?
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by alexashka 3mo ago
> The free market fundamentally doesn't have a good response to this problem Free markets don't exist. The problem isn't what you think it is. It's Dunning-Kruger effect and 99% of the population is living it loud and
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by alexashka 3mo ago
The moment you realize most people's thinking is no better than a hallucinating LLM :)
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by alexashka 3mo ago
Thank you. Before you said it, I didn't know what to do but now I know to compare and decide for myself what is useful and what isn't. I hope my newfound way of life is not oversimpifying it to the extreme.
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by alexashka 3mo ago
If you have a thing people want that you spent a decade making that isn't easily replicatable, the rest doesn't matter. If you don't have that, the rest also doesn't matter. Unless you're obsessed with money, in whi
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by alexashka 3mo ago
Your post seems to assume anyone in power is acting in good faith and wants a fair system.
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by alexashka 3mo ago
They have pressure to hire lawyers and consult them regarding swatting techniques. That only costs money and money is like blood to humans - you don't even think about it, whereas it is all mosq
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by alexashka 3mo ago
Employee - Large organization. Mosquito - Human. You don't swat a mosquito out of fear, you swat it out of preventing a minor nuisance. A whistleblower is a mosquito that's bitten a human. The most likely outcome is an imminent,
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by alexashka 4mo ago
Fair. There's a free 1080p Nvidia Geforce NOW tier anyone can try to see if latency is an issue for them and the games they play. One more data point - you're getting 1080p medium settings (for latest games) with a Steam Machine a
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by alexashka 4mo ago
For comparison - cloud gaming such as Nvidia's Geforce NOW is at ~20$/mo for 4k resolution with a monthly subscription one can cancel anytime. That's what, ~4-5 years of gaming on a superior GPU without the headaches of hardw
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by alexashka 4mo ago
I'm sure some slave owners were 'nice people'. Still slave owners, right? But I treat my slaves better than everyone I know and I only have half a dozen! I don't only have slaves for profit! Slave owners in the south w
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by alexashka 4mo ago
> Yes I’m doing it for the money Right, so not well meaning. You said well meaning. You're taking that back. Correct? You're upset at someone maximizing money at your expense. You like it when you maximize money at someone el
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by alexashka 4mo ago
> have a hatred for even well-meaning small landlords In what way are you well meaning? You're only doing it for money. The people not paying you rent are also only doing it for money. Sucks when people behave like you, huh.
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by alexashka 4mo ago
Many people's enjoyment stems from knowing they do less work for more money than the people they grew up around. 'Useful' is not even a thought that's ever entered their brain.

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