ausbah

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by ausbah 3y ago
>If most of my colleagues and the owners of the company I work for decide they prefer to work in an office, why would I enforce my will upon them but this isn't the case, it's management making BS decisions no one really likes.
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by ausbah 3y ago
and you think that's ok? or a common problem every country deals with?
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by ausbah 3y ago
in a system where the company takes a large majority of the value I provide for a company, is incentived in many cases to underpay & overwork, who can fire me at any point for any reason, and takes a majority of the time in my life - I
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by ausbah 3y ago
if the end result is the same who cares
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by ausbah 3y ago
unironically this
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by ausbah 3y ago
honestly sounds like you should talk to a therapist. spending so much time "organizing everything" isn't a sustainable or effective way to handle your problems
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by ausbah 3y ago
cool project but again one of those areas where dozens of pretty easily actions already exist. force cars to be smaller, add in roundabouts, tax car usage in high density urban areas, single lane one ways roads, etc.
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by ausbah 4y ago
Small towns are almost always in rural areas which at least in American means some amount of trouble if you're non religious, non white, or non heterosexual. Problem with cities isn't overpopulation, it's housing. People want
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by ausbah 4y ago
because the average investor isn't aware of that simple fact, or they think they really can keep consistently breaking the market
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by ausbah 4y ago
yeah it's not like we don't know the majority root causes for most of society ills. being poor just perpetuates throughout every other part of a persons life in really nasty feedback loops. criminal justice, health, income, opport
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by ausbah 4y ago
literally incorrect https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/3/18/23644339/hate-crimes-re...
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by ausbah 4y ago
seems like GPT systems are the most useful when you can quickly verify the correctness of the output (ex code generation) but else quickly becomes dubious (ex how do you know a summary is correct or useful?)
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by ausbah 4y ago
it means that their policies, ideology, beliefs, etc. fall into a predictable part the established political spectrum. this isn't some sort of "gotcha" or even attempt at political disagreement, it's established fact
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by ausbah 4y ago
Italy's government is far right, it's the most rightward government since WW2
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by ausbah 4y ago
concerning but not surprising that the engineering mindset of hacker news view philosophical ruminations as "getting in the way of progress" or "not providing value"
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by ausbah 4y ago
I read your take as "ethics doesn't provide immediate economic value or model improvement along traditional metrics of performance, so companies are right to can them if they choose". I see ethics as looking at problem before
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by ausbah 4y ago
things would be much worse off without the Fed. look at hard banks lobby to up end the minimal restrictions they have now
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by ausbah 4y ago
real disruption would be building mountains of new housing in high demand areas!
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by ausbah 4y ago
"In theory, there are enormous benefits to indoor farms. They often use 90% less water than traditional farms; right now, most lettuce in the country is grown in drought-stricken California and Arizona. Growing inside can avoid outbrea
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by ausbah 4y ago
when the US is by far the biggest outlier in the space of construction costs "projects being so different and so complicated so no one knows the issue" is a non-answer, that somewhat ironically, I can imagine a consultant giving.
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by ausbah 4y ago
would you say the same thing about say sundown towns or other municipalities that promote bigotry in their local laws?
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by ausbah 4y ago
there are better sources than DailyMail for news like this
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by ausbah 4y ago
rarely seems to happen from my layperson's experience. bad if not straight up illegal management is given fines at worse and golden parachutes at best. equifax, wells fargo, all the monopolists running around, etc. all seem to just get
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by ausbah 4y ago
fundamental is just whatever axioms you choose, not your gut intuition of what "makes sense"
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by ausbah 4y ago
no it doesn't, technically sure but universities are suppose to be free from controlled speech like this. see why tenure and academic freedom exist
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by ausbah 4y ago
the US shooting down unidentified aircraft over the continental US is unusual for any period of time in the nation's history. the US is at least an ocean's worth away from most other countries so having foreign interference is a b
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by ausbah 4y ago
I think the value that chatgpt could (emphasis on could) provide as a learning tool is the same value that a repl provides to coding, instant feedback in a playground environment. I think it would be immensely useful or anyone learning anyt
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by ausbah 4y ago
I don't think this is right. it's possible to fine tune these models with a few pieces from a select artist such that when you say "[art] is the style of [new artist]" you will get new pieces in the style of that artist.
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by ausbah 4y ago
I mean there's a certain amount of social awareness of what to do & what not do due in different contexts I don't think is wrong to assume someone has (barring cultural differences, neurodiverse conditions, the occasional misr
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by ausbah 4y ago
nothing strikes you as creepy or off putting about a non-insignificant number of people entering a class for the sole purpose of trying to find a partner? not incidental flirting or relationship that might occur from taking a class to learn

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