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by bko 4mo ago
Am I the only one thoroughly unimpressed by all these "scary" crafted doomer scenarios. Yes, if you write a prompt that looks like a sci-fi book, the next token prediction engine will generate the rest of the script. Can we all ad
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by bko 4mo ago
Ah, so you generally think about how other people perceive if you have money or not. Enough to answer an internet stranger inquiring about your wealth, and flexing about retiring at 40 (congrats). Thanks for proving my point.
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by bko 4mo ago
What do I value? I believe I live in a society where wealth is earned through hard work. It would be awful living in a society where I wrongly think everyone who has something I don't earned it through nefarious means, and there is no
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by bko 4mo ago
For attracting members of the opposite sex and wanting to connect with other people of similar wealth as their values and interests more closely correspond with your own. I don't know if you noticed, but there are cultural differences
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by bko 4mo ago
> Since then, traffic to DuckDuckGo has been booming. Last week, the company noted that web visits to its no-AI search page were up nearly 30% week-over-week, and its U.S. app installs were also up 18.1% week-over-week, with U.S. iOS app
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by bko 4mo ago
Ah, you must be one of those that cuts his own hair, shops strictly at thrift shops and wears bags as shoes.
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by bko 4mo ago
> In fact, the richer you are, the more questions I have about how you got it and who got shafted along the way. What a sad way to live life. Not only because it's untrue (assuming you don't live in North Korea), but it's
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by bko 4mo ago
Isn't that the whole point of social media like Instagram? To convince the world you have disposable income and are living a lavish lifestyle? Personally I like signaling that I have money. Why would you want people to think you'r
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by bko 4mo ago
Strongly agree. I would take it one step further, consider this line: > Slopping out a 10,000 LOC untested Python/JS mess in 5 minutes helps nobody. The thought of this happening in every commercial environment simultaneously is hor
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by bko 4mo ago
> moral questions Do you hear yourself? This is about index inclusion.
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by bko 4mo ago
The rules changed because it's unprecedented. It's not complicated. If your job is to "track the market" and there is this company that is worth $1+ trillion, you're not doing your job if you don't have exposur
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by bko 4mo ago
The point of these broad ETFs is that they include everything. Let the market decide. Of course they should own one of the largest public companies in the world. They're changing the rules on inclusion because the ipo is unprecedented
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by bko 4mo ago
Why are so many engineers unable to get into FAANG? Their hiring seems pretty straight forward. Cram leetcode. Most people can't get into it because they don't want to dedicate 100+ hours cramming these tests. But if you do and yo
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by bko 4mo ago
Regardless of whether it's pay or conditions, the changes would make it a more desirable place to work, which would increase the amount of people that want to work in that field. > The solution there was to create a less arbitrary s
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by bko 4mo ago
Suppose you double their pay, make them more in line with other tech workers. How should you allocate these highly coveted game dev jobs? The supply of jobs won't magically increase (it would likely decrease with higher wages), and the
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by bko 4mo ago
It was based on: > Pretending it's an AI novelty is... disingenuous. yes, being able to debug your router through a simple conversation without bothering people is a novelty
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by bko 4mo ago
Congrats. I'm pretty sure I've helped more than a few friends and family members debug a router. Most of them didn't even know what a router was. Much harder to Google for specific issues like that, hence the 1 billion people
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by bko 4mo ago
When your router is not working, please use AI. Don't call your friend who is "good with computers" have him drop everything he's doing and have him trouble shoot the problem for you over the phone. This is just obnoxiou
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by bko 5mo ago
> Just for a start, visits to its AI-free search page noai.duckduckgo.com between May 20 to May 25 are said to have increased by 22.7% on average week-on-week, with the figures peaking May 24 at 27.7%. > The DuckDuckGo mobile app saw
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by bko 5mo ago
> In the extreme case the market equilibrium is reached when a monopoly jacks up the price and produces less than it would in a competitive market Wrong. The amount produced is still the point at which marginal cost is equal to marginal
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by bko 5mo ago
The all things being equal makes no sense in this regard. It's like me saying "all things being equal except you're a duck" You can't be a duck and have all things equal. Same way a company can't be equal to an
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by bko 5mo ago
Not sure. On one hand, a huge backlog means they're not meeting their demand. Operations may not be in order. Everything else is the same so sales and everything else is equal so I guess money is just deferred? Also huge backlog encour
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by bko 5mo ago
The premise is that PE firms invest in companies, load them up with debt, and maximize profit. And it's especially nefarious in industries where people have "no choice but to pay" > The result is a backlog that reads like
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by bko 5mo ago
You don't know what the definitive predictable identical outcome would be. But you know the effect at the margin. At the margin, a wage floor will prevent some percent of transactions that would have taken place if a wage floor was not
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by bko 5mo ago
The article goes over the authors attempt to start a childcare center in DC and a lot of costs due to bureaucratic red-tape. > One provider told me it took nearly half a year to get on the fire inspector’s calendar to schedule an inspect
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by bko 5mo ago
https://archive.is/y54ka
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Why is it so hard to find affordable child care?(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by bko 5mo ago|2 comments
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by bko 5mo ago
I agree Woz is a sweet lie how everyone is unique and a snowflake. But regarding "you can be anything you want to be if you just work hard and apply yourselves, the world is your oyster, etc", I think the problem is the work hard
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by bko 5mo ago
Where's a link to the actual speech? There's no link in the article. Surely you saw the speech to comment how strong of a public speaker he is, and it wasn't based off this one line right? I'm sorry but that one-liner is
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by bko 5mo ago
Reminds me of Douglass Mackey, who was convicted for sharing deceptive memes before the 2016 election that falsely told Clinton supporters they could vote by text message. He was sentenced to 7 months in federal prison in 2023.

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