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by borissk 4y ago
The progress in IT have already made unemployed millions of people. E.g. there used to be shops selling flights and holidays on every corner. There used to be a number of insurance shops in every town center. Every company used to have room
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This is a solution that will work for a very small percentage of the people - those who were born in rich families and those who are a lot more driven and/or smarter and/or luckier than the average. What about the other 99%? As th
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What are you talking about? Stop the traffic on a road to fix it without local administration permission? Do you think getting such permission is easy? How are you going to pay for the materials to do the repairs? Do you think it's eas
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The fact that the industrial revolution created better life for most people doesn't prove an AI revolution will do the same. The classical counter-example are horses - the industrial revolution increased the demand for horses, but once
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Who's going to pay for those remaining jobs? E.g. currently mostly the middle class pays for home improvements, which creates jobs for construction workers. Remove the middle class and there's a lot less demand for construction wo
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The things that are easy to improve have been improved long ago.
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Even if we assume you're right, the way that the system is setup and the fact that there are constant fuck ups, but no effort to fix them are not accidents. Yes, there are conspiracies out there (surprise, most people are not angels) a
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The local news station probably receives a big part of it's budget and profits from medical ads. It won't run any material that can threaten it's main income.
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All right, US insurance companies deny millions of valid claims not because of greed, but because "the doctors office does not code the claim correctly". It's just an unforeseen side effect that said insurance companies end u
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Keyboard and mouse are the opposite of efficient - they are an extremely slow interface. Let's say you saw a person and want to transfer his image from your brain to a computer - how long would that take with a keyboard and mouse. An e
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We got extremely lucky that it's super hard to separate the isotopes of uranium and plutonium that can be used to make an A-bomb from the minerals that can be mined on Earth surface. If it was easier to do every dictatorship and every
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Horses which are scared of cars and trucks should just learn how to run faster...
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Used to work for a big payroll provider - eventually they bought their own bank.
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Have you seen the aftermath of Mariupol and Bahmut - this is what happened after the Russian people decided not to riot against the corrupted government.
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Good for you and well done that you're able to afford to buy better stuff. But there's a big group of people that has a problem buying food now and didn't have that problem 5 years ago. I think on average probably the opposit
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I didn't pay much attention to what happened with the truckers. How were they suppressed?
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So you're saying that grocery prices today are mostly the same as they were in 2019?
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There are just a few big companies left in many industrial sectors. Easy for them to reach an agreement to raise prices together. The people that run the two parties are not going to do anything about it (or let government administration do
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People who pay for legal streaming of music and video are subsidizing the subversion of free speech and privacy on the Internet. The providers use part of their income to lobby politicians for more invasive monitoring of everyone's act
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TypeScript has the most complicated type system ever. Don't know why Anders&Co needed to go that far.
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Sure, leaver's favorite excuse "Things got worse, but it's not because of Brexit". What positive things do you think came out of Brexit?
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Nope. The main reason for the leave vote was hate towards immigrants. And EU is very clear that access to the single market comes only with free movement of people.
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Think you need to separate between Russia and the Putin regime. Putin and his friends/oligarchs/corrupted officials/KGB agents have kept the regular russians very very poor. What does a regular russian citizen gain from incre
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When UK was a member of EU it stopped any further development of it. It was against all proposals for tighter military, political and economic integration of the member states. Now that UK is out it gives EU a chance to get closer to a real
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Interesting, but quite wild hypothesis. No mechanism was proposed on how black holes store dark energy. In the end it may turn out that black holes are the source of both dark energy and dark matter.
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There's very little difference in the number of PCIe and M2 slots between Intel and AMD on their consumer platforms. The only difference really between AM5 and LGA 1700 motherboards is a lot more AMD boards have one M2 PCIe 5.0 slot, w
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In my experience it is - having on premise build server is a lot cheaper than running a very CPU intensive task in the cloud. Can save thousands of $ a year.
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In my experience when negotiating any discounts the Amazon sales guys are very aware exactly how locked in the customer is. If they use a ton of proprietary AWS features Amazon may offer 5% discount, on the other hand if the customer uses K
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>> AWS seems to mix the concepts of Build Pipeline with Deployment Pipeline. >> Deployment has had historically a meaning in software development, I do not understand why to change it now. Maybe because traditionally software sh
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Wouldn't it be funny if it turns out this article was written by an AI? Looks like the main argument is "The reflection is humanity’s wealth of language and writing, which has been strained into these models and is now reflected b

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