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by chasing 3y ago
What? Next you're going to tell me that Marilyn vos Savant isn't the smartest person alive.
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by chasing 3y ago
I believe the term for this kind of argument is "whataboutism."
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by chasing 3y ago
> By that definition, what defines a writer is not for you to decide, it's decided by the market. Nope. Writers write. Most writing is "economically worthless" — the number of novels that get written every year is astronom
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by chasing 3y ago
Yes, content farms will be able to produce low-value content even more cheaply. Any “writer” who leans too hard on ChatGPT will find themselves producing material that feels indistinguishable from all the other low-value crap that floods th
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by chasing 3y ago
> The differential value of being better at putting words in a row just dropped to nothing. Anyone can now put words in a row pretty much as well as I can. This seems like a wild misrepresentation of what being a writer is. Writers commu
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by chasing 3y ago
Especially since given the ultimate horrifying finiteness of both the material and time in the universe, the dream of truly unlimited breadsticks will forever be outside of our reach.
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by chasing 3y ago
Not the way I ask for breadsticks they won’t.
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by chasing 3y ago
As I learned the hard way once, when AT&T say “unlimited” they mean up to a certain amount for data. Y’know. Like how Olive Garden offers unlimited breadsticks but then when you get your bill they charge you $40 for each breadstick over
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by chasing 3y ago
I would say that they seem to recognize that they need to appeal to the users of their products and not just those users’ managers. And that means playing ball with the ecosystem and not just trying to crush it. Baby steps, I guess. But a l
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by chasing 3y ago
I really don’t think MS had the consumer product vision at the time to pull anything like a music store off. Apple had the vision to get from point A to point B and have huge swaths of consumers hop on board for the ride. Wild oversimplific
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by chasing 3y ago
I’m glad comedy is now allowed again on Twitter, because this is all pretty funny.
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by chasing 4y ago
Much of NYC started off as small, independent towns and villages with their own grids. Bushwick. Williamsburg. Flushing. Their grid were determined by things like angle of the coast, internal geographic features, or just random chance. As t
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by chasing 4y ago
I just had to set up the first Windows machine I’ve owned in 20 years. Between Windows 11 itself and the garbage the hardware manufacturer throw on there, it’s awful . Upsells everywhere. Horseshit I do not want clotting things up. After s
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by chasing 4y ago
Yes, things cherry-picked to look the same look the same. And things that are expensive to produce and must appeal to a wide-range of customer tastes tend to look fairly neutral. And some things "look the same" because everyone&#x
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by chasing 4y ago
Is it broken? Also, language is an evolving tool that we all co-own. If you want to see a change, modify how you write. People do this all the time. If it’s a good idea, maybe it’ll catch on.
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by chasing 4y ago
Everything should be free. Except the stuff I make. I should be paid a lot of money for that.
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by chasing 4y ago
> Steve Jobs never really invented anything but he knew how to play the role. As far as I'm aware, Steve Jobs was, in fact, both the founder and former CEO of Apple. Unless he was pulling one HELLUVA ruse that I was unaware of.
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by chasing 4y ago
> it ain't perfect but it is miles beyond Windows when it comes to respecting the user
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by chasing 4y ago
It's called macOS, now that it's no longer on version 10, and it ain't perfect but it is miles beyond Windows when it comes to respecting the user, as far as I'm concerned. And, yes, I'd rather have an operating s
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by chasing 4y ago
Most of us are working class, even if relatively well-paid.
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by chasing 4y ago
You don’t have to be oppressed to form a union. Most professional athletes, for example, are unionized. And they’re often very well paid.
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by chasing 4y ago
It’s this disgusting attitude from management that unions form to counter.
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by chasing 4y ago
So it kind of copied the answer from somewhere and rephrased it?
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by chasing 4y ago
I mean, it's also an illusion that you have a name. Just something everyone has kind of agreed to. Doesn't mean it's not steadfast and "real."
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by chasing 4y ago
“Programming” isn’t writing code, it’s understanding computers on a technical level well enough to make them do exactly what you want them to do given a certain set of constraints. The tools we use today are incredibly powerful and time-s
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by chasing 4y ago
These kids have been mooching off of adults for way to long.
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by chasing 4y ago
> Just because you regret doing a deal doesn't mean others are unethical for benefiting from it. Everything else aside, this is simply inaccurate. Contractual deals can totally be unethical for all sorts of reasons. When there’s an
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by chasing 4y ago
People who sell photos of their bodies should be allowed to make ethical arguments or have opinions outside the narrow confines of their contracts. Even if those pictures are naked pictures.
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by chasing 4y ago
Manhattan's overpriced. People are moving to Brooklyn.
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by chasing 4y ago
I am for the jobs the asteroid will provide.

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