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by csallen 9mo ago
> There's no hint of laying off all the staff here though. Now it sounds like they "were" excited to lay off people to maximize profits. What? Just because a statement says "we're excited to do X" doesn&#x
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by csallen 9mo ago
> These are already people with specialized needs that the main market leader (Youtube) cannot fulfill. Isn't this just a bigger reason why these people won't leave? Assuming the acquirer isn't dumb enough to remove the
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by csallen 9mo ago
I wouldn't even say it's "technically" the truth. It's just the truth. Nothing in the statement even comes close to implying that there wouldn't be layoffs. Hell, one of the quotes even mentions "focus&quo
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by csallen 9mo ago
I used to feel similarly whenever people would say "begs the question" to mean "raises a question." But now I've just given up. It's more common for people to mess this one up than not.
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by csallen 9mo ago
This is an individual problem and an individual's responsibility to solve, imo (Although I do think it's interesting to consider whether a project, company, or initiative could help make this easier to solve for millions.) Regardl
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by csallen 9mo ago
> The point of CSS is specifically to separate styling and semantics, so that they are not tightly coupled. That was the original point, and it turned out that nobody cares about that 99% of the time. It's premature optimization a
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by csallen 9mo ago
> financing a company that thinks it is above the law I've never liked arguments like this, because laws are often complex, unreasonable, and unjust, and all of us (both individuals and companies) routinely use our best judgment t
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by csallen 9mo ago
> but the difference now is that rich people are so unfathomably rich... Compared to when? How many times in history has wealth been less concentrated? As far as I'm aware, for almost all of history post-agriculture, wealth was
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by csallen 9mo ago
I recently completed a long road trip and realized partway through. I spent the first few days listening to an audiobook every time I got into the car. But one day, during a particularly long drive, I finished it. And I didn't put anyt
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by csallen 9mo ago
The OP is not talking about making slop, he's talking about using AI to write good code.
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by csallen 10mo ago
Not everyone can afford to waste energy on angry and envy directed toward private citizens who have literally nothing to do with them
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by csallen 10mo ago
> Vizio, which is now owned by Walmart, paid $2.2 million to the Federal Trade Commission and New Jersey in 2017 over similar allegations related to ACR. Lmao $2.2m is less than nothing to Walmart.
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by csallen 10mo ago
I did play Skyrim, and I was fine with it. Something about video games takes the fear out of it. I mean, they're definitely a little bit more unsettling than other video game creatures, but not by much, so I don't get a fear respo
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by csallen 10mo ago
If you append to the bottom of a 50-thousand line file, won't scrolling to the bottom be tedious? Or is he prepending new days to the top of the file?
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by csallen 10mo ago
I've always found this interesting because nothing about the appearance of a snake has ever bothered me, unsettled me, or made me fearful. They actually look very neat to me, and the tiny snakes I've had the fortune of holding wer
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by csallen 10mo ago
> Imagine the Brooklyn bridge design committee saying "requiring exactly 1 inch plate is intolerance!! The Brooklyn bridge is a singular piece of infrastructure that millions depend on. I think it makes for a bad analogy. A better
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by csallen 10mo ago
Luck is always going to play a role. No one has ever said that life is fair, and no system is based on life being fair. One of the many reasons that progressive taxation is justified.
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by csallen 10mo ago
> the law only rewards specific kinds of risk with equity ownership over the venture I would argue that it's not solely the law rewarding that kind of risk, it's the market. There is no law that says that only equity owners c
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by csallen 10mo ago
What's interesting is that this is true of all creators, not just artists. Making money means running a business, and running a business requires more than just creating something. You also have to identify a good market for that creat
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by csallen 11mo ago
I don't know if I buy this. The most wealth equality humanity has ever had was probably in the pre-agrarian hunter-gatherer era. It was also undoubtedly one of the more violent times in human history, with homicide rates that dwarfed t
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by csallen 11mo ago
> the important measurement is what percentage of that pie is captured by the rich And this is where we fundamentally disagree. I think the important measurement is how much pie the average person has. I think the important measurement
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by csallen 11mo ago
The comment I replied to said, verbatim, in its opening line, "Children are in poverty because some people grab vastly more than their share of the world's wealth." That is literally the fixed pie fallacy. Nobody is arguing t
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by csallen 11mo ago
And what I'm saying is that these statements aren't related. Yes, some people don't have enough pie. Yes, other people are getting even bigger slices of the bigger pie. But the latter is not what's causing the former. In
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by csallen 11mo ago
Partly this is a huge problem. But partly it's intentional. It's a huge problem for the obvious reasons. Nobody wants a country where only the rich people have a say, or have influence, or wield political power, or own all the lan
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by csallen 11mo ago
Everybody always takes this argument to the extreme, as if it has to be a 0 or a 1, black or white, either people deserve the wealth that they created or they don't. There is no such dichotomy. On one hand, markets and incentives work.
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by csallen 11mo ago
Both. Today's rich are wealthier than the rich of the past, but today's poor are also wealthier than the poor of the past. It's also the case that quality of life differences have shrunk between the two groups, not because li
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by csallen 11mo ago
This is the fixed pie policy, which assumes there's a limited amount of wealth to go around. And therefore, any time somebody gets "too much" of it, the conclusion is they must be why others have less. This is not true. And i
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by csallen 11mo ago
People can also make mistakes while reading, and I suspect we do so at just as much if not more frequency as gen AI text-to-speech algos. It's the AI thinking that makes me wary, not AI text-to-speech.
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by csallen 11mo ago
Yes exactly. And this is kind of already played out with text. The printing press came out, literacy increased. Suddenly anyone could write anything and sign anybody else's name to it. There was a trust crisis. Nowadays, we've jus
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by csallen 11mo ago
I think we're overreacting. Digital fakes will proliferate, and we'll freak out bc it's new. But after a certain amount of time, we'll just get used to it and realize that the world goes on, and whatever major adverse ef

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