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cudgy
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2y ago
RTO mandates and layoffs are related … RTO mandates get people to quit (avoid severance and some direct layoffs)
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2y ago
Search for it?
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2y ago
Old, outdated equipment compared to what? What Ukraine produces? Israel is on the USA tit as well.
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2y ago
Don’t forget the biggest interruption of all … the commute, sometimes 1-2 hours or more per day, just to get to the office and take advantage of the “benefits”.
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2y ago
> It takes 1 minute to generate perfectly usable documentation. Ok. So why generate it at all? Just have the user generate it when needed or automate as part of the build. Seems like option 3, the lazy option, might be the right one.
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2y ago
Leisure time? You mean “leisure time” digging for food in dumpsters and begging for scraps of change? Or is there some magical money machine that the main benefactors of AI will provide for the “fortunate” people removed from the economy an
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2y ago
> All of these experts were preaching the virtues of Western free-trade to the east when they were the ones exporting TO Asia 10 years ago 10 years ago? Try 40-50 years ago.
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2y ago
So are calculators …
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2y ago
Not a fan of the term “normies” but as a Tor “normie” isn’t Tor traffic identifiable and wouldn’t using it make it easier for authorities to focus on you?
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2y ago
I wonder how successful Russian companies are at enforcing their IP in the US? I’ll venture a guess that the US is not helpful either.
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Are you assuming that the ML company does not sell its training data to scammers or others that will sell to scammers?
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2y ago
Maybe because they make so much money from the ads and unsuspecting users that subscribe to a trial and forget to cancel? Maybe because many websites are developed using similar toolsets, permeating antipatterns, and horrible UI models?
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2y ago
Nepotism and getting away with fraud are luck.
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2y ago
Sure it will. It even provided a concrete example with the random vs targeted funding experiment. Basically, the idea is to spread out capital to more participants to take advantage of the phenomena. So, for example, do you hire the superst
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2y ago
Your missing the point of the article. It acknowledges that the ratios are absurd. The question is why and how did the people that have this capital that you describe as belonging to investors get the capital in the first place.
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2y ago
Were you lucky?
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2y ago
“Funding agencies the world over are interested in maximizing their return on investment in the scientific world. Indeed, the European Research Council recently invested $1.7 million in a program to study serendipity—the role of luck in sci
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2y ago
“Walking nudges you to think about many new things. But it also blocks you from thinking obsessively about any single idea. "You can't ruminate, because your attention can't stick to one problem for too long because you also
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2y ago
And the state of California (earthquakes, wildfires, riots). And the state of Oklahoma (tornadoes). And the entire coastline of the United States (hurricanes, tsunamis, termites) which covers most houses in the US. Most areas along the Miss
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They don’t have to seize the company. They are likely embedded already and can simply blackmail, legally harass, or “disappear” the uncooperative.
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2y ago
Sounds like rush week in college
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2y ago
Just watched this at 2x speed and the precision/stability of the hands is remarkable, especially when extracting the tiny foam gaskets.
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2y ago
And your fingerprints …
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2y ago
This seems extremely idealistic. How many companies even know what the goal of the company is? Very few employees know this as many companies don’t know it either. Furthermore, there are many times when forgetting about the overarching goal
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2y ago
There are good reasons for this from an organizational perspective as it reduces risk from a “lone wolf” making a catastrophic decision. It’s a good idea to have checks and balances when billions of dollars of people’s investments are at ri
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“I am one of those engineers who do not care about culture as long as I am getting paid for the efforts I put in.” Then large companies are not for you. Navigating the culture is key to advancement and long-term satisfaction. Otherwise you
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The issue would be approached much differently if, for example, a “video llm” was created that scraped movies and generated content from those sources. The well organized, well connected movie industry would be up in arms burying ai compani
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2y ago
blaming trump for all the nation’s ails while a demented conman and possible rapist is actually president seems odd
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I’m sure there are pizza delivery drivers that exist that make 100k+ per year. Therefore, all pizza delivery drivers making 36k per year are donating 64k+ to the pizza restaurants they work for. Really?
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