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by daevout 3y ago
That might be true for the subset of suicides the author has studied, but there are about as many reasons humans commit suicide as there are reasons they commit homicide, which is to say, infinite varieties. There's religious (Heavean&
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by daevout 3y ago
That is a good way of looking at it. What's missing is a catchy name to debase store-based installation similar to what was done through "sideloading". Perhaps "lord-loading", "begstalling", "babybiti
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by daevout 4y ago
China has done what's only being talked about in the west: successfully broken up a powerful tech conglomerate. One needn't resort to the kind of marxist leninist tactics that were at play here to achieve the same outcome, but all
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by daevout 4y ago
The problem is that children, rather than free farm labor, are now too expensive, while the wages on which the majority of people depend, are too unpredictable and intermittent for the kind of long term involvement 2.1+ children represent.
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by daevout 4y ago
Google's is the best business the world and chatgpt opens up round 2 over who gets the hold the rains of that beast. The hype originates in the business comminity, and it's about all the money that will be made, not technology. Th
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by daevout 4y ago
Of course, the problem is that the trade is on offer at all. In the antiquated view that the government exists for the protection of the people, rather than to coddle corporations and sacrificing at the altar of competitiveness, it would be
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by daevout 4y ago
> Five years from now, I think we will not see "remote only" for a large company and think "ooh, they value their employees I guess" Also, remote work opens the door to replace expensive domestic workers with cheap fo
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by daevout 4y ago
Yes it absolutely is, but imo less so than what GitHub Copilot and various image generation companies are doing. My theory is that if AI turns out to be as disruptive as the current hype suggests, the conflict between those who feed the AI
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by daevout 4y ago
Amazon, Meta, Google are most certainly cut from the same cloth, only slightly smaller. For Wal-Mart I can't think of anything strictly anit-competitive, but its practice of paying sub-subsistance wages and counting on government relie
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by daevout 4y ago
I can't think of a company more blatantly engaged in anti-competitive practices than Apple, but I'm glad to see all that unfairly amassed wealth benefitting even the lowest rungs of its corporate hierarchy through the unusual bene
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by daevout 4y ago
Indeed if we did apply that level of analysis to other companies, we might not have emded up depending on a one man dictatoship flush with concentration camps, ongoing genocide and war preparations for essentials like PPE and antibiotics..