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by dahwolf 3y ago
The warning is correct, I'm really quite sure that any sane individual readily observes that being chronically online isn't exactly good for you. They'll notice this in others but most also have the self-awareness to see the
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Good points. Making money is indeed a better definition of desired outcomes. But my point stands: if you want to make money, why do you waste 75% of your potential not actually doing work?
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2000 is when I started my professional life. But I do have a living memory of the even simpler 90s and 80s :)
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I hear you. I recently had a colleague retire after a lifetime in the company and he described in detail how over the course of his career, work had gotten increasingly impersonal, fleeting, unrewarding. It was painful to hear.
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You can hear the western executive think: India has lots of people and poor people specifically, so let's just roll out the China model there. They're going to be in for a shock. India does not have the "submissive communist&
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The real problem is complexity, which has gone exponential. When I joined the work force in 2000, my life was comparably so stunningly simple. Just a few guys in the same room. Barely any process or documentation. Email was still new so the
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It's well hidden but the article correctly states that paying teachers more does not solve the problem. In a situation with housing scarcity, paying people more, lending them more, will only inflate prices further. It's a supply p
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I'm all for CSS getting more powerful but there's an interesting flip side: the increased expressiveness may make it more difficult to reason about. Even an advanced use of grid is tricky to understand. Now combine this with the n
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I empathize with that issue, especially the underpaid part, but superficially that work is still a type of value exchange based on consent: you do the labeling, you get paid (poorly). Yet for the issue I discussed, there's no value exc
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It's easy to tell if an AI head genuinely cares about the impact of AI on society: they only talk about AI's output, never its input. They train their models on the sum of humanity's digital labor and creativity and do so wit
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You can say the same thing about Chrome. Irrespective, doesn't matter how the numbers came to be, they're massive opportunities to integrate AI into.
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Google is going to be just fine. The most important slide in the article is that Google has 6(!) 2B+ user products. Even if slightly behind in capability, they have superior reach. They'll deeply integrate AI into every part of that st
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by dahwolf 3y ago
What's up with catastrophizing an obvious joke? See, if you'd intellectually engage in good faith, you'd understand the point that one of few (if not the only) reliable ways to tell apart AI from humans in the future would be
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Companies think that a hybrid model is some kind of fair compromise, or perhaps the best of both worlds. Hybrid means you'll commute to work to arrive in an half-empty office. In this office are people sitting in calls all day. You can
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Only now do I realize what absolute paradise my 80s childhood was. Zero supervision, I could go wherever I want. No need to organize anything, go to any playground and there's armies of friends (and foes). No way to communicate other t
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It's way worse still. Even if none of the problems you describe materialize for a young individual, still smartphones are bad for development. They directly come at the expense of socialization, physical activity, discovery and experim
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To prove authenticity, be politically incorrect in a way AI never would. You'll be dismissed, canceled and fired, but at least authentically so.
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Exactly. The list of talking points are a Mastodon meme. Catastrophizing everything into fascism.
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"You just can’t have them and also simultaneously expect everyone is going to find it worthwhile to deal with you under such laws" Actually, we totally can. I can guarantee you that Bard will become available in the EU at one poin
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by dahwolf 3y ago
People, wake up and smell the coffee. A decade of interest-free money firehosing + demand explosion from COVID is over. The "normal" you cling to with double digit growth, insanely high salaries and benefits, and budgets of billio
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Even more so for us Europeans where both the diagonal and the inches are not relatable. Double confusing. Many people don't even know it's a diagonal, they just associate the number with having seen the object in real life. You co
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None of your listed reasons make a dent in explaining the massive salary differences between the US and EU. There's a much simpler explanation: The EU simply doesn't have the capital. There are no pools of venture capitalists clus
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You have a cynical view of "clicks". I'd argue that others reading the content you write is fairly important. Because if it isn't, keep it in notepad I'd say.
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The part that the author conveniently doesn't go into is income, other than mentioning that people sitting in companies are stuck there because they need the income. Well, this very concept applies to you too, dear solo captain. Nobody
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You think AI will stop and pause as it comes across your "interesting things"? Hey look, it's enthusiast content, let's send our users directly to their website? I don't think so. It's going to be vacuumed into
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I would expect them to purchase StackOverflow too. I guess it's not that essential, seems a low cost acquisition.
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Dutchie here. I haven't see these red LEDs become widespread although I do sometimes see dim green lights on bicycle paths. Another interesting regulation here is related to insulation. Small bats tend to get inside walls and under roo
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by dahwolf 3y ago
What are you talking about? People exploring nature at night have been using red lights for decades. It's standard equipment. There's no mystery around the reason to use red light either. Nocturnal animals, especially mammals, hav
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I guess I found the one thing where our progressive Netherlands is actually more conservative. I'm from a rural part. 12 year olds drive massive agricultural vehicles here. My friends' son is 14 and doing welding. I personally did
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Long running trends unrelated to the pandemic: Off-shoring, near-shoring. Where some of your colleagues are permanently virtual-only. Cross-company collaboration. Specifically a lot of work involving dealing with external parties like vendo

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