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by dahwolf 3y ago
The rest of the fediverse seems to disagree and is now in an obnoxious war to preblock Meta or not.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Since about a year ago, we entered the era of consolidation. The margin call of tech. A decade of outsized unprofitable interest-free investments sure is fun, but there comes a time to pay it back. That time is now. Companies that are not p
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by dahwolf 3y ago
A shorter term doom scenario could be our cognitive irrelevance. It's just one step beyond the current "powerful assistant" paradigm. It doesn't even require AGI, just a whole set of verticals where AI outperforms us. Th
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I'm not in the market for a new home but still do a weekly check on property for sale in my town, just for the entertainment (and sometimes educational) value of the indoor photos. I'm still only an amateur voyeur. Pros in my coun
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Even more so because all these discussions evolve around elite institutes only. Which doesn't help 99.999999% of people.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
We'll never know because it's a taboo topic. So we'll just pretend that almost every aspect of our body has racial differences due to populations being exposed to different environments/conditions and evolving to adapt,
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Thousands of very well paid administrators depend on this problem persisting, hence it's not supposed to be ever solved.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Which weakens the systemic racism thesis, hence we don't talk about it.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It is goes further back, and is way more international. In Western Europe, somewhere around the early 90s most social democratic parties abandoned their blue collar base. They used to fight for them. For reasonable hours, minimum wage, soci
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Finally somebody who gets it. The poor black urbanite and poor white trumpist are arch enemies but should be close allies. The world is governed by international capitalist classism. It gives no shit about race or gender. It just cares abou
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by dahwolf 3y ago
No, doesn't count for men. They're just broken and need to "step up".
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Fully agree with the premise. Most youngish users have never even experienced true performance. Our software stacks are shit and rotten to the core, it's an embarrassment. We'll have the smartest people in the world enabling chip
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The answer is obvious: by investing in supply during a downturn you actively help lower prices, which is the opposite goal of investment.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
At least old Microsoft tried to hide or wash away their anti-consumer anti-competitive behavior. New Microsoft proudly announces it. And this reflects on other tech giants. They understand that they're in an era of near-zero regulation
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Well put!
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Indeed, democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for lunch. It's just an unusual and new idea to see young people as a minority as this never was the case to this extend. As it comes to housing though, I remain convince
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I get what you're saying and I'm against inter-generational hate. There is no plot against young people. Remember that most old people have children. If today's young people would time travel to some decades back, they'd
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I was referring to the idea that in an aging country, even if young/old people would equally show up to vote, the older people will have more votes. Which is democracy. It is fair in that sense, although surely it will not feel that wa
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by dahwolf 3y ago
In the Netherlands we don't really have a big NIMBY issue and we still can't keep up supply with demand. Supply is complicated and not just restricted by zoning. One key thing to understand is that private companies build homes, n
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"Elections are largely monopolized by older people who mostly tend to be homeowners". Sounds like democracy?
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Reporting from the Netherlands. I'm not an economist, but I just don't understand how the current policy has any chance of lowering inflation. Price increases here are in energy and groceries. In plenty of other things of course,
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Recently at work we were testing a new font for the brand, won't mention the name, it's unimportant. We couldn't get it to look right on Windows. Only at a few select font sizes and weights did it look OK, at every other setu
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I remember an anecdote by a guy that shared to his family how he was feeling depressed and exhausted, mostly work-related. It was a "deer in the headlights" experience. His family indifferent if not annoyed by his revelations. He
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Would be cool if that AI spawned an AI boss and outsourced it back to those people.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I would imagine the optimism is due to this site's core audience: SV people.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I want more of those downvotes. VR developers are an especially angry bunch as they believe VR is awesome, we're just too ignorant to understand it. We get it just fine, VR sucks.
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No need to convince me of that, I'm an engineer. But I still empathize with those designers. It's mechanized design which to some feel like a prison for their creativity. Even more so when all designs start to look the same across
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Taking control of a company and thereby getting ACCESS to customer data is not the same thing as selling customer data. They are radically different concepts. As to whether Google has done this before or not is completely irrelevant.
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Absolutely not. Mergers/acquisitions happen all the time and the masses very much expect that service continues without action.
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You didn't engage with the actual criticism. You don't seem to have any knowledge at all about how personal data transfers work in the case of a merger or acquisition. Which is a radically different scenario from two standing inde

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