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by danans 2mo ago
> Sick/vacation time? Don't forget health insurance for when they have to use that sick time to get treatment - so they can get back to work ASAP. Plus, during a bust if they get laid off, we don't have universal health
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by danans 2mo ago
Relatedly, here's a very recent video explaining a Buddha statue that was found in a temple of the Egyptian goddess Isis, installed by the local Buddhist and Hindu communities, carved by a Roman artisan, and dedicated in a message in
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by danans 2mo ago
> are people recording in-person meetings Yes, even if only for the AI summaries it generates, it saves lots of time. Only thing is that with a company this is nearly always on enterprise managed software like Google Meet or Zoom, not pe
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by danans 3mo ago
It's who you know. You are just more likely to know the right people to raise money than a random non-Ivy type.
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by danans 3mo ago
Paraphrasing Garry Kasparov from 2016: "The US is about to find out that it's democracy has been running on the honor system"
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by danans 3mo ago
> the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution. > These are the Holy Scriptures, and - like the Homeric ones - have multiple authors but lack the obscurity of ancient history to allow that latter fact to be subsumed into the s
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by danans 3mo ago
Seems like an opportunity to plug the latest video by my favorite YouTube long form documentary maker, OTR: The History of the Banana https://youtu.be/YVVD1cYelUE?is=ADLXFR_-mIMdDfom Here gets into ancient innovations that
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by danans 3mo ago
> There's also a need to consider the rights that this new intelligence should have. Only after we establish and guarantee the rights of humans and the rest of the natural world. The rights of machines, however "intelligent&qu
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by danans 3mo ago
> The idea NYC shouldn't do its best to take care of its own because people in Alabama aren't getting enough is nonsensical. Imo they already get far more than they deserve. Absent a federal wealth redistribution, yes NYC must
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by danans 3mo ago
> Confiscating 100% of all billionaire wealth (~$8.4T) covers - ~1.1 years of federal spending (~$7.4T) - ~4.4 years of deficits (~$1.9T) - ~23% of debt (~$36T): Adding a wealth tax doesn't mean eliminating existing income taxes. &g
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by danans 3mo ago
> They’re mad about being told after the fact that their town might lose water, power, quiet, or tax revenue to a project they didn't have a say in. I suspect they might also be a little bit mad (whether they admit it or not) that t
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by danans 3mo ago
> Demand for oats increased in the 1980s when researchers announced that beta glucan, a type of fiber in oats, can lower cholesterol. I'm skeptical that this was a factor, because in total only 5% of oats are used for human consumpt
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by danans 3mo ago
> just that they are sufficiently efficient that beating them is a genuinely hard job requiring heavy, expensive analysis No expensive analysis is needed. Beating them just requires (1) having disproportionate capital to others, and (2)
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by danans 3mo ago
> Its "life" is similar to that of a brain-dead human, whose body is not left to die by a bunch of machines that pump air into its lungs and nutrients through its blood vessels A brain-dead human is alive, but just facing syste
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by danans 3mo ago
> I’ve only ever worked at messy mid-size software companies and have never once had a legit product manager guiding feature work, it’s generally been up to the developers to figure out what needs doing That's because the systems an
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by danans 3mo ago
> I’m working on a program for myself and the overall architecture of the program as well as some parts of its implementation are clever and compose well to make the codebase a joy to work in. I am not simply “mapping features to mundane
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by danans 3mo ago
> It's a quite a bit broader than that: for instance most of science and engineering is heavily supported by simulations (very useful when the system you're considering doesn't have perfect spherical or cylindrical symmetr
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by danans 3mo ago
> Someone asks you to add a feature to an existing program While I empathize with the tone, even before AI the creativity was largely at the feature definition step, not in the implementation. Outside of the very few computer scientists
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by danans 3mo ago
> It is just utterly baffling to me. I'm... well along the spectrum... so people not responding correctly to obvious information is just something I've gotten used to but just... wow. People get quite a kick out of seeing peopl
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by danans 4mo ago
> Whilst true, its your generation who got us here. You are right, and you have a right to resent what many in the previous generation did (or tacitly ignored) to get us here. > I think its incredibly easy to say "You just need t
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by danans 4mo ago
> The bigger sign to me is that this is a pressure against democratized personal computing Tough to break it to you, but the war on general purpose computing started a long time ago - primarily app stores and mass market managed OS'
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by danans 4mo ago
> It upsets me I never got to live the "glory days" of cars, technology, outdoor activities, music, entertainment, etc. The best is ahead for your generation - you just need to create it from grass roots. I mean actually &qu
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by danans 4mo ago
Another unc perspective: As that compute has become cheap, the value of what you can do with that compute, and sell in exchange for money, has also diminished. I'm not complaining - this is the way of these things. But even 3 orders
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by danans 4mo ago
Not more efficient at heat dissipation, but radiative cooling panels can achieve sub-ambient dissipation in conditions (like high humidity) that evaporative cooling performance declines in, and with no water consumption. https://
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by danans 4mo ago
I was thinking the justice system, but yes the entire concept of government and law is built upon the monopoly of violence. Bringing it into this discussion is reductio ad absurdum . Even property rights are protected by the same monopoly
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by danans 4mo ago
> I don't know how the social contract between employees/employers gets rebuilt. The only social contract that is guaranteed is the one written into law. That's why we have government, but the problem is that the governme
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by danans 4mo ago
> Secession from the EU has certainly been bad for the UK, but the rest of the EU seems to be doing ok The UK might have paid the biggest price due to Brexit, but the EU also lost a significant trading partner for it's goods and ser
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by danans 4mo ago
> We are more or less retracing the path of Rome as the Republic expanded militarily until it was no longer practical to run it as a republic and it transitioned to empire. The current military "excursion" seems to be transiti
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by danans 4mo ago
> before pulling into a Texaco to pay $0.34 per gallon for low-lead Fire Chief gas and fill up your "Mellow Yellow" AMC Gremlin. The nostalgia aside, that's $3.23/gallon today. Cheaper than today with our ongoing war
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by danans 4mo ago
> But they will never be “retrained” to roles that offer them similar income, status, and leverage over employers. Instead they’ll be sucked into an ever-expanding economy of service work. Which will probably depress wages of service wor

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