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by danans 7mo ago
> Society is self-organizing like that, and this stuff is all iterated prisoner's dilemma in the end.. "Iterating the prisoners dilemma" at all levels of interface with government, moral qualms about autocracy/author
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by danans 7mo ago
Those are things you start learning in preschool, from other humans. Granted, some never learn.
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by danans 7mo ago
> Is the value in the outcome of receiving medical advice and care, and becoming educated, Absorbing information doesn't make you "educated". Learning how to employ knowledge with accountability and trust with beings in t
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by danans 7mo ago
Support in this context means bugfixing, performance/crash testing across devices and chipsets, security updates, etc, not "phone/email support".
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by danans 7mo ago
The reason they didn't release Chrome for arm64 Linux almost certainly wasn't about technical feasibility, but rather about it being worth the support costs. The Android arm64 Chrome build is clearly worth it to them, as is the Ch
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by danans 7mo ago
> If I had fewer orders, I would work more to increase the quality of my product and my efficiency. Working less as a reaction to losing market share seems completely counterproductive to me. That may work if you are a sole proprietor or
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by danans 7mo ago
> Here in England we now drag the coal over on smoke spewing ships from Japan and Australia, rather than mine it here Australia I see but Japan? Japan is the world's third largest coal importer. I don't think they are sending
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by danans 7mo ago
> Why is this on the top of hackernews? Fundamentally because a lot of people here think it should be, but sure behind that, it's at the top for many of the reasons you state. This is a forum about work after all, something that ha
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by danans 7mo ago
> In a bear market in a bloated company, maybe Then any company that was staffed at levels needed prior to the arrival of current-level LLM coding assistants is bloated. If the company was person-hour starved before, a significant amoun
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by danans 7mo ago
> If AI removes one of my co-workers, our competitors will keep the co-worker and out-compete us. This assumes that the companies' business growth is a function of the amount of code written, but that would not make much sense for a
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by danans 7mo ago
Clearly, since calculating the individual refunds are impossible, the companies will be broadly discounting products going forward by their effective tariff rate for roughly the time the tariffs were in effect. /s
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by danans 8mo ago
> So what is really changing? Higher education is less affordable and accessible to more families, and the value proposition is eroding. CS academics survive by joint ventures with corporations, not by their University salaries. Escalat
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by danans 8mo ago
> The _actual_ open source system consisted of hackers scratching their own itch and sharing the artifacts, because (it was assumed that) sharing is free. So if the work is already done and solved their problem, why not also share it as
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by danans 8mo ago
I think this is missing the forest for the trees. With 4000 fewer employees, they could have a $136M meetup party and still be ahead by hundreds of millions, assuming they can sustain or increase revenue. That's the big bet software c
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by danans 8mo ago
> China has reduced its pollution massively since the 90s while aggressively expanding its industrial output. And they have done it without excessive bureaucracy China's system is authoritarian state-capitalism. It is precisely the
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by danans 8mo ago
> At scale no group is against its own personal interests. Of course they are. That's the whole point of scapegoating: convincing people that their problems are caused by another group while actually working against their interests
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by danans 8mo ago
> One nice thing about what’s happening is that politics are losing to reality. I’m not even sure how this became a left vs right issue in the first place (isn’t the right meant to be pro free market!?) No, the right isn't meant to
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by danans 8mo ago
> The "tax" is the delta between what the government pays out for the bonds vs what a bond of equivalent risk in the free market would have paid. It also robs the individual's freedom to gamble with their retirement funds
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by danans 8mo ago
> I’m confused what kind of software engineer jobs there are that don’t involve meeting with people, “aligning expectations”, getting consensus, making slides/decks to communicate that, thinking about market positioning, etc? I&#x27
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by danans 8mo ago
> It can be both. Use the "Contributions" from "Donors" to make it appear that the coin is going to the moon and then dump it once enough credulous victims buy into the scam. Sure, and cynically, just like in traditio
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by danans 8mo ago
It's probably difficult to find out (but someone here could probably analyze the blockchain), but it would be interesting to know the mean and median stake of the investors who got wiped out. If the mean is large, it's mostly an o
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by danans 8mo ago
> For me, it works like this: on the Owner user, because that’s the name of the main account created automatically with the system, I installed the Google Play Store along with Google Play services and GmsCompatConfig Many people here mi
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by danans 8mo ago
> So with the AI is doing more of the work and you need less humans, what are you doing with the extra humans to eliminate their no-longer-productive resource consumption? Soon enough, we won't be able to avoid this question.
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by danans 8mo ago
> So this is obviously dumb and short-sighted. But also ... why do they need it? It's more about propaganda and fodder for lawmakers who will try to use it to justify fossil fuel promotion legislation. It's not fooling anyone t
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by danans 8mo ago
> Furthermore, pretty much everyone, in America and abroad, views business as both more ethical and more effective than governments and non-governmental organizations. "Transnational oligarchic mega-corporations" !== "busi
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by danans 8mo ago
> Not sure your point. It's fiction. Are we closer to finding dragons, faeries, or magic? No, but we've become increasingly superstitious, and cultish. A lot of the day to day parts of sci-fi (screens everywhere , instant comm
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by danans 8mo ago
> Oh yes, I'm absolutely sure the Democrats were just sitting on a treasure trove of - only - Republican Party members' pedophile crimes for 5 years, and they did nothing because they are useless No, they did it to protect weal
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by danans 8mo ago
A super majority in Congress voted for the files to be the released, which is enough to override a veto, so he had to sign it to save face.
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by danans 8mo ago
> Solving cost of launching mass has been the entire premise of SpaceX since day one and they have the track record. They have to solve for it being cheaper to launch and operate in space vs building and operating a datacenter with its o
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by danans 8mo ago
> This statement is actually completely false. The bottleneck is not cost of building data centers, but the energy accessible on the planet. How much of energy will it take to launch the same amount of compute, connectivity, and PV to po

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