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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
I think this argument is very disingenious for two reasons: - If you’re comparing to developed nations (or some non developed ones with functioning agencies), the argument doesn’t hold true. - If you’re comparing to the bottom of the barrel
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
We’re all pretending this is an unsolvable problem when really most of the world has solved it by making ambulance (EMS) funding similar to fire and police departments. Somehow in any emergency I’ve seen, all three show up, often EMS before
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
Edit: even though i inaccurately associated Bungee with MS, they are not. However, the comment stands when you replace it with any of the other successful studios like Bethesda, Id software, Blizzard etc. A bunch of studios and their ips we
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
> Then they did not have to give away popular games day one on Game Pass A company that sells consoles complaining about not having enough games after 25 years in business and acquiring most popular game studios is hilarious. They keep c
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
Correct. That is what I was trying to hint at. Yes, massive compute is needed to train ai, but it isn’t the only thing. A lot of research and experimentation goes into moving the marker just a little bit. Innovation can’t be forced into wee
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
More than that, I think people overestimate how much AI will progress as you throw more compute at it. It’s the “9 women can’t deliver a baby in a month” equivalent of AI. Additional compute won’t magically give you AGI.
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by darth_avocado 3mo ago
I don’t think it’s a nothing law. Not only does it help with reducing waste, but also a food safety thing. “Best by” or “best is used by” or “expiry dates” are pretty clear: use the product before the date. In my own case, we have a brand o
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
> Who could possibly have predicted that happening? Everyone except the executives who get paid millions to predict exactly that.
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
I would classify them in the “ existing languages/frameworks getting obsolete” bucket.
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
Very rarely have I heard an engineer look at a functioning piece of software and go “let me rewrite this because it’s not a language or framework I am familiar with and fond of”. If that does happen, it’s usually inexperienced (or bad) engi
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
You’re ignoring the context of the comment to make a point. The comment was directed towards a specific type of discourse which was based on personal experiences. This is very different from a discourse where the opposing viewpoints arose f
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
It’s easy to dismiss something by saying “it’s not been my experience”. It would be a huge waste of time if every such claim requires expending resources verifying and characterizing the difference. There should be a higher bar for discours
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
At some point you’re just picking items and responding to them. This is taking the discussion away from your core argument. You talk about Costco but conveniently leave out in-n-out because it doesn’t fit your narrative. My core argument ha
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
> Congratulations. You've identified different business models. So pointing out business models that don’t raise prices while not customer service, to counter the claim of “hiring more people will raise the prices for us”, is a prob
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
> those people I had assumed you have certain views about people in the service industry. This sounds a whole lot worse.
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
Ehh. Corporate profits are at all time highs. The idea that somehow if corporations replace workers or pay them less, will somehow ensure we see smaller price increases as consumers is the fallacy that’s brought us here in the first place.
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
You’re equating ocasional inconveniences to what the entire experience was. I could also point to the current setup and say the same. The times I scan in self checkout and the machine malfunctions, needing a manager. The times I added the m
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
Ahh yes, having someone to wait tables at a restaurant, someone to scan and bag groceries, someone to take your medical history, having furniture already assembled etc. was really objectively worse.
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
When your grocery store gets a self checkout, do you see your grocery bills go down? What ends up happening is that the grocery store makes more profit, the other stores notice and they too get rid of self checkouts. Your grocery bill remai
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
> that money is saved for the company by moving the work to the customer / end user. And somehow things are more expensive than ever. Self checkouts, order at the counter, bussing your own table, assembling your own furniture, filli
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
You’re missing the point. You’re still holding on to the notion that somehow getting rid of people was fine because the company could run well without them (that’s debatable but it’s a tangent). The same logic is being applied now with AI.
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
> I was one of the people questioning why they needed so many people Unfortunately that’s what managers, executives and investors are doing everywhere now. Everyone Should’ve been more careful with the reactions when the status quo was u
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
When Elon fired 80% of the company, I remember a lot of celebration on HN. Some of it was the perceived political bias within the employees and some of it was “The app works fine what were all those employees doing? They probably deserved i
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
Just look at their HN karma
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
Tell that to Elon, Zuckerberg and the like
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
What you’re saying is controversial because you have no concept of what “productivity” is but are asking people to be more productive.
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
They paused it, but they fully intend to restart it. Edit: I don’t know why I’m getting downvoted. Quite literally from the article: > “We will only re-enable MCI when we are confident in the effectiveness of our data protection controls
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
I get paid for my work, not 8 hours a day. I’m a salaried employee. I sometimes have to work more than 8 to deliver things, I sometimes work less than 8. The fact that someone needs to monitor me all day long and potentially could use the i
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
Brother, YouTube is quite literally a money printing machine. I don’t know where you’re getting information from.
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by darth_avocado 4mo ago
Zuckerberg could’ve made a YouTube competitor or a Netflix competitor given that he already has a platform for video sharing and an ads infrastructure. But I guess the guys at the top are so smart that they don’t bother themselves when copy

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