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by epolanski 2mo ago
Because software developers enjoyed scarcity for most of the fields existence and could barter themselves better conditions instead of falling back to unionized fixed incomes. In any case, the overwhelming majority of jobs is non-unionized
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by epolanski 2mo ago
1. What's up with this obsession to be a "real" power? Plenty of countries in the world do just fine actually avoiding confrontation and minding their business. We should get back at competing at sports, culture, scientific a
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by epolanski 2mo ago
> There's no reason a company has to be like that. Law. Board and CEO have fiduciary duty towards shareholders.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
1. For the n-th time: manufacturing jobs are being lost to automation. Globally, not just in America. This is true in Asia as well. Manufacturing is facing the same fate of agriculture: machines and robots will keep displacing people. Nothi
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by epolanski 2mo ago
There isn't much you can do about it, you can't have the cake and eat it too. If you want to protect your whole "manufacturing", you also need to make peace with the idea that consumer and industrial prices will balloon.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Also, Trumps argument always ignores the bulk of US economy and exports: services. Somehow we count shoes and timber but not gazzilions in financial and cloud services.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
> It’s reasonable to want to bring back american manufacturing. Capitalism produces where it is convenient to do so. And no politician can change it. You can try to protect very few critical sectors, but not whole "manufacturing&quo
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by epolanski 2mo ago
I think the whole trade deficit argument to be beyond stupid. 1. Sending machinery, food, equipment in exchange of pieces of paper with national heroes printed on them should make you think who's benefitting really from the deficit 2.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
This whole "a single dev can do what teams could" has been true for decades lol. Plenty of devs developed anything from operating systems, enterprise software or videogames on their own. I still see no evidence that this has chang
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by epolanski 2mo ago
What do you mean? German manufacturers have always competed on the global market and they have always been against tariffs because they rely heavily on exports. Germany was in fact the country that most opposed tariffs on Chinese cars becau
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by epolanski 2mo ago
That's one of the negatives, the industries involved have no reason to evolve or invest, work is guaranteed.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
> To be clear we operate a representative and stable democracy in the United States. It's not a representative democracy. A representative democracy is one where all voters are represented in a branch of government. The US system is
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by epolanski 2mo ago
The news isn't threatening allies, offending/mocking them, charging tariffs, subverting the very institutions that have been built together. A human in charge is. In any case, they cannot be repaired without a change in the US pol
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Protectionism and tariffs simply don't work in the global world. Capitalism will keep producing things where they make sense not where politicians want. Exceptions make sense only to protect industries that are absolutely vital and cri
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by epolanski 2mo ago
No, Canada is just the last in line of this US administration's mission of alienating and pissing off every single ally while bending to enemies and Israel.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
And don't forget the Greenland threats, those for us Europeans, and in European foreign affairs are a line of non return. Other administrations will not be able to repair the damage, because what was exposed really is that the US syste
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Neither of the two is designed or cares to ever be profitable or make any money back. Those are Musk-like businesses, on steroids. Not even Tesla has been profitable compared to the capital raised and the debt issued.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
At a fraction of the cost.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
No major power respects nor cares about international law. Intellectual property is part of WTO agreements but enforcement is domestic. US companies do it too, regularly, they simply hire and poach staff from competitors. Proving it to be I
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by epolanski 2mo ago
There will never be any significant loyalty in this field, models are commodities, we will keep switching to the best/most convenient for a long time. Proper usage in applications will go through similar considerations. The only "
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by epolanski 2mo ago
I'm starting to think that this whole sanctioning China may motivate and prompt them to do more and better in every field. It's too big, bright and resourceful of a country to choose confrontation instead of collaboration.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
GLM 5.3 was a great model, so this would be strange to release a regressed model
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by epolanski 2mo ago
> and after about 2 years and billions spent, the whole effort was scuttled b/c they simply could not keep up with the iteration and R&D cycles of dedicated chip companies That sounds quite like...nonsense? Chip companies work o
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by epolanski 2mo ago
There aren't many more reasons but greed to destroy ecosystems with bombs and detonators.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Those are nothing but excuses. Destroying habitats and the future of fellow fishermen for short-term gain is just selfishness and greed. Desperation is no excuse.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
But why...? At that point just rent proper GPUs in the cloud, you'd have way more power and pay only what you use for.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Base models are okay-ish. But +4000$ for an additional 128GB of ram is simply milking the customers, as they know they will have many of them.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
For a desktop you may find yourself better on a Linux or Windows machine price/performance wise. I personally own an M3 ultra, an M1 max as laptops, but my desktop is a Ryzen desktop I built in 2022 and it was a third in price of the u
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by epolanski 2mo ago
If your changes are non trivial even the same model will loop over and over with the feedback.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
What about food and overall consumption? Eating meet, beef especially, with fish a close second, is insanely impactful on the planet. Cows use tons of food, fresh water and release tons of methane, a gas 200 times worse than CO2. Do you use

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