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by eropple 4y ago
Are we free to revoke the limited liability of companies who act against the public interest?
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by eropple 4y ago
> I don't see how the users of the chat application can be expected to be aware of the implementation or proactively find ways for these private conversations to be recorded. The company must educate its employees because the comp
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by eropple 4y ago
If a judge thinks so, yes. So you should err on the side of caution, while being a good and ethical participant in the judicial process, and take a picture of it. If this would be detrimental to your case, perhaps stop doing shady shit .
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by eropple 4y ago
As a rule: people who think this, don't. I used to think it, too. Then I consulted for a company deep into split testing for marketing persuasion, and it made very clear to me how often I've got an intrusive, consumptive thought e
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by eropple 4y ago
> Given solid numbers vs somebody's gut, most managers will go with the solid numbers, even if the company has good values. If this is true, that indicates that a company's theoretical "good values" are not being pa
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by eropple 4y ago
Judges rarely care for people who think they're smart enough to play "language games". You are expected to act in good faith as an executive or legal officer of a publicly-traded company.
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by eropple 4y ago
People really sleep on AlphaSmarts. I first encountered them in middle school and bought one myself as an adult as a zero-frills notepad. It's great.
698.
by eropple 4y ago
That makes sense. I tend to go away from non-relational models for this reason, but it's definitely a matter of risk management.
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by eropple 4y ago
If you aren't normalizing, how are you ensuring that you don't avoid anomalies?
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by eropple 4y ago
Also given that the Maverick has a hybrid option that seems to work pretty well, it's definitely a very competitive option.
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by eropple 4y ago
Nobody is asking for all boats to be lifted equally. I’m saying we have a fundamental human responsibility not to burn them for fucking funsies.
702.
by eropple 4y ago
90% quality for 10% the price means that most decisionmakers will--and they don't need to collude to do this--take that and pocket the difference. Why would 50% for 0.1% be different? 30% for 0.01%? This is the enshittification spiral
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by eropple 4y ago
> I think that captures some of the contradiction in your claims. Yes, cities could be terrible places to live and work. Yet people have moved to them throughout recent history because the alternative is worse. I think this is a misrea
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by eropple 4y ago
"Less" isn't "not".
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by eropple 4y ago
Depends. How do you measure it and how much further back? Because, in the short term and in some ways, yeah, it was, insofar as small agriculture was kinda collapsing and large agriculture was starting to consolidate. A big driver of the mo
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by eropple 4y ago
> If you can 10X an employee, the obvious play is to retain all ten employees and get 10X widget output. Have you ever run a business that employed other people and relied on operational income rather than venture capital to function?
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by eropple 4y ago
"I feel X and am representing my feelings in a blog post." "Well that's a fallacy !" This is a deeply, deeply inhumane way to parse the world and the feelings of other people.
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by eropple 4y ago
Yeah, the idea that there is somehow Unlimited Demand to tap is just woefully underexposed to business realities. Demand at most businesses is a river, not a municipal waterline with a spigot at one end. It ebbs and it flows, and building f
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by eropple 4y ago
Cool, so we're back to "streamlining" and mass unemployment just in time to get eaten anyway. Once more for emphasis: you do not have to cheer on the immiseration machine.
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by eropple 4y ago
I think your windows are larger than mine. The Industrial Revolution did not improve standard of living for the people crushed in the gears, both metaphorical and physical. Remember: it was not until the modern age, almost but not quite w
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by eropple 4y ago
Small businesses get eaten . That's the entire point of modern venture capital, even! Find ways to out-operationalize small businesses in sub-optimally exploited markets while burning an ocean of cash, then seek profits when you no lo
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by eropple 4y ago
You think programmers are indispensable? "Learn to code"? I think you, likely as not, have a rude awakening ahead of you. GPT can enshittify code, too. Unwind libraries into oceans of repeated Copilot-descendant code all over the
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by eropple 4y ago
I don't think anyone at all suggests that all boats will sink. But the poorest and most vulnerable will. It happens every time. This time, we could do better--and we won't.
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by eropple 4y ago
Why? No really: why? Businesses are profit-seeking entities. Why not just fire nine people? You save money . (Yes, this could be a really stupid decision for the company in question. I agree with you. I'm not saying what should happen
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by eropple 4y ago
> you need the human to figure out when that's the case Do you? I mean, you and I think you do in order to do a good job, but does that hold water? The last decade or so of technological "progress" in the commercial sp
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by eropple 4y ago
Metal lath under the plaster. Ripping that out was a mess.
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by eropple 4y ago
Really, anyone who's lived in a sufficiently old house knows you can run your own Wi-Fi in a Faraday cage. Just probably not between rooms.
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by eropple 4y ago
I feel like there's a difference of kind between the hyper-competitive "you must be better at this to Be Productive" and what's being espoused here. I've always been a tinkerer and all that. Rarely with any goal in
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by eropple 4y ago
I do, as it happens. But your snippy response isn't responsive to the core of the concept to which my question referred. "Pulling in a chunk of content and probabilistically summarizing it is somehow not generative work " do
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by eropple 4y ago
Oh cool, glad to see this hit HN. I know Adam and Jon from way back and they're good folks. Congrats on how far you've come with this!

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