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by fnimick 4y ago
Not to mention that having "principles" is going to handicap you in a competitive environment where not being on top means you might as well be last.
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I have similar results, yet you have people here on Hacker News saying that it's "more productive than 10 developers put together" via their special sauce prompt engineering. Which is right?
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Given how quickly income inequality is rising, can you blame people for taking any advantage possible to try to stay ahead of the curve? If it means throwing your teammates under the bus to get more money, that's unfortunate but it&#x2
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Your experience is in urban areas that are predominantly liberal. You realize that in rural areas people are discriminated against regularly or even killed for being a different color? In case you need a refresher of an example: https:&#x2
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Here's the problem: we can't rely on "civil society", because people love to gatekeep who is "deserving" of help and who should be left to suffer. Usually on racial or gender lines. I'm not calling you pre
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> there are a lot of things that make your life better at the expense of society has a whole There's no better example of this than the discussion on health insurance here on HN a few days ago, where people with health insurance wer
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> This attitude needs to stop. We have normalized treating people like machines that can just be turned off and on at a whim. Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of all the money that just got made by treating employees as dispos
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What about not having a personal vehicle at all?
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The thing is: with Windows I don't have to do any of the compatibility checking, tuning for battery life, etc. You might have had to in the past, but you can't compare past Windows to Linux today. I just want to get my work done
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Game theory explains it perfectly. The current situation is that the parent poster has preferential healthcare access, and other people that they do not care about do not. The alternative is equal treatment which might mean the same access,
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> If it is true that there is a class of people who don't have your advantages and therefore have worse medical care, is that a situation that you see as acceptable? The answer is obviously yes, given that they don't want the &
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The Hunter Biden laptop story turned out to be true? Since when? Last I heard, nobody has any idea who the laptop belonged to, how it found its way into the computer shop man's hands, why Rudy Giuliani spent time with it, or how it&#x2
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Once there is AI-powered automated law enforcement to put down any resulting unrest, it's over. There will be no going back from the class divide at that point. The rich will be living in their towers with the lucky few allowed to serv
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And yet somehow whenever he sneezes he finds investors willing to throw millions upon millions of dollars at him. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/business/dealbook/adam-ne...
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A key point from the article, when the VP of AI was asked to slow down to make sure AI could be done safely: > “Can I reconsider? I don’t think I will,” he said. “Cause unfortunately the pressures remain the same. You don’t have the view
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Microsoft lays off team that taught employees how to make AI tools responsibly(theverge.com)
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This is possibly the most "hacker news tech bro libertarian" comment I have ever seen. Children aren't doing well in school; rather than fix the school, just condemn them to a life of dangerous manual labor!
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Are you serious? People have had to threaten to sue to get the severance that was agreed on, and there are regular waves of twitter layoffs on practically a weekly basis.
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Here's the situation. The market is biased against an individual such that the competing offers she receives are less than those of her coworkers. Therefore, the company pays her less. Is that legal?
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Is it illegal? The discrimination isn't based on anything other than the "free market" - if she could get a better offer elsewhere, they'd pay her more. The fact that she can't get a better offer elsewhere due to di
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The problem is when "fair market value" differs between two people for reasons other than their work productivity - including protected classes such as race, gender, etc. Is it illegal? No. Immoral? I'd argue yes, if the only
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The immoral part is where a senior employee was being paid less because she was "less valuable" on the open market due to her gender and ethnicity. Edit: see also the recent stories about home values varying wildly based on whethe
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> the last is purely market driven (no matter how much companies wish it weren’t) Why would companies wish it weren't? It lets them underpay people because "the market" broadly underpays them. I've talked about this d
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For context, 0.016% of 22 years is 1.25 days. They got fined effectively 1.25 days out of 22 years of profit.
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Are you seriously suggesting that an economic depression would have no effect on the country's politics?
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> If the American people still decide to blame you and elect one of the saboteurs instead, well, they get what they deserve. Have you been paying attention since 2010? That is exactly what is happening. Republicans break government, say
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Yes, because a rail strike would have sent the economy into a depression. You think that's what the public wants? The government is a representation of the public and we get exactly what we voted for. You should also note that one part
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Let me know when you volunteer to lose your job, run out of food, and have no drinking water because the freight has stopped running. That's reality for the vast majority of Americans. I wish the workers had gotten a better deal, but I
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Neither the companies nor the workers have any incentive to care about the effects of the strike on the broader nation. That's exactly why there's a law in place that allows the government to intervene and set terms for both sides
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> aesthetic party alignment one Ah yes, both sides are to blame because the difference is only aesthetic, despite one voting to give workers what they wanted, being blocked by the other party. Seriously, Democrats basically went to the t

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