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by greentxt 2y ago
Define invade.
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by greentxt 2y ago
I don't think an illiterate populous is the alternative unless you think most people lack intrinsic motivation and also have families that don't value education. Seems extremely unlikely. Maybe you wouldn't have gone to schoo
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by greentxt 2y ago
It costs the VA money they could use to youknow be saving veterans lives with? That is the "explain to a five year old" tier reason. There are a lot of other reasons too besides that, but the simple one for you should suffice.
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by greentxt 2y ago
So you would prefer I sue the VA?! They tried to preserve my families' privacy and reduce risk to current heirs like me. No, doxxing the dead cause "letter of the law matters" for some stupid side project like this is far fro
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by greentxt 2y ago
The VA who you sued does serve vets with whatever money they dont spend fighting you.
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by greentxt 2y ago
Really hope op and crew are sued to oblivion.
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by greentxt 2y ago
But that may be bad actually.
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by greentxt 2y ago
Have you ever worried about your impact on veterans? Maybe not a concern?
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by greentxt 2y ago
He is making an analogy it seems to me, rather than trying to redefine socialism as bad loans subsidized by taxpayers. The point isn't that they are the same, but that they are the same in a way. The way the are they are the same was l
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by greentxt 2y ago
His point was that racism harms all. Calm down: benefit of the doubt goes a long way on hot topics like this.
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by greentxt 2y ago
The word "justice" being the keyword (now, for some people) for DEI indicates it is precisely about punishment. At least to those who frame it in terms of "justice". I see that word and I know it is a buzzword for angry
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by greentxt 2y ago
You make it sound unidimensional but there is probably not 1 type of wildfire in California. Coastal residentially dense fires in chaperal are not the same things as massive fires burning in remote areas of national forrests in the sierras.
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by greentxt 2y ago
Even worse in health insurance.
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by greentxt 2y ago
One problem with both of these takes on powerpoint is they assume it will be presented in person. That's less often the case now. People present more often via teams or zoom and so a lot of the ideas (don't expect people to read
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by greentxt 2y ago
Yes, he should have titled it "the cognitive style of mckinsey consultants" rather than blame the software.
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by greentxt 2y ago
Yep. A "powerpoint" can be single Edward Tufte graph presented to a room for 30 seconds. Or it could be War and Peace pasted across 10,000 slides. There is no one thing to complain about. Reading this lowered my opinion of tufte,
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by greentxt 2y ago
Intelligence is debateble without even bringing ai into it. Nobody agrees on whether humans have intelligence. Well, smart people agree but those people also agree we have or will soon have agi or something negligibly different from it.
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by greentxt 2y ago
Self concern and, if we're lucky, his exceptional foresight can explain that comment.
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by greentxt 2y ago
Usenet was better in every way. We could go back, with little friction, and everything would be better. Oh, but you can't sell ads.
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by greentxt 2y ago
If only there was a party for Bernie and his supporters.
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by greentxt 2y ago
No. Wages can rise without change in demand. You should let smarter people comment.
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by greentxt 2y ago
It is literally impossible to satisfy infinite demand. Who is buying the houses? Figure that out and you can solve the problem. If we choose to ignore demand side, don't investigate what is driving demand, how it is distributed and so
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by greentxt 2y ago
Humans are not flawed? Are robotaxi's not autonomous driving? (Could an LLM have written this post?)
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by greentxt 2y ago
Edge to msft
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by greentxt 2y ago
I think I prefer to focus on humans vs a productivity metric. Consider overfishing. Easy to imagine overfishing being driven by a desire to max short term productivity. One has to think beyond the bounds of quarterly or annual metrics, at t
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by greentxt 2y ago
Sure, increasing the quantity or quality of human output works. My point is that overfishing is a concept that might be applied to programming and other human endeavor if those doing the fishing could only think a bit more and coordinate, a
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by greentxt 2y ago
"the whole point of your job is automation?" Automation is not the point of programming. Think hard about this. It's the most important point. Code/build/hack to create more work for people to do, not less. It'
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by greentxt 2y ago
Grep?
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by greentxt 2y ago
Precisely! The real discussion is how much would it decrease supply and what impact on the homeless rate would occur per unit change in labor input cost. Discussion of good/bad/better/worse is fruitless. We need data. But you
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by greentxt 2y ago
There are not 100% normal people. And pathology is essentially multidimensional even though we reduce it to one, and labelled people fallaciously as "sick" or "well."

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