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by imgabe 2y ago
You are responsible for optimizing your own happiness. A company can't and shouldn't do that for you. Unhappy with your job? Find a different one. I don't presume to know what will make you happy and dictate to you how you ne
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by imgabe 2y ago
This is the opposite of privatizing. Publicizing I guess. The government already spends more than it takes in and is $32 trillion in debt. There are definitely a lot of inefficiencies in healthcare, many of them could be solved without the
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by imgabe 2y ago
Yes, because there are large sectors of the economy that are not just government spending and the government taxes those to support the sectors it does spend on. Every time you take a sector that is private and replace it with one provided
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by imgabe 2y ago
The total number of jobs increases. Logically, it has to. Population increases. There are more people now than there were in the past and there is not massive unemployment, so there must be more jobs than there were before.
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by imgabe 2y ago
It goes from net revenue to net loss. If the government pays $100 billion in defense contracts they are necessarily collecting less than that in taxes from the employee income. Spending $100 billion to collect $30 billion in taxes is not su
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by imgabe 2y ago
This is not limitless. The government gets money by collecting taxes. In order to collect taxes, there have to be people doing paid work to collect taxes from. If the government takes over doing all the things that people currently get paid
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by imgabe 2y ago
> Today, as artificial intelligence (AI) learns from the collective intellectual and creative output of humans and uses this to dispossess workers of their livelihoods, Has anyone actually lost their job to AI yet? At best it helps some
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by imgabe 2y ago
Policing, or law enforcement, at the Federal level is also a part of the executive branch and under control of the President.
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Ask HN: What's Wrong with IRC?
50 points by imgabe 2y ago|91 comments
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by imgabe 2y ago
They are already required to report this aren’t they?
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by imgabe 2y ago
Then do it. LLMs are out there. Where are all the people founding billion dollar companies run by LLMs? Maybe they’re just quiet about it so everyone else doesn’t catch on. If the article is not about the author starting a real company with
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by imgabe 2y ago
JFC, no you don’t get to choose whatever you want and being denied the choice of your #1 preference is not being “forced” to do anything. Other people exist and have interests too, you know? If he had chosen both then that is the same as ch
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by imgabe 2y ago
Being fired does not include the option to stay.
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by imgabe 2y ago
That would fall under "build more housing".
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by imgabe 2y ago
The owner is living there and happy with the space or they would move. That is not underutilization. The solution to housing shortage is to build more housing, not to create “bedroom police” who go around and tell you’re not allowed to have
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by imgabe 2y ago
Instead of pumping in ever more money to feed inflation, why don’t we ask how we can make food and healthcare cheaper? Why is it “Amazon doesn’t pay enough for workers to afford healthcare” instead of “Healthcare is so exorbitantly expensiv
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by imgabe 2y ago
There was an entire industry of people just impersonating Elvis. I don't think they needed his (or his estate's) permission to do that other than paying royalties to the songwriters to perform the songs.
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by imgabe 2y ago
You reach out to someone to do a job, they decline to take the job, you find someone else who can do the job in a similar way. You do not need the consent of the person who declined the job to hire someone else. I'm sure lots of movies
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by imgabe 2y ago
Just so I understand correctly, the sneaky, diabolical, psychopathic behavior we're talking about here is ... making a voice that sounds like a celebrity's voice? We're not talking about poisoning babies or dumping toxic wast
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by imgabe 2y ago
That’s a completely different thing though. The problem here is deepfakes where someone pretending to have the authority to send money tells you to send money.
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by imgabe 2y ago
I know it's a meme and all, but doesn't blockchain solve this? Ok, Mr. Guy who looks like my boss on Video Call, I can send those funds, just sign the transaction with your private key and it'll all be done.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Probably because there would be a way to exploit such a policy. You’re a normal, honest person, so you think “Why wouldn’t the bank believe me? I would only claim I lost my money through fraud if it were true.” But the bank also has to deal
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by imgabe 2y ago
> but it doesn't logically follow that similar housing couldn't have been built without the parking rules change, just that it's cheaper to build without it. Yes, you can build anything with an infinite budget. In practice
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by imgabe 2y ago
Never go against the family, Fredo
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What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs(wired.com)
3 points by imgabe 2y ago|2 comments
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by imgabe 2y ago
They need to bring back the scholastic book fair! Or is that still a thing? We also had Pizza Hut giving us free pizza for reading books. I read a lot as a kid, to the point where I got in trouble in class for reading a book instead of payi
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by imgabe 2y ago
The professional companies at least usually know and abide by the relevant laws. They have lawyers and risk management teams that make them. It’s usually the small time landlords who end up deciding they can keep your security deposit becau
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by imgabe 2y ago
People always conflate capitalism with a free market. They're different things. Capitalism just means that capital (the means of production) is privately owned, rather than being owned by a collective of workers (socialism) or the stat
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by imgabe 2y ago
Is there something just intrinsically unprofitable about air travel? Why do airlines continue to get shittier and shittier and strive for the bottom of the barrel? It’s clearly a high demand service. Couldn’t they just provide a good servic
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by imgabe 3y ago
It’s not “harm reduction”, it’s enabling. Drugs are supposed to be harmful. They’re drugs. That’s nature’s way of telling you that you need to stop doing them. Take away the harm and you just have an eternal drug addict.

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