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by imgabe 1y ago
“Merit definitions can be faulty, so completely abandon any attempt to measure merit and admit people based on vibes.” This is why Harvard students now need remedial algebra classes.
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by imgabe 1y ago
Current universities are openly anti intellectual.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Recent, compared to Lisp
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by imgabe 2y ago
This is a false dichotomy. Creating manufacturing jobs doesn’t mean there are no retail jobs. We should have both. Different people have different preferences. Even the same person at different times in different situations. Why limit ourse
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by imgabe 2y ago
Do you not realize that one country learns how to make useful things like blouses, computers, phones, shoes, and the other country only knows how to make fake money? What happens when the country that makes everything else realizes they can
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by imgabe 2y ago
> Foreign governments have long accused the U.S. Agency for International Development of being a front for the CIA or other groups dedicated to their collapse. In the case of Cuba, they appear to have been right. https://forei
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by imgabe 2y ago
Purdue Pharma is not one of the richest companies anymore. They have been sued into oblivion. The fact that some terminally online redditors like to farm karma by posting "Fuck Nestle" every time they're mentioned because of
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by imgabe 2y ago
The richest companies do the most business. If you have a billion transactions a year and 0.1% of the time something goes wrong and a customer is pissed off, that's a million pissed off people writing angry reviews online. That makes i
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by imgabe 2y ago
Then you are free to spend your own money to hand out TB meds instead of buying mobile games. That’s your prerogative.
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by imgabe 2y ago
There are lots of privately funded museums. Museums are not going to disappear. “International development” is mostly rich failsons with politically connected parents getting funneled taxpayer money via NGOs and/or a front for the CIA.
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by imgabe 2y ago
You don’t need to vote out the CEO of Wal-Mart. He can’t put you in jail or confiscate your income via taxes. You just go shop at target or somewhere else instead.
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by imgabe 2y ago
> People's health insurance is tied to their job. Mass firings by the largest employer in the nation could easily result in several deaths as medical treatments are disrupted and medications missed, delayed, or changed with insuranc
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by imgabe 2y ago
As of right now, workers who took the first DOGE buyout offer in February are still getting paid: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/federal-worker-buyouts-trum...
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by imgabe 2y ago
As of right now, workers who took the first buyout offer are still getting paid: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/federal-worker-buyouts-trum... There is another offer coming up.
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by imgabe 2y ago
> Fired federal workers typically do not get a severance. Those impacted by the recent reductions in force are not receiving severance packages. Not true: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-
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by imgabe 2y ago
> For better or worse, government jobs are perceived as something you get for life. That was part of the appeal: yeah, the pay is less than in the private sector, but they're unlikely to fire you even if you're not good or if t
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by imgabe 2y ago
> The first, and what should be obvious to anyone with an ounce of empathy, is that these are real people who's lives are being toyed with. It isn't like you are trying out a new business process. You are literally playing with
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by imgabe 2y ago
kw is an instantaneous measurement. Energy usage would be kWh (kilowatt-hours). Considering it would take a tiny fraction of a server’s compute for less than a second this would be very small.
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by imgabe 2y ago
The image the AI generates is not copyrighted (except maybe by OpenAI I guess) unless it ends up being an exact duplicate of an existing image. Copyright applies to a specific work. The character may be trademarked like Mickey Mouse, but
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by imgabe 2y ago
The dean is like a middle manager. They are not the university leadership. The actual leadership is the president and board of trustees and the legions of administrators who create and enforce policies. They are not faculty or if they once
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by imgabe 2y ago
The university administration doesn’t discourage that. In some cases they encourage it. They won’t get denied tenure for protesting the current thing. It’s more likely they could get denied tenure for not loudly protesting the current thi
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by imgabe 2y ago
> Then at the end he asks what he's supposed to do... maintain standards by failing the students? Heaven forbid! The University might make less money! He did say it, but you have to keep reading after that. Fail too many students an
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by imgabe 2y ago
I sometimes go down this rabbit hole and wonder why people don't use server-side includes to just have Apache or nginx handle a common header / footer or whatnot. Seems like what they were made for. Are they slow or something?
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by imgabe 2y ago
You can turn that off, it’s the first thing I do on Windows. I agree you shouldn’t have to though.
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by imgabe 2y ago
What are OpenAI, anthropic, going to do that xAI isn’t? By that logic if there is more than one company in any field they’re all worthless.
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by imgabe 2y ago
But all the armchair business experts assured me that the value of Twitter had completely tanked since Elon bought it because he’s such a stupid fool who ruins everything, so shouldn’t it be worth less? Just a few months ago everyone was co
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by imgabe 2y ago
According to Wikipedia, ecosia launched in 2009 and this is from 2018, so they must have already had traction by then.
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by imgabe 2y ago
I mean, cool, and ok, but it is kind of ridiculous to consider taking profits from your company "unethical". And you're taking them anyway in the form of planting trees. You could have just had a normal company and taken all
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by imgabe 2y ago
JSOC - javascript on a chip
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Yes, many of those things happen, for various reasons. Not one of those reasons is a cabal of cigar-smoking men in top hats twisting the mustaches and saying "Muahahaha, now I'll steal money from the poor!" like many people s

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