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by lovich 4mo ago
Oh? They’re profitable now? Or anywhere close to it?
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> Choosing to read selectively isn’t One Weird Trick To Own A Blogger. I mean it’s pretty obvious that the pro AI as an industry wide replacement people think it is One Weird Trick. I’ve still yet to see any of them articulate how they a
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by lovich 4mo ago
> Well, the government cannot compel you to buy a product for your own protection. They can, hence the mandates for healthcare. > What’s next? Forcing you to use protection during intimate activities? If you start creating negative ex
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That is pretty crazy, almost like how Claude and all the other models are jeopardizing other businesses without paying for their training data and wiping their ass with robots.txt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to_repeal_the_Affordab... > On November 2, 2017, a bill later known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was introduced by Representative Kevin Brady of Texas. Included in the bill was
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by lovich 4mo ago
Ultimately, but it’s charged to the patient who then has it paid by whatever mechanism (insurance/medicare/medicaid/family/etc)
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by lovich 4mo ago
It is however a highly inelastic good and some of the most expensive care happens when the person who ends up paying isn’t in the state of mind to make decisions such as being unconscious for emergency care, or late in life when dealing wit
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by lovich 4mo ago
The Nasdaq is small?
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by lovich 4mo ago
I guess you don’t mind a camera in the company bathroom watching you take a shit either?
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by lovich 4mo ago
Are you trying to be equitable or based on power? If it’s the latter then unfortunately no nation in Africa currently has equivalent power. Australia would be a better option in either case since they are a continent in of themselves and wi
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by lovich 4mo ago
I don’t need to know an iota of his activities as a hacker to hate him. I hate him because of how many times I had to be put through mind numbing security training with his mug as the opener. “I’m Kevin Mitnick” and KnowBe4 are seared into
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by lovich 4mo ago
I gotta be honest, the phrase “colonial settler ideology” gets an instant eye roll and detracts from the rest of your statements. Most nations on the planet are formed of settlers unless you think there were always Russians in Siberia, or t
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by lovich 4mo ago
I sort of see your logic other than South Africa. Why would you drop two nuclear powers who have some means of force projection for a middling economy and military?
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If the article is to be believed he was pulled over multiple times just so they could take a photo or make a joke. That’s abuse of power even if the victim is fine with it.
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by lovich 4mo ago
I gave my definition for what a small time landlord is in the comment you replied to. You can disagree with that definition but don’t pretend like I didn’t give one and then explain to me what my beliefs should be.
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by lovich 4mo ago
> I can just hardly live off the rental income I make, but its a lot less than my salary as a senior SDE there is a large gap between "can live off of"(my words) and "a lot less than my salary as a senior SDE"(your wo
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by lovich 4mo ago
> mon and pop situation renting out a spare unit > small landlord Those are effectively synonymous to me. The line in the sand that definitively makes you not a small time landlord is if you earn enough from rental income after expens
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by lovich 4mo ago
nah, having 6 buildings(not houses, if were being precise with terminology here) with multiple units in each, is not a small time landlord. If you can live entirely off the rental income then you are a full time landlord and can at best cla
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by lovich 4mo ago
I wish I could live that way, but I am still trying to get a job as an Engineering Manager again since I genuinely enjoyed the work the same way I enjoy playing excel sheet simulators like EU IV, but the position has been annihilated or hal
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by lovich 4mo ago
Being generous with your ~6 number to be either 5 or 7 houses you have either 7.8-11 people per unit? That's slumlord territory and not any morally better than corporate landlords unless your average unit size is a 4 bed/2 bath. A
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by lovich 4mo ago
I agree with the skull calipers comment, you came out of left field with the race shit and all benefit of the doubt for dog whistles left a few years ago
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by lovich 4mo ago
This is also why candidates have turned towards the pattern of just putting whatever is necessary on their resume. There’s no difference between a bait question like that or an ignorant HR employee whose following company policy on minimum
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by lovich 4mo ago
Hiring teams don’t actually have to interview every single applicant. I was a “hiring manager”(quotes because I effectively wasn’t due to my director involving himself in every decision) for a team that took 8 months to fill a role. It wasn
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by lovich 4mo ago
I recently took a “one way interview”(I’ve had multiple recruiters use that term) where I had to be on camera, and talk to a machine that interpreted responses completely incorrectly causing me to have to try and negotiate with a fucking cl
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by lovich 4mo ago
You hit up the maintainer and negotiate a deal for that? If all you’ve got is relative pocket change they probably aren’t going to agree but if you put real money behind it and it doesn’t go against their vision of the project then most peo
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by lovich 4mo ago
No, his parallel works. This was also like when the e scooter/e bike craze was high and they just started occupying public space on the sidewalks because “fuck you, I can” and it was the nominal citizens problem to work around it.
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by lovich 4mo ago
Because corporations have more rights than the common man and these robots are the property of corporations. If you as a regular person cause some sort of damage to a corporation you’ll be arrested and locked up while they determine the leg
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This is a movie review from their culture section, not their journalist news section
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You forget about two scoops of ice creams because there is no level of pettiness he can’t sink to, to show he’s better than everyone.[1] [1] https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/trump-time-magazine-...
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by lovich 4mo ago
It is giving the implication that they are speaking on behalf of the company. You are being purposefully obtuse if you claim otherwise.

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