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by maeil 2y ago
It's negligible. Pick a random different country if you're co nvinced Denmark is an outlier. Compare vs. their jobs in the US. Now compare that to per-country revenue. Quite simply, the % profit margin per country, looking at thei
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by maeil 2y ago
I can tell you that US tech companies making enormous amounts of money from your country's populace while contributing back near-zero jobs in return is just as bitter.
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by maeil 2y ago
Great! US tech is by far the biggest benefactor of it (and it isn't close), so you'll be much, much worse off, but good luck. Those in Denmark that you don't care about will rejoice.
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by maeil 2y ago
Software ones? Absolutely. Companies selling physical goods lead to a decent amount of jobs in every country they operate in by definition. Not so for software. It is US big tech who has for a decade or 2 reaped enormous benefits from extra
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by maeil 2y ago
Right, then go get out of all those juicy international markets and see the majority of revenue evaporate.
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by maeil 2y ago
The comment is mostly talking about Silicon Valley big tech, of which exactly 100% operates in many countries.
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by maeil 2y ago
The irony is palpable. For many years, FAANGs and the likes have made billions across the world without hiring any significant amount of people in nearly all of those economies. Zero profit for the non-US countries. Take a random one, Denma
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by maeil 2y ago
> (e.x. why you want this job specifically, because your 100% applying because this is the unicorn job for you, not because you need money to feed yourself) In 99.9% of jobs in the world, there are zero applicants for who this truly hold
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by maeil 2y ago
Whoopsie, guess OpenAI et al broke a few million ToSes while training their models!
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by maeil 2y ago
Serious question - is there no "lite" version of bulletproof hosting where they're not as willing to host e.g. silk road but happy to throw cease and desists by the likes of Spotify for this sort of nonsense in the bin? Surel
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by maeil 2y ago
Agreed, hence why he scammed people into believing he was in it for the "good of humanity" - 1. Get donors 2. Get bright minds in the space (e.g. Ilya) with such ideals to work for him.
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by maeil 2y ago
> What did you give up in your lifestyle that you personally valued to choose a lower paying job? Decades earlier retirement. Bringing with it the exact freedom you're talking about.
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by maeil 2y ago
That does not make it less of a scam. These people "donated to a non-profit". They did not "invest in a for-profit". If the Red Cross suddenly turns into a for-profit and then says "well we'll give our donators
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by maeil 2y ago
> There is a huge difference between being “principled” between 3x and 1x when you are going from 200K to 600K and when you are going from $50K to $150K. If it'd be anything remotely like the former, I would have built up sizable as
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by maeil 2y ago
> You're allowed to do that. You're not allowed to shoot them. It's a meaningful distinction. So what? Why is this meaningful?
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by maeil 2y ago
화이팅! You've made some cool stuff, inspirational.
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by maeil 2y ago
> Everyone has a price, is this meant to be shocking? Left a very-well paying job over conscience reasons. TC was ~3x higher than I could get elsewhere without immigrating, probably higher than anywhere relative to CoL. I wasn't eve
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by maeil 2y ago
> Strong principled stance There had never been one. Not with Sam Altman. It was a play put on to get $100+ million in donations. This was always the goal, from day 0. This is trivially obvious considering the person Sam Altman.
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by maeil 2y ago
> But to outsiders, it looks like a scam or bait-and-switch. It doesn't look like one - it is one. > We’re excited to welcome the following new donors to OpenAI: Jed McCaleb (opens in a new window), Gabe Newell (opens in a new wi
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by maeil 2y ago
Road cycling as well maybe? Tour de France.
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by maeil 2y ago
> Which "small Android" is the size of iPhone mini? Unfortunately, only old ones. For Samsung, S8 is when the phones got really big. S7 (5.1 inch) and earlier were smaller than the iPhone 13 mini (5.4) My first Android was the
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by maeil 2y ago
Don't need a time machine for that, just need some good accountants like PWC ;)
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by maeil 2y ago
> Android is also quite a space waster compared to iOS. It's much less comfortable to use a small Android than a small iOS device. Now in terms of reading I'm sure you're right, but on small iOS devices the bounding boxes
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by maeil 2y ago
> You brought up "zero consequences for anyone responsible." Brian Thompson is dead, so that's N = 1 consequences. But you said zero. Which means you're presumably talking about lawful consequences. I did not bring th
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by maeil 2y ago
I think you'd enjoy talking on this topic with a professional ethicist - they exist (although surely an endagered species), we had one at our last company, brilliant guy to talk to - or listen to a modern seminar on philosophy. Not bei
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by maeil 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a to
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by maeil 2y ago
Throwing around terms like "murderer" and "terrorism" is a pure appeal to emotion. It's just as easy to call the CEO a "murderer" and say UHC committed "terrorism". Not going to make that argumen
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by maeil 2y ago
There's no way there aren't at least a dozen of deaths attributable to that, but of course zero consequences for anyone responsible. Luigi proven right once again.
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The only people who find this funny are the British themselves, the other 99% of the world thinks nothing strange of it.
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by maeil 2y ago
> Would you find it weird if someone said that a Norwegian company was in Europe? > I’d find it weird if a European did. But from Americans it’s to be expected. Absolutely nothing weird about it, I'd find it very weird if they wo

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