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by mattdeboard 3y ago
I primarily use Markdown in all my note-taking and blog-writing. It’s fine for it, for me. But lots of these criticisms of Markdown resonated with me. I know it’s a rough analogy, but I’m waiting for Markdown’s “TypeScript”, so to speak: A
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
> didn’t participate in the planning and therefore surrendered all agency > > Only thing left is complain why they didn’t think of him when he wasn’t around Which is a totally valid complaint man. That’s what the whole fuckin artic
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
So would you say that the commenter you’re replying to needs to stop complaining and just fix his own problems? And that in general men need to quit talking about feelings of sadness and disappointment (aka throwing a pity party)? Because,
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
It's a rhetorical device
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
oh brother. your account is 2 months old. God only knows what disgusting filth was spilling out of your mouth to get your other accounts banned. Please keep sending me patronizing lectures about decorum in hn comment sections. You're l
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
Yeah, no shit. That's what I'm saying, Peter.
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
oh i'm sorry, was i supposed to treat "the AI doom is more serious and immediate than the climate crisis" like informed discussion ? because that's honestly the dumbest fuckin' thing i've read on this site in a
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
Between this and your "well actually AI Armageddon is a more urgent danger than addressing climate crisis" comment I'm starting to think you're peter thiel's burner account
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
Anything to distract from the climate crisis huh Mac
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
"PR" means "public relations" in this context, not "press release." PR is deployed by capital to influence public opinion, drive interest & investment, etc. It is true on its face AI is in a PR-driven hype
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by mattdeboard 4y ago
No, even expert tutors know how to say “I don’t know” in the face of uncertainty, instead of remorselessly spitting up nonsense as language models do.
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by mattdeboard 4y ago
it’s useful for people who want to understand the minds of others.
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by mattdeboard 4y ago
Yep that uneven competition for labor prices is also exploitation.
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by mattdeboard 4y ago
Following profit motive doesn't make one a horrible person. People operate rationally within the rules they're constrained by (e.g. capitalism). I just think we are capable of making better rules.
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by mattdeboard 4y ago
> It seems they prefer the colonizer? Sure, because the foreign company exercises their access to capital to compete at a wage level that local companies can't compete with, but is still as low as possible to extract maximum value f
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by mattdeboard 4y ago
Well, we agree that "cheaper labor" is desirable because it's more profitable to the company right? So let's apply transitivity to your first paragraph: "The only reason the company hired someone overseas was to mak
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by mattdeboard 4y ago
Yes, because the workers would not be contributing labor to the company's output. To put it another way: Yes, zero exploitation of OP's labor is less than "some" exploitation of OP's labor. It clarifies things for m
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by mattdeboard 4y ago
Exactly. Alienation from the fruits of your labor. It's disgusting we expect people to tolerate it, and act like it's not a totally optional choice by management to exploit labor resources to get a better return on investment for
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by mattdeboard 4y ago
Your labor is being exploited for profit more than your coworkers'. Exploitation of your coworkers' labor has a smaller return on investment than that of exploitation of YOUR labor. Despite how flippant other commenters may be wit
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by mattdeboard 4y ago
I agree with you it's horseshit. What you're saying sincerely makes total sense to me. Has to feel terrible. I would feel detached from my work as well, I think. You're experiencing alienation from the fruits of your labor. Y
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by mattdeboard 4y ago
a fatal double-bind for glassdoor’s prospects for continued existence imo. competitors are surely celebrating this ruling. especially those who physically cannot put anonymous commenters at risk while somehow still turning a profit without
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by mattdeboard 4y ago
This is an irrelevant comment. The topic of the conversation taking place is the revenue distribution of dealerships, not the relative reliability of different car manufacturers. Regardless of manufacturer among well-known cars in the U.S.,
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by mattdeboard 4y ago
gl;dd ;)
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by mattdeboard 5y ago
dang imagine how much more leisurely you could've read the article if you didn't also take some of your lunch break to write this comment!
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by mattdeboard 5y ago
man i started basically my dream job in December and I am being absolutely crushed by impostor syndrome. It sucks because it does actually get in the way of performance if I don't monitor it closely. And then the self-monitoring breeds
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by mattdeboard 5y ago
that's how they get you into buying multiple ipads
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by mattdeboard 5y ago
Sounds like maybe an "if this, then that" kind of thing https://ifttt.com/
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by mattdeboard 5y ago
> Is Twitter entitled to my attention? If you're using Twitter, yes, because you are explicitly entitling them to it > In only narrowly proscribed [sic] ways that maximize their own benefit? Yes
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by mattdeboard 5y ago
Normally, in my experience as an individual contributor, the references aren’t even contacted. I have had one place contact my references and it is the place I’m starting work in 2 weeks :)
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by mattdeboard 5y ago
Yes, in fact this is true.[1] “Indeed, [due to an immature prefrontal cortex] adolescents are risk-taking and novelty-seeking individuals and they are more likely to weigh positive experiences more heavily and negative experiences less so t

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