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by mbgerring 4mo ago
UNION.
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
So your position is, “yes, workers have fought back against power in the past and won, but now it’s just too hard :(“ Ok, good luck
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
- Legislation - Labor organizing I grew up in a union household, and my dad and my grandfather fighting for better wages, healthcare and working conditions are the reason why I got a good education and work in Silicon Valley surrounded by S
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
Location: San Francisco Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python (web apps, pandas), Javascript/Typescript (all of the web frameworks, data vis), HTML/CSS (Zeldman was right), Java, C++ (enough to get in trouble).
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
Physics allows this, and actually taking advantage of it requires billions of dollars of unprecedented infrastructure buildout that is already destabilizing the power grid . The only reason that infrastructure buildout is happening at a
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
It looks like they’re being attacked because their mission critical software is suddenly experiencing regressions, and the evidence suggests those regressions are in part caused by AI. The regressions are the issue. If the software was work
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
> That CSS and web never really addressed did they? There's almost nothing in the web platform to build rich user interfaces. You can barely do styled text. Let me guess, you stopped reading web standards documents because Facebook
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
> Websites are largely better, technically, than they were 10 years ago. Holy shit, no, they are not. What world do you live in?
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
Here’s your occasional reminder that US software engineers should unionize.
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
React seemed like a bad idea when it came out, and a much worse idea once I started using it day to day. All of my personal projects use Svelte, and I finally, blessedly applied for a job recently where Svelte was their frontend framework o
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
If you think all of the complexity of the human experience is reducible to statistical weights between tokens, that’s fine. Go with God. I don’t think that it is.
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
>> Shipping poor quality and user hostile software actually hurts people. > Could not agree more. So why do you think humans are inherently better at this? Because humans are capable of empathy
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
Hey man, I get it, you’re new here. I don’t know how anyone observing the American right could possibly believe what you believe, and especially not if you’ve been observing them your entire life like I have, but if I was a new citizen of a
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
That was literally the premise of America at its foundation, and it’s a better national identity than this weird, ahistorical attempt at white christian nationhood currently popular on the American right.
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
You lost me in the first sentence, with the premise that immigrants are “overburdening” our social services. Most immigrants work. Most immigrants come here specifically to work. They pay taxes. Immigrants who commit social security fraud h
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
Just to be clear: you think you deserve a tax break for becoming a for-profit landlord? Isn’t the money you’re going to make by renting the homes sufficient incentive? Why should you also get a tax break?
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
This policy is a further extension of this administration’s public, explicit and frequently repeated goal of ethnic cleansing. Acting like this is a rational policy response to any real problem is ridiculous.
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
If I buy a home, I’m likely going to use saved post-tax income. What makes the money you’re using special?
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
Wealthy people are taking food out of my mouth by driving up asset prices, and deploying capital in ways that will never benefit me, either in employment or in quality of life. The premise of reducing taxes on wealthy people was that everyo
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
If you are wealthy enough, you can live off of untaxed loans from your “unrealized” gains, and never pay taxes on that money at any rate. Meanwhile, I am paying an effective tax rate of around 35%. The principle is simple: if you are spendi
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
Until your unemployment runs out, you get evicted, and you don’t have enough money left for instant noodles
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
Current generation EV batteries solve this problem but you can’t buy them in the US :(
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
It already has led to violence, by the cultists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizians
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
I don’t disagree, but the actual beliefs of the AGI cult are much worse, and much more dangerous, than “I got mine, fuck you”
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
The people who are faced with this question are so far removed from the idea that losing your job means not being able to eat or pay rent that it seems pointless to ask them. Whenever I try to get serious answers to this question I get far-
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
No, the “it’s stealing” argument has not died down, and if you think this it’s because you don’t actually spend time with artists. What happened is that anyone who makes commercial art, like anyone who (used to) write software for a living,
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
To everyone replying here: if you think that the owners of the machines will have any incentive to keep you alive once they no longer need you, or your reading of history is that kings and capitalists have ever willingly made concessions to
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
OK, and in a world where this technology is broadly available and not controlled by 4-5 companies with an unassailable capital moat, I can see how this could be a good outcome. But that’s not the situation we’re in. For me to understand thi
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
This is not an “optimistic case.” This is faith-based airhead nonsense. I want to understand: - If the people working on AI actually believe they’re building a God - If so, why do they believe that - If not, is there some optimistic case fo
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by mbgerring 5mo ago
I need you to understand that if you actually believe this, normal people think you are an evil lunatic.

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