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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
Some people would argue they’ve already taken the lead
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
> he seems like someone who maybe regularly placates people to avoid personal problems and lies to get out of trouble rather than a Machiavellian tech baron. This would be more plausible were it not for the staggering amount of wealth he
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
Let’s not forget the third option: proper security practices and principle of least privilege. No one should have been able to do this in the first place. Why were they able to get plaintext passwords with a simple query? Why did they have
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
I think it’s an indicator of demand which shows comparative value in the context of household spending. If you have enough money to cover your basic needs and then some, but you choose to put that extra money towards something else, that re
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
If people don’t want to pay, then they don’t actually value the news. I pay for publications that I trust and want to continue reading. The key is finding a niche where the news organization can produce quality reporting that people actuall
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
How did I not describe a choice? If you don’t want to be tracked and manipulated, don’t drink the free beer. Turn off JavaScript. Pay for a search engine. Run your own mail server. Host your own fediverse node. Accept that life will be hard
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
They do have a choice, they just don’t want to a) pay for anything or b) be cut off online society
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
They don’t care because they don’t understand, or don’t want to. It’s a scary thing to confront the fact that you are psychologically and demographically profiled so that people can manipulate you to extract as much of your money and attent
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
> Everything is an ad for an ad at this point. Always has been. What do you think pays for all the “free” stuff on the internet?
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
If a billboard company accepted an ad that included a threat on the president’s life or recruitment info for a known terror organization, are they complicit in the crime? Water is a basic utility so I don’t think that’s a fair comparison Th
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
If they accept money to display malicious ads they should be prosecuted as accessories to the crime tbh
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
So you brought up two examples that are right next door to each other. I think you are underestimating how big and diverse the US is, as well as the positive impact the tourism and service industry can have. Rich people aren’t the only ones
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by mcmcmc 5mo ago
You haven’t seen that much of the US if your only impression of small towns and rural areas is rundown and poor. There are some vibrant and beautiful towns scattered throughout “flyover country”. Plenty that are decrepit too, but rural Amer
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
“YouTuber” is an extremely poor qualification for a supposedly trusted source
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
You seem determined to misinterpret. I’m not talking about LOC as a measure of productivity. The ratio of LOC needing review to the capacity of reviewers (using how many LOC can be read/reviewed over the sampling period) is what’s bein
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Holy shit, read the words I wrote. Ceteris Paribus. Assume the 200 lines and 2000 lines have a similar distribution of complexity.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
> The only thing that actually matters is whether the business objective is achieved without any unintended side effects. Objectives change; timeliness matters. The speed at which you deliver value is incredibly important, which is why i
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Ok? No one is saying that all LOC are equal. Ceteris paribus, 2000 lines is 10x more time consuming to review than 200
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Is it? The whole point of the article is that the rate of output for writing code has surpassed the rate at which it can be reviewed by humans. LOC as an input for software review makes a lot of sense, since you literally need to read each
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Yep. Both sides just look like assholes
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
More like livestock tbh. Only instead of wool or meat or eggs being harvested, it’s mindshare and attention that they depend on
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
I don’t think you understand what “free” means
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
TLDR: tech company bleeds cash to subsidize selling at a loss, sees the end of the runway, enshittification ensues, commodification follows. Maybe VC needs to rethink their growth playbook. Hopefully we don’t end up with a token cartel, but
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
And also because they don’t realize how effectively that tracking data can be used to manipulate their emotions and behavior with the goal of squeezing out what money they do have.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
They got rich because people were stupid enough to think free services come without a cost.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Yep thanks to the man-o-sphere incel culture has become mainstream for young men and boys
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
I get “loan advisors” calling me at least 2-3x a day, always different names and numbers, different voices, same message about my supposed loan application and how I’m approved for $10k-60k. Started maybe 6 months ago after I’d been free of
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Anti-natalism is such a weird concept to me. Taken to the logical extreme aren’t you just arguing we should all kill ourselves?
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
More likely that he would live most of those years with compounding mental and physical health issues, quality of life degrading to the point where most would wish for death instead.
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by mcmcmc 6mo ago
Does AI using first person pronouns gross anyone else out? If there’s one AI regulation I could get behind it would be banning the use of computer systems to impersonate a human

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