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by milesrout 2y ago
That will never happen.
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by milesrout 2y ago
Wages haven't been frozen for 45 years in real terms. They have gone up considerably.
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by milesrout 2y ago
But we have had the same thing happen constantly. Automation isn't new. How many individuals are involved in assembling a car today vs in the 1970s? An order of magnitude fewer. But there aren't loads of unemployed people. The mar
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by milesrout 2y ago
I am sure of that. I think people forget the difference in living conditions then. Things that were common in that era that are rare today: 1. Living in shared accomodation. It was common then for people to live in boarding houses and bedsi
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by milesrout 2y ago
Computer programming and all that is quite difficult. I don't think kids are likely to get it before about 10-12. I was a very bright kid, into computers from an early age, but programming came much later. I found the ideas of computer
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by milesrout 2y ago
Computers were easier to use then. They had fewer concepts and those concepts were designed as analogies to what people knew. If you don't know what a manila folder is, the icon means nothing to you and you have to learn it as an abstr
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by milesrout 2y ago
I think what they mean is what they say unless proven otherwise. Attributing dishonesty to someone without any evidence is passé.
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by milesrout 2y ago
If you have a distribution of work where most is easy and cheap, some is moderate and moderate, and a little is difficult and expensive, and you take out all the cheap and easy work, the moderate and difficult work could drop in price but t
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by milesrout 2y ago
In full context, it was implicitly "as opposed to anywhere else". I look at many documents every day. 90% of them are PDFs and most were Word docs before that. Pages on the web are incredibly unreliable. In the programming world r
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by milesrout 2y ago
>When modern search became more available, a lot of people said there's no point of rote memorization as you can just do a Google search. That's more or less accepted today. Au contraire! It is quite wrong and was wrong then to
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by milesrout 2y ago
You're used to reading documents on the web. I am used to reading them on paper, in the terminal using man (strictly, troff and less), in the web browser and in a split or tab in vim (also using troff). I wish people would stop this &q
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by milesrout 2y ago
It doesn't make sense to suggest that AI has made human effort more valuable. Before, to do X, Y, or Z you needed human effort. Now, you can do X with AI. You just need human effort to do Y or Z. There is less demand for human effort.
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by milesrout 2y ago
The situation with food is that everyone today has access to good quality food if they choose to actually put their money towards it, but large numbers of people enjoy McDonalds and KFC and such slop, so they choose to spend far more on
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by milesrout 2y ago
Very selective data in that presentation. The worst figures are always selected for comparisons: in one it's since 2019, then since 2020, then since 2022, then since 2020, then 2019, and on and on. There is nothing wrong with making en
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by milesrout 2y ago
You seem to have confused "The whole AI thing is nonsense. [Anecdote]." with "The whole AI thing is nonsense because [anecdote]." I see a lot of "LLMs are not useful. e.g. the other day I asked it to do X and it w
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by milesrout 2y ago
What a stupid strawman. The claim is "the government is too powerful, that power is easily abused, it wastes your money on pointless 'woke' things, and we are cancelling it all".
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by milesrout 2y ago
FPP doesn't cause less representation at the local level , it has more. Party list-based systems have no local representation at all. MMP has it, at least, but has the same kingmaker issue. They assume implicitly that democracy is abo
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by milesrout 2y ago
Thankfully European statutes don't have anything to do with what words actually mean in the English language and don't override basic logic. The idea that you have the right to control eg. my opinions about you, just because they
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by milesrout 2y ago
Novelty isn't inherently good. The word "modern" is the most overused word in the English language on this forum. Every new Javascript framework is "modern" and by implication good. There is nothing non-representati
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by milesrout 2y ago
An MP represents everyone in his constituency regardless of whether they all voted for him. That is his job. He represents the constituency. It is quite false to say that someone lacks representation in Parliament because his preferred cand
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by milesrout 2y ago
Biology is complicated. Nothing GUARANTEES anything. Being in shape makes you far less likely to die or be injured by a heart attack than being a fat unhealthy pig. Anyone that refuses to accept this is living in denial. Health matters, exe
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by milesrout 2y ago
>Anyways, "Long-term high-intensity endurance exercise caused some damage to the hearts of amateur runners." and your cardiologist said the same. Or you can believe some rando giving medical advice on this forum. And honestly,
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by milesrout 2y ago
No they do not. That makes absolutely no sense.
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by milesrout 2y ago
FPP does not disfranchise anyone. If you vote for someone that loses their seat or wins in a landslide your vote still counts.
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by milesrout 2y ago
The judiciary is (thankfully) the most undemocratic institution in Britain. It functions well because it is undemocratic. It has no place being democratic. In no sense does its effectiveness indicate a healthy democracy.
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by milesrout 2y ago
ie. you have an instant emotional reaction but no actual arguments.
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by milesrout 2y ago
Why link to paywalled articles?
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by milesrout 2y ago
I think it means before the author had access to alcohol. To expand it, before the author had access to alcohol [an addictive substance[0]], he had to socialise with friends, and now that he has access to alcohol, he can instead get drunk w
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by milesrout 2y ago
>It's possible to design a business model in such a way that you have negative cash conversion cycles, This seems like it would only be possible if your DPO is greater than the sum of your DIO and DSO. In other words, you are so tar
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by milesrout 2y ago
Be the change you want to see in the world. It is supposed to be a user agent . Instead of imposing this cost on everyone else, if you think it is important to be able to have fine grained control over cookies, make it happen. Advantages:

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