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by munk-a 2y ago
Ignoring your last sentence - I'm well aware. These changes increase price transparency and that's something we all benefit from. Junk fees are a way to exploit psychology and ignorance to extract more money out of consumers tha
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by munk-a 2y ago
Time will tell - the change I'm really hoping will stick is the outlawing of non-competes without consideration.
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by munk-a 2y ago
Yea, that'd be pretty swell. The only reason websites moved away from that was to "lower friction" - it's better for the consumers who end up buying the product if they know availability and pricing up front.
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by munk-a 2y ago
An excellent change. It's unfortunate that stewardship of the committee will soon change hands as Khan has been a great advocate for fair contracts between companies and consumers during her tenure.
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by munk-a 2y ago
Do those noises add anything though? I feel like if my life had been entirely devoid of "vroom vroom" sounds I wouldn't have missed anything important. Noise pollution from dogs and people having a party outside is an accept
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by munk-a 2y ago
Given that the app exists and will save you money it's hard to discourage its use but it seems pretty clear their goal is to obsolete in-store menus to obscure the real costs of their meals. Customers get deals in the short term to en
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by munk-a 2y ago
What a bizarre statement about a place of business that's tried to irrelevance themselves into non-existence this year. Fast food pricing is now equal or beyond the prices of quality food with non-chain fast food (i.e. doner/loca
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by munk-a 2y ago
I'd be cautious as describing anything in tech as human generations away because we're only about a single human generation into a lot of this industry existing.
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by munk-a 2y ago
The truth is somewhere in the middle. Do you remember the early 2000s boom of web developers that built custom websites for clients ranging from e-commerce sites to pizza restaurants? Those folks have found new work as the pressure from o
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by munk-a 2y ago
CRUD apps should already be disappearing. You should be using a framework that auto-generates the boilerplate stuff.
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by munk-a 2y ago
That's the same figuring a lot of business folks had when considering off-shoring in the early 2000s - those companies ended up hiring twice as many senior programmers to sanity check and correct the code they got back. The same story
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by munk-a 2y ago
> It's provably true that LLM's can produce working code. This is correct - but it's also true that LLMs can produce flawed code. To me the cost of telling whether code is correct or flawed is larger than the cost of me j
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by munk-a 2y ago
Intellisense style systems were a huge feature leap when they gained wider language support and reliability. LLMs are yet another step forward for intellisense and the effort of comprehending the code you're altering. I don't th
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by munk-a 2y ago
That's the future I chose about a decade ago and I'm as happy as a clam. The technical reality of my future is an oldish computer hooked up to a projector with some wireless keyboards and mice that bounce around to control it and
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by munk-a 2y ago
Youtube is now embedding ads midstream - I think it's just a matter of time before other providers adopt similar approaches. When adblockers were tools exclusive to nerds it didn't make sense to build countermeasures - as adverti
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by munk-a 2y ago
I've heard something similar from the legal field as well. When you're dealing with massive amounts of unstructured documentation that needs to be searched LLMs seem to be doing a better job of indexing that information than conv
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by munk-a 2y ago
I know companies that have had layoffs - but those would have happened anyways - regular layoffs are practically demanded by the market at this point. I know companies that have (or rather are in the process of) adopting AI into business wo
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by munk-a 2y ago
People get scammed every day - especially older folks and non-native speakers. There is a huge scam up here in Canada targeting immigrants informing them that their passports are being held by <local embassy> - the scam call isn&#x27
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by munk-a 2y ago
Said someone had the opportunity to participate in the auction - only two participants chose to do so. The auction was clearly announced and while there was a rule change midway through (which is what this whole kerfuffle is about) both pa
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by munk-a 2y ago
It's perfectly fair to stop but I did want to highlight one thing: > It's not a mere technical distinction. The fact that the number is so high essentially guarantees that AJ cannot pay it. A lower amount might have actually be
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by munk-a 2y ago
Likely due to the guidelines[1] > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. your comment didn't add anything of value to the thread. Upvoting will cause the thread to float higher
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by munk-a 2y ago
The onion bid - by far. If the bid was chosen by creditors weighted by owed value the Connecticut families would solely dictate the terms as they are owed more than 90% of the value resulting from this auction.
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by munk-a 2y ago
That's incorrect - it's a lot of text to say it went to the second highest bidder. The onion bid was the one that provided more value to the creditors.
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by munk-a 2y ago
> Isn't it telling that the same judge said it was done improperly? Trustees have an obligation to follow standard practices which maximize cash flow or at least don't give the appearance of impropriety. This is incorrect - tru
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by munk-a 2y ago
The proceeds of the sale will not come close to the value of the judgement - and Jones has acted extremely dishonestly through the process and repeatedly tried to move value from his company to his parents and other affiliate companies. I
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by munk-a 2y ago
Additionally, it's important to highlight that he refused to properly comply with the legal process - so it was a default judgement. This is essentially unheard of due to how unwise it is.
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by munk-a 2y ago
They didn't - it was a more modest amount that they put daily compounding interest on. The number keeps growing larger and larger by the day.
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by munk-a 2y ago
Bankruptcy is a process to make whole the debtors - in this case the primary debtors (those representing far more than 90% of the debt) were content with the outcome. The process was approved by everyone who is a relevant party to this mat
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by munk-a 2y ago
Let's not discuss "proper processes" when Jones illegally hid evidence and refused to participate in our legal system to the point of getting a default judgement against him. Everything he was accused of he did - he refused
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by munk-a 2y ago
It's complicated - it went to the bidder that would result in the two largest debtors being the happiest with the outcome but that bidder didn't bid the most money in a regular manner. The structure of the bid was quite complex bu

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