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by munk-a 4mo ago
It isn't how consent is supposed to work - but it's how rights currently operate. Maybe in the US (where a lot of these businesses are based) there will be a strong rebound during the next election? Right now as an artist (unles
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by munk-a 4mo ago
44% of Americans believe AI will have a neutral impact while 40% believe it will have a negative impact. Just to note - about half as many Americans believe AI will have a positive impact as believe in telepathy. Believing AI will have a
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Memes have associations, connotations, subtleties in how they're used in different contexts - they're a communication medium. A well applied meme is like (it isn't - but it can be viewed similarly to) poetry where you'v
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by munk-a 4mo ago
A human that hand-compiles 10,000 lines of C code is a very silly person. A human that works on device drivers and drops into assembly code for a dozen highly critical lines to enable real time communication can be irreplaceable. AI is a
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by munk-a 4mo ago
It's kind of hilarious, and a pretty obvious externality, most of these layoffs are clearly just restructuring that the companies want an excuse for but by labeling them as modernization and AI driven they've caused a major image
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by munk-a 4mo ago
I think the key issue here is that the people deciding how long the escalation path is isn't the humans (a fair few people do opt into search company FAQs for their answer before dialing a hotline - you're robbing those people in
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Dividends are an interesting topic. There are sort of two ways to view the stock market - one is as a loan with a very drawn out repayment schedule that may be amicably adjusted for the health of the company (that one relies on two repayme
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by munk-a 4mo ago
NewBird AI is an AI company which had an extremely irrational stock price bump because it's all about AI. It AI'd its AI with some more AI to AI harder with AI... and that equaled money. If you're writing a prospectus right
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by munk-a 4mo ago
If he was smart it'd be to a very limited extent. If you have this much wealth in something as unpredictable as the stock market I think the very wise move is to start converting it into stock backed loans[1] that you leverage to buy r
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by munk-a 4mo ago
SpaceX and everything Elon are stock companies - they're Microstrategy but with a veneer of a real business slapped on top.
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Elon's award is tied to growing Tesla's market cap - it's pretty transparent that he's just trying to ball-of-mud together everything he can to hit that target and grab the bag.
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by munk-a 4mo ago
If only the shareholders had any kind of voice - if only it was illegal to issue a fake IPO where you sell an overwhelming number of shares stripped of their voting power - if only the market responded rationally to this boondoggle. If we&#
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by munk-a 4mo ago
I use a projector as an output device (though there are plenty of TVs (just maybe not the newest ones) that still will take an input cable and blindly pass through the contents) as well as having a little wireless mini-keyboard the size of
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Yeah, I am not dead set against advertising in all its forms[1] but I think the balance of advertising and experience quality to price has swung way out of alignment. There are numerous streaming platforms that all price by subscription to
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by munk-a 4mo ago
You absolutely don't have to and I'd encourage people not to (I personally advocate for just using a desktop/pc that you have control over to make the experience more palatable. But I disagree with framing that solution as o
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Ah, the choice content providers made a few years back that put us all in this situation to begin with - throw constant ads at us for marginal revenue.
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by munk-a 4mo ago
It can if you avoid a dedicated device and just hook a desktop up to your TV. It's a one time cost to set up a host you control and that seems to be getting more and more worth it.
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Unironically, the best streaming box out there is a PC where you can hook up ad block and stream content from independent content providers like Dropout and Nebula using their web-based UI. We seem to have an economic cycle of enshittificat
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Yeah, I think folks that under appreciate this new functionality look at the approaches that existed and say "That works, we could just sorta, wrap that in a function" but when you start getting into useful and entangled data the
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by munk-a 4mo ago
It can be super ugly to try and hand-manage date time range manipulation in a system with moving parts. It is, of course, possible, but it's a headache to try and pull it off when there is complex business logic focused on those datet
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by munk-a 4mo ago
That's likely the optimal approach but I think a lot of employers are mandating usage amounts especially with the PE firms making deals for user committal in exchange for cash from Anthropic and folks.
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by munk-a 4mo ago
When you're deep thinking you have a constant information inflow that's coming from your own thoughts. This is different from relying on an exterior tool because in that scenario your brain is blocked from thinking by relying on
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by munk-a 4mo ago
I've found AI code reviews as a first pass on PRs to be quite non-obstructive to my workflow and the AI code reviewer (while not instantaneous) is certainly faster on a response than the human pass will be.
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by munk-a 4mo ago
I think if you find that your coding style is disrupting your productivity or job satisfaction then you're misapplying the tool to your particular working style. We're all different in how we approach problems and tools should su
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Coops tend to have better aligned incentives for employees on every step of the ladder. They'll tend to be more conservative about R&D but ensure that money that's being spent is being productive for the continuing health of
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Ah, but billions of dollars depend on those questions not being asked in a genuine manner. Don't you want a slice of that or are you an... AI skeptic thunder clashes .
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by munk-a 4mo ago
This statement is far too vague semantically to be meaningful. It is technically correct under some extreme definitions of indirect (e.g. no affecting in any way) but if you are harmed in many inobvious manners you have recourse. In this
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Given that the title was highly accurate at time of submission perhaps a moderator will update the title further but the submission seems to be inline with all the guidelines. This is actually also a case where I think it wouldn't be
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by munk-a 4mo ago
My usual rule of thumb for the US is north of double the received compensation but something in that range sounds reasonable with such high compensation. It's actually really interesting and underappreciated how that fully-loaded cost
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by munk-a 4mo ago
In addition to the physical depreciations other comments mentioned I'd also mention that old chips will settle into a low price and then actually go up on a per unit basis if you're trying to buy a significant amount of them. Wit

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