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by numbers_guy 1y ago
Question: if the jobs were off shored, but the resulting profits were shared more equally, would Americans still complain?
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
Isn't manufacturing mostly a red herring? Sure some select people who are currently in Washington might care about it from a geopolitical angle, but the electorate is not lamenting the lack of manufacturing jobs, but rather their decre
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by numbers_guy 2y ago
The free market is also full of corruption. It's called wage theft. It's very prevalent and especially in such situations where the workers are so vulnerable. And please refrain from using catch-all phrases like "free market&
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by numbers_guy 2y ago
I am not trying to demonize any demographic. Everyone tries to cheat the system especially when you have a system that is easy to game. Yes, the most severe corruption is at the very top. Doesn't mean we should ignore other problems. W
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by numbers_guy 2y ago
Let's not confuse demographics. There is a struggling working class who are employed but barely getting by. Then there are people who for various reasons have completely given up on life and actively avoid work, probably getting by on
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by numbers_guy 2y ago
We keep going in circles on this. Give them cash and suddenly you have lots of people cheating the system to get the cash, like all the beggar gangs that hangout outside supermarkets. Do means testing and you build a whole wasteful bureaucr
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by numbers_guy 2y ago
It's very hard to moderate an online forum that allows political content without succumbing to your own political bias. I don't like the trolls on X, but if X started moderating against hateful content, it would just end up censor
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by numbers_guy 2y ago
I don't let the algorithm dictate who I follow. I pretty much know the big names in all the areas that I want to keep up to date with. And for every big name I know their main rivals, so I can have a complete picture. It's that si
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by numbers_guy 2y ago
It's a bigger echo chamber than X. What's the point? I go online to try to get a general idea of the landscape of views and opinions. I think a general problem with the current political landscape right now is that people literall
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by numbers_guy 2y ago
The situation in 2024 is much more confusing. Because it seems to me that the political side that styles itself to be against the far-right, is also very much in favour of curtailing free speech and reigning in internet platforms where peop
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
> The only way someone could be an incel is if they got thrown in prison and have no way to actually meet women, or other examples like this Like spending their formative years in nerd/tech bubbles with no girls around, you mean? I
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
You have a pretty shallow understanding of human psychology. Are you autistic? Nothing wrong with that, but you should be aware that things out there are a bit more complex and nuanced than you seem to grasp.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Have to disagree. In particular with you subscribing him a dating strategy that works for you. Different strategies work for different people.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Agree with the first paragraph. The second paragraph does not follow at all. Traits that are no successful today might be very well received 12,000 years ago. For example people with ADHD would probably be better hunter-gatherers than they
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
1. Take a look around you. If there are no women in the room, you're in the wrong room. Location matters. 2. Take a look around you. Feel the vibe. If you are not vibing with the people in the room, you're in the wrong room. How y
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Puzzle? I think he is a normal man with emotions and a moral compass of some kind. Many immoral people would STFU and tacitly support the status quo, but I think Musk is better that that, despite the hate that he gets.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Elon Musk on Lex Fridman, very soon after the latest violence started, made comments that appeared pro-Palestine, something along the lines of "Israel should safeguard Palestinian civilians and draw them away from Hamas with kindness.&
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
The typical ASML employee will have done a Ph.D in Applied Physics or Applied Mathematics and gone straight into a lifelong career with this one company. It is actually very different from the typical SWE in SV. Same applies for its partner
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Thanks. Looked into it, but they don't seem to be hiring MLEs/Researchers. Also it seems to be a very generic, "we give you the AI" business without a clear product or service.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Are there any notable LLM efforts in German speaking Europe?
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
And I am here silently wondering whether I'm an introvert who occasionally really loves the right company, or whether I'm an extrovert who is constantly starved of the right kind of social interaction. I also cannot relate to this
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
> a lot of introverts socialize a lot online Are you sure we are introverts and not just people lacking enough IRL social outlets, or people suffering from social anxieties. Why would an introvert go online to socialize with complete str
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
How does it make logical sense? People are not numbers. What right do you, or anyone else, have to decide who shall live and who shall die? Reducing people to numbers is a logical fallacy in itself.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Culture and attitude are a billion times more important than city planning when it comes to happy communities. Anyone who has traveled can tell you this. According to all these stupid blog articles from Americans, I have lived in 7 differen
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Your comment contains no substance. You are just pushing a conspiracy theory. Hydrogen based fuels make sense on multiple fronts: long term storage (batteries cannot do this), scale (adding more tanks is cheaper than whole battery packs) an
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
It's mostly my fellow Germans, being honest.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Yes, I'm wondering. I thought HN was a startup forum.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Amazing how much value is skimmed off knowledge workers. It always puzzles me why more people don't setup their own shop.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
It's a U-curve as well. Very poor people have low standards when it comes to raising children and less qualms about raising families on welfare with limited opportunities. Once people become educated and middle class but still poor, th
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Somebody should superimpose the U-curve with the fertility rate graph. It might be that women employment picked up again when women gave up on having children/families. If you live in a 1st world country and you're too poor to aff

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