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by overfeed 11mo ago
> They're saying you forgot about the range 1:1 to 0:1. Color me intrigued! Tell me more about these slave-CEOs serving at the beck and call of empowered workers. I didn't merely forget about the 1:1 to 0:1 range, it's an
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by overfeed 11mo ago
When employers act like cartels and connive to not compete on salary, directly[1] or indirectly[2] 1. E.g. Steve Job's email to Eric Schmidt 2. E.g. the Work Number as a specific instance
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by overfeed 11mo ago
I provided a range of leader:worker income/power ratios from 1:0 to 1:1 with no commentary whatsoever on outcomes, because my entire point is that the outcome doesn't matter: at some threshold value and below, the existence of the
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by overfeed 11mo ago
You present a very long list of evidence that proves the current status of the market is not competitive, and illuminates the power imbalance. We probably agree that this is not a self-correcting state. AFAICT, the difference in perspecti
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by overfeed 11mo ago
For private instances, you can get down to 0 scrapers by firewalling http/s ports from the Internet and using Wireguard. I knew it was time to batten down the hatches when fail2ban became the top process by bytes written in iotop (betw
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by overfeed 11mo ago
Now apply your 2 options to American workers and see which one's feasible.
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> We should prevent management from destroying productive companies and prevent unions from doing it, instead of saying "what about those other guys" to justify the bad behavior of either of them. Im not justifying anyone, I&#x
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> That's probably not a great example given that the rust belt was thick with unions. Perhaps we need to complete the thought here: was it the unions or executives that decided to offshore manufacturing? If the counterargument that
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> if they're choosing incorrectly it's trivial to explain the facts for them to choose right It's far from trivial when there are multiple, clearly-communicated trade-offs (documented in the design doc!) that, but you happ
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> What are you talking about? I am pointing out that some commenters here are grading Unions and CEOs on different curves on the issue of negative outcomes, and the alleged union bogeyman is a frequent occurrence at ununionized organizat
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by overfeed 11mo ago
Why is union-related collective ruin anathema, but elite-driven ruin is seen as an acceptable price to pay? Enron, the Great Recession, etc.
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> But that's cold comfort to someone who doesn't have a job because the company went out of business I suppose only those who lose their jobs because of a merger, or the CEO making poor decisions ought to get the warm and fuzzi
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> [...] they wanted to contribute to the project or to have strong architectural opinions Also the worst kind of tech line-manager - typically promoted from individual contributors , but still want to argue about architecture, having arr
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> I am the AI-hater's nightmare... I-know-what-kind-of-man-you-are.jpeg You come off as a zealot by branding people who disagree as "haters". Edit: AI excels at following examples, or simple, testable tasks that require pe
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by overfeed 11mo ago
A sequence in the AR Glass thread was hilarious. >>> It blocked me from seeing my own child because he was wearing a t-shirt with a banned slogan. The 'Child Safety' filter replaced him with a potted plant. >> [flag
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by overfeed 11mo ago
Some features are not meant to be revenue sources. I'd lump assistive technology and AI assistants into the category of things that elevate the usefulness of one's ecosystem, even when not directly monetizable. Edit: IMO Apple is
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> And someone who isn't interested in sharing productivity gains with coworkers is basically engaged in sabotage. I'll have to vigorously dissent on this notion: we sell our labor to employers - not our souls. Our individual
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by overfeed 11mo ago
I suspect the wealthy think they can shield themselves by exerting control over mass media, news outlets, the press, and domestic surveillance, all amplified by AI. If all that fails, they have their underground bunkers on faraway islands a
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> I dont think I've even had the idea of having multiple worktrees going at once. I have a recent annoyance that's solved by work trees: running multiple AI agent instances locally in parallel, without containers or VMs. Jujuts
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by overfeed 11mo ago
Thank you for the actionable ideas. I'll experiment with closer supervision during the planning stage, hopefully finer-grained implementation details will reduce unnecessarily large refactors during review.
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by overfeed 11mo ago
I'm really curious on what your role is, and which industry are you in? I'm awed by these productivity gains others report, but I feel like AI helps in such a small part of my job (implementing specific changes as I direct). Agent
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> capitalism can exist without democracy. It's not exactly a new idea. This was the CIA's operating principle in the western hemisphere since before the cold war.
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by overfeed 11mo ago
To get paid more money for the additional +480[1] container capacity you gain over the ships life. 1. I'm ball-parking an onboard nuclear source would take up the equivalent displacement as 20-50 containers.
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> I always found the Perl "community" to be really off-putting with all the monk and wizard nonsense The Perl community introduced the world to the first language module repositories via CPAN. No more manually hunting down tarb
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> Why would anyone think that? That'd be the belief in good old American exceptionalism. Up until recently, a common meme on HN was "freedom" is fundamental to innovation, and naturally the country with the most Freedom(TM
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> Any signal that you can modulate can be an exfiltration channel, and fan noise is no different. This KVM has HDMI input and can directly emulate USB mass storage; fan-modulation is the lowest-bandwidth (side-)channel available to the a
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by overfeed 11mo ago
Flock cameras are oriented to read rear plates. One would need a camera similarly configured + a billboard some distance in front, or perhaps 2 billboards, a 1-2 setup + payoff combo, the camera behind the first billboard, and the dynamic t
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by overfeed 11mo ago
I bet RAM is a great carrot to dangle when negotiating first-party GPU allocations with Nvidia and AMD
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> The supply crunch will effect a surprising spread of the economy given how ubiquitous computers are now. If the OpenAI-induced supply crunch causes the AI bubble to burst, I may drop dead from irony-poisoning.
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by overfeed 11mo ago
> Advertising is not particularly expensive I'm sure it's not expensive right now, but I was extrapolating the likely outcome from your hypothetical: >> ... we probably need to make ads prohibitively expensive

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