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   by paulcole 1y ago

   There’s a non-zero chance that you don’t end up with the job whether you accept or negotiate. If you can accept some of those non-zero values, then yes negotiation is better by some definitions of better. Personally if I get an offer I’m ha
2. 512.▲
   by paulcole 1y ago

   Is it more right for you to expect something for nothing?
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   by paulcole 1y ago

   How did you expect them to pay for the cost of the service? The cost of hosting still seems to be free. Isn’t it the watching that comes with a cost?
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   by paulcole 1y ago

   You’re forgetting: 4. Don’t use an adblocker and watch YouTube. I’ve been doing #1 for over 5 years and will never do anything different (up to say $50-ish USD a month).
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   by paulcole 1y ago

   Adding something that users don’t like but that makes the company money to those who are unwilling/unable to pay for it seems very reasonable.
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   by paulcole 1y ago

   I gave up and paid for YouTube Premium. Probably a top-3 subscription that I’ll never cancel.
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   by paulcole 1y ago

   You could just pay the $13/month? Would save the worries about context switching further taxing your already high cognitive load? And I would expect your high cognitive load helps you earn well above $13/month?
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   by paulcole 1y ago

   1. Ever is a long time. 2. How confident would you have been about predicting the smartphone’s effects on society today back in say 1995?
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   by paulcole 1y ago

   > I have a theory that enforcing reduced engagement has all sorts of side effects in any format This isn’t a particularly novel theory because you are basically saying “Doing different things makes different things happen.” Shocker. Do y
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    > The first thing any big technical revolution causes is suffering for a lot of people. Didn’t Greg-from-marketing’s life just get a lot better at the same time?
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    WSJ, NYT, and Apple News+
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    Was there ever a 1-minute video that made it understandable? I definitely never saw one.
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    > IMHO we should go back to pay for what you use Do you use any free (as in no money comes out of your wallet) services today? If so, which ones?
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    I think you might be on the right track but the guy says that in his dream world the user only pays once. That’s the same thing that’s happening now. I neither know nor care how much OpenAIWrapperApp is paying for its API usage. I just get
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    You seem to be familiar with the situation. What are the property tax laws and insurance risk where the commenter lives?
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    Are you in the US and remote? If so, don't even worry about it. You'll never outsmart people who want to cut corners and beat a system. In fact hire the smartest lazy people you can find. Let them use LLMs at work and fire the one
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    > But I really suck at live events and talking to people in real life. Did anyone overcome it? And how? Yes. This is a learned skill. Start by leaving your house every day and don't come home until you talk to 10 people you don&#x27
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    I still don't follow you at all. The way I understand it is that: OpenAI bills people who use their API to build apps or whatever. OpenAI also bills people who use its non-API products (like ChatGPT). Am I missing something here or wha
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    As far as I know, OpenAI does charge for API usage. If that's not what you meant, clarify?
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    I’ll try to address this: > That's a huge loss to productivity and ease of use They haven’t used it and haven’t lost any productivity because of it (outside of the time they’ve spent complaining about it online).
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    HN Don’t Hate Marketing Challenge Difficulty: Impossible
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    Well at least you didn't come into it with any bias.
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    I agree with you. I think it comes down to the fact that you have to “live in the house.” Whether it’s a doctor (where the house is your body) or a general contractor (where the house is a house), at the end of the day, nobody cares about t
24. 534.▲
    by paulcole 1y ago

    > That's a huge loss to productivity and ease of use Have you used it yet?
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    HN is an advertising/marketing campaign run for a VC firm. You should assume nearly everything here is an ad of some kind in disguise.
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    I love it when HR commenters discover PR.
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    What specifically are the other things that work? I get that you can hope someone else helps you or that circumstances change on their own. But again while you’re sitting around waiting, shouldn’t you exhaust the options that you control? I
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    > Taurine and Aging: Is There Anything to It? Remember that you should only smugly refer to Betteridge’s Law of Headlines when you disagree with the article.
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    But isn’t the advice of if something sucks in your life, attempt to take action to change it the only thing that actually works?
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    by paulcole 1y ago

    But nobody’s forcing you to classify software developers as R&D.