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by piva00 2y ago
It's not but it's designed to not be a new phenomenon. People are kept uneducated, ignorant about the world, how it works, why does it work, how society works, etc. They are fed lies and don't have the capacity to understand
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by piva00 2y ago
Also, nothing changes while the wedge being driven by the powers who want a populace divide has power, on both sides. It's by design that those splits happen, when the desk jockeys earning six-figures are seen (and a lot of times, see
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by piva00 2y ago
The foundation you needed to even attend university was set during basic schooling. As much as you think you "learnt nothing" I don't think there's a way for you to have gone through university by learning absolutely not
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by piva00 2y ago
No, I don't think there's a way without regulating addictive feed-based content machines. As much as we would like to tout some individualised solution for this, there's no way for all individuals to be trained to resist prod
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by piva00 2y ago
> Their model is more like a gym where you want the users who pay the monthly fee and never show up. If it were on the api where users are paying by the token that would make sense (but be nefarious). When the models reach a clear platea
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by piva00 2y ago
As an alternative, I can recommend Hendrik's "The Bread Code": https://www.the-bread-code.io/ He has a very simple beginner's recipe on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by piva00 2y ago
I was discussing with a colleague the past months, my view on how and why all these AI tools are being shoved down our throats (just look at Google's Gemini push into all enterprise tools, it's like Google+ for B2B) before there
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by piva00 2y ago
I use Kagi for all my Swedish searches, it works better than Google every time I compare.
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by piva00 2y ago
Ironically you just used another thought-terminating cliché, don't really see how leaning on those actually display any thought, I don't think it's very conducive to thought relying on dismissive terms to silence criticism, l
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by piva00 2y ago
Ah, thank you, makes a lot more sense now. Just another thought-terminating cliché then...
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by piva00 2y ago
I assume that a major electric provider has the capacity to build a simple status update system where they post. It's much simpler than any "blog platform" case study used to assess junior engineers. You are assuming that it&
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by piva00 2y ago
They could definitely just post updates on their website, the infrastructure is there, running, if they want to inform people on Twitter it's just a bonus to message it through the network that is Twitter. But important/urgent upd
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by piva00 2y ago
It's not an issue of taxation but of efficient governing. There are many examples around the world where high taxation does lead to better public services, the USA is an outlier compared to its developed peers in that. So now the quest
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by piva00 2y ago
I do not understand what "EDS sufferer" is...
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by piva00 2y ago
Pulling the ladder always has a bad connotation, what are you asking exactly?
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by piva00 2y ago
To me that is the biggest win in public discourse from capitalists: conflating markets with capitalism, as if free markets could only exist under unbounded capitalism. Which, as you say, is incompatible. Capitalism does not want free market
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by piva00 2y ago
I haven't listened to the talk but read Mobiot's book when it came out last year :) On the same vein, I'd recommend "Capitalist Realism" by Mark Fisher, Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine", and even the or
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by piva00 2y ago
There's no departure from market fundamentalism, the belief in shareholder value being supreme is still very much the current Zeitgeist. As much as the USA's administration is jerking around with trade, the fundamental principle o
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by piva00 2y ago
Very few people actively try to be supreme jerks and ruin things, that's very abnormal behaviour for a human being. It's much more common that your inner narrative keeps finding justifications for why what you are doing is importa
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by piva00 2y ago
I believe it will take at least a couple of generations after a new political ideology is cemented in the USA to change anything. Market fundamentalism has been the game since the 80s with Reagan, it was building up to it but Reagan was the
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by piva00 2y ago
> Whenever the EU faces budget shortfalls, they know they can just make up some bullshit law and fine US tech. The EU's budget is massive, no shortfall is covered by these fines since to collect them it takes another massive legal b
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by piva00 2y ago
> Tangentially, it reminds me of something I heard about Scandinavian countries (though I can't vouch for the veracity of it). Since you were going to get the hell taxed out of you no matter what you did - it made more sense to focu
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by piva00 2y ago
In Sweden: have not noticed any big swing in prices, either up or down.
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by piva00 2y ago
It would only make sense if consumption of tariff-imposed goods would keep steady to make up for the loss of income taxes, with consumer confidence cratering there's no way consumption keeps steady. On top of that you have inflation wh
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by piva00 2y ago
Cavalry was replaced by mechanised cavalry, the concept still exists with better equipment. Drones don't replace artillery, they are a new weapon, just like air dropped bombs didn't completely replace artillery. An army with drone
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by piva00 2y ago
Unreasonable if there are no alternatives to achieve higher education. You start solving the problem by cutting potential opportunities without no replacement scheme for it, only creating bigger problems. There's no easy solution to th
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by piva00 2y ago
Without substance? Using chats without double checking who are members of the chat group is a thing not even I do when sharing some gossip, lol. That's blatant incompetence, a person responsible for the USA defence cannot be bothered t
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by piva00 2y ago
I don't believe it was well designed, it felt clunky to use, concepts weren't intuitive enough to understand after a few uses. I tried to use it for a few months after release, always got frustrated to the point I didn't feel
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by piva00 2y ago
AI has historically gone through bubbles, AI Winter is a term exactly because of these cycles of hype. Maybe this time is different. Maybe not.
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by piva00 2y ago
Not only that, Trump has already spent US$ 155B more than Biden, DOGE claims to have shaved US$ 150B, overall this administration has already increased spending by US$ 5B even after firing a lot of civil servants. The worst is that the effe

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