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by rayiner 5mo ago
> The 60s were 60 years ago. There were regulations back then that protected the common folk and capitalism wasn't as ruthless and aligned with the will of the 0.1% as it is now. No company in the 1990s ever achieved as much market
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> Like do people think that these AI companies will create some superintelligence, suck up all the financial benefits of that, and then just decide to share it with the rest of us out of kindness? I don’t get this. It’s like worrying in
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by rayiner 5mo ago
We are pushing multiple gigabits over 100 year old phone lines so never say never.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
The future is here. https://www.balticnetworks.com/products/mikrotik-crs304-4x-1...
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by rayiner 5mo ago
I don’t think we’ll ever see fiber ports in consumer devices. If we ever get beyond 10g connections in consumer devices, we’ll figure out how to run it over cat5e. I’ve got 10g running just fine over an 80 foot run of 20 year old cat5e that
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by rayiner 5mo ago
I do it because I believe humans have a moral obligation to power the various cogs of society. If humans are no longer needed to power said cogs, then I no longer need to do it.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
After the way white collar workers have treated blue collar workers affected by outsourcing and globalization, expect zero sympathy for yuppies replaced by AI.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
It’s because large fractions of internet users today are functionally illiterate and can’t follow an article.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Easily. People in my dad’s village in Bangladesh have those things.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
AI can’t take away babies, picnics with your spouse, or dipping your toes into the ocean. If it replaces work, then great, that’s the stuff we didn’t need to do anyway.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> economy that are usually underfunded and where job security is already quite bad (non-profits, NGOs) If it works, using AI to cut jobs in the non-profit sector would be a good thing. Those jobs are overhead (necessary overhead, but ove
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by rayiner 5mo ago
You need to understand the definition of “total addressable market.” It’s a maximum theoretical number for the size of the market (not your company’s revenue) under ideal assumptions. A $26 trillion TAM is high but it’s not “unhinged.” For
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by rayiner 5mo ago
I like your efficiency metric. I think that captures it nicely. My complaint is the efficiency metric is very low in practice, like under 25%. We can disagree on that but I think you see how I’m looking at the issue.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> but isn't it better viewed as the cost of doing business? That assumes we couldn’t get the number of skilled workers we want without allowing them to bring over their parents, siblings, etc. I don’t think that’s true, especially t
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Do you think the fraction identifying as Bengali has changed? So the 10k to 600k number doesn't reflect actual growth? Bangladesh got 66 H1B visas in 2025, and 2 O1 visas. Even if that pace was consistent since 1989, that's under
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> This is not a real problem. It doesn't matter what you or I think constitutes a "real problem." The underlying premise of the law is limiting the number and type of immigrants. If a law allows only ~100,000 highly scruti
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Immediate relatives is totally uncapped and includes parents. So right there, each skilled immigrant can bring over a spouse and ultimately four parents. And those four people are going to be the least likely to work and assimilate due to t
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by rayiner 5mo ago
It's not about "abuse." It's that family reunification undermines the filters that are at the heart of every immigration law. My dad came over from Bangladesh on an H1 and he's the guy you put on the brochure when y
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> That being said, Canada is also getting skilled workers it did not pay to raise, educate and train. It's getting a good deal, but it's not getting a free meal. Canada’s moribund GDP per capita suggests they’re not getting a g
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by rayiner 5mo ago
It’s not just dependents. It includes parents and siblings of both the skilled immigrant and their spouse. And, transitively, cousins, etc.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Your point doesn't follow logically. If you're a non-resident living in Japan according to Japanese peoples' expectations, why can't you criticize other non-residents who aren't living in a way that's consist
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> Since you can bring in relatives on this kind of visa, I’ve heard the expression “One curry pot equals three people”. Family reunification is a gaping loophole in any skilled immigration law and developed countries need to seriously li
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> Foreign business owners could lose their residency status after the government increased the capital requirement from 5 million yen (approx. $31,000) to 30 million yen (approx. $187,000).1 A $31,000 capital requirement for a "busi
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by rayiner 5mo ago
I was referring to the "Revenge of the Nerds" trope, which involves nerds who are men. But as to your point, the "nerd" characterization arises not only from the field of interest, but the hyperfocus nature of the pursui
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by rayiner 5mo ago
For virtuous people, look at jobs where the average person in the field could get a much better job doing something else. That’s not the case for your average teacher, who tend to be on the low end of the scale of college educated workers.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
It’s related to the trope that non-rich people are more ethical than rich people, or nerds would treat women better than jocks. Confusing lack of opportunity to engage in certain behavior for lack of propensity.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> Saying "lawsuits exist" obscures the fact that they have almost all resulted in convictions and penalties per billionaire. You need to quantify it for these lawsuits to support your point. The fact that these companies someti
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by rayiner 5mo ago
They have places like that. It’s called my dad’s village in Bangladesh. The only way to make money is through labor, just like you want. But it turns out that, without capital, the only labor there is to do is farming rice.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Your narrative is self contradictory. In your own theory of what happened, Musk was the idea guy, not the capital guy! You said the government provided the capital. Why did the government provide the capital to Musk rather than GM or Boeing
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> You didn't earn that $1B through continuous effort Why does it have to be earned through continuous effort? It seems like you’re defending a sweeping assertion (that you can’t “earn” $1 billion), but retreating to a narrower posit

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