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by rhelz 1y ago
Well, that and debugging.
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by rhelz 1y ago
This is one of the saddest days of my life.
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by rhelz 1y ago
Reminds me of Karl Marx's critique of work under capitalism, describing how workers feel alienated from their own labor: "The worker therefore only feels himself outside of work, and in his work feels outside himself. He is at hom
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by rhelz 1y ago
Mediocre at what?
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by rhelz 1y ago
Living with 12 strangers isn't easing the housing crunch, it IS the housing crunch.
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by rhelz 1y ago
chuckle where are the men in black running around making sure that programmers aren't put out of jobs--trillion dollar industries are at stake!
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by rhelz 1y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing? :-) I almost never see posts on facebook from my actual friends. it's all either E.D. adverts or bots pushing an agenda.
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by rhelz 1y ago
My father showed me the assembly language for a minicomputer, and I can remember being puzzled why the computer--a binary machine--had instructions for decimal arithmetic. He smiled and had me add $0.02 + $0.03. When I didn't get $0.
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by rhelz 1y ago
Here is the secret decoder ring needed to understand what is going on: "too expensive" is a code word for "too old." It's just simple age discrimination. As long as my beard wasn't grey, I had no problem gett
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by rhelz 1y ago
It's because "too expensive" is code for "too old." Simple age discrimination.
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by rhelz 1y ago
Great business strategy---commoditize what consumes your product. In this case, it's AI which consumes oil. The cheaper the gizmo's are which use your product, the more of your product you will sell. Sometimes also called &quo
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by rhelz 1y ago
Wow. This is just egregiously mean. Why would anybody defend a country which might deny them their retirement for arbitrary political whims?
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by rhelz 1y ago
Dunno man, if somebody turns down hundreds of millions of dollars, I'm willing to believe that they have a pretty durn good reason.
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by rhelz 1y ago
Is that an excuse for bad numbers though? I mean, a revision of a quarter of a million jobs is abnormally large. Yes, because of COVID, etc, etc, times have changed, but if savers are not accurate enough, another method of measurement mus
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by rhelz 1y ago
Well, thanks for digging deep, at least this is a conversation and not an ad hom party. W.R.T. #1: I put it to you that if the margin of error is two or three orders of magnitude greater than the value reported as being measured, its not
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by rhelz 1y ago
hmmm... did it get harder to estimate, or was the estimator just not up to the task? It certainly is different after COVID--did they keep updating their methodologies, or were they just relying on the same-old same-old? sigh What do I
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by rhelz 1y ago
THANK YOU for this. It actually advances the conversation. Tell me if I'm reading these numbers wrong, but on this page in the handbook you linked: https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesnaicsrev.htm it gives hi
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by rhelz 1y ago
Trump has certainly politicized this firing, but it is not a firing without cause. If Trump knew a quarter ago that his tariffs were taking employment, he could have done something about it. Instead, the read he got seemed to indicate tha
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by rhelz 1y ago
// how can you claim this is fixable w/o ... // Recall, her job wasn't to predict how many jobs would be created. Her job was to measure how many jobs were created. Yeah, I'm sorry, but a plus-or-minu
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by rhelz 1y ago
I'm not going to argue that the Trump administration isn't a self-made cluster fork. Of course it is, on a truly epic scale. But her job wasn't to predict the number of jobs created, her job was to measure the number of
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by rhelz 1y ago
No, they were not able to come up with accurate numbers in the first place. If it is somebody's job to report how many jobs were created, and they can't do that with any accuracy...well...they should lose their job, under any kin
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by rhelz 1y ago
I'm as big of a critic of Trump as you are likely to find but......the previous jobs reports was revised DOWNWARD by over a quarter of a million jobs. Sure, you expect the numbers to change as more data comes in. But...that's a p
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by rhelz 1y ago
What is scary to me is that at his age, given the opportunity, I would have done the same thing. I was active in the Purdue Libertarians, a student group. The moral calculus is very simple: taxation is theft, the ends do not justify the m
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by rhelz 1y ago
My last two MacBooks have had keyboards which have just been junk. And a keyboard isn't something which is just hidden away--it's out, front and center.
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by rhelz 1y ago
"Endless cascades of slop, made by no-one for no one." Great writing.
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by rhelz 1y ago
// In ST there is apparently an infinite energy source running // Think about a server farm, which rents out cpu time for linux servers. Sure, you have to play for energy, land, and labor. But are you saying that some
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by rhelz 1y ago
There can never be a sane intellectual property law, if by "sane" you mean reasonable and/or free from negative consequences. Imagine you live in the star trek universe, and we have those replicator machines which will happil
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by rhelz 1y ago
// The article makes the point that, in practice, // The article is over 10 years old. Which is 100 years in computer-dog years. What may or may not have been true about 2015 may or may not be true about what is going
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by rhelz 1y ago
I'd trade a 200% tax hike for a guaranteed $3k a month.
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by rhelz 1y ago
You are quite correct that the overhead of most government programs is relatively very small. But look at your numbers....12% of the population on SNAP, 20% of the population on Medicaid, etc etc. What would it really cost us to just pay th

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