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by rnk 4y ago
I think that's a little naive. We could do it now in the US but we don't. In countries like the US I expect widespread poverty after more jobs evaporate, because the wealthy won't want to just support those people, even if we
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by rnk 4y ago
Wow, this exactly describes my work in a dysfunctional startup. We set impossible time goals and don't make them. We are making progress on our software project. The goal of this is a faster something, but our only demonstrated and tes
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by rnk 4y ago
This is an interesting article, because I "feel" like my leisure time is less than my parents and grandparents. This is in part because they retired at earlier ages than my current age, with pensions for my grandfather, and better
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by rnk 4y ago
I'd say that goes back to improved educational opportunities for wealthy and educated parents who know how to help you succeed. A relative has a child with learning disabilities, guess what they can afford to get them specialized instr
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by rnk 4y ago
I'd think any homeless type camp would have all kinds of drugs around it in the dirt. This is as useful as when the cops used to take people's cash by doing checks for cocaine. Guess what, they pretty much always test positive for
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by rnk 4y ago
genetics has nothing to do with it, as in some benefit of the actual genes you have. You could be lucky to be born to some billionaire. You are actually fortunate to be born to a rich person, or even "just" an educated person in a
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by rnk 4y ago
According to the website, this stelfie is a fictional time traveler, created & imaged from an AI. There are pictures of the character as an astronaut, back in ancient rome, etc. I'm sure this was work to build it, but what's t
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by rnk 4y ago
what about the dodge where when you to an emergency room, there are multiple providers who bill separately (doc x was not on the emergency room bill, he's some other provider).
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by rnk 4y ago
As we know from experience trying to use computers, humans struggle to remember a series of words, letters and numbers - like these runway instructions. When we are tired or stressed we'll make mistakes. This is true even for highly tr
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by rnk 4y ago
linked in has ads
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by rnk 4y ago
Plus even if it was changed, it's basically the same notion.
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by rnk 4y ago
That's extremely naive. There's no leader of major companies today that would follow that in practice. They'd probably brag about doing the opposite (scaling our management by using AI to make easy decisions).
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by rnk 4y ago
That's not the "droid" you are looking for.
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by rnk 4y ago
Yes, of course. It must be life is present in other places because of the vast number of suns with planets. We are starting to see that planets are forming around stars in some ways similar to us, other ways different (it's hard to see
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by rnk 4y ago
This seems similar to the data mesh concepts. Can you contrast what you are describing here with data mesh?
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by rnk 4y ago
You are trying hard not to address the reasonable questions. This is not really the place to convince people of anything by says "view the system and shake the crystal ball". I have an accountant and ask him how to do things to re
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by rnk 4y ago
No. If he's doing fine in his classes then that's good enough. You don't need to be a techy nerd full time in your life to succeed. And there are plenty of jobs where you can use your tech eduction or skills without being a c
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by rnk 4y ago
We have wealth taxes. They are called property taxes in the US. I have to pay a percentage of the value of my house. And I can't sell a tiny piece of my house to cover it. I have to use my other funds to pay for it. That seems so unfai
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by rnk 4y ago
That argument is completely unpersuasive. Startups might be forced to be in a position to be sold because their huge company competitors might be pressuring their potential customers not to use them (think amazon vs a new startup offering s
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by rnk 4y ago
Yeah, we are not smarter than the folks that lived way before. We have way better nutrition, education, we live longer, we know about washing our hands before we eat. We must have way worse concentration on things, constantly distracted by
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by rnk 4y ago
People in phoenix will re-settle themselves as water supply reduces and cost of living goes up. You don't have to pay them to leave.
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by rnk 4y ago
Everyone always thinks their non-compete is good for you and the industry, don't worry about it. They are all bs. I once had a job offer at a startup in seattle where the noncompete said something along the lines of you can't ever
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by rnk 4y ago
To some extent I agree with you but it won't be quick. Poor people will suffer the most. That ingenuity might not come for years, people would suffer before new food arrives. I am probably unusual because I bought 90 days dried food su
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by rnk 4y ago
It's my understanding the kind of corn they grow to make ethonol isn't the kind of corn people eat. https://nebraskacorn.gov/corn-101/corn-uses/ethanol/
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by rnk 4y ago
I agree rich countries could buy food up to a point, but if the us and canada had drastically lower yields for a few years, there would be world wide shortages, countries would limit exports eventually. I asked the question about what would
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by rnk 4y ago
And nothing prevents new volcanic explosions from doing this again. How would the northern world deal with this today? Not that well.
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by rnk 4y ago
The US wanted to block communism for sure but we aren't organized enough to do subtle things in Europe. We didn't "let you" choose social safety nets over military spending, I say that in part because I've been hear
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by rnk 4y ago
It's more complicated than that. They have many rights inside our border. Outside our border I'm not sure. Web search found https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/constitutional-rig...
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by rnk 4y ago
We are a screwed up world, even as we attempt to improve things and grudgingly admit our problems in the past. I was reminded of the uk's own struggles with destroying the life of Turing in the 1950s. I'm not blaming the UK, the U
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by rnk 4y ago
Project veritas is less than worthless. Anytime they have a story or video you can guarantee they took any info, including video, and mis-edited it to convey something that didn't happen. It's another grift to get money from peopl

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