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by rurp 1y ago
> the 2017 tax cuts and the recent bill have provided substantial tax cuts to these corporations too. Sure, but that doesn't necessarily change the marginal cost of hiring another dev if the tax incentives have worsened. The time va
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This is pretty much a more eloquent version of what I was about to write. It's dangerous to take a completely results oriented view of a situation where the commercial incentives are so absurdly lopsided. The cathedral owners spend mor
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Your point is undercut by the vastly lower effective tax rates rich Americans pay vs middle class workers. It's the norm in this country for someone making millions of dollars/year to pay a significantly lower tax rate on that inc
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I mean, if there's going to end up being a hellscape it'd be better to be on the winning end than the losing one, right?
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I expect that's a very weak signal. When I ask a question and get a completely wrong answer from Claude I usually drop the chat and look elsewhere.
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Putting so much self worth into a single job application strikes me as unhealthy. Hiring decisions are have absurdly high variance. Everyone I know has been rejected from a job that seemed like a perfect, usually many times over. I'd s
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I had a memorable experience when a basketball sized rock fell from a 1000' cliff above me. The rock made an unreal buzzing/humming sound as it flew through the air. My first though was that I should throw my helmet on, followed b
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by rurp 1y ago
Relying on well developed tech from a reliable long term ally makes sense, it's hard to deploy enough resources to compete when the resulting products will likely be worse. But that calculus has completely changed, the US is no longer
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This is wild to me. I take plenty of smartphone photos and have literally never in my life wanted to distort a picture in this way. None of my pictures are ever getting published or being used to promote a product; being a visual record of
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I'm starting to think monopolistic private companies aren't always benign actors.
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If it's being added to a toaster for no good reason, sure. But the internet as a whole, through a browser? That's not comparable, people explicitly seek it out when they want to.
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No, people are upset because Youtube is editing their content without telling them. If they really thought this was a high value add they could have added an enhance button to let creators opt in, as has been done elsewhere. I wouldn't
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Right, that's the issue. I really doubt that creators love having to spam the same "Don't forget to like/subscribe/comment!" message in every single video they produce, but Youtube forces them to. As a viewer I
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A 100% increase in software development velocity is a wild claim to assert at this stage. The industry as a whole is not seeing anything like that and the handful of people making claims to that end are executives with a vested interest i
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> There has been dozens of examples of tech companies losing money for years just to become highly profitable after. Sure, but there have been thousands of tech companies that lost money year over year and went bust. Odds are that any g
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The company selling the car is adamant that none of their cars are fully autonomous in every single legal or regularity context. Any accident caused by the car is 100% the fault of the driver. But the company markets their cars as fully aut
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I was surprised to see "more helpful support than ever" listed as a top line feature. Google actually offering good support to their customers?! I was impressed until I got to "Magic Cue isn’t just a single app or feature, it
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I think the article gives a much more plausible explanation for the demise of the Turing Test: the jagged frontier. In the past being able to write convincingly well seemed like a good overall proxy for cognitive ability. It turns out LLMs
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by rurp 1y ago
Agreed, but would caveat that the historical market returns happened as the world's dominant economic and technical powerhouse. The current trajectory is looking different, to put it mildly. The US is undermining nearly every advantage
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Eh, there's no way to know for sure but I would bet that there are a lot more people who could have been swapped out for Jobs with similar success than the reverse. It's generally thought to be harder to find a brilliant innovativ
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by rurp 1y ago
Don't forget Ezekiel 23:20! "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses." The bible doesn't always use archaic language or euphemisms.
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GenAI Misinformation, Trust, and News Consumption: Evidence from an Experiment(nber.org)
3 points by rurp 1y ago|0 comments
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Sure, for now, and maybe in the future. But it's possible that paid models will end up greatly outpacing free ones, and at some point the companies controlling them will stop burning billions of dollars per month and jack up prices.
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Having been a poor person learning how to code I'd say there's a huge difference between just needing a computer vs needing that plus a dozens per month subscription. I don't know that there's much we can do about that p
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Very true. One of the greatest aspects of the field is how accessible it is, and that is certainly going to get worse with LLM usage. I'd probably be toiling away in a less productive industry if I hadn't been able to easily downl
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Those jobs are based on networking and reputation, not hard skills or metrics. It won't matter how good an AI is if the right people want to hire a given human CEO.
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And you expect every one of Google's billion users to understand this distinction, and to be fully aware that services constantly marketed as Free actually need to be paid for?
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Big tech initiatives can, and often do, have more than one motivation. I'm sure many folks working on AMP only cared about serving web pages faster to users, just like I'm sure many other folks involved loved the lockin potential.
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Cyberattack on Russian airline causes the cancellation of more than 100 flights(politico.com)
5 points by rurp 1y ago|0 comments
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The recent taking of people's content for AI training might be the most blatant example of rich well connected people having different rules in our society that I've ever witnessed. If a random person copied mass amounts of IP and

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