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by ryaniscool 2y ago
My comments on my own experience were only relevant to my point of the OP should speak to a lawyer because every employee stock compensation plan is different. It feels like you are trying to discredit my personal experiences and I don&#x27
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It's very much a grey area where you can't apply set of hard rules because each corp will do it a little differently. This is why OP needs to talk with a lawyer. I have four data points to your one over my career and I'm only
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Sure, but let's be real. Most people replying to my comment never knew it existed either. They're getting upset because the article is designed to elicit a reaction. I'm sure the agency is doing some worthy and interesting th
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A better approach being "The press says we should be upset and afraid, therefore we should be" ? Writing an alarmist piece on every little thing this administration does is the exact same thing that Fox did for the previous admini
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I can only speak from my experience but I've worked for two companies where the RSU's are structured as a pseudo-option. Essentially, their price is set at FMV at the time of issuance. Since your net is zero at the time of issuanc
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by ryaniscool 2y ago
This is inaccurate. I'm not going to litigate it with you though. Google it. It's a common strategy for a company to perform an 83(b) election on your behalf when they grant you RSU's. This way, you don't have to pay tax
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by ryaniscool 2y ago
I think this illustrates perfectly why they should talk to a lawyer. I read through the link you posted. They don't mention anything about sec. 83(b) elections. It's a common strategy to avoid paying taxes until the RSU's are
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by ryaniscool 2y ago
Half moat-building, half marketing. The need for "safety" implies some awesome power. Don't get me wrong, they are impressive. I can see LLM's eventually enabling people to be 10x more productive in jobs that interact
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I'm gonna disagree and say that rocket debris from exploded launches is not "hilariously common" without some citation. The case could be made that it's similar to other debris that washes up on most beaches every day th
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I feel like the author glosses over some nuance in the point he is trying to make and his conclusion doesn't incorporate the nuance. The nuance is that even though AI researchers have learned this lesson, they are still building purpos
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You're saying a human would also offer bullsh*t suggestions that seem right but are in fact wrong? Humans who make lots of mistakes with confidence that they aren't mistakes usually get fired or steered into a position where they
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What I want to know is how accurate was the comment? I've found AI to frequently suggest plausible changes. Like they use enough info and context to look like excellent suggestions on the surface but you realize with some digging it
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Hasn't ad supported media been the model for like 100 years or longer? The retail cost of print newspapers was to cover the cost of delivery and pay the retailers.
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Native Floridian here. In fact, I lived in this particular city for a few years. In my opinion, the biggest challenge our waterways are facing is nitrogen and phosphate runoff from residential lawn fertilizer. As we bulldoze natural environ
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This is likely being blown way out of proportion. I'm not defending this behavior but the article listed exactly one example: Irish Wish. I'm sure it appeals to a certain audience but it's not what I, personally, would call p
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Came here to say this. I have a friend who is a manager for a defense contractor. He says that competition is fierce for people that already have clearance and they can't really hire someone to sponsor them because of how long it tak
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It's excused because it's a piece of software and most people realize that. If you could carry on a conversation with a parrot at the zoo and it told you to kill yourself, would you laugh it off because let's face it, it&#x27
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by ryaniscool 2y ago
You're assigning a persona to a piece of software that doesn't exist in the material world. It doesn't walk on two legs or drive a car or go to the grocery store or poop. Everything it says is meaningless unless you assign me
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by ryaniscool 2y ago
I see two weaknesses in this argument. First, you're assigning eventual superpower-like intelligence to these AI bots. I see this a lot and I feel like it's rooted in speculation based on pop-culture sci-fi AI tropes. Second, rest
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What's been productized is a software tool that can carry on a conversation like a human. Sometimes it's informative, funny, and creative. Other times it's ridiculous, mean, stupid, and other bad things. This seems like how p
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Anesthesiology average salaries US: $438k/yr Australia: $203k/yr UK: £112k/yr That seems like a big difference to me.
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This is a straw man argument. Yes they shouldn't deny a prescription if your doctor says you need it. What I'm talking about is capping the costs of a supporting doctor for a surgical procedure. From my quick research, there is no
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Something to keep in mind is healthcare providers are the main drivers of healthcare costs. The insurance company was not going to tell the doctor how long to put you under only how much time they would pay for. I don't think it's
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Yeah, I find the shock and indignant outrage at a computer program's output to be disturbing. "AI safety" is clever marketing. It implies that these are powerful entities when really they are just upgraded search engines. The
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An internal model of self does not extrapolate to sentience. By your definition, a windows desktop computer is self-aware because it has a device manager. This is literally an internal model of its "self". We use the term self-awa
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First of all, you should be aware that Stripe was founded by two guys from Ireland and it's based in San Francisco. This is the epicenter of the American political left. This is the side of American politics that cares about worker&#x2
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A long time ago, I used Paypal to purchase a steam game. This was like 15 years ago. For some reason Paypal marked it as suspicious and immediately cancelled the transaction. Steam then locked me out of my account. I had several dozen games
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I'm genuinely curious what makes the current crop of tools so compelling/productive to you personally? Been doing this for twenty years so I guess I'm a greybeard. I've always found the time-consuming part of this job to
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GPT-4 has been out for 1.5 years and I haven't seen much improvement in code quality across LLM's. It's still one of the best.
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The technology that allows an LLM to "see" images and video is completely different though. It's not what is being trained on common crawl.

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