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121.
by s2g 8y ago
> where younger people are attracted to companies that pander to them because older people don't wnat companies that offer better benefits, easier leave for family issues, less hours, etc...? > they are willing to accept less pay
122.
by s2g 8y ago
You actually get to do something meaningful, at least to the company. vs working at one of the big companies and doing fuck all.
123.
by s2g 8y ago
> radically different approach that Tesla is taking to manufacture the Model 3. I thought they gave up and went back to more traditional methods?
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by s2g 8y ago
Starts to tank under trump. Democrat doesn't miraculously fix it in 2 years. Strong republican congress in 2022. Where have I heard this story before.
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by s2g 8y ago
On the plus side, the tank like nature of the 2013s means I'm still good for a bit with mine. Replaced the battery a few months back. Need a new adapter too. The machine itself is great though.
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by s2g 8y ago
Yup. This is what happens when you can't challenge this shit without getting flagged. This place is slowly turning into a cesspool.
127.
by s2g 8y ago
or just first come first serve.
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by s2g 8y ago
Only if you believe their excuse for massive price gouging.
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by s2g 8y ago
Should do this for everything. 15 cent an item surcharge for every minute you wait in line at the grocery store. Bus crash? 10k added to emergency room bills that day. crank those restaurant prices through the roof for dinner.
130.
by s2g 8y ago
> comparing Google's actions to murder you think people weren't/wouldn't be killed off intel gathered from the project?
131.
by s2g 8y ago
This sort of thing gets said a lot. It's not a valid excuse and it's not true in the black and white sense that people constantly present it.
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by s2g 8y ago
Probably more that they aren't as heavily invested in selling the idea that we are close to smart general AI. Compare it to Musk who constantly talks up the idea while the actual AI systems his company has deployed are killing people.
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by s2g 8y ago
> Technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms. I guess Google's policy of sucking up any and all data doesn't go against internationally accepted norms. This entire arti
134.
by s2g 8y ago
Well then the only solution left is to make any big business so small that there are no entrenched players. Or live in a corporate ruled regulation free dystopia.
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by s2g 8y ago
> $1000 is literally 2 weeks of overtime working at a McDonalds for the federal minimum wage - $7.25. If you don't have to do anything else with that money. My parents couldn't have spared 1000 bucks just because when I was you
136.
by s2g 8y ago
> The extreme downvoting probably reflect the affluent upbringing of a large portion of the HN community. No, it's just hardcore techno-libertarian insanity.
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by s2g 8y ago
> I'm not going to be the next Zuckerberg What does that mean? If I'm not getting rich, what the hell is the point? I can work half as hard doing bullshit for some big tech company.
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by s2g 8y ago
A new york billionaire who was born wealthy convinced millions of middle class (or worse) Americans in the midwest to vote for him. and yet somehow I don't think we are even close to the peak.
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by s2g 8y ago
> That’s worrisome, because small business was traditionally one of the main gateways to the middle class. Without the option of starting a corner store, Americans without high skills or advanced degrees will find it that much harder to
140.
by s2g 8y ago
AI can't create Art.
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by s2g 8y ago
But it's got nothing to do with the decimation of unions and the rise of more and more worker hostile policies in general.
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by s2g 8y ago
That's nice for them. Doesn't do a single thing to address the point made.
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by s2g 8y ago
Service fabric is open source. Not locked to one vendor. Http://github.com/Microsoft/service-fabric
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by s2g 8y ago
shit they probably can't legally do in California anyway.
145.
by s2g 8y ago
Seriously? For a hangover cure. The shit I can walk into half a dozen different convenience stores and whole foods and find half a dozen varieties by the front counter. This person must have been a good PM.
146.
by s2g 8y ago
Anything to avoid actually fixing their interviewing style.
147.
by s2g 8y ago
Yeah, Tesla is as guilty as anyone as pushing forward the destruction of the concept of owning the stuff you buy.
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by s2g 8y ago
But they claim to be entirely rational and caution while exhibiting blindness to the reality that other companies are just as shit. Or they acknowledge that, and just choose to live in the tech equivalent of a remote cabin in the woods.
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by s2g 8y ago
because hating M$ has been the cool thing to do for decades. Look how cool I am with my use of $ in M$.
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by s2g 8y ago
Really gotta dig into the archives huh. Microsoft could release a free cure for cancer tomorrow and people would complain about it being EEE on humanity.

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