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by sailfast 5d ago
Modern tech companies are not managed well at all in my experience! They’re rife with waste. Management often makes terribly unprofitable decisions and often work to protect their slices of the pie rather than the org. Tech companies are sa
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by sailfast 5d ago
Apple is not a PE firm. They are a public consumer goods company with a ton of different business lines. Their duty is shareholder value and making good products that sell is one way to do that. Value extraction is a short term play. It’s u
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by sailfast 5d ago
Remove “more intelligent” here and I’ll give you some benefit. The problem with healthcare “economics” is that providing high quality care is likely not as profitable as middling care, or sub-standard care. You say that economics is meant t
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by sailfast 6d ago
How does one move power plant pollution offshore to China?
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The new CC, an AI agent built for families(blog.google)
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by sailfast 9d ago
/s you should see how much private schools cost!
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by sailfast 10d ago
What happens when you ask it to play chess against you if the chess game has an API? Are you measuring chess or multi-tasking skill? Also what harness? If you’re using a general harness of course it’s going to try and give you commentary. I
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by sailfast 10d ago
If I’m Canada I look for a trade agreement rather than associate membership - no reason to put your eggs in one basket. As an American, I continue to be sad and tired that our current president is somehow allowed to unilaterally destroy a v
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by sailfast 11d ago
Don’t give them any ideas.
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by sailfast 11d ago
I just happen to have an extra Pi and an e-ink display sitting around and I LOVE this idea. Going to try it on my screened in porch - we typically get 10-20 Merlin detections on a decent day so this could be fun!
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by sailfast 11d ago
Not a kid - I wish. My point was that (admittedly some not all) societies if faced with a loss of a major utility and supply chains that were dependent on would start to devolve pretty quickly into chaos. That to me is the greater threat th
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by sailfast 11d ago
Yeah it was just one of many potential reasons I listed as a hypothetical - nothing specific to Oracle.
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by sailfast 12d ago
Depends on how many employees are on visas that depend on them working for Oracle I guess...
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by sailfast 12d ago
It might have helped draw out the layoff process, potentially. Still not convinced unions would optimize overall outcomes for employees _while_ employed. Maybe a better conversation to have as we keep moving through this AI Engineering era
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by sailfast 12d ago
> We are grateful for your dedication, hard work, and the impact you have made during your time with us. Why do companies bother with this horse excrement? Does a sentence like this make anyone feel better? Most times, I wish they'd
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by sailfast 12d ago
This would be totally doable except for a couple of recent changes during the DOGE take-over where federal agencies mandated communication on X as their primary means. This is clearly illegal as all comms need to be posted in different acce
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by sailfast 12d ago
Have you ever lived through a power outage longer than 48 hours? Did you see what it did to people in your neighborhood? That’s the path.
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by sailfast 12d ago
This is the correct approach. I think we can do both things - try to add some controls while also ensuring it’s not a complete giveaway to entrenched interests and investors. The problem with that hope and approach is regulatory capture. Bi
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by sailfast 12d ago
Would love to see this tested on some of the newer cybersecurity models so we could actually defend ourselves instead of getting cut off at the knees by silly regular expressions. Hope this approach gets well tested and sees good results so
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by sailfast 12d ago
This comes from the before times when Internet Explorer was full of holes and Chrome was a usable browser with regular updates and before Firefox worked with all websites well. Google has since spent the time making Chrome more locked down
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by sailfast 14d ago
Ok - but the post I was responding to was suggesting we do the opposite and provide the intelligence to the people so I’m not sure how your reply rebuts my suggestions.
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by sailfast 14d ago
It’s a fair point. Definitely depends on the how. I was figuring that adding $500B to a hot part of the economy while the rest of the economy shrinks might nudge a bit toward inflationary tendency, but at this point it’s hard to say what te
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by sailfast 14d ago
If they’re effectively guaranteeing $500B in loans that adds close to $500B to M1, basically, that banks were not otherwise providing or loaning - at least that was my calculation.
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by sailfast 14d ago
It would also follow that by increasing the money supply significantly they’re also contributing to inflation a great deal correct? (Given the rest of the economy is not growing at near the same rate as the AI industry)
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by sailfast 14d ago
Can we build level IV AI containment labs?
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by sailfast 14d ago
That last part was never important. Trading partners very rarely go to war. There just isn’t much in it for either party. Close cooperation and dependency is actually quite important here - liberal democracy or no.
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by sailfast 14d ago
Not sure you can judge a PBC under those same umbrella as a for profit company, and voting rights make a big difference in terms of responsibility. There are a number of ways to govern companies that can reduce the amount of cynicism and “s
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by sailfast 14d ago
Sorry boss but this ain’t it. I don’t think the answer to nuclear proliferation is to let everybody have all the nukes they want. You’re framing this like it’s 1917, or 1945. But it is not - and likely has very little to do with capital at
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by sailfast 14d ago
Somebody has probably already asked this, but even if “democratic countries” do this - rogue actors will still destroy the internet right? Is it a matter of resources at this point that we believe China and others are not capable of harness
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by sailfast 17d ago
I hear you, and I've been in similar places. I don't know you, but I would encourage you talk to a professional about these thoughts as soon as possible. This isn't a judgment, not trying to cut you out - it's just been

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