salawat

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by salawat 11mo ago
Why are you trying to maximize dollar extraction from the consumer via taxing something cheaper, rather than, I don't know, doing something about the sector hoovering up those dollars under the guise of "leave no dollar on the tab
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by salawat 11mo ago
I don't think I'm willing to grant you Social Security as a proper "tax" or "subsidy" unless you're going to pitch me that Social Security is really, in essence, an incentive program for unrestrained natal
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by salawat 11mo ago
I'm not saying this out of groupthink. If you just change the word "stocks" to "token", and don't change the fundamentals of ownership of "stocks" being basically indicated by entries in the ledger of
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by salawat 11mo ago
It isn't. It's just that they're doing it where others aren't. They're a child of Total Information Awareness that has never realized or just doesn't care about the societal poison pill inherent to it.
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by salawat 11mo ago
In other words: Ponzi scheme, rather than any sustainable retirement mechanism.
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by salawat 11mo ago
Stop trying to reimagine stocks as crypto to try to justify a failed attempt at manifesting a problem that cryptocurrency can attempt to be a solution to.
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by salawat 11mo ago
Or killing a CEO perhaps? Or fighting back against tyrants/blatantly corrupt officials? Just because you didn't agree with the cases doesn't mean it was any less of an act of speech of the populace against the efforts of the
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by salawat 11mo ago
What you don't do (deny for systemic purposes) has just as much impact as what you actively do. The blood remains on your hands for just letting a denial the insurer sets up skate by. If you're a medical professional here, and God
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by salawat 11mo ago
Reporting. I try to solve problems just to get them solved. I don't seek to enrich myself. By the way, living in your world of profit-seeking-at-all-costs maximalism is the cruelest fate imaginable, but assholes normalizing maximized g
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by salawat 11mo ago
Not a big fan of Managed Democracy, thank you.
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by salawat 11mo ago
For the children of course. Haven't you been around for this before?
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by salawat 11mo ago
>long hours and days spent in loneliness, away from family and friends Calling bullshit here. If they weren't doing that work, they probably would not, in fact, get extra time with family/friends. >the need of humans to slee
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by salawat 11mo ago
Neither does Congress. Only it's funding. Still does not answer my question. Good of goose, good of gander. If the secret to a "well behaved and ethical" Congress person is more money, then please point out and explain why in
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by salawat 11mo ago
Note: they always target the blocs who can't vote first. Easy to cram things through against the unsufferaged.
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by salawat 11mo ago
We've been one since the DEA was established, and the FTC started letting everything merge. All the big actors are few enough in number that collusion/centralized planning dynamics simply emerge given it's the same handfuls o
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by salawat 11mo ago
I beg your pardon, but if that applies to Congresspeople, what about the common laborer? All I'm seeing is more pandering to those in a position of power.
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by salawat 11mo ago
Matchmaking isn't worth rooting my machine. Give me a dedicated server to host for folks, and we'll work out an equilibrium eventually.
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by salawat 11mo ago
MTG just got her pension. I doubt healthcare costs have anything substantively to do with it. Someone just wants to avoid digging a hole any deeper than they have.
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by salawat 11mo ago
Why the fuck should it be up to the kids to figure it out? We're the ones executing.
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by salawat 11mo ago
They don't. It was targeted at screwing the poor rather than the rich.
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by salawat 11mo ago
>The primary role of a software engineer should be software engineering. No. Before you were a software engineer, you were a member of society, choosing what to do, what not to, and who to trust. The software engineer exists on top of th
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by salawat 11mo ago
You think there wasn't a reason Microsoft bought GitHub, whose ToS allowed them to expand their training corpus vastly beyond their own internal systems? Why Amazon does the same thing with CodeCommit? If your stuff is hosted somewhere
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by salawat 11mo ago
I mean, if you ignore the fact there would be no LLM's without wholesale scraping of the corpus of all software ever written . LLM's are the least ethically sourced pieces of technology I've ever seen. That they have busines
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by salawat 11mo ago
No money to be made in making your life easier in that way, therefore no KPI is generated for it's implementation.
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by salawat 11mo ago
>Now does enough things go fast to make any sense... You're worried about rates when we can't even get the ball rolling on safety for human occupancy, maintenance, workability. I swear, nothing on Earth more dangerous than some
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by salawat 11mo ago
Software Engineers cannot afford to not be politicians at some level. Once you let someone run off with the primitives to make a system, there is no taking it back. You are writing the probability space on which policymakers can build wha
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by salawat 11mo ago
Nothing new under the Sun mate. Look up Clipper Chip. Further, don't let people here bait you into revealing these types of things for them. Some ideas are just meant to be data dumped/remain forever in silence.
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by salawat 11mo ago
Now if we'd just realize that corporations do the exact same thing, we'd live in a much better world than we do.
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by salawat 11mo ago
You realize you can redline the default IP assignment clauses, right? It should never have been normalized that an employer gets blanket claim to all mental output on your part. Especially things done in your off hours on equipment the comp
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by salawat 11mo ago
It's almost like the entire point of LLM's was to alienate the author or wordsmith from their works. To commoditize composition from it's dependence on a human being so that the authorial dependency could be reduced to merely

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