sam0x17

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by sam0x17 3y ago
but if they're underwater, they aren't exactly lobbying, they're just people with no voice beyond whatever candidates corporate america has put on the menu of the day
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by sam0x17 3y ago
"Performance" is relative to the times. Back in the 60s good performance meant a union job with a pension and building a house by 25. None of the things in that sentence even exist anymore for the vast majority of people. If I wer
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Yes, IP is a handicap for the top 1% of corporations that turns into a weakness when you go toe-to-toe with countries that won't play that game anyway. It's an emperor with no clothes situation if I ever saw one.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Not being any of those things gives extra authority, if anything, in my experience.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
"on a 30 year mortgage that you can't afford and could disappear if your employment situation changes" != "owning a home"
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by sam0x17 3y ago
> How would you feel, if you were an author, and people openly advocated piracy, such that you were deprived of sales, and earning an honest living? The vast majority of reputable studies on software/music/games piracy have fou
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Not if their first impulse is to sell it and then build a house. Now we have two houses, which does what to the price? Oh, makes it go down. And if they're building a house, their voting and lobbying at least for a few years will be in
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by sam0x17 3y ago
At this point, I don't know a single person from that generation that hasn't sold their home at least once in the last decade.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
We're not comparing apples with apples though. Boomers were born into a fortunate timeline where they did everything they were supposed to do and were MASSIVELY rewarded by a factor of 10x. Millennials have experienced the opposite and
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I don't see millennials being complicit with greedily jacking up the prices like boomers and others have been when one of the core experiences of being a millennial has been that you have to be a multi-millionaire to afford a home beca
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by sam0x17 3y ago
The majority voting (and donating) block, old people, are all becoming ridiculously rich from their $15k houses they built/inherited/bought 30-40 years ago, many of which are now valued over $1m. Nothing will change on this front
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Isn't this a bit silly since chat gpt _was trained_ on SO questions, or are these all questions asked since the training cutoff...
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by sam0x17 3y ago
On more than one occasion, the hallucinated solution has had better dev ux than the real solution and I've convinced whatever package to add support for a similar syntax.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
If you told me in 2005 there would be something non-human that can get a coding question right with near-coin-flip accuracy I'd say you're crazy.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I don't even think it's a cognitive overload thing, it's a "oh shit, you're right, this is hard, skirrrrt" sort of thing. Like telling someone they will do badly on a test and comparing them with a control grou
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by sam0x17 3y ago
FTC/DOJ not investigating doesn't mean this isn't a flagrant monopoly that would be prosecuted by a non-corrupt FTC/DOJ
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Yeah we really need to expand what counts as monopolization, and, you know, actually trust-bust like we did at the turn of the last century. It's getting ridiculous.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
> we (google) give our product away for free and so do our competitors. This is hogwash though. They take an 80% cut of the advertising profits (could be more now, this is just my dated figure that I know from a decade ago). Are the cour
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Yeah, my first programming gig was doing research for an open source DoD compilers project (ROSE) run by the DOE at LLNL
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by sam0x17 3y ago
> the probability of somehow being ground breaking and world impactful is ridiculously small. See I have the opposite take. There are so many damn facets of modern life/society, and new avenues/facets/domains coming out ev
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by sam0x17 3y ago
> Money is crystallized time If this were true, then Jeff Bezos would have to be millions of years old. Unless of course you think he exploits the time of others...
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Name the last time a profitable startup product genuinely saved you time when you subtract out the time-value of what you also paid, the hassle of setting it up, the email drip campaigns that waste micro-moments of your day... I don't
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Google has evolved to a size and point where they really can't (and shouldn't) be trusted to manage their own vision and direction. Critical infrastructure like this should belong to and be beholding to the people.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
This sort of scheme is fine as long is there a way of overriding any particular piece of logic on the implementer's side.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I look at these same numbers and think holy crap that's a lot.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Tell me how one more profit-maximizing startup is going to improve my quality of life without taking my money
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by sam0x17 3y ago
"Competition" and "Innovation" rarely benefit consumers. You can't solve capitalism being shitty with more capitalism. Many startups are great (for consumers) during their bootstrap phase. Once they become large the
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I love that we worry about AI maximizing the wrong objective function and killing us all as a result, when our own economic system has been doing that for centuries by maximizing profit over human life
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I promise you I can name 100s of FANG upper managers whose day-to-day is pointless or a net negative. If not net negative to the company then certainly net negative to society. You aggregate those together, you just get a bigger net negativ
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by sam0x17 3y ago
The mere existence of marketing and sales is a really good example of why unregulated capitalism (heck, even heavily regulated capitalism) doesn't perform well or do the things we would want an economic value system to do. Maximizing p

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