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by scarab92 2y ago
Machines have resulted in extraordinary improvements in quality of life for humans. Luddites should be ignored because they are alarmist, and care not for whether their concerns are warranted or necessary, much like Californian politicians.
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Because they aren't lieing, they are simply not disclosing whether their actions are the result on an organic neural network or a silicon one. Society almost never differentiates between goods and services produced directly by human ha
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Bots are simply another type of tool used by humans to reduce repetitive unnecessary labor. Should bread come with disclaimers that it harvesters were used to collect the wheat, or machines were used to mix the dough? Maybe we can add discl
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Google should be free to do that if they want. Companies shouldn't be expected to solve every problem in society, and certainly not social issues.
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A big part of the unpopularity of DEI programs is the dishonesty. We all know that these programs don't result in better candidates, and that standards are lowered, not raised, when they are introduced. Just be honest about it and make
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In many countries it is illegal to even record such information about employees.
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Google owes Damore an apology.
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Other countries often have a clearer separation of responsibilities between government and business. Governments are responsible for addressing social inequity, while companies simply hire whoever best meets their needs (within the constrai
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by scarab92 2y ago
The Starlink contract is almost certainly immaterial. It's only a temporary arrangement to support Ukraine and the contract value is under $1 million per year. If you remember Starlink even initially provided the hardware and services
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If the democrats earnestly cared about USAID they wouldn’t have painted a giant target on it by treating it as a slush fund for partisan pet projects. Trump and Musk were crystal clear ahead of the election that they intended to stop exactl
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It surprises me that these programs were ever legal. It is strictly illegal in Australia to consider factors like gender or race when hiring. Even capturing these details from applicants is problematic in most cases. The compensation payabl
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Cloudflare is security theatre. I scrape hundreds of cloudflare protected sites every 15 minutes, without ever having any issues, using a simple headless browser and mobile connection, meanwhile real users get interstitial pages. It's
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Immaterial. The contract value is less than $1 mill per year, and SpaceX initially provided it for free so clearly not designed as a money maker.
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Don't let the cloud providers fool you. Bandwidth is cheap, especially for Googles, Netflixes and Cloudflares of the world which peer with every ISP that matters.
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It was created by executive order, not congress. You can find the executive order on the whitehouse website. Technically it's a renaming of the USDS
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> We also know that he has no moral compass and no qualm whatsoever using any lever he can to make money. We don't know that. Musk has several times lobbied against EV subsidies which would directly benefit Tesla, because he viewed
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Jeff Bezos is chilling on yachts and tinkering with rockets. Bill Gates is giving his money away to charity as quickly as he can do while maintaining effectiveness. Sergey Brin is goofing around with airships. Plenty of examples of billiona
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Firstly, someone ultimately has to have control of agency spendng, so that cannot be deemed a conflict of interest by itself. Secondly, I don't believe Musk has any direct authority to make any changes within these agencies whatsoever.
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Yes, though I wouldn't call his interest in public policy sudden. If we're honest this is all just unfounded speculation. Financially, he's likely going to benefit from a deregulatory agenda, but is it enough to offset his in
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by scarab92 2y ago
Okay, but the evidence on the other side, the evidence that Musk is enriching himself... is ... what exactly? speculation?
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> Gov money being cut from _fill in blank of gov agency_ means that there's more money available for what's important to Musk Not really. Government spending doesn't need to be balanced like a household budget. Whether or
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On the issue of whether Musk is allowed to review functions that he has a conflict with, he has only stated that Musk is not allowed to do so.
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We know it's not as much of a problem on the right, because the rate of party switching is still far lower on the right than the left, by a factor of about 1:4. On the right, you can be shunned by MAGA or shunned by the religious right
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You misunderstood what you read. The list is not an exhaustive list of non-MAGA republicans, it is a list of non-MAGA republicans who publically opposed Trump's election even after he won the primary. Non-MAGA republicans overall are a
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Agencies spend under budget all the time. Budgets are an approval to spend up to a certain amount, not a requirement to spend a certain amount.
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> He is running the Project 2025 playbook which he expressly disavowed He's a conservative, and Project 2025 was from other conservatives. You would expect there to be some overlap in policy perspectives because of the ideological o
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Budgets are a maximum permitted expenditure, not a minimum. Trump is free to spend less than budgeted.
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Very much so. This poll is a little old, but in 2023 only 38% of republicans identify as MAGA republicans https://www.vanderbilt.edu/unity/2023/04/07/first-ever-vande... And here's a list of promine
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I do think purity spirals exist on the right, but they are not as all emcompasssing as on the left. You can be shunned from MAGA, while remaining republican. You can be shunned from the religious right, while remaining republican. There is
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A more constructive take away, would be for the left to learn from and adopt some of what makes Trump successful. If your primary personality is perceived as immature, it's going to cost you votes. If you can connect with people on mul

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