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by scaramanga 3y ago
> I didn't look at it, took the challenge and gave it a lot of effort. I got a pretty bad mark and the rest of the class got top marks. I am curious to know what conclusion you draw from the anecdote about the test? Is it that you a
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Or how about, you know, stop pretending we can evaluate someone's "intelligence" or "skill level" as if it's a one-dimensional factor that you have superhuman insight into measuring. I'm satisfied, in an i
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by scaramanga 3y ago
And an interpretation more cynical than that: The manager who hired them can either a) fire them, admitting they made a mistake, and taking a headcount and budget reduction; or b) promote them, congratulating themselves for the successful h
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by scaramanga 3y ago
That's like asking why do kings buy wonderful artworks when they could save their gold and hang mediocre artworks on their wall? Either it's because they have very refined tastes and value aesthetics over money, or...
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by scaramanga 3y ago
The only thing stopping me doing that is the observation that these people don't seem to be very happy. Which makes sense, they have to live their life being that person. Play the politics to get the things you need, by all means. But
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Ah so OpenAI is privately owned partnership.. Pedantry aside, pretty sure its investors aren't standing behind his desk all day, sniffing his musk...
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Yeah, I think the issue is complex: Sam Altman is a remote worker who only sees his bosses 4 times a year on quarterly earnings calls. Why do the shareholders not demand his physical presence to ensure he is collaborating properly with his
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by scaramanga 3y ago
In summary, the article headline is correct but incomplete: Sam Altman says remote work "experiment" was a mistake (literally, since the results of the experiment prove to be true a proposition that Altman "strongly feels&quo
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by scaramanga 3y ago
"I'm worried my team might have second jobs" - so you admit you don't know what your team are doing and have no idea how long things should take. Isn't this the stuff managers are paid to know? "Young workers l
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by scaramanga 3y ago
There needs to be some new word for, like, the "humblebrag" on behalf of a personality-cult. Like, that low-key way where when you pretend to be in complete denial about all the reasons why people might delight in the failures (pe
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by scaramanga 3y ago
I think you'll find that this is actually a masterful success that demonstrates the forward thinking of the Navy leadership. The news media simply are unable to comprehend the genius of this, due to their lack of marine engineering exp
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by scaramanga 3y ago
The irony is, I can hardly find the posts you are talking about since the comments section is flooded with posts lamenting on the unfair treatment of Musk, and those are the top voted posts. So I mean, if you want to argue that HN doesn&#x2
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by scaramanga 3y ago
He (capital H) said it had a 50% chance of blowing up on the launchpad. It blew up ~on~ shortly after leaving the launchpad. Media says "it blew up ~on~ shortly after leaving the launchpad". 1,000 commentators arrive on HN to say
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by scaramanga 4y ago
And a very good argument for taxing that money out of their hands and investing it into productive enterprises that spur actual innovation and gainful employment.
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by scaramanga 4y ago
It is no secret that VC's are not interested in productive enterprises which produce a reliable and fair return on investment through revenue-generating activities. As you point out, They are obviously interested in concentration of va
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by scaramanga 4y ago
The article describes, almost perfectly, the condition of being a productive enterprise within a capitalist free-market in which you are subject to competition. What is striking is how, for observers within the tech-industry, this is percei
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by scaramanga 4y ago
For anyone familiar with sockets being very confused. When they say "raw sockets" they just mean like TCP or UDP sockets as opposed to eg. "websockets". Actual raw (PF_INET, SOCK_RAW) sockets would allow you to do all ki
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by scaramanga 4y ago
Haha, yeah, don't worry though - if you're looking for another false-god to worship or a guru with a messianic complex promising to lead us to the promised land, then silicon valley shows no sign of stopping churning those off of
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by scaramanga 4y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony It is simply risible to pretend that the tech-industry has not created a new generation of piece-workers. Or that conditions cannot be bad (even unacceptable) in a well-
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by scaramanga 4y ago
If this were true then the history of capitalism and free enterprise would be radically different. Many of the most valuable items bought and sold today simply would not exist. This is the myth of free enterprise in it's purest form: t
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by scaramanga 4y ago
Yes, in the past, the "toolbag" metaphor was used to sell us extremely expensive productivity tools like IDE's and the like. But as any developer who doesn't use them and still makes a perfectly fine living has realised,
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by scaramanga 4y ago
And the same goes for taxi driver, postman, or jobs in hospitality. The technology isn't the culprit here.
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by scaramanga 4y ago
Right. But you're missing the whole point. The allure of the AI hype-train is that you can turn around to your most talented and insightful developers and say "stop undermining me" and then get the machine to produce the nons
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by scaramanga 4y ago
Sure, but they'll still be doing work they hate, for well capitalized people with no imagination and very little to offer. And they'll be equally unhappy.
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by scaramanga 4y ago
No, quite the contrary, it's to conflate hype around AI with racism and misogyny. The idea that AI is going to replace humans is anti-human rubbish. You're basically saying humans are shit and we don't need them. That's
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by scaramanga 4y ago
> I'm sorry, but the landscape in then might be as alien to someone asking today, as todays would have been to someone asking 15 years ago (2008). Hahahah. Yes. Who could have foreseen the trailblazing advances in the tech industry
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by scaramanga 4y ago
"I am concerned that the cotton gin will make slavery obsolete and all my slaves will lose their value" Insert similarly ridiculous and offensive comment about women being replaced by any number of domestic labour-saving devices.
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by scaramanga 4y ago
Not even. It's the total failure of management to find any useful work for those people to do. They are supposed to be the smart guys who make the big bucks in return for efficiently allocating capital to productive activities. They, a
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by scaramanga 4y ago
Nailed it. These are about the conditions of your existence and the dignity of your profession, not how much you are being paid. A worker might get paid $1,000 in compensation every time an executive hits him with a baseball bat, but it doe
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by scaramanga 4y ago
Not to mention gladiators i ancient rome, many of whom were paid very well... You're quite right that this is a completely ridiculous argument. A well paid slave, is still a slave.

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