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by seneca 8mo ago
I don't want to ignore anything. The H1B fee changes were a half-measure that didn't go nearly far enough.
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by seneca 8mo ago
That's the classic example of a loaded question.
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by seneca 8mo ago
> I'm curious how you think we could have avoided our current fascist leadership? "Have you stopped beating your wife?"
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by seneca 8mo ago
> Punching people who think you and your friends should be killed just for existing is a form of self-defense. This is such an incredibly radicalized and detached from reality statement. It's genuinely scary that there are people wh
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by seneca 8mo ago
Interesting article. The color is nice on the Pro, but could definitely use some improvement. That aside, the Remarkable Paper Pro is one of the biggest deltas I have ever seen between hardware and software quality. The hardware feels and l
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by seneca 8mo ago
This is one of those topics where everyone is going to insert their personal bête noire as the cause. "Tech, the economy, culture, immigrants, loss of religion, corruption, polarization, capitalism, socialism!". I actually really
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by seneca 8mo ago
I totally agreed with you, right up until the last paragraph. Reddit is among the worst communities on the internet.
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by seneca 8mo ago
You aren't wrong. There is no real use for this for most people. It's a silly toy that somehow caught the AI hype cycle. The thing is, that's totally fine! It's ok for things to be silly toys that aren't very effici
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by seneca 8mo ago
> How's the $100K H1B fee that was announced to distract from the Trump Gold Card announcement [0] going? The HN hive mind said it would bring back the jobs and those of us who warned [1][2] it would incentivize offshoring were houn
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by seneca 9mo ago
> ChatGPT has become a safety-critical system. It's really really not. "Safety-critical system" has a meaning, and a chat bot doesn't qualify. Treating the whole world as if it needs to be wrapped in bubble-wrap is ex
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by seneca 9mo ago
It feels like OpenAI is moving into the extraction phase far too soon. They are making their product less appealing to end users with ads and aggressive user-data gathering (which is what this really is). Usually you have to be very secure
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by seneca 9mo ago
Yeah, this is all far far too invasive. The goal is obviously to gather as much data on you as possible under whatever pretense users are most likely to accept. "Think of the children", as always. This will then be used to sell ad
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by seneca 9mo ago
> The problem with "let the parents decide" is that if all other kids in the neighborhood have phones and are on social media then unless you want your kid to grow up with no friends you don't have a choice but to let your
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by seneca 9mo ago
I genuinely don't understand how anyone can think it's anything other than governments trying to destroy online anonymity. "Think of the children" is a cliche for a reason.
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by seneca 9mo ago
> I appreciate you clarifying your intent Absolutely, happy to. And likewise! I'm sorry if what I said came off as judgemental or insulting. Not at all the intent, I assumed the motivation was nothing but kindness.
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by seneca 9mo ago
> I can assure you that there was nothing performative or hollow about my comment. OP said something that resonated with me, and so I shared my story in an attempt to bridge and find commonalities. Sorry, I didn't mean to say at all
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by seneca 9mo ago
> it's entirely coming from you and your experiences, and nothing to do with me and my own personality except for the one thing we have somewhat in common, means that your comment is to me merely a representation of you and what you
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by seneca 9mo ago
> Our lopsided emphasis on individualism This reads like that pattern where people assign blame for all issues to whatever thing they happen to not like. The US is the least individualistic it has ever been, but there was much more commu
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by seneca 10mo ago
Nice, I'll have to give that a shot. I often use Claude for exactly that.
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by seneca 10mo ago
I hope this makes a big jump forward for them. I used to be a heavy Codex user, but it has just been so much worse than Claude Code both in UX and in actual results that I've completely given up on it. Anthropic needs a real competitor
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by seneca 10mo ago
> A weaver who knows how to use an automated weaving machine produces 3 times as much cloth as one who doesn't, so why don't they get paid 3 times as much? An automatic weaving machine, operated by a capable operator, produces
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by seneca 10mo ago
> Except in technology where the gains come from my personal investment in skills. Not really. That's essentially a weaver learning to use the new automated weaving machine. That is what you do to remain qualified for the job. Now,
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by seneca 10mo ago
> If I'm creating 3 times as much value as my equivalent in 1970, why aren't I getting paid 3 times as much inflation-adjusted money, hmm? Because that increase in productivity comes almost entirely from technology owned by you
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by seneca 10mo ago
> Giving young kids iPads so they’ll be quiet is a normalized form of neglect. I'd say it's closer to outright abuse. One of the better things you can do is a parent is seek out a community where this sort of thing is frowned u
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by seneca 10mo ago
> It's just a market reaching equilibrium. It's always weird how employees are forever to be expected to be at the mercy of market forces much greater than they are, while employers have to be shielded from them. It's not
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by seneca 10mo ago
>Why is union-related collective ruin anathema, but elite-driven ruin is seen as an acceptable price to pay? Enron, the Great Recession, etc. What are you talking about? Multiple people were convicted over the Enron scandal, including so
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by seneca 10mo ago
> And its cold comfort to us all to basically say "let's all agree to slavery so nobody loses their jobs". Comparing software development jobs in the modern United States to slavery is quite fanciful.
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by seneca 10mo ago
That's not at all what the statement I replied to says in context. hellojesus said "There is always the chance that the collective action discounts the impact to the business too heavily and ends up driving the company under, maki
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by seneca 10mo ago
> If the company's existence depends on the unfair exploitation of its staff, its foreclosure is inevitable and justified, and that is simply the price everyone involved must pay to maintain equilibrium. Claiming that all non-union
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by seneca 10mo ago
> It's very unfortunate. As a parent, I feel like it requires regulation at the national level because I can't win against Meta (FB, Insta), Google (Youtube), Snapchat and TikTok. Sorry, but this just isn't the case. I hav

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