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by seneca 1y ago
I'm not sure this is all that unpopular of an opinion anymore. Government schools have been in decline for decades, and a lot of people were exposed to the truth of just how dysfunctional they had become during covid lock downs. Perhap
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by seneca 1y ago
While I agree with you about rising authoritarianism, I'm confused what this has to do with nationalism. Chat Control is being created by the EU, a supranational organization. If anything, this sort of transnational authoritarianism is
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by seneca 1y ago
> I think is best described in defence (now WAR) spending Yes, certainly. Security is actually the point "minimal state" (Nozick) crowd agree we need, which is why I pointed to them as opposed to the Von Mises hard liners. I se
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by seneca 1y ago
I think you hit on it quite well with you statement about stealing public money in your parallel comment, which I generalized to simply "plundering the commons for personal gain". I have no idea why people would downvote the argum
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by seneca 1y ago
> I agree that its technically a position but while that venn diagram may well include people who believe in charitable giving and local community organization its those who do not believe in those things (which I would argue constitute
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by seneca 1y ago
Yeah, it's unfortunate. I disagree with this portion of the point he's making, but I don't see why people would treat it as not being valuable to the conversation at hand. I think it actually highlights the point of disagreem
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by seneca 1y ago
I think this is a great example of a second-order disagreement. How about people who genuinely believe in a minimal state? They often believe in charitable giving and local community organization, in my experience. Maximal civil society vs
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by seneca 1y ago
That's probably a healthy way to see things. Ideally all people that are actively working to create or improve should be on the same "side" against those that are destructive. The second order conflict then becomes what the r
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by seneca 1y ago
> Anonymity is not a prerequisite to freedom of speech. I couldn't disagree more. The vast majority of papers the founders of the US published to argue against tyrannical government were written anonymously. > Broken lives of peo
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by seneca 1y ago
Sure, and that is more my own clunky paraphrasing than anything the article states. Iterating and testing to find a fit for customers is the business/product side of software. How you execute on those iterations is engineering.
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by seneca 1y ago
Exactly the comment I came to make after reading this article. The article is basically claiming that "trying different things until something works" is what takes time, but the actual act of "trying things" requires dev
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by seneca 1y ago
It feels a bit unreasonable to me. Anthropic is arguably comparable to Google's Gemini program. Is Gemini 10% of Alphabet's value? If so, how much of that is because of its ability to consume and interact with things like YouTube
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by seneca 1y ago
That genuinely feels like satire. I guess the beauty of good satire is that it borders on reality. The Juicero of the AI era.
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by seneca 1y ago
It's not just offshoring now though. It's offshoring plus hundreds of thousands of H-1b holders being brought onshore. Entire departments at major tech companies in US offices are populated by foreign labor. As far as I'm awa
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by seneca 1y ago
And a better source article.
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by seneca 1y ago
I've always seen it as "Actually Indians", but yeah. That's a lot of what is destroying the US tech job market. It happened to blue collar work in the 90s and early 2000s, now it's our turn.
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by seneca 1y ago
This study feels pretty weak. Software as a occupation is collapsing, but it's not due to AI. Articles and "studies" like this are just a smoke screen to keep your eye off the ball.
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by seneca 1y ago
Perhaps some kind of Mandela effect, but I would have adamantly sworn I remember newgrounds shutting down. My friends and I spent many hours playing games on NG and screwing around with flash. Feels like a completely different world at this
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by seneca 1y ago
I totally disagree. "If A is associated with B, and B is associated with C, and C causes D, then A is responsible for D" is tortured logic.
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by seneca 1y ago
Famine in the modern world is almost entirely caused by dysfunctional governments and/or armed conflicts. Engineers have basically nothing to do with either of those. This sort of "there are bad things in the world, therefore focu
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by seneca 1y ago
Sure, no contest on that. They still don't need my phone number.
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by seneca 1y ago
Is there a way to sign up for Claude code that doesn't involve verifying a phone number with Anthropic? They don't even accept Google Voice numbers. Maybe I'm out of touch, but I'm not handing out my phone number to sign
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by seneca 1y ago
Hasn't stack overflow been in steady decline for years? How can they justify the huge increase in hardware cost that going to a cloud provider brings? I suppose it makes it easier to rapidly scale down your footprint to meet lower dema
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by seneca 1y ago
The only problem with this is that there are so few billionaires. Wealth is good. We should celebrate it, and focus on making more of it, not on resenting the people who have already done so.
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by seneca 1y ago
I have never seen an airplane anywhere near as filthy as nearly every subway I've been on.
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by seneca 1y ago
It's not just speed. Public transportation entails being closed in a small space with a completely uncontrolled group of the general public. When normal people think public transportation they aren't considering how well driving s
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by seneca 1y ago
That makes a lot of sense. May I ask, why "limiting music"? Was it just a specific type of music, or did music in general have a negative effect?
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by seneca 1y ago
I'm curious how you would feel about your local library carrying The Turner Diaries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or The Camp of the Saints? What percentage of the local population would have to want those books for you to beli
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by seneca 1y ago
Classic under promise and over deliver. I'm glad they got it out quickly.
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by seneca 1y ago
Smothering one of the only prosperous industries in the country so we can feed evermore to our bloated reckless spendthrift government isn't noble.

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