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by sershe 1y ago
That wouldn't explain why the reverse happened. Everyone introduced the crappier economy tier; even the airlines initially saying they wouldn't eventually caved and now there's a crappy economy tier default. Moreover, gradual
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by sershe 1y ago
Weren't there studies showing that 1) some health conditions correlate with low vitamin D level, 2) vitamin D supplements do nothing for these conditions? Clearly, there's a third variable that causes both. Since we don't und
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by sershe 1y ago
I work for Microsoft so I get to/am forced to dogfood all the copilots. GitHub/VS copilot is great. Bing copilot is pretty good. For windows copilot I have no use case. 365 copilot, in my own personal humble opinion, is a steaming
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by sershe 1y ago
One is very much not like the other. If I create a piece of software then hire a helper to expand under a defined contract, if anything is at all like slavery, it is taking away my ownership so we could "share"
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by sershe 1y ago
There's data e.g. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/what-drives-health... Insurance companies are a miniscule problem compared to provider costs.
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by sershe 1y ago
"AI drivers" glitch/fail differently than human drivers, and in ways that to humans look bizarre and easily preventable. Human driver failures (like being tired, drunk, very upset, or being on your phone, distracted by passen
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by sershe 1y ago
I think they might be replacing first-tier support, the people who currently answer really stupid questions, handle really common cases, etc. When you need real support and there's no script you go to second-tier support... As a person
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by sershe 1y ago
What data or special insight do you have as to whether amplifying or eliminating is actually productive? This argument is vacuous if you consider a marginal worker. Let's say AI eliminates one worker, Bob. You could argue "it was
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by sershe 1y ago
Not at Google but I'm in such a role right now and I really dislike it. Can't really get much focused coding in because you constantly have to jump in to review something or help fix something or handle a live site juniors cannot
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by sershe 1y ago
Cool, I always wanted to have a non-movable toolbar in all my software, I miss 1997.
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by sershe 1y ago
"If extreme wealth was taxed, the debt would be zero" Do you have numbers for that? Even ignoring the issues with lots of wealth being paper wealth that cannot be translated into any kind of realized gains, and any 2nd order effec
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by sershe 1y ago
I think part of it is also the purism of the outdoor community in the US. In the Dolomites you can climb an "alpine" route with anchors made out of giant rings held by a bunch of cement, then have a beer and steak at the hut and t
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The reality of course is that he is right. The entire history of the world including as late as 2022 demonstrates that.
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by sershe 1y ago
People always talk about shareholder value like it's some outrageous weird thing. Really, shareholders are just.. owners. And managers are their agents. Let's say you hire a general contractor to remodel your house. How would you
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by sershe 1y ago
I found the biggest estimate from a paper as a reference for "catastrophic"/"humanity is done for"/... comments. The more likely estimates are much lower. What do you mean by going back slightly less, in terms
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by sershe 1y ago
Various estimates of GDP loss from IPCC and such are iirc like 8-10%. That would catastrophically plunge us all the way to the dark ages of a few years ago. I just googled for the most alarmist estimates backed by an actual paper and the wo
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by sershe 1y ago
When I was growing up we had an old Soviet fridge at our dacha. It was at least 30 years old (maybe more, it's age was definitely compared to my mother's on multiple occasions) and it was working 3 months out of a year in unheated
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by sershe 1y ago
I complained the same way about Speed 40, my 2011 one is more intact than 2018 one and I use it more even after buying the newer one. According to people in the outdoor industry the materials are noticeably more flimsy cause everyone wants
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by sershe 1y ago
I'm in the same camp of the people who like using things forever. However, I find that I'm in a small minority... I am not even talking about clothing, fast fashion etc., people around me are constantly doing kitchen renovations,
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by sershe 1y ago
See what we could achieve if we unionized software industry? Come on people, get on board, this fantasy of being exempt from worker solidarity is such an American "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" thing that is not serving any
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by sershe 1y ago
We are talking about micro plastics, the specific harms of which aren't even quantified that well (DALY?), and their future impact given current climate with regard to environmental tradeoffs. Now, what would your comment look like, fo
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by sershe 1y ago
It would be a wonderful world if only people could force those running a less dumb economy to abide by their dumber rules. Wouldn't it be awesome if NK could park a navy somewhere and make sure everyone does things for the benefits of
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by sershe 1y ago
Natives start with every advantage that immigrants don't have, so it sounds like the time for the worlds tiniest violin. I think the USA is one of, if not the most meritocratic major societies in the world and throughout history (mass
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by sershe 1y ago
"cannot think of a single success story with PE that has created a successful company that hasn't imploded. I belive most PE funds lose money too. Why anyone would buy a company that a PE fund has gotten its hooks into is beyond m
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by sershe 1y ago
this narrative is basically a lie 1) Americans spend less than OECD average out of pocket as a percentage of healthcare costs. This is much larger in absolute terms but the multiplier - cost of healthcare is nearly entirely due to provider
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by sershe 1y ago
That reminds me of an article I can't find anymore on the plight of the American poor couple trying to raise a child in a gasp 900sqft. Uh, check real estate sqft averages around the world? I never was much of a partier as a teen but
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by sershe 1y ago
Ah, the insightful leftist response. I was born in the USSR, so this drivel doesn't really work on me. I hate marxists/etc probably more than even fascists/etc. But regardless, American style unions are just a uniquely malign
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by sershe 1y ago
Im not sure how I feel about what anthropic did on merit as a matter of scale, but from a legalistic standpoint how is it different from using the book to train the meat model in my head? I could even learn bits by heart and quote them in c
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Yeah, look at union successes like dockworkers holding economy hostage via a legalized monopoly, while having more striking non-working members long useless due to automation than actual workers! I sure aspire to work in an industry like th
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by sershe 1y ago
I was on L1 (with Canadian PR, so it wasn't totally critical for me) during 2010 or so layoffs/firings, and I've heard rumors that they were trying to spare H1s/L1s because it's a giant pain to get fired as one. I d

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