shimman

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by shimman 5d ago
Not open, not accountable by the public, lack of juries. It's not hard to see how arbitration mostly benefits corporations and not the civilians.
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by shimman 7d ago
No, it was just a certain country's tactic adopted by the US where you bomb then wait for first responders to help innocent victims of war then bomb them again increasing your murder count. It's just a war crime. Try not to think
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by shimman 7d ago
It's not. The US just doesn't believe in free trade or international order when they disagree with the people engaging in it. You saw the same thing in Venezuela/Cuba with the US seizing lawfully traded goods between nations.
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by shimman 8d ago
True but the FT piece describes the situation better because as you said, it's an active on-going issue that is making the military worse off and does a good job describing how bad this environment is for both leaders + workers + and t
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by shimman 8d ago
Found this article by the FT way better than CNN on similar subject matter (how AI target is not helping the US military): https://www.ft.com/content/686429c0-daf3-42a5-9b7c-7ff06eb29... https://archive.ph&#
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by shimman 8d ago
Nah, some tech people really believe this. You need to get out of your bubble and realize a nontrivial percentage of tech workers are very anti-human.
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by shimman 8d ago
No it really wouldn't. I like the authors Jeff VanderMeer and Peter Watts. They have had multiple interviews where they talk about their peers, who they respect from the past, and who they like in our current age. I have found maybe su
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by shimman 8d ago
This may blow your mind but people have different value systems than the single one where only making money matters in our incredibly short lives. Some people believe in things other than accumulating money and immiserating workers. Your fa
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by shimman 8d ago
Yeah I don't think it was a good look for a supposed democratic nation to sell weaponry to nations that rely on slave labor either, but there never was a good look for American imperialism. Still shocked to see people champion it still
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by shimman 8d ago
What are you using for semantic searching?
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by shimman 8d ago
This is doing a lot of cover for an airplane that has massive supply issues and mostly seems to have been invented to extract more money out of allies to serve the US military industrial complex. An island nation under the protectorate of t
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by shimman 8d ago
Just read people you can trust. Why are you giving yourself all this busy work? Just make your own tree of material to read. You should have a couple dozen writers/journalists you admire, look at who these people read then start readin
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by shimman 8d ago
Yeah, similar to like how southern baptists declared evangelicals to be their enemy too for not being fanatical enough. Death cults are weird like that.
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by shimman 9d ago
Definitely not beating the rap with that comment LMAO.
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by shimman 9d ago
Because that would go against MSFT's wishes on pushing LLM driven development if they started acknowledging that these tools are more damaging than helpful.
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by shimman 9d ago
No, it's more like willing to work with dictatorships across the world brings inherit risk. No one was forcing Amazon to make deals with oligopolies and monarchies in the middle east. No one was forcing Amazon to engage with US imperia
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by shimman 9d ago
Why not? Why shouldn't we hold it against Amazon when they are making business deals with deeply unequal societies that rely on slave labor? This is what happens when you make deals with authoritarians. Expecting the blowback to not ef
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by shimman 9d ago
If the only thing you care about is money, you truly have a sad existence of a life.
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by shimman 9d ago
I mean in a way it's true. MAGA is a death cult and they want to hasten the apocalypse, which is why MAGA is such good bed fellows with US big tech as they too also want to hasten the apocalypse. These people fervently believe that the
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by shimman 9d ago
Neither of you seem to understand that actual laws have been broken and there is a 2 years countdown until they can no longer be prosecuted. Things do not happen instantly, but acting like if the largest bipartisan issue of our time (big te
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by shimman 10d ago
Don't know why you're getting downvoted, but hackernews is very anti-democratic in nature. One thing politicians quickly realize, especially local ones, is that you do have to be accountable to voters at the end of the day. One or
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by shimman 10d ago
No, the distinction matters because we can prosecute people that are abusing these tools breaking the law. Every single state + district in the US have laws equivalent to the CFAA, so any AG can likely sue any of these operators as they are
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by shimman 10d ago
The only conspiracy on this board is believing these people aren't actual demons that walk among us: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandem... Sorry but Bill Gates is an excell
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by shimman 10d ago
Terrible, I'd argue the vast majority of modern big tech offerings are extremely poor quality where the need for surveillance in the form of constant monitoring/advertising metrics deliberately makes these types of services more c
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by shimman 10d ago
This is the case for every single B2B saas product. This is like the "bar is rolling on the floor" level of competence required. Please have higher standards for paid products.
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by shimman 10d ago
Poorly in what sense? I think human chess leagues are way more popular and fun than just playing a computer by yourself. Human oriented communities are always a vastly better experience than their digital counterparts. There's more to
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by shimman 10d ago
Bill Gates is a known Epstein associate, had sex with a woman likely against their will while being tracked by Epstein, and had to drug his wife unknowingly to her so she wouldn't get a sexually transmitted disease he caught while havi
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by shimman 10d ago
Can you start naming them? Because most of the life altering ones have certifications, licensures, and continuing education programs when becoming a lawyer/doctor/engineer. Unless you're trying to argue the need to regulate s
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by shimman 10d ago
It sounds like they need additional exposure then as they aren't assessing the real risks and seem to have completely ignored them. Why should society care that some group of investors didn't do their homework? Is that the excuse
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by shimman 10d ago
Very true. If you don't want to be exposed to such rich, you're free to work elsewhere. No one is forcing you to take on these jobs that immiserate society.

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