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by shimman 3mo ago
Both those companies only can exist because of massive amounts of corporate welfare. What exactly are you trying to argue here? That the government should give private capital more of the people's money while the country suffers from l
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by shimman 3mo ago
EU: Our people generally live longer and happier lives plus our countries are some of the safest on Earth. Better throw that all away and follow the Americans into hell so our elites can make slightly more money!
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by shimman 3mo ago
Commentators on this web site work for some of the most evil organizations on the planet and have beliefs that 95% of the population rejects. You can safely ignore the YC cohort of devs and be fine.
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by shimman 3mo ago
Might surprise people to learn but the law isn't the final arbiter on what is moral or just. The law only decides what is legal and as we've seen over our lived history as humans, many "legal" things may not be those we
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by shimman 3mo ago
Sounds like something the government should regulate and own then rather than relying on corporate benefactors that all profit off of malware advertising.
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by shimman 3mo ago
Yeah like taking people off of medicare and then using the funds to give it to LLM companies, that's just good neoliberalism baby!
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by shimman 3mo ago
"We're taking away your healthcare, sending your children to die in forever wars, poisoning the environment, all while ruining your job prospects but at least you can make pixel perfect implementations of figma screens."
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by shimman 3mo ago
Okay but in this case the design aesthetic is already extremely similar to cyberpunk 2077 video game UIs. Maybe that was the OP's test, but to claim it's unique when it is not feels misleading. Derivative works are fine, but you n
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by shimman 3mo ago
Yeah, hence all the talk about forcing "public" ownership. Becomes easier to justify a bailout when you create some legal fiction compelling the government to do so.
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by shimman 3mo ago
They don't like competition when they have to actually compete.
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by shimman 3mo ago
Why are you expect companies that have been profiting off of LLM insanity to do the right thing if not legally compelled to?
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by shimman 3mo ago
No, the only thing that matters is what you can negotiate. Since most executives + board vote on their own salaries, which ones have you ever seen negotiated to lower their salaries? It's an extreme abuse of power, especially since wor
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by shimman 3mo ago
It is in Ireland for tax reasons tho... like you understand this is how corporations make concessions with government right? You get favorable terms if you provide jobs/tax revenue? 6,000 employee salaries is a drop in the bucket for a
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by shimman 3mo ago
Honestly in regards to data visualizations just look at others and copy them. For inspiration I heavily go to these two sites: https://pudding.cool/ https://www.datasketch.es/ One of the people behind data
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by shimman 3mo ago
No, it would be whataboutism to say something like "but in America you extrajudicially kill citizens for protesting the government." It's not whataboutism to talk about the same subject in the context of a different governmen
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by shimman 3mo ago
This is the type of slop that looks okay to amateurs but if you had a professional they could have tweaked this into a well made data visualization (like one you'd find on pudding.cool) rather than a slopified powerpoint presentation.
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by shimman 3mo ago
The only playbook big tech in the US seems to have are creating a platform and trying to extract rents off it.
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by shimman 3mo ago
You're assuming there is a bag to capture about placating to slop bots, that has yet to be determine. What it mostly seems to do now is balloon your services capacity on serving your worst customers to do busy work no one cares about.
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by shimman 3mo ago
You would like Cory Doctorow's concept of reverse centaurs.
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by shimman 3mo ago
Okay but political leadership of the US are literally are staking the future of GDP on exactly those few AI companies... $1.4trillion so far while universal childcare would only cost $40 billion a year. It's a sick joke.
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by shimman 3mo ago
The fact that the US economy is load bearing towards unprofitable projects while things like medicare for all or universal childcare continue to not exist is just a damning indictment of the country.
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by shimman 3mo ago
Is fanatic some localized term for capitalists I'm not aware of?
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by shimman 3mo ago
It's not disingenuous, claude code has over 5k issues that are ignore plus thousands of more that were just silent closed. This is a product by a company worth supposedly $1trillion and they can't even make one of their starship p
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by shimman 3mo ago
You should care and do more. It's honestly sad to look at the destruction of your community and do nothing about it. There are plenty of groups that could use your help, go help them. Be part of something instead of an observer.
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by shimman 3mo ago
Okay and as someone who would rather just straight up use cursor than claude code, I'd rather have my software not crash out on me every 5 minutes. What sort of self respecting dev purposely uses broken software? Even opencode (use it
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by shimman 3mo ago
It's more uncivil to waste another human's time with slop, it's extremely insulting. There is a massive public backlash against the tech for many reasons now.
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by shimman 3mo ago
And we saw how easily the US political class capitulated once Americans started complaining.
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by shimman 3mo ago
IDK how this doesn't apply to American tech corporations too? Or is it only scary when America corporations face actual competition nowadays where they can't rely on the US government to bomb/sanction competitors?
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by shimman 3mo ago
We all know why... as a condition of some monetary support. It does give a sour taste, really shows what core values are: money > community. I'll just focus on using elixir for a project instead.
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by shimman 3mo ago
They can easily be found to have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, like this is a slam dunk. Highly possible too seeing the massive public hatred against companies like OpenAI. DAs like easy political wins too and what better win t

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