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by shimman 6mo ago
Yeah, honestly this is where LLMs shine since they were trained on so many MBA/HBS materials. Just remember to ask your questions in a way that praises neoliberalism and you'll unlock even more secrets about how they fuck over and
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by shimman 6mo ago
Turns out running a profitable business is really hard when all you've known was ZIRP. Honestly think the business lessons from big tech over the last 20 years are hogwash, mostly due to them abusing their monopolies allowing them to s
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by shimman 6mo ago
I think you mean this habit has benefit no one outside of a small elite moneyed interests that want to protect their fief. US foreign policy does not benefit Americans, it benefits the elites.
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by shimman 6mo ago
No capitalists just provide money, something other entities can as well. Often better too. Capitalists are completely useless when they have no workers, so I don't understand your points outside of "wow capitalists require a lot o
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by shimman 6mo ago
No, it is more accurate to say that leadership at Cloudflare does not know what they are doing nor have they known what to do for a good decade now. Acting like workers at Cloudflare have any meaningful say in how work is made or the direct
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by shimman 6mo ago
You can't, this is the issue with an extremely unregulated industry. You want to stand out as a single individual among 10,000 similar qualified people on paper? Good luck. This is likely an unintentional, but beneficial, side effect i
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by shimman 6mo ago
Maybe it should be the companies job, being jobless in the US is a potential death sentence and since we don't have universal healthcare, universal childcare, or universal higher education/vocational training the onus should be fo
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by shimman 6mo ago
This is what capitalists literally do with workers. It's not like capitalists are creating anything valuable, they're just leeches extracting wealth. I rather have workers get the money than more corporate welfare.
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by shimman 6mo ago
You say that but many specialty subreddits never returned to their pre-protest engagements. Quality has definitely taken a nose dive in these subreddits as those people moved to other platforms like youtube, tiktok, patreon, or just posting
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by shimman 6mo ago
what.cd was better. You either got an invite where if you tanked your reputation you'd get banned and risk the inviter getting banned too; or you had to take an interview where you got quizzed on how to properly rip music in a variety
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by shimman 6mo ago
Yeah, the trick is to do your own curation and go from there. If you like some authors or journalists or bloggers, go see who they read (trust me they all say who they follow in their own niches) and build from there. You can develop quite
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by shimman 6mo ago
I'm not trying to scare you, just letting you know I'm someone that does more than advocacy. I'm actively organizing with people that share my values. It's a great feeling, definitely a defining human trait that everyone
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by shimman 6mo ago
I am actively working on several senate and congressional campaigns, believe me that these people want to actively imprison some of these CEOs for the destruction they wrought upon the world too. These stump speeches tend to get the crowds
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by shimman 6mo ago
Yeah but the opponents of the people literally believe democracy is bad and want to go back to monarchism in the form of unaccountable CEO kings that decide the will of the people. Sadly this is like half the tech workforce too. People too
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by shimman 6mo ago
Also why should we allow such companies to exist if the vast majority of people don't like their actions? There's no fundamental right to starting a business, so might as well make businesses socially acceptable rather than fuckin
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by shimman 6mo ago
Most big tech CEOs are people that only "succeeded" due to have an unregulated monopoly or picking the right lotto ticket and not due to any innate above average intelligence. Go look at the 100s of billions in wasted capital and
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by shimman 6mo ago
Yes, especially in the context of supporting US imperialism and capitalists interests (perpetual war + extraction machine) over what would actually benefit Americans: peace + cooperation initiatives. Something also tells me that American ci
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by shimman 6mo ago
Honestly extremely pathetic by a trillion dollar corporation that has a massive, undemocratic, say in how technology is developed in this country. Microsoft should be broken up into a dozen different companies and it's quite clear they
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by shimman 6mo ago
I can assure you a sizable amount of people in the writing community look down on "authors" that only use ghostwriters. Why do tech workers act shock that people hate this junk being force fed to them that they are now resorting t
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by shimman 6mo ago
Yes because in their mind corporate power is the only thing that matters in our lives. Not what people want, but what Google wants is clearly the only thing that matters for them. It's a bizarre way of living your life.
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by shimman 6mo ago
Writing code and copying the output of an LLM is absolutely not the same. You wouldn't call someone an author that takes LLM outputs and shoves it in a book. IDK why this distinction doesn't apply to devs too.
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by shimman 6mo ago
No, look into his actual work history (sorry being a paid marketer isn't working as a dev). Was only a dev consultant for like two years before pivoting into full time influencer. Trust me, I know more about these types than any normal
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by shimman 6mo ago
Yeah, it's the same pattern you saw in the early react days where open source devs would try to "woo" the react core team into getting recognition to sell consulting services or courses. The bun people likely have some fucked
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by shimman 6mo ago
I don't disagree with the notion, but what is up with the dev community championing influencers that work no real jobs and just sell courses where they reread the docs to you at $500 a pop (this gent, $1k a pop)?
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by shimman 6mo ago
Well seeing how we are all granted with one single life, maybe we should be more upset at things that take away our valuable time and replace it with things that make us angry? Who's to say that these things aren't worse than hero
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by shimman 6mo ago
Oh come on, are we seriously acting like jobs building out react components or java endpoints are remotely complicated and not a skill that could be trained within 3 months?
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by shimman 6mo ago
Don't stop Facebook from completely making up video numbers. Seems like it's a good way to rug pull a bunch of workers and force them to accept lower rates.
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by shimman 6mo ago
Oh yeah it's totally normal for neoliberal America to fuck over the public at every opportunity for private corporate gain. Not going to disagree with that at all. But if you think this is honestly a GOOD thing, you have deep anti-huma
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by shimman 6mo ago
A lot o the confusion around data centers is that these companies purposely hide this information from the public. We already know how damaging normal data centers are: https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022&#x2
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by shimman 6mo ago
Because one of them might have an incentive to not do so. In this case it's because they want to advertise their own company.

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