shimman

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by shimman 2mo ago
Well it's more about our lived reality, I can't remember the last time any current US politician successfully campaigned then enacted legislation that benefits workers; it's always been forms of corporate welfare and more cor
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by shimman 2mo ago
It's not difficult at all, food products all have factory + machine origin coding on all packages. If something makes you sick you can easily pin point which region and even which exact factories were used. If there is an outbreak ther
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by shimman 2mo ago
You make it sound like every worker agreed with this. Is this actually true or is it more about the founders exploiting their workers by selling out to one of the most devious anti-worker tech corporations? Is profit sharing, like what you&
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by shimman 2mo ago
What good is a foundation when it's core member is owned by a public corporation? Like we know what happens, the pattern isn't unique or rare. Corporate interests will always take priority over community interests, corporations ca
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by shimman 2mo ago
Reminds me of the Black Mirror episode "Shut up and Dance." Great story and creating the character Aaron. You did an excellent job in making a very believable person that I think most of us have run into in tech adjacent spaces.
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by shimman 2mo ago
Hyper scale data centers are absolutely not the same, stop with the hysterics. You know exactly what people are upset about: LLM companies.
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by shimman 2mo ago
Yeah why would someone berate you for telling them to stop eating and support data centers? Gee why would someone get so emotional when told to stop enjoying food and help the billionaires make more money? Are they stupid or something?
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by shimman 2mo ago
Well let's not shit post so hastily because it's not my company. I don't have dominion over my peers, and I don't have authority to lead initiatives as worker. I do what they say or I get fired. It's pretty simple,
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by shimman 2mo ago
Yes I use LLMs at work because I'm "highly encouraged" to as a condition to keep my job. All I see is more paying customers finding more bugs and having a worse experience using our products.
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by shimman 2mo ago
It's weird how all these statistics could end if the owners of these data centers would just simply release the numbers for the public to learn from. Instead they are keeping these figures private and we have people trying to best-esti
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by shimman 2mo ago
No, the water is extremely hot. It takes a massive amount of infrastructure before this water can be "released." Unless you are one of those massive polluters that think discharging extremely hot water into the ground is safe and
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by shimman 2mo ago
If you want to play these stupid games how much water did you think was used to make the concrete for the data centers? Or how much water was used to cool the steel? How much water did all the workers drink while building the data center? H
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by shimman 2mo ago
I value almonds more than LLM slop.
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by shimman 2mo ago
Imagine thinking asking someone for sources as "insulting."
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by shimman 2mo ago
Yeah, every COBOL job paid pretty terrible relative to other types of work (like web dev). Sure there might be a dozen individuals making over $300k but most COBOL devs live in the deep south making less than $100k for their entire careers.
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by shimman 2mo ago
That's mandated by law, not because the grocery story wants to.
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by shimman 2mo ago
They want the lifestyle of Europe but do not want the rich to pay more taxes to support it.
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by shimman 2mo ago
Yeah, he sure does lie about a variety of things! He doesn't have the name Scam Altman for nothing.
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by shimman 2mo ago
uhh no, if you're the one making an argument the burden is on you to provide actual sources and not say "trust me bro, look it up." You're trying to argue how school children argue, aim a little higher if you want to con
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by shimman 2mo ago
Customer only event while ex-senators, congressional representatives, and law enforcement attend it? Oh come on, stop running cover for a deeply undemocratic organization. Just because you don't like the journalist, doesn't make t
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by shimman 2mo ago
Being a journalist is a legitimate attendee. Especially since so many prominent politicians are attending this conference.
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by shimman 2mo ago
Clearly not biased when you say the opposition is the CCP. Good lord.
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by shimman 2mo ago
eh, I don't agree with this. More like American corporations have degraded the free web to a point where nothing hasn't really improved for the last two decades. There should be public browsers and public search engines. The priva
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by shimman 2mo ago
That's not going to stop authoritarians from harassing. Want an example of how this played out? United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) was the SCOTUS case that declared if you were born in the US you were a citizen. You think Mr. Ark was
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by shimman 2mo ago
Not really. I would rather not find out later in life, with way more responsibilities, that when you purposely neglect mental skills they atrophy quite fast. People already have a hard time noticing that they age, being able to truly self a
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by shimman 2mo ago
You're looking at this at the wrong angle, a better lens would be: "can workplace democracy enable workers to live happier lives?" I think optimizing for collaboration, rather than dominion can only be seen as a good thing to
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by shimman 2mo ago
You don't need to go to other countries to play your fears, lest we forget our constitution is a pro-slavery document and one of the first acts of congress was the fugitive slave laws. I think it's more effective to stick to our o
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by shimman 2mo ago
Do you prefer frameworks like lit to generate your web components? I always felt like the base APIs were okay-ish but I haven't really investigated web components much. Like honestly once maybe 4 years ago and it was for a POC at work.
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by shimman 2mo ago
Sure, you're assuming that workers would want to form an HOA. I don't think this is true. Like other commentators, some guess that they would form representative republics. I also don't think this is true. What I do think is
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by shimman 2mo ago
Definitely had a sheltered public school experience, took AP stats my senior year and realized all the top students were sharing answers from an earlier period through text messages. After figuring this out I too joined in on the action, th

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