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by silisili 11mo ago
While not as bad as AI rendering the decision itself obviously, I wouldn't exactly say it's a nothing burger. It feels completely inauthentic and dystopian. I can only imagine the hell of being nervous in a big court case waiting
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by silisili 11mo ago
It's not that they don't want middle class customers, of course that would be foolish. It's that they don't want to be positioned there. The CEO has made this abundantly clear. Their financial reports are a better sour
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by silisili 11mo ago
One common theme is that companies used to treat good employees as assets. Now they treat all employees as liabilities. What changed? A lot. The underlying theme across all companies, to both employees and customers, has been "see h
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by silisili 11mo ago
Your second point is right, but depressingly it was the 50s instead of the 80s.
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by silisili 11mo ago
It's pretty hilarious because your comment is exactly their goal. McDonald's is laser focused on low income customers. They do not want to compete in the middle income space, as they don't visit as often and there's ton
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by silisili 11mo ago
At least from my perspective, COVID broke everything. People are more awful, quality is more awful, and prices are way up. I dread even eating out anymore as I fully expect to overpay for bad food and service. There's an argument to
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by silisili 11mo ago
Apologies, I didn't know you'd written it or I wouldn't have been so harsh. Just, AI content is cheap. It can write faster than any of us can read, and I think the sentiment is that we're all kinda tired of it. Attenti
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by silisili 11mo ago
It's not just x, it's y. Emdashes. Arrow symbols everywhere. Yep, going with LLM slop.
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by silisili 11mo ago
This is, in essence, what caused mass inflation in the first place. People making $X/mo, thinking "well, I can afford a $500k house because it costs $Y a month", where Y is some nominal amount less than X. That works for a l
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by silisili 11mo ago
Well, and the fact they're just way brighter than ever. When I was younger you could stare at the yellowish glow of a car with headlights on and just not be blinded. We even used to park several cars around a basketball court behind
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by silisili 11mo ago
Same re: grocery work and liking getting carts as a teen. That said > But if they just push it into the grass, or out of the way, One marker of whether something is acceptable in society(or having a functioning brain, at times) is to ask
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by silisili 1y ago
Great analogy, and similar to how I saw things play out. IIRC Perl 6 wanted to expand or morph into something better, spent a ton of time on it, and the community in general rejected it hard. So now we have this dangling language that'
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by silisili 1y ago
Two of us! As mentioned, I'm probably part of the target market and will probably check it out. It's not useless by any definition, but will it really outsell the PS5? Because that is, to me, what the headline is implying...
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by silisili 1y ago
Not a chance. As much as I respect all the work Valve has done for gaming...this doesn't understand the market. PC gamers will play on their PC. Couch gamers will have a PS5 or an XBox. So who is this for, couch gamers that don&#x27
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by silisili 1y ago
I feel like if safety was really their top priority, they would have done this long ago and not bothered with this mandatory signing nonsense to begin with... Still, it seems like good news, so I'll take it.
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by silisili 1y ago
My only real objection I guess, and the reason I don't carry change of any sort, is because it's constantly falling out of my pockets. I'm rather tall, so many seating positions put my knees higher than my waist, which I thi
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by silisili 1y ago
Out of curiosity, I'd love if you'd expand a bit on this comment. Not meant sarcastically, and not because I want to refute anything, I'm genuinely curious what these tactics have been and why the US has already lost.
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by silisili 1y ago
Interesting. I didn't know that was how they worked, so thanks for explaining.
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by silisili 1y ago
In essence, you're right. To a sufficiently large company, absolutely. But there'd be a huge difference between giving me a 500mil investment vs giving me 500mil in tax breaks. Obviously most fall into the former camp, but it&#x2
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by silisili 1y ago
I was curious if this was just via tax breaks and whatnot, but apparently not. If my light research is correct, Texas founded its own CHIPS act in 2023, and shortly after appropriated 552 mil to the UT TIE program. The DARPA money commitme
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by silisili 1y ago
I always liked this story because they seemed to connect person to person. Sadly, Jobs died in 2011, and Miyake in 2022. I guess you could call this a small homage, but it feels different in that their founders are gone and it's just c
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by silisili 1y ago
It's ok to point out a flaw in my argument without calling me a liar. I probably should have said 3x the scanning time, perhaps not total boarding time, I agree with that much. That said, if the person blocking your seating arrived on
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by silisili 1y ago
> Any attempt to do so would trigger a civil war within the US What makes you say that? I could see heavy protests, even violent protests, as it's not something Americans want. I'm not sure I could envision any semblance of an
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by silisili 1y ago
I have no idea about Europeans, but as an American who's flown a lot recently, the push to smartphone based tickets has been a nightmare. Not because of the tickets, but people aren't seemingly smart or considerate enough to use
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by silisili 1y ago
I feel like this is an unfair characterization. Having attended a couple of these type meetings, the common complaints are always traffic and crime. Are they legitimate worries? I don't know. But certainly more legitimate than conges
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by silisili 1y ago
Same and same. It's like declaring that reading O'Reilly books causes carpal tunnel and rsi. Maybe. It'd be far more interesting if they could exclude folks who used either as a sleep aid, but I'm not sure how realistic
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by silisili 1y ago
Not understanding the 'I did everything right and look what happened' intro, though certainly not a unique feeling. Tech hiring slowed at the tail end of 21 and the mass layoffs started in 22, 4 and 3 years ago respectively. Stu
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by silisili 1y ago
It's hard not to zoom out and look at the world as a game at times. If you do that, and go back way more than 10 years, it feels like every country is playing terribly. Countries used to routinely go on domination quests for land and
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by silisili 1y ago
25% isn't nearly high enough. Seems more like a government money grab than an effective tool.
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by silisili 1y ago
Interesting suggestion - thanks for sharing. Is the pay location dependent or has it just gone way down? That link shows three near me, but only paying a rather paltry $23/hr. That's not much more than something like Walmart, whi

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