taurath

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by taurath 7mo ago
Yes - you buy the house in the bay, and companies will lock you in with the vesting schedule. Just another 3, 4 years and you’ll be rich enough to afford a second one, or retire early. Some people can self justify what they do, or pretend b
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by taurath 7mo ago
Companies create the environment - the government is supposed to be “small” - and it must remain small so the US “consumer” can be leeched from
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by taurath 7mo ago
Too many people making too much money - to be honest, people really should blame tech for it, all it takes is RSUs to look the other way. Morally most of the US is running far away from tech and the surveillance state but here it’s still ok
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by taurath 7mo ago
Over time we stop engaging as there is less and less actual information and more and more attention engineering at play. Then someone will make a space with real information again and we’ll all move there.
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by taurath 7mo ago
Atlassian Rovo is considered utterly dangerous on my team (as we are still encouraged to use it…), the first time I did it erased a whole page - it couldn’t get the most basic instruction correct, would leave out 80% of what I input, respon
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by taurath 7mo ago
Just making the point it’s a bit like someone in traffic complaining about all the other ppl on the road! :)
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by taurath 7mo ago
Cue 3 months to the “I’m having to make some hard decisions” email. Whats the board at Bluesky like?
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by taurath 7mo ago
When faced with the choice of trusting a stranger, you turned it down, then made the decision about the lack of trust in the world? Trust in strangers has never been easy in the US. If something is to change, it has to start individually.
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by taurath 7mo ago
> Politicisation and intolerance That the community is still such a place that there pretends there is a separation of “politics” from “non-political” or “objective” things, is itself a political ideology. I have a strong bias towards th
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by taurath 7mo ago
No, it still sucks, it’s genAI and the author uses twitter. Younger engineers veer the heck away from stuff that “looks” of a culture but isn’t.
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by taurath 7mo ago
It has a “gen-AI” vibe to it, and it’s meant to be playful in an alt/psypop sort of way but it is from no culture in particular. It trips up my brain as a bubbly ad from the marketing department of a dystopian corporation.
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by taurath 7mo ago
No, we’re Russia now. You go in, soak up the blame and attention for the Principle’s abhorrent and violent actions, grift a few hundred million dollars from contracts that you have sole authority over, and are discarded, now filthy rich. M
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by taurath 7mo ago
I am inclined to believe Ann Altman, personally - as someone who went through similar experiences the way their family closed ranks to protect the patriarch over the victim is pretty much exactly how child abuse continues unabated. It’s pos
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by taurath 7mo ago
> feeling in control of and empowered by your device - a vision that Apple once at least promised Legitimately, when? I got started on an Apple II, I used the puck mouse without right click, I watched people buy the insanely costly hardw
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by taurath 7mo ago
What does $200m mean for someone who thinks a trillion in revenue is likely among AI companies in the next 5 years? Which is a real quote.
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by taurath 8mo ago
Every single time the box is flipped over, whats inside is "more domestic surveillance". Who in their right mind would give the benefit of the doubt?
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by taurath 8mo ago
Wait really? I thought the models were basically the same with a wrapper. What about warp, is that also just a wrapper?
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by taurath 8mo ago
They might de facto take them over via the defense production act, board demands, or shut them down, and then put the screws on Google who they can already control via their shareholders.
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by taurath 8mo ago
Now we will all see how much power the president has over the markets which clearly prefer Anthropics offering
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by taurath 8mo ago
There's always this comment, saying that its useless to possibly govern or resist advancement or development or use of weapons capable of indiscriminate killing. If the world actually worked like they believe it does, if restraint were
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by taurath 8mo ago
> admitting that he's taking responsibility Its funny how for him, he is enriched by this option as the stock price rises, and its couched in words like responsibility. I was taught when I failed at something that responsibility mea
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by taurath 8mo ago
This reminds me of the meme of Margaret Thatcher: "And There is No Alternative" - a way to justify the policies she desired to implement and attempt to preempt any other view. We're supposed to believe Jack is a victim of cir
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by taurath 8mo ago
They get an air conditioned trailer and pay "sherpas" to do their chores, so its basically just a hotel suite
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by taurath 8mo ago
> It's not up to Dario to try to make absolute statements about the future. Thats insane to say, given that he's literally acting in the public sphere as the mouth of Sauron for how AI will grow so effective as to destroy almos
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by taurath 8mo ago
> it's easy to know how they will act when the going gets rough Even if you went to burning man and your souls bonded, you only know a person at a particular point in time - people's traits flanderize, they change, they emphasi
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by taurath 8mo ago
The effects of gambling aren’t good. Been to a casino? They’re sad places. It should be illegal the same way heroin and fentanyl is. Lots of ppl use opiates, and most don’t end up ruining their lives and that of their families. But there’s
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by taurath 8mo ago
That’s how they got the exclusive. Good catch
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by taurath 8mo ago
Add Costco to the 5 and that’s pretty much it for options.
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by taurath 8mo ago
> 1. Average American spends THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR year at Amazon. Where else would americans be getting home goods like soap, appliances, electronics? Vitamins, perscriptions, etc? The answer to almost every one of those, for the vast m
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by taurath 8mo ago
Stuff is cheap, but basic security is expensive. Everyone pints to the stuff, but income vs rent and asset prices has only gone up and up! Buying housing is utterly unaffordable for a very, very large percentage of young people even educate

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