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by tharne 11mo ago
> I very much doubt the execs understand how much they're damaging the brand for that little bit of extra revenue. I disagree. They know exactly what they're doing. Executives get paid and promoted based on quarterly profitab
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by tharne 11mo ago
The more I use AI, the more I'm convinced you're probably right.
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by tharne 11mo ago
> To really dig into the actions of even a single company could take months of careful research. That's a really good point. With the way modern supply chains work, it may not even be possible to really know if you're buying so
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by tharne 11mo ago
> The thing holding back unions in the U.S is the unions themselves and the laws around them. Once a union forms, they have entirely too much power. This is a nice summary of the central issue with unions in the U.S. A rational person ca
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by tharne 11mo ago
> And no, consumers have never really cared in the gaming space. They won't do anything differently because of this. Consumers almost never care outside of isolated causes du jour or when it directly affects someone they know. Look
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by tharne 11mo ago
What is the argument being made here? That we've done stupid and damaging things to our brains in the past so we just stop worrying and just double down?
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by tharne 11mo ago
That's fine; I wasn't referring to the academic quality the grammar. It's the ideas themselves that are muddled and unclear. Proficiency in given language and the ability to express oneself clearly are not as related as we ty
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by tharne 11mo ago
> I’m doing most complicated projects I ever work , I would not even try to implement them without AI. My brain is exploding of complexity every time , I passively learn lots of topics I only had a vague understanding in the past This se
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by tharne 11mo ago
> This discourse is as old as humanity. Every tool makes us stronger but also paradoxically weaker. Of course that statement is true for every tool, but what's missing from the discussion is whether the trade off is worth it. Even t
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by tharne 11mo ago
> Reaching for AI as a _substitute_ for thinking is bad, but reaching for it as a tool to assist thinking is good; you just need to be honest about whether it's your brain in the driver's seat or the chat bot. I think this is g
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by tharne 11mo ago
> Also, Americans have to file both fed and state taxes (with different rules) And if that weren't enough, you've go municipal taxes too, in a few places like New York and Detroit.
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by tharne 11mo ago
In your opinion, what skills are called for in this current era of LLMs?
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by tharne 11mo ago
> If you don't have a spine, sure I've never understood this take. A lot of people were saying this sort of thing when Proton Mail turned over some user data to authorities in Europe a while back. If you're running a tech
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by tharne 11mo ago
> Not all countries have an equivalent to the USA CLOUD Act. Not yet, anyway. Unfortunately, pretty much every country seems to be getting less and less open and free over time. Some are better than others, but it does feel like everyone
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by tharne 11mo ago
> "We shouldn't use the thing that has memory safety built in because it also has a thriving ecosystem of open source dependencies available" is a very weird argument. I don't see anyone anywhere in this thread saying
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by tharne 11mo ago
This one of the things that frightens me about LLMs. Like MBA programs, they seem to make people dumber over time, while simultaneously making them feel smarter and more confident in their abilities.
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by tharne 11mo ago
I feel like this comment ^ was made in bad faith. Providing an accurate description of reality is not an endorsement of that reality, but I'm pretty sure you already know this, and your comment here is more of a rhetorical tool than an
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by tharne 11mo ago
This is not a U.S. specific issue. Once you strip away all of the formalities, titles, and ceremonies, you'll realize there's no such thing as international law, at least not in any meaningful sense of the word. The law, by defini
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by tharne 11mo ago
People tend to underestimate the value of a solution that folks, especially less technical folks, are already trained on, comfortable with, and one that is known to work as expected.
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by tharne 11mo ago
This is something I've never totally understood when it comes to Rust's much loved memory safety vs. C's lack of memory safety. When it comes to replacing C code with Rust, aren't we just trading memory risk for supply c
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by tharne 11mo ago
OpenAI has yet to build an AI model that can write basic python scripts without confidently making up functions and libraries that don't exist, but in just over two years we're going to get a "legitimate AI researcher"??
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by tharne 1y ago
> How is masculinity commonly understood and what examples do you have of the left and democrats not making space? What would you say is the Democratic or progressive view of masculinity and where does it fit in the progressive or libera
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by tharne 1y ago
That's a tough question. There's no one "right" sample size. It depends on the size of the effect you're trying to measure, how much noise is in the data, whether or not you want to analyze subgroups within the data
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by tharne 1y ago
The potential for trolling and general idiocy is high here, so I'll tread carefully. I think this is an uncomfortable truth that the Democratic party has yet to effectively internalize and address; and they will continue to struggle an
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by tharne 1y ago
Are those $10-20/user/month costs sustainable? As I understand it, a lot of the price tags we're seeing now reflect steep discounts underwritten by massive debt and VC money. The other thing I wonder about with respect to cos
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by tharne 1y ago
I have zero doubt that the car companies will do their best to make it effectively impossible to "own" your own car, in the same way you can no longer truly "buy" software.
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by tharne 1y ago
There's no incongruence as you say, but focusing on problems in other countries where you have little to no first hand knowledge or influence and no real skin in the game is just a distraction.
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by tharne 1y ago
I really like heavy codes of conduct. They're the Open Source project equivalent of those brightly colored frogs in the tropics. They're kind enough to signal their own toxicity so others know to keep their distance.
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by tharne 1y ago
It continues to amaze me how much time Europeans spend criticizing the U.S. for all of our nonsense, while they too are sprinting toward a more authoritarian future.
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by tharne 1y ago
It would be necessary to have the list of past predictions from UBS for this figure to have any meaning. Otherwise you fall into the trap of "Economists successfully predicted 10 of the last 4 recessions".

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