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by tharne 1y ago
It's not a matter of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, it's the fundamental fact that trust takes a lifetime to build and a moment to lose.
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by tharne 1y ago
> "47% of Republicans would still vote for Trump even if implicated in Epstein's crimes" Two things here. One, I bet it's WAY higher than 47% who would vote for Trump again; it's 47% of Republicans admitting in a
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by tharne 1y ago
> Why is everyone trying so hard to find purpose in broken administrative processes? Broken processes persist when they're benefiting someone somehow. If you can't figure out who's benefiting from a crap process, good lu
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by tharne 1y ago
I don't know why people keep referring to AI as a hype bubble. A bubble usually implies that the majority of the population doesn't see the hype and bubble for what it is (see the run up to the 2008 housing crisis, where everyone
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by tharne 1y ago
I was starting to get worried about the potential for stagflation until I saw this post. Paul Krugman is the Jim Kramer of economic forecasting; take what he says and wait for the opposite to occur. There's a perverse skill to being co
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by tharne 1y ago
Yup, the military is one of the few remaining institutions interested in funding long-term research without an obvious immediate payout.
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by tharne 1y ago
Maybe, but another way to look at this is that if someone is going to hold back requesting a new machine because they don't feel like writing a few paragraphs, then they probably don't really need a new computer. On the other hand
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by tharne 1y ago
> humans are needlessly verbose What a depressing belief. Human communication is about a whole lot more than just getting your point across as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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by tharne 1y ago
The other big reason is their glorious refusal to honor non-compete clauses. As I understand it, this was a big reason a lot of tech companies moved from Boston to CA back in the day.
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by tharne 1y ago
That is insanely clever. Love it.
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by tharne 1y ago
The fact that you think that's a big number just underscores how dire Europe's security situation is at the moment. One hundred billion Euros sounds like a lot, but China spends two and a half times that much on defense every sing
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by tharne 1y ago
It really did cost you bigly. Compared with 25 years ago, Europe is less safe, less powerful, and more dependent on other countries for very important things.
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by tharne 1y ago
Lol, I'll believe it when I see it. Is this the same Europe that despite everything going on in the world is: - Still buying Russian gas - Dependent on U.S. Military bases for their own security - Dependent on Chinese manufacturing for
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by tharne 1y ago
> Eh. I'd argue while some of the objects have improved - I'm not sure my life has improved because of them. This is exactly right. So many "improvements" are cool or interesting, but either provide no meaningful impr
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by tharne 1y ago
> Do people learn to be this way at business school? Yup. I've found the the core material in the curricula for most business schools and MBA programs is a excellent resource on what not to do while working in business, or really
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by tharne 2y ago
> I don't know that the prior situation was sustainable and would have lasted much longer anyway. Using China for manufacturing is like using Amazon for sales. You are required to give them everything they need to take your business
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by tharne 2y ago
> “Everything” may be a bit extreme, but seriously, have you already forgotten the lessons learned during the Covid supply shocks? I don't why the mainstream media isn't focusing more on this angle. Five years ago the richest,
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by tharne 2y ago
> Eh, China has 20x-ed its GDP per capita in a generation. They're not slaves. Maybe not according-to-hoyle slaves, but they're not in a great spot either: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/j
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by tharne 2y ago
Wow, you're right. I read the article quickly and did not catch the fact that those were two related, but not totally causally linked statements. My bad. I still find it odd that Europe and others are reacting to bad behavior on the pa
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by tharne 2y ago
I would argue that the CCP and the Maga crew employ a handful of similar tactics against the ultra wealthy in their respective countries. If you play ball and kiss the ring, things generally go ok for you. If you criticize them publicly or
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by tharne 2y ago
> BYD cars are much more affordable than Teslas. It's not all about politics. Yes, things can have more than one cause, but the article mentions political motivations several times.
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by tharne 2y ago
> I thought this would go without saying, but once SWE jobs are automated by AI (if it were to happen), then every job can be automated. I think this is exactly right, and possibly a good thing relative to the alternative. If AI were abl
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by tharne 2y ago
I don't think AI will have much of an impact on management consulting, since it's really just executive insurance. If anything, management consulting might be the perfect use for generative AI in its current state. If you're
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by tharne 2y ago
Ahhh...that makes a lot more sense. I hope they fix that.
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by tharne 2y ago
Is this article more LLM-generated junk? The very prominent statistic they use close to the beginning of the article is both confidently and spectacularly incorrect in a way that should have been obvious even to someone doing a cursory skim
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by tharne 2y ago
> in the abstract, governments are indistinguishable from any other collective of people. Sure, but in reality they have a legal monopoly on the use of violence, which is a very big deal and makes them qualitatively different from any ot
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by tharne 2y ago
> Stallman was right again. He usually is, no matter how many times people write him off.
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by tharne 2y ago
> You can't expect the police to do their jobs? Imagine you're a programmer, or a chef, or a carpenter, really anything. Now imagine you go to work every day, put in 8-10 hours a day working hard, and at the end of each day som
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by tharne 2y ago
> the DA didn't "stop prosecuting criminals" The voters of California certainly think he did: https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/11/george-gascon-pamela-...
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by tharne 2y ago
> They're more concerned with being a paramilitary police force versus stopping or preventing neighborhood crime. Didn't they pull back on enforcement of quality of life crimes when the previous DA stopped prosecuting criminal

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