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by tivert 2y ago
I don't think big-tech companies exiting is a bad thing. They're so used to getting their own way and making the rules that it's probably signal that Europe is on the right track.
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by tivert 2y ago
So, you're saying that 81% of Americans want the wrong things? /s
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by tivert 2y ago
> Or hell, even the way Germany does with its emphasis on vocational schooling as an alternative to university? Increasing emphasis on vocational schooling would probably be a good idea from an economic (when viewed outside the narrow fr
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by tivert 2y ago
> At the same time, is it too much to ask for a sidewalk? That’s the thing that bothers me the most. Many suburbs seem built to be actively hostile to walkers, rather than just inconveniently sprawling. No it is not, suburbs with sidewal
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by tivert 2y ago
Isn't https://ticalc.org the place for TI calculator games?
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by tivert 2y ago
> Aren't tax deferrals on 401ks a long term bet? You misunderstand. I'm mainly talking about the policy level, not the individual level. The US let a fetish for free markets override pretty much every other national priority.
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by tivert 2y ago
> They moved the goalposts from “mad about not apologizing for the bombing” to “mad about the bombing itself”? I think the GP was saying you moved the goalposts. And the perceived lack of apology was an important factor in this person&
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by tivert 2y ago
> You think China subsidizing manufacturers so they make cheaper sneakers... If you think China is only subsidizing the manufacturing of stupid things like sneakers, you're sorely misinformed. They pretty much have a lock on solar p
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by tivert 2y ago
> You don’t think the west has stockpiles? A few small and badly run ones. IIRC, the US's medical stockpile was already bare at the start of COVID, and I recall reading controversy about if it should be replenished at all when its
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by tivert 2y ago
> Also, lots of people forget that Chinese who grew up in the 1990s tend to be fairly anti-American due to the Tiannamen Sanctions, the Taiwan Straits Crisis, and the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade... Don't forget the p
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by tivert 2y ago
IMHO, stockpiles are good policy since they build resilience. If China's doing this but not the West, it's a display of some of the advantages of their governance model (not to say that it doesn't have disadvantages, too). Th
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by tivert 2y ago
https://archive.is/yBWfy
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by tivert 2y ago
> According to NASA, Perseverance has used all of its available instrumentation to study Chevaya Falls. "We have zapped that rock with lasers and X-rays and imaged it literally day and night from just about every angle imaginable,&q
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NASA hasn't found life on Mars yet, but the latest discovery is intriguing(arstechnica.com)
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by tivert 2y ago
>> "Oh no, efficiency will be down and the execs' stock options might not be worth quite as much." > Translation: employees have to work with someone who is not pulling their weight (always unpleasant) and their own
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by tivert 2y ago
> So forgive me for having exactly zero sympathy for the companies that perpetuate this ugly arms race. But companies have all the power so they should be able to make all the rules, and so we should all be sympathetic with them as they
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by tivert 2y ago
> Thus in 1970, the Microcomputers Plant was established. Located in Warsaw, it employed Polish workers but used British components and financing – the required parts weren’t available in Poland and the communists weren’t at all eager to
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by tivert 2y ago
At least with "SEO-gameified garbage" the little guy has a chance to compete by learning the SEO game.
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by tivert 2y ago
I don't think it would do that, unless the original was an "intimate visual depiction." However, I do think it would allow, say, Trump to sue people who made or distributed an image of him appearing in a diaper (IIRC I think
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by tivert 2y ago
So this bans photoshop, too? Maybe even oil painting (oil paints are a technology, and an unauthorized nude oil painting of a celebrity would be indistinguishable from an "authentic"/authorized nude oil painting).
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by tivert 2y ago
> A year or two beyond the competition, at this point, is their moat. That doesn't seem like much of a moat. > They have GPT-5 in the pipeline and are likely hard at work planning and prepping for GPT-6. I wouldn't be surpri
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by tivert 2y ago
> "In a major reversal, Google is ending a plan to eliminate cookies in its Chrome browser after four years of efforts, delays and disagreements with the advertising industry." > It should say Googles real customers instead
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by tivert 2y ago
> Tab's being control characters then make a bit more sense, in that they cause the printhead to jump some fixed distance to the right. Isn't that incorrect? Tab doesn't jump a " fixed distance to the right," it
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by tivert 2y ago
> People throughout history have replaced the "elite" once the cost to do so became less than the cost (or benefit) to continue on in the status quo. Past performance is not a guarantee of future success. The elite throughout h
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by tivert 2y ago
> This misunderstands the economy. It's driven by household and government spending. All that B2B stuff happens because some company, somewhere at the end of the chain, sells to households or the government. No, I didn't misund
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by tivert 2y ago
> As long as energy isn't unlimited, humans will always have some comparative <s>language</s> [advantage] compared to AI + robots. The truth of that really depends what you mean by "humans"... All humans?
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by tivert 2y ago
> I hardly see any discussion anywhere of what happens when 100% of useful labor is automated to the point that humans have 0 comparative advantage compared to AI+robots in anything of economic value. Eventually automated gas chambers, o
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by tivert 2y ago
> But no salaries -> no consumption -> no profit for companies. No, you just need a little more imagination. What would the economy look like if you didn't need employees to utilize resources or undertake projects? Some very m
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by tivert 2y ago
> Anything that removes the need to pay salaries would have massive impacts on productivity numbers. (I am not arguing that would necessarily be good[1], but it would show up in the economic stats, in line with bglazer's point). I a
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by tivert 2y ago
> All the doom scenarios seem to rely on quasi-magical abilities springing from advanced intelligence, but ignore that these scenarios require the AI to have access to significant resources. No. The doom scenario I'm most concerned

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