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by vkou 11mo ago
> They are able to hold the public hostage by preventing automation at ports, stopping teaching (often doubling as daycare for children), or withholding public safety. The legislature can and has ordered them back to work without a contr
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by vkou 11mo ago
40,000 dead[1] and two million houses damaged in a country of 40 million people (presiding over a global empire of a billion souls) over six years is not meaningful... Especially in the context of the largest and most destructive war the wo
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by vkou 11mo ago
> With the second war destroying a lot of the country and calling to rebuild at home. WW2 did not 'destroy' the UK. It wasn't subjected to any of the horrors of ground warfare, and the Blitz failed to inflict any meanin
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by vkou 11mo ago
Be careful what you wish for. It's most likely that the only replacement for a two-party system the US will get... Will be a one-party system. Because there is no legal pathway[1] towards solving the conditions that create the two part
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by vkou 11mo ago
I'm assuming that unlike 18F or USDS, you'll likely be asked to do ethically-compromising things?
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by vkou 11mo ago
> So either training data is going to get more expensive because you're going to have to pay creators, or these models will slowly drift away from the contemporary cultural reality. Nah, more likely is that contemporary cultural rea
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by vkou 11mo ago
Yes, because if you're a hardcore liver-failure-in-three-years alcoholic, quitting cold turkey will kill you, and if you're in the hospital for some other issue, they will make sure you get some alcohol. Doctors don't prescri
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by vkou 11mo ago
> but I'm not seeing our billionaires fall out a window or disappearing when they say the wrong thing. This doesn't happen overnight. You need to thoroughly corrupt the judiciary (which has not yet been accomplished, even if SC
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by vkou 11mo ago
We don't accept it on the street either, and if you think that's what Main Street looks like, you either live in Memphis, an active warzone, or you need to turn off the telly.
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by vkou 11mo ago
They do have this right. Hiring scabs is legal.
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by vkou 11mo ago
That argument is bullshit, and I'll tell you why. An employer can't fire people for unionizing, but there's no law that requires them to accept a union's negotiating demands ... Or prevents them from bringing in scabs i
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by vkou 11mo ago
Employers having to pay more than they'd prefer to pay for a given type of work/provide better working conditions does not imply "unfair exploitation" of the company by the union, either. It's just a market reaching
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by vkou 11mo ago
> That assumes that the union never unfairly exploits the company. Is that the bar we want a corporate environment to meet? No unfair exploitation of anyone ever? If so, the existing structures sure as shit don't meet it. Why carry
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by vkou 11mo ago
We've also seen collective ruin many many times when societies have embraced economic and market concepts. Seen the rust belt anytime lately?
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by vkou 11mo ago
No, because if you're directly eating whatever is being grown, the carbon is in a closed cycle. (Feedstock -> Your food -> You -> Air you exhale -> Plants turn it into feedstock.) CO2 is not really a 'sustainability&#x
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by vkou 11mo ago
Java's not gone anywhere, but it's been years since I've interviewed anyone who has made it their language of choice. Developer sentiment for it isn't exactly great. A decade ago, a good ~80% of applicants chose to use
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by vkou 11mo ago
More than half. Almost everything they do is virtue signaling.
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by vkou 11mo ago
It's on brand for his party.
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by vkou 11mo ago
It's against my ToS for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to train their models on my writing, but they've all done that. They are free to pound sand.
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by vkou 11mo ago
> It's the moral imperative of every country to optimize for its citizens' economic prospects. Surely there are constraints on this, because otherwise, it would be the moral imperative of every country to enslave non-citizens f
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by vkou 11mo ago
> ¿Por qué no los dos? Because the man crying wolf about the EU's fines against his business has his arms elbow-deep in this mess. Any such conversation involving him is like asking the House of Saud in to weigh in on freedom of the
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by vkou 11mo ago
Instead of casting stones from glass houses, perhaps the US should look inwardly to its own censorship. A number of states and the current federal regime have their fingers fully into that pie. Criticism of Israel, lgbtq material, calls for
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by vkou 11mo ago
The thing that the ultra-wealthy desire above all else is power and privilege , and they won't be getting either of that in those bunkers. They sure as shit won't be content to leave the rest of us alone.
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by vkou 11mo ago
You've reinvented the Soviet grocery store, but with robots instead of people and with a $7 cup of coffee.
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by vkou 11mo ago
It correctly observes that experts are not always right, and often incorrectly responds by turning to loud, persuasive quackery.
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by vkou 11mo ago
> They didn't reach out to the startup, or tell them about the vote happening at council It's not the city's responsibility to do that. If your business depends on particular actions by a city's legislature, it's
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by vkou 11mo ago
And yet, investors and landlords are scooping up every rental property they can, and are as a class, making mountains of money in those states. It's wild that as a whole they are so advantaged that they are still net-in the green when
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by vkou 11mo ago
For the most part, yes. "I am a gold speculator" is, for those reasons, not exactly socially productive employment.
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by vkou 11mo ago
The blueprint should start with a recipe for building a better computer, and once you do that, well, it's humans starting fires and playing with the flames.
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by vkou 11mo ago
I'm not defending dishonesty, I'm saying that's what citations do when they are used by honest people.

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