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by vkou 4mo ago
The problem is that you have 100 applicants and one apprentice slot.
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by vkou 4mo ago
You'll also filter out people smart enough to know that this is a bullshit keyword matching game and the only way to win it is to put the keywords on their resume. Because they assume that the job posting was written by a non-technical
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by vkou 4mo ago
Nah, the problem was that the blue dog democrat congresscritters (holding usually red districts) would have been out of a job. So instead of single payer, everyone got the ACA, and then the blue dog dems lost their jobs anyways.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Good thing the moral hazard of getting unnecessary healthcare that your doctor ordered for you is controlled for. Perhaps someone should also control the moral hazard of the people owning and running this racket getting unnecessary amounts
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by vkou 4mo ago
The blind spot is the same one that's always there. Takedown notices from partners are fast tracked, takedown notices from Joe Bob require a court filing. (It makes some degree of sense - I shouldn't be able to use a burner identi
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by vkou 4mo ago
You would, most consumers wouldn't.
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by vkou 4mo ago
"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do." But, uh, I don't think I'll necessaril
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by vkou 4mo ago
Yet we could tell the studio companies that they can't have theatres. How did that not violate it? Has the amendment changed in the past century? Were the judges just stupid? Maybe it's not so simple?
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by vkou 4mo ago
It's also the reason a lot of crap has flourished, too. I'll take a bit less tech progress if it meant less of it.
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by vkou 4mo ago
People like blaming everything that is wrong in their life on lack of law enforcement against the undesirables. It's a tale as old as time.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Meanwhile the people with mountains of money can leverage them to enough effect to make even bigger mountains of money, by hiring less-than-skilled people who will do way more with it than they could without it.
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by vkou 4mo ago
> What we gain though is for people don’t possess that knowledge in the first place, now have this superpower. Indeed. The great innovation of AI is giving people with wealth access to vast amounts of knowledge, while limiting the amount
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by vkou 4mo ago
It's been 0% of my commutes in Seattle. Yet the NC headphones are also everywhere, including on my head.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Pretty sure my commute of 12 years had exactly zero aggressive panhandling (or unaggressive panhandling), yet just about every single person on it was wearing some flavour of them. I've also just been in Japan, where nobody's co
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by vkou 4mo ago
I'm not angry about what you say, I'm angry at the parasites that have built this system, and the cynical bastards that work their ass off to perpetuate it.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Great, just work a well paying megacorp white collar job and you'll get slightly less fucked on healthcare. What about the other 90% of the country?
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by vkou 4mo ago
Everything you have said here is also quite true. For many people, it does get better with time, though.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Higher intangible quality of life, lower spending power. There are a lot of QOL advantages to living in a less violent, less polarized, less cruelty-driven society that isn't actively trying to dismantle all of its institutions and des
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by vkou 4mo ago
I'm not saying that the SEC is stupid. They have a consistent way that they expect a corporation to do their books. But for all practical intents and purposes, you can't just fire all your sales people and shut off your marketin
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by vkou 4mo ago
An oil well doesn't disappear once you put it in the ground (The oil might). If the marketing and promotions and discounts stopped tomorrow, that revenue will drop.
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by vkou 4mo ago
That's not the question. They can obviously raise prices ~5% and be in the green when it comes to operational spending. The better question is what will that $38B of R&D spending get.
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by vkou 4mo ago
> There's not even any political angle to pursue here, it is just lighting knowledge on fire with no grander purpose. Fucking with people who are capable of reading and writing is the political angle. Pol Pot took this sort of log
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by vkou 4mo ago
Sales and marketing have to be added to the COR, which makes COR slightly > Revenue.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Discounted contracts for big clients? Commissions? Both? If this can be trusted, they are selling $1 for ~95 cents, and are spending $3 on R&D. This is... Not an unsustainable business model as long as the money keeps flowing.
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by vkou 4mo ago
A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Could you give any examples of how these new markets have positively changed my life as a consumer? Did any of the stuff I buy become cheaper or better, or get replaced with something else entirely (that is cheaper or better)? Where is the
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by vkou 4mo ago
Because that would give managers too much agency. You aren't supposed to get that agency until you are director. Managers manage people and get headcount. Directors manage money and get budgets. That agency has a price, though. Whateve
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by vkou 4mo ago
Where are these new markets, and how much of my spend as a consumer is going towards them? This isn't the invention of the internal combustion engine, or the textile loom, or the internet. The way people are doing work has changed a bi
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by vkou 4mo ago
Which is only relevant if one of the following two things happens: 1. Consumption goes up. (It's not going up. 40 hours at your job buys you less shit today than it did 3 years ago.) 2. Mega-corps start losing marketshare and revenue t
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by vkou 4mo ago
Unlike sending you an email, nobody's pushing you anything, though. You are actively pulling a program that explicitly says that you should not use it with an AI system. It's like pulling a bunch of GPL code into your product

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