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by welshwelsh 1y ago
Nobody outside of the IT security bubble thinks that using AppLocker is a sensible idea. Companies have no business telling their employees which specific programs they can and cannot run to do their jobs, that's an absurd level of mic
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
What's wrong with Amazon trying to make a political point? Amazon is obviously trying to pressure the Trump admin into easing the tariffs. Why wouldn't they? Why shouldn't they? Amazon is as much a political actor as any o
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
Manufacturing doesn't have to involve large amounts of low-skill manual labor. It can be highly automated and serve as a source of jobs for engineers.
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
We should focus on getting rid of KYC, instead of giving up on privacy and security.
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
There is zero chance that capitalism will solve this problem. Even if you personally choose not to buy overly advertised goods, the overwhelming majority of people will not make the same choice. Advertising works extremely well, and it wil
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
>my intense hyperfocus on one thing at a time but also inability to keep consistently focused on one thing for more than a few weeks Sounds extremely normal to me. I wonder what I'm missing. For example, suppose a typical person de
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
The average office worker is productive for less than 3 hours per day https://www.vouchercloud.com/better-living/office-worker-pro... That's normal across all industries. If there are people who are actually prod
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
Replacing a CEO would save a lot less money than replacing even a small percentage of workers. The typical CEO of a F500 company makes $17.7 million compensation. That might seem like a lot, but it's only about 0.04% of the average F5
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
Executive salaries represent less than 0.01% of UHG revenue. Total revenue is about $320B. Thompson's compensation was $1M cash + about $10m stock (the stock part doesn't impact the company's profit margin). In any case, exe
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
That might seem like a bad thing if you're a government trying to boost consumer spending so you can keep the economy running. But from a consumer's perspective, deflation is a feature. I don't want to spend my money! I wan
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
Wow. Honestly, no part of my brain is screaming about possible escalation, it's something I'm not worried about in the slightest. Why would someone risk their freedom and harm another person IRL by committing a serious crime, wh
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
I thought the big thing with computers is that they are much cheaper than humans. If we are evaluating LLM suitability for tasks typically performed by humans, we should judge them by the same standards we judge humans. That means it'
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
If a driver's average rating falls below 4.6 Uber typically removes them from the platform. A rating of less than 5 stars is treated similarly to if a customer reported a driver for poor service.
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
I'm glad they didn't comply. I don't want social media platforms banning people just because some national government told them to.
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
A court ordering for social media accounts to be blocked is censorship, no question about that. If there are "election rules" that regulate what can be posted online, that's censorship. Even if people are inciting violence o
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
What I took away from this article is that many low-income men have no real interest in being fathers or raising children. Yet, they tend to produce children anyway. We should focus on making birth control more accessible, instead of tryin
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
There are still plenty of roads though, which shouldn't exist in a dense city like Manhattan. We have a long way to go still
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
RealPage's formula is largely the opposite of that. Before RealPage, most large landlords would aim for 97-98% occupancy and set their rents accordingly. RealPage would encourage landlords to instead aim for 90-95% occupancy by setting
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
While these are all valid concerns, they also apply to human teachers. Humans spew bullshit all the time. But that's OK. A teacher's knowledge doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be better than the student's.
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by welshwelsh 2y ago
The purpose of the government is to serve the interests of the taxpayers that fund it. Not to transfer resources from taxpayers to non-taxpayers.
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
You make a good point about on-topic moderation. But I think this misses something. Rejecting a cell microbiology paper from a computer science journal is not an attempt to suppress the paper. If anything, it is of benefit to the paper, s
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
I'm skeptical of this interpretation. There is a middle ground between people making $20 an hour and business tycoons. Policies that help big business might not trickle down to people stocking shelves, but they often advantage middle
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
You don't think it's possible to integrate an AI system with JIRA so that it can link to the relevant tickets?
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
He might have not founded Amazon if he was poor, but that's not a question anyone was asking. The overwhelming majority of people, if they were given $245,573 in 1993, would not go on to build a trillion-dollar company. What Bezos acc
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
What counts as "human level"? I would contend that a 5-year-old has general intelligence, and therefore an AI system with the language and reasoning abilities of a 5-year-old has artificial general intelligence. But the discrimina
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
No need to wait, the future is now. I've already seen huge gains in income and work-life balance by spending time automating my workflow. I hope that by "trickle down to the workers" you aren't talking about technically
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
I would have said d. XXX. My reasoning being that in sets 1 and 2, the third tile has an X in every space where the first or second tile has an X. Anyway, it seems to me that you are holding AI to a higher standard than humans. Abstract re
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
You're assuming less hours = less pay, which is unwarranted. Someone who is at work for 40 hours is not necessarily "working more" than someone who is at work for 30 hours, it just means they are less efficient. If both work
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
That's why you'll never make CEO pay. Most people, myself included, will happily retire with a couple million. A lot of these people have ambitions that require a lot more money than that. Maybe they want to cure aging or explor
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
I consider those people to be on the "I want to work in an office" side. Companies with RTO policies still usually give the option to work from home a couple days a week, right? Just not every day. You still need to live within c

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