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by wilde 5y ago
Right? This is good! It means they’re focusing on outcomes rather than prescribing implementations. The article just linked to the actual text of the bill but this summary seemed reasonable. https://www.lawfareblog.com/artif
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Ok, that’s fair then!
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This is the perennial problem with pricing. You should pay for the value you get out of the software. At a fixed price, there’s a lot less flexibility. In this case that same software might decide to charge for 3y or 5y of value. Would you
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by wilde 5y ago
Thanks for responding! I guess I was mainly reacting to your claim about the move to subscriptions. It costs $10/mo to make software these days. $0.33/mo (your stated price) isn’t tenable. I expect the added costs apply similarly
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by wilde 5y ago
But who will pay for this software? Not the author, they’ve made that very clear. The things they’re railing against fall into two categories: 1. The OS vendor hasn’t built it into the OS. 2. Cost saving measures. One the developer has litt
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by wilde 5y ago
I actually agree with a lot of the points here but am perplexed why he blames Obama. It was Bush’s war, and the Bush admin invented many of the departments and laws he’s arguing against.
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The Consumer Welfare Standard. You have to show that the cartel actually caused an increase in prices for end consumers. This is hard. Here’s an FTC commissioner explaining the history of it and why we should probably change it. https:&#x2
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by wilde 5y ago
Because the people making these decisions want to be paid more? The effect is relatively well studied. Here’s an NBER paper. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24598/w245...
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by wilde 5y ago
Sure, here’s an NBER paper that attempts to estimate this using state corporate tax cuts. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24598/w245...
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If we removed those incentives, companies would just give the rest to executives. https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-surged-14-i...
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by wilde 5y ago
Whoever runs the company is currently taking it all. Not the gov’t or employees. https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-surged-14-i...
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1Password team rewrote their app to fix internal team communication issues(castro.fm)
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I’m amused whenever I get one image “wrong” and have to click it anyway. “I can see how you might think that’s a boat but I assure you it’s a mailbox.” “COMPLY” “This hurts you more than it does me. click ”
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by wilde 5y ago
I’ve lived through a project managed like this. The problem isn’t the date. It’s the unwillingness to prioritize and cut scope when the bottoms up estimates show your first version is too big.
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by wilde 5y ago
Thanks for engaging here. Maybe my reading comprehension is poor, but here’s the full quote that I was objecting to. It comes after a long pull quote where Keepa promises to not log the requests that do contain latent interest behavior: &gt
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by wilde 5y ago
> Unless of course you don’t consider the information collected here personal. I don’t. The author even goes out of their way to point out that these requests aren’t generated by the user and so there’s no latent interest information the
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by wilde 5y ago
There’s plenty of criticism for those regimes at baseline. The goal is to reduce the amount of surveillance. It is cheaper to convince the NSO group to raise its customer standards or to provide more direct oversight than to convince each r
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by wilde 5y ago
The author is a little sloppy with his defense, which is frustrating. He ends up mixing race and class factors together for some of the counter arguments, which muddies the waters. The SAT is class biased. The college board only offers fee
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by wilde 5y ago
> All I see are companies spending more money on bolstering their legal and HR departments to implement union relations. Which means less money and benefits for us. This is arguing that unions depress wages. That’s demonstrably false [1]
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by wilde 5y ago
> Debt repayment has one vital characteristic: it is easy to understand. What? The US consumer debt industry would beg to differ. I was hoping that maybe they’d extend the concept to a liability or something. In general the idea is that
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by wilde 5y ago
Medical bankruptcies. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/04/30/affordable-care-ac...
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by wilde 5y ago
I hope they release a fine tuner for Codex. Jeremy is right that whole problem solving is likely overreach right now. But can I train the model to do a Rails version upgrade?
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by wilde 5y ago
Copilot violates the assumptions many people made when they open sourced their code. Moving from manual to automated use feels like a privacy violation because it dramatically changes the amount of effort it takes to leverage the work in an
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by wilde 5y ago
I buy the argument about copilot itself and this comment. But when someone goes to release software that uses the output of Copilot, I fail to see how they wouldn’t be a GPL derivative work if enough source was used. Copilot is essentially
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by wilde 5y ago
I turned auto play off by default on YouTube. Recently I noticed that sometimes auto play was happening anyway. It seems that YouTube has introduced videos that override my choice called “Mixes”. Whoever came up with that is an evil genius.
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The article fails to mention that the “censored” outlets are state-owned. In that frame, this looks like standard proportional military action.
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by wilde 5y ago
Possibly. We won’t know until this is tested in court. Traditionally one would want to clean room [1] this sort of thing. Co-pilot is…really dirty by those standards. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
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by wilde 5y ago
Their logo is cool, but it also feels faintly evil to me because I watched too much mid-2000s sci-fi.
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by wilde 5y ago
There are a lot of complaints about public school in this thread, but much of the data on achievement says that in the US, private schools don’t do a better job. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/00
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by wilde 5y ago
The classic advice is to talk to people. Ask your friends in other industries what the most bullshit part of their job is. The most frustrated friend will probably have something. Especially if their answer is “eh, I have this Excel sheet t

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