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- Comment on Is a web browser using another scripting language feasible? 6 days ago:
Says many people. What problem are you solving? Do millions of people agree that it needs to be solved in this way? … If you don’t know, or they don’t, then it’s a no-go except for fun (which is fun).
- Comment on How do people easily find out that I'm an easy to pick up on? 1 week ago:
We need more information. What industry? Can you give us concrete examples? Are bosses in on this? What kind of projects? … I’m afraid right now we just don’t have a clear picture of anything.
Your goal sounds good, but I’m wondering if you tried the obvious things: tell them to STFU, and/or of course escalate if they don’t. It might not work, but it might.
- Comment on Centrists have such a Hard Choice. 1 week ago:
Of course you are one of them, right?
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 week ago:
Or maybe fewer of us will game, of course. If you kill quality you kill your customer base.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 week ago:
Except for people with contracts or unions, lol.
- Comment on We can save Social Security. Scrap the Cap! 1 week ago:
And tax the ultra rich. If your net worth is over ten million, regardless of your income, you should be contributing big bucks to social security and federal taxes.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 1 week ago:
You can say that but I remember Fukushima. The damage causes by the Fukushima meltdown cost more than the power company’s total profits in Japan over the previous 40 years.
So keep telling me that nuclear is safe, and I’ll keep pointing to the damage it is guaranteed to cause. Low risk high consequence situations are the hardest to regulate. And you’re risking your entire city, all at once, everything in it.
But look, the real question is what new sources to build. Current sources will stay online for years or decades. For new production, the cheapest by far is solar, followed by wind, as long as the externalities are dumped back on the utilities. Also, home solar means the utilities can’t price gouge you.
- Comment on surprised they have employees and not just agents 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t believe that. We all knew AI was a giant fucking bubble the entire time. You want to tell me the software developers themselves were somehow oblivious? … OK, that theoretically possible.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 3 weeks ago:
In some states if you refuse a field sobriety test before they arrest you, you could lose your driver’s license, potentially.
But once they’ve arrested you, I don’t know of any state that would require the field sobriety test. Some states would require a regular test which would be done at the station or the hospital. Field sobriety tests are not reliable, so the cops are going to want to do a proper test that is more reliable. But whether these latter tests are required depends on the situation. And it’s possible that the cops will get a court order requiring you to take one anyway, should you refuse.
In other words, field sobriety tests are designed to establish probable cause so that they can arrest you. But they aren’t designed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you’re DUI.
- Comment on Beware Beans! 3 weeks ago:
Beans did not steal anything. The chicken always belonged to Beans, though you were unaware of that basic fact.
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 3 weeks ago:
Web search was the last big innovative thing they did. The other good shit since was bought up, lol, easier to buy than innovative. Capitalists hate competing because they might lose.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 4 weeks ago:
And the garbage finished taking itself out. Wonderful.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 4 weeks ago:
Define “village”. Lol, seriously though. What exactly do you mean? I’ve seen hundreds of ultra local train lines in my life.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 4 weeks ago:
Well yeah, of course there’s no way to build more train tracks. Can’t be helped, oh well, tough luck.
- Comment on Goodnight mum *shakes hand* 4 weeks ago:
Lol the folks are high too … That’s why they shake back.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but middle-class workers will get left behind 4 weeks ago:
What’s ironic is that he’s making a sales pitch for society outlawing his job. He’s telling us that he’s not worthy of being a member of our society as clearly as he can, but he doesn’t even realize it.
Because look if AI is going to make everyone’s life go to hell then all we need to do is change our governments and change the laws and get rid of those evil pieces of s*** who destroyed our society. In the end it really is that simple. Which doesn’t make it easy.
But actually it’s all a bubble so it’s not going to happen anyway.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 5 weeks ago:
Of course it’s fine to point out hypocrisy, but more importantly, these billionaires (all billionaires) are really fucked up people. Their brains are not OK. They have horrible values. They are happy that people starve and die every day, because that makes them richer. Don’t think that copying them will get you anywhere good.
(Of course you still might want to shield your kid from shitty products. But don’t do it because Thiel does.)
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 1 month ago:
You’d think he’d have learned his lesson from the Knicks game. I mean no, obviously he didn’t learn his lesson, but other people should have predicted what would happen because he destroys everything he touches.
- Comment on I said meow! 1 month ago:
They don’t freak out, but they want me to wake up when the sun comes up, for no good reason (in my head, that is). So they meow, and leave, and return every thirty minutes, two cats acting like a snooze alarm.
They get food from the automatic feeder. It’s not a breakfast thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That sounds like victim blaming, lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Basically, costs over the last few decades are because of pointless administrators and corrupt spending on pet projects by those administrators. Also, the cost of living in the US is fairly high compared with Romania to begin with.
- Comment on I swear it won't hurt you if you use it for like a second 1 month ago:
Lol many of us have to use Windows at work so we actually have current knowledge of the shittiness… But the other way around is not true, and here in the memes it seems the accusation is a confession, meh. :-)
- Comment on What do you do if you lose an argument, but it turns out that you were actually right? 1 month ago:
Depends. But usually the important thing is that you got your position out there. The opposing party won the argument, but the other listeners may have filled in the blanks and realized you had the better take even if you did not clearly express it.
In other words, truth seekers don’t worry too much about who won. They worry about what’s true.
- Comment on Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated 3 months ago:
Of course! Google would say that. Doesn’t mean it’s true. They aren’t under oath and they have every reason to lie.
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 3 months ago:
Your simple question has a simple answer. The answer is that different people and different companies have different reasons for supporting Israel.
Some people are racists, some people sell weapons, some people want money for their political campaigns, some of those groups overlap, etc.
So obviously the answer is that it depends who you’re talking about.
- Comment on Anon gets scammed 4 months ago:
The Pirate Bay doesn’t have ads.
- Comment on What would you do? 4 months ago:
National level fixes almost never work. Give schools and teachers and districts money and power for the win.
- Comment on it's gonna take lots of chain falls and smooshed fingers 4 months ago:
It really depends on your situation and on the work you’re doing. If you have a project that you honestly care about that you think is really good then you usually want to see it get done. So you might make the decision to overwork yourself even if you objectively shouldn’t. And bosses love to set that up, so they’ll give you a bunch of annoying crap that you don’t think is valuable. But they make you do it and then you end up having to work later in the evening to get done the stuff that you actually care about. Of course, that’s something that we all need to be very careful about, but in the short run it’s hard to stop.
And another situation that’s even worse is that you might lose your job. Sometimes telling the boss no means that you will be unemployed and if you need to make that money to pay the bills then you might be f*****.
- Comment on Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day 4 months ago:
Can you imagine if tech workers decided they might want to unionize? That would be an exciting day.
- Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless? 4 months ago:
Finding employees.