bioemerl
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- Comment on If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless? 1 year ago:
Well fuck you too pal, I thought it was a good analogy.
- Comment on If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless? 1 year ago:
If humans are just brains why are we smarter than dogs who also have brains?
- Comment on A Florida restaurant chain says boosting pay and offering better benefits helped it end its labor shortage 1 year ago:
Well yeah, that would be catastrophic and it would also be either murder or hilariously repressive government control of reproduction
- Comment on A Florida restaurant chain says boosting pay and offering better benefits helped it end its labor shortage 1 year ago:
You first
- Comment on A Florida restaurant chain says boosting pay and offering better benefits helped it end its labor shortage 1 year ago:
Key word:
Its
Paying more can't magically make more people available to work and there are real labor limits right now. It just means that if you want people, you have to make sure you're using them as effectively as possible and pay them above market rates.
But for every guy you get, the other guy loses a spot and has to compete harder.
This is a good thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
The communist ones are.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Tankies
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
Who said the women do less work than you?
BLS data?
They do equal work
They don't.
Are you insinuating that you can do more work than a woman possibly could?
Literally nothing I said implied that that. Plenty of individual women do as much or more work than the average guy. Statistically the average woman does less.
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
Why do men get more for the same amount of work?
They don't. When you control for career choice and hours worked the pay gap disappears.
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
My specific situation is not important beyond the fact that I'm a guy so I am statistically going to work more hours and to devote more of my life to work as well as choosing my career based on income rather than any sort of life satisfaction than the average woman.
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
Did you read the thread? Did you read the title of the thread? Did you read any of the previous comments?
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
The reason they get paid more than you is because their industry generates more revenue than your and/or its shared more equally.
Wat? When was I complaining about people making more money than me?
Who’s to say you don’t do more work because you are inefficient?
Again. Wat?
We're talking about statistical averages across the whole economy here. Statistically, the women protesting against the pay gap are protesting so that they get paid "equally" for less work.
Unless you want to suggest that women are generally more efficient in their labor than men are, you're talking crazy here.
And if you do want to suggest that, you're still talking crazy.
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
At this point you're just asserting a falsehood. There is little else to say.
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
That wouldn't accomplish anything because if I make more for the hours I work all of a sudden there's a pay gap again.
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
They currently aren't working the same hours. When you control for job choice and hours worked the pay gap goes away.
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
They want more pay because they're paid less.
Pay isn't just given to you. If you don't work the same hours you shouldn't be paid the same.
If you demand you get paid the same regardless, you're a selfish asshole, not fighting for equality.
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
When they do, along with other controls, the wage gap largely disappears.
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
because of the decisions of a small group of investors, all the workers who work on the factories just to survive are to blame and should be unemployed
Ideally they'd find jobs at companies that don't make shit cars when people in mass stop buying the American ones.
And women that want to have EQUAL rights
Like I said. They want to work less and be paid the same. They don't want equal rights, they want special privileges.
Happy to be pathetic in your eyes. The alternative is be a thoughtless pushover.
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
Nobody is "coming" for anyone here.
I'm happy to see Hollywood fail because I don't like Hollywood.
I'm happy to see these strikes from women fail because they're demanding an end to the wage gap (aka, they want to work less and get paid the same) and yet even more draconian "safety" laws.
I wish the auto workers the best, but their cars suck and they should all be out of business.
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
A rising tide lifts all boats but Hollywood sucks and these strikes for equal pay want me to make the same money as them despite the fact I do more work.
I wish the auto unions the best through.
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
That's why I started my comment with "I've seen and been like "wow this wouldn't effect me at all"
- Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence 1 year ago:
This is the third big strike I've seen and been like "wow this wouldn't effect me at all".
Hollywood? I'd rather it go out of business.
American Auto Union? Anyone buying American cars is a dumbass.
And for this one....
Household chores? I do all those myself.
Schools? No kids.
Hospitals? Not sick.
Maybe retail workers and pharmacists. They'd have to strike on a weekend though.
And broadly I'd benefit greatly from half the labor market dropping out. Keep on striking. Never stop.
- Comment on What would it take to change an Internal Combustion Engine Car to an EV? 1 year ago:
But I don't want efficient, I want that sweet sweet torque
- Comment on Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times' 1 year ago:
Agreed. Fuck these famous actors and keep these incestuous little shits out of games.
- Comment on In The Empire Strikes Back, why does Han significantly outrank Luke? 1 year ago:
Luke was basically a kid, not general material
- Comment on An Introduction To Class Warfare For The Software Engineer 1 year ago:
The answer, my friend, is
class warfareThe answer is that you were working at an overhyped over inflated company that was hiring too many people on the back of incredibly low interest rates, you weren't providing any real actual productive value, and the economic correction has forced you to leave the big tech companies and go to the various banks and other institutions that have had severely dilapidated software for decades for your contributions will actually boost the economy and help people's lives.
I have next to zero empathy for these software developers who were running around making 100k while committing code like twice a day which these big tech companies were absolutely filled the brim with and probably still have tons of.
You're rolled the hype train and you got burned, you made your good money well it was still in low interest rate hike mode and now you need to get out and do something else.
Expect life to get even harder, because we don't even need these programmers right now, not as much as we need people out there building homes and working in factories. Expect your pay to stagnate until being a construction worker looks more lucrative than your current job, and your job comes more and more into competition with an excess of people going into computer science because that's where the money is, or that's where it was 10 years ago.
-a software developer
- Comment on HADES II Development Update | Supergiant Games [Sept 14 2023] 1 year ago:
on Steam and the Epic Games Store
All I wanted to know. Good news. Fuck epic.
- Comment on LTT: What do we do now? 1 year ago:
I imagine it's a situation of using big words that sound scary for situations that are pretty mundane.
- Comment on The people have spoken, and they want to speak to real live humans, not a rail ticket self-service app | Gaby Hinsliff 1 year ago:
We're talking about the cost a human being sitting around selling tickets to people. You can value that service all day long, but if the human being is wasting their life doing something a machine could do you're literally wasting human life.
If a job can be killed. Replace it. This isn't about money, money is a proxy for what actually matters. Time and resources.
Human potential far surpasses selling you tickets, and any human potential wasted in this way is a tragedy.
- Comment on The people have spoken, and they want to speak to real live humans, not a rail ticket self-service app | Gaby Hinsliff 1 year ago:
was only open for 12 hours a day
That's still plenty of time. "It won't save much compared to...." Is almost always a bad argument. Savings are savings and labor is expensive.
The ticket machines not being up to the task is a reasonable argument though. I can't comment on that.