BoxFour

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by BoxFour 2mo ago
Programming trade schools were (are they still?) quite popular for a long time - see lambda school et al. They weren’t a panacea either.
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by BoxFour 2mo ago
Universities never kept up with current practices and to be honest I don’t really think it’s their job to. Universities aren’t vocational schools. An undergraduate education can, at best, teach you how to learn complex topics independently
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
> Everything else you listed was a drastic change in the way an existing service (taxis, home media, backups) was delivered or priced, to the point where they feel like either an entirely different product Doesn't this still line up
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
It's incredibly common in retail/food service/hopsitality/etc. Usually about covering shifts.
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
I'm not sure what your point is, to be blunt. It seems like you wanted to make some weird argument about the semantics of the word "abuse", and are now implying one of: 1) Beastiality isn't sexual abuse 2) Beastiality la
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
I'll be blunt: I don't really feel the need to argue about that point. It's sexual abuse.
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
> yes it was illegal to sexually abuse animals No, it wasn't. The laws are quite explicit about what "abuse" means, and if you take a gander at most laws (including Washington state's circa 2000 or so) in the context
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
> There was a very famous case back in Washington state back in the early 2000s where a group of men were sexually abusing horses. It was uncovered because one of them died, and the other could only be charged with trespassing because it
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
> in cases where the animals aren’t harmed What an odd thing to say about the sexual abuse of an animal. I don’t think the semantics are very important here, I think it was clear I'm talking about sexual abuse specifically without t
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
> The only counterpoint here is, I think, that the severity of such punishments seems to be vastly underestimated. I suppose I disagree: Modern forms of this ("cancelling") are well-aware of the economic impact it can have on i
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
Those seem like two different scenarios though, right? The point of beastiality laws are to give society some recourse to punish people who abuse animals. There was a very famous case back in Washington state back in the early 2000s where a
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
> how does one get not punishing opinions—even those that would put the listener in danger if implemented—broadly accepted as a value? Taking you literally, I don't think that's possible. Social punishment (in the form of shunn
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
They can and it often comes up: One of Mamdani's tax proposals was to raise property taxes, though he backtracked on it. Still, NYC's municipal budget is already the largest in the world by far. When I last looked, it was roughly
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
Eh, I agree with the general point that rental housing has to be financially viable over the long run. I just don’t think NYC politics lets this particular problem turn quickly into a clean “landlords stop renting/developers stop build
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
I can and do put some blame on Adams here, but I don’t think the story is ineptitude or corruption, at least on this issue. I think his administration mostly chose to prioritize the long-term housing supply problem, even if that meant more
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
> The uptick in rental delinquency isn’t new. It started six years ago It has nothing to do with Mamdani, for those of who don't want to bother to read. Most of this occurred under Eric Adams's watch. Anecdotally, I do think co
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
Actually, I think the old references are relevant. Sometimes those bug fixes and workarounds no longer matter. Windows 95 and Internet Explorer are long gone, we don’t need to architect our code base any longer to support them, but everyone
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
I think you're over-estimating how much some people care. I have had coworkers say "Oh I don't know, Claude added that" in response to questions like that without even a hint of shame or self-reflection.
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
I feel you're correct, and it's why it's a losing battle. It's a spectrum of consequences. The worst outcomes are serious but rare. For most people the most severe outcome they'll deal with are unauthorized credit c
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by BoxFour 3mo ago
> Previously an individual new to web development might have genuinely needed to develop an understanding of web protocols, HTML, and other stuff in that domain That hasn't really been my experience, at least not for a long time (de
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by BoxFour 4mo ago
Specialization is very much a thing in US sports as well, even without relegation and even with profit sharing/etc. The payoff to being elite at a valuable skill is enormous. Teams generally benefit more from combining players with dis
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by BoxFour 5mo ago
A handful of Black Mirror episodes land on a more optimistic (or at least not entirely bleak) note, though "happy" might be overstating it for any of them. Bittersweet, maybe. Eulogy and Hotel Reverie from the newest season are at
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by BoxFour 6mo ago
“Heads I win, tails you lose” as a business concept has been written about quite a bit. “The Gervais Principle” is an oft-cited one.
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by BoxFour 6mo ago
> There was no contract, the government wanted to have a contract where they'd be able to use the tool to violate privacy rights of its citizens and issue kill orders without a human present and the company said no. So the contract
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by BoxFour 6mo ago
It’s pretty obvious that professional photography takes real skill if you’ve ever experienced the disaster of someone trying to cut costs by hiring an amateur photographer for a major event like a wedding but expecting professional results
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by BoxFour 6mo ago
They don’t even need to do that. Elon is almost certainly pushing Grok as hard as possible right now to them, and it’s not like this administration is especially concerned with running a fair procurement process. So it’s probably some mix o
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by BoxFour 6mo ago
Sure, I said as such: > Of course, the reaction is wildly out of proportion. A normal response would just be to stop doing business with the company and move on. Labeling them a supply chain risk is an extreme response.
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by BoxFour 6mo ago
Sure, that’s why I said "on its face." This administration is obviously very different than most. I don’t think Anthropic is wrong to include that clause with this particular administration, and I doubt the administration is inter
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by BoxFour 6mo ago
> It’s not obvious that the government should have to power to overwrite this The government shouldn’t be able to set the terms of its contracts with private companies and walk away if those terms aren’t acceptable? That seems like a str
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by BoxFour 6mo ago
> the government will come knocking anyway. Dario has even said something along these lines at one point: As the technology matures, it’s very possible the government either nationalizes or semi-nationalizes companies like Anthropic. Tha

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