Consultant32452

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by Consultant32452 8mo ago
If a lot of money is involved, it's only a matter of time before all oversight is corrupt. Similarly, you can safely assume all data that is on an important (big money) topic is fake.
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by Consultant32452 11mo ago
A website was taken down. This might technically violate some paperwork law, but the real problem is we don't actually prosecute war crimes/human rights violations. So what difference does it make if some website went down?
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by Consultant32452 11mo ago
There's no moral equivalency between the US directly torturing prisoners of war/assassinating its own citizens and a website being taken down.
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by Consultant32452 11mo ago
I don't see how anything has changed in a meaningful way. George Bush "tortured some folks" and Obama assassinated US citizens abroad. The status quo is literal evil and Trump is behaving in accordance with the status quo.
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by Consultant32452 11mo ago
2022 challenger srt hellcat redeye. I absolutely love it.
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by Consultant32452 11mo ago
I recently bought a fancy muscle car with all that crap integrated into the infotainment system. I explained to the sales guy that I WANTED to keep this car for the rest of my life but was concerned that wouldn't be possible. In 10 y
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by Consultant32452 11mo ago
Cash for clunkers destroyed mountains of cars which increased pollution and forced a bunch of people up the food chain with regard to competition for used cars.
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by Consultant32452 11mo ago
The infotainment system on my car can make changes to the suspension. Can change from street to track mode and even has a launch mode I can initiate for starting a timed 0-60, etc. I can also put the car into valet mode so it won’t go fast
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by Consultant32452 1y ago
The rule of thumb is if something has a cost and persists over time it must have some benefit even if we don’t understand what that is. Otherwise, creatures not paying the cost will outcompete over time.
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by Consultant32452 1y ago
the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe. ~H.L. Mencken The bad guys will say you only need privacy if you’re guilty and the plebs will lap it up
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by Consultant32452 1y ago
Most workers enjoy being emotionally manipulated by their employers. A friend of mine was gushing because their new employer sent some chocolates to everyone at Christmas time. They felt “appreciated”.
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by Consultant32452 1y ago
At my shop employees had to RTO but us consultants are still remote. I suspect this is exactly what it looks like.
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by Consultant32452 1y ago
Executives have done all manner of things which reduced productivity. Hoteling alone must have cost billions in lost focus. They’re suspicious of work from home because employees like it. If they were concerned about productivity they’d ma
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by Consultant32452 1y ago
The elites have put themselves in a position where the two main options are the sentiment above or Luigi Mangione. It honestly scares me a bit what's coming.
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by Consultant32452 1y ago
I agree the empire is in a very dangerous place because it has expanded the labor force more rapidly than it has expanded supply of jobs. This is an existential risk to the empire.
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by Consultant32452 1y ago
We have flooded the STEM market with foreign workers. Sometimes we don't even give the foreign workers real jobs, we pretend they are "grad students" and pay them a pittance doing high level science at the universities. I g
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by Consultant32452 1y ago
I would argue the purpose of public education is directionally to attempt to level the playing field between people who start with a lot and people who start with a little. And in this regard, it is an absolute failure. People sometimes at
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by Consultant32452 1y ago
I've been advised by my ChatGPT lawyer to say "No."
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by Consultant32452 2y ago
I have no incentive to delete bad code and replace it with good code when doing megacorp work. For things I own, it's situational.
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by Consultant32452 2y ago
If we started prosecuting CEOs who don't meet goals/expectations, they'd all be in prison. You have to prove Elon was intentionally lying, which I suspect many on this forum are sympathetic to that view, but in a fair court s
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by Consultant32452 2y ago
Unless you want to get into a pure management position, the most senior (pay) technical resource is almost always a consultant. And you can give yourself the promotion to consultant any time you want. And when you're a consultant, job
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by Consultant32452 2y ago
There is always an aspect of luck in everything. Also, the kinds of social skills which help you weed out bad potential employers and bad potential employees (when hiring) are likely learnable.
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by Consultant32452 2y ago
At one company I worked at someone had been fired for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars. The company didn't even press charges. I guess the PR issue wasn't worth it. Wild.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
I was amused by the fact that in the same week that AI generated fake nudes of Taylor Swift was hitting news headlines another AI tool which puts clothes on e-girls pics also popped up on my radar. The internet is amazing and stupid.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
The closest I've heard of to something like this is some autist creates a low cost mesh internet connection for his neighborhood, then you could use VOIP on top of that.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
If that's true, then no one should be watching TV anyways.
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
It also gives the parents an excuse to limit their children. "I'm not being mean, it's the law."
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
The form of government is irrelevant compared to the culture that is being governed. Japanese cities are incredible because the Japanese culture demands safety, cleanliness and beauty. You could make just about any change to the form of gov
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
Depending on how you slice this problem, you will get a different result. If you slice it up per mile traveled, airplanes win. If you slice it up per trip taken, driving wins. If you slice it up per hour spent traveling, driving and flying
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by Consultant32452 3y ago
Because the idea that airplane travel is safer than passenger vehicle travel is propaganda/marketing. Flying is safe, but in practical terms the sentence "flying is safer than driving" is not only nonsensical but also false.

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