ElevenLathe

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by ElevenLathe 29d ago
None until I am allowed to be fully remote at which point I would be willing to accept like half salary or even less. Working from home a few days a week actually increases my expenses (home office, commuting, office clothing, lunch out, et
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
Honor has to be a relatively fixed thing before we can think about how to reward it. As it is, it's a very slippery thing that changes constantly according to the observer's culture, material conditions, etc.
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
Unless we change the law, selective enforcement is the default. Courts have found again and again that cops have effectively no responsibility to even try to do their job. They can enforce what they want, and ignore what they don't. So
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
I don't know about this particular case, but often the tender process itself is the reason that there's no meaningful competition for these contracts. There are only a handful of companies that can realistically compete for certai
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
Arguably Iran's ability to manufacture pretty sophisticated weapons in relatively large quantities (and faster than the US) is one of the main reasons they won.
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
This is a decent post, but I object to the framing of "Marxism" as some kind of extreme political ideology. It's just a view of economics, not radically different from other strains of economics. Being a "Marxist" d
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
It's a rarer and rarer thing. Most people's experience of work is nothing like this, just a desperate struggle to stay employed at all, ideally in an industry where their skills give them some kind of leverage.
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
Have you seen our district lines in this country? One of the underdiscussed problems with gerrymandering is that, in addition to being undemocratic in the obvious ways, it obscures who your representatives are -- especially if you live in a
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
It goes back way before AI. Leadership is a real thing but I've rarely seen manager exhibit it. If we are to use it at all, it should have to be earned.
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
I've lived in cities not quite as bad as this (one of my earliest memories is my Dad pulling the family to the floor during a drive by right across the street), but the main thing to remember is that unless you catch a stray -- not imp
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
IMO many of my coworkers are in a state of unreality that seems related to AI usage. There's a kind of religious faith that these tools can't fail, only be failed. I use them too, not least because it's expected of me by mana
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
IMO we need to stop referring to our bosses as "leadership" as a matter of course. It's just blatant propaganda.
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
This is called "marginal utility of money" and is IMO the reason wealth redistribution is at minimum rational to the point that it doesn't disincentize needed growth. In this light (and this is obviously a gross simplificat
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
I wonder if this will incentivize pushing compute back toward the user instead of in big centralized facilities, sonething like a repeat of the PC revolution. Or will it just incentivize harsher treatment of noncompliant parts of the popula
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
I'm genuinely unsure why those was posted in response to my comment. Did you mean to reply elsewhere?
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
Fear of nuclear war was useful for midcentury US elites because it could be transmuted into fear of Communism. Since 1991 it just isn't as useful for that purpose, so the culture industry doesn't push it anymore. Their use against
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
I remember hearing it from a Boy Scout leader but about George Washington's axe.
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by ElevenLathe 1mo ago
HR will also not protect you "if heads start to roll". They're there to protect the company.
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by ElevenLathe 2mo ago
If some nut job ordered assassination of 1000 PRC officials tomorrow, the world would be plunged into apocalyptic, possibly nuclear, war. It's maybe the worst possible way to handle the situation even if you are a breathless US interve
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by ElevenLathe 2mo ago
It's really more that the (narrow, academic, theoretical) Laffer curve provided cover for the Reagan admin to cut taxes in the ways their backers wanted, but this is admittedly unproven AFAIK. But then there's the observable fact
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by ElevenLathe 2mo ago
A race track is a normal business trying to make money, so its operators rationally fold rather than almost certainly losing money even if they win in court. An AI (or crypto mining) datacenter is fundamentally a financial fraud (or most ch
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by ElevenLathe 2mo ago
Would you quit your job in order to be a gig delivery driver? If not, why not?
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by ElevenLathe 2mo ago
Per the formulation in my post, that puts you in the misanthrope/right winger category, but presumably you are asking because in this case you don't feel that's right as some kind of gotcha.
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by ElevenLathe 2mo ago
I had honestly forgotten about reason #1 as I haven't heard anyone mentioning the service when leaving a tip in decades. IMO that's dying boomer behavior. Everyone understands that tipped workers are universally underpaid, and eit
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by ElevenLathe 2mo ago
"Ye cannot serve God and mammon"
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by ElevenLathe 2mo ago
This is true only in the trivial sense that one can't process a payment for less than a penny.
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by ElevenLathe 2mo ago
I -- just some working stiff in flyover country, USA -- can buy African stocks from my phone while on the shitter at work. Until quite recently, if I wanted to invest in a meaningful way in Africa, I would have had to basically be an elite
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by ElevenLathe 2mo ago
(IANA scholar, but I play one on the internet.) No, Weber is not the current state-of-the-art, but you can see how was a bit suspicious (given the evidence that Weber was working with) that the Reformation and the first meaningful economic
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by ElevenLathe 2mo ago
There have historically been obstacles and countervailing forces preventing accumulation to get to the point it is now. The classical example is labor organizing, which has been decimated in the last few decades, but that is just one sympto
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by ElevenLathe 2mo ago
Why not?

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