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by amrocha 6mo ago
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by amrocha 6mo ago
Actions have consequences. You can justify your actions however you want, and I can judge you for them.
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by amrocha 6mo ago
Nobody’s talking about starting businesses. The article is specifically about pypi packages, which don’t require any sales and marketing. And there’s still no noticeable uptick in package creation or updates.
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by amrocha 6mo ago
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by amrocha 7mo ago
It’s well understood that humans do not instinctively grasp statistics, are bad at knowing when they’re being lied to, and are hard wired to take shortcuts. AI companies gave everyone a button that does their job for them 99.9% of the time.
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by amrocha 7mo ago
I disagree, the US clearly enjoys being the biggest spender in the world
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by amrocha 7mo ago
Do you think that if europe had tripled its defence spending over the last century the US would have spent more or less?
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by amrocha 7mo ago
I live in Japan, where most people are old, and I can confidently say you’re wrong
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by amrocha 7mo ago
Exactly. This is not a local politics problem.
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by amrocha 7mo ago
Ok, you do all that work at home and manage to block flock in your area. It doesn’t matter because the next city over where you work installed them so you get tracked anyway. Then 2 years later a new city council gets elected and they insta
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by amrocha 7mo ago
The pope, ostensibly the person you believe to be the representative of god on earth, has said that your product is garbage and here you are rationalizing it. Are you sure you have faith?
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by amrocha 7mo ago
Props for your work on these but they’re toys mate. These are things you built for yourself that other people happened to find useful. That’s great! I’m not shitting on that, but it doesn’t really convince me that AI coding really is this a
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by amrocha 7mo ago
Gotcha, so the impact of AI is small businesses get to save a couple hundred dollars and the cost is only 2% of your countries GDP. That’s good.
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by amrocha 7mo ago
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by amrocha 7mo ago
Is saving 500$ by generating some shitty AI art the bar? I thought this supposed to replace entire departments
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by amrocha 7mo ago
There’s lots of slop out there, that doesn’t mean it’s actually good or useful code.
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by amrocha 7mo ago
Then where are all the amazing open source programs written by individuals by themselves? Where are all the small businesses supposedly assisted by AI?
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by amrocha 8mo ago
Then you’re paying higher consumption taxes and property taxes, and higher prices on business costs passed on to you. Do I even have to explain this? Just because you can’t see the ball anymore doesn’t mean it stopped existing
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by amrocha 8mo ago
I’m not playing a game, I’m comparing facts. The median person working in the US is poorer than the median person working in Canada. Fact. Average tax rates for people with the median income are basically the same in Canada or the US.
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by amrocha 8mo ago
I think that’s up to interpretation. They said Canada is “unmatched globally”, which I interpreted as a belief that Canada is the best country in the world. Agreed on the second half though.
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by amrocha 8mo ago
I liked it well enough when I was travelling that I decided to try and live here, so I got a job and a work visa. That was almost 4 years ago now.
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by amrocha 8mo ago
Now adjust for PPP and subtract healthcare costs. Not to mention all the other benefits Canada provides.
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by amrocha 8mo ago
I’m Canadian, have lived in 4 different continents, and there’s plenty of countries that are just as good or better than Canada out there. Case in point, I live in Japan. Some things are worse than Canada, but the things that are better lin
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by amrocha 8mo ago
You’re wrong, but this essay is about Canada so I’ll focus on that. The median canadian earns more than the median USian and we do it without letting kids go hungry in schools or murder squads.
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by amrocha 8mo ago
Shopify hasn’t moved to the US any more than Toyota has.
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by amrocha 8mo ago
I took issue with this too, but chose to interpret it charitably. It’s true that a lot of our most qualified people move to the US because of the money.
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by amrocha 8mo ago
Money changes people. He used to be a cool guy.
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by amrocha 8mo ago
But not every car on the road is modern, and it smells like crap as a result
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by amrocha 8mo ago
You’re absolutely right—lots of very smart people use em dashes. Thank you for correcting me on that!
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by amrocha 8mo ago
My impression of people that say they’re em dash users is that they’re laundering their dunning kruger through AI.

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