b1gTekken

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by b1gTekken 28d ago
Life is the leading cause of death
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by b1gTekken 28d ago
Same thing can be said about other versions of early tech; internet services were horribly unreliable and out to kill travel agent and others jobs Oh right I am sorry... forgot this is HN... you meant to express concern about your job rep
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by b1gTekken 28d ago
Noted that aside from Einstein most of the others were just engaged in shallow FOMO business building; cars, computers, business as usual. Numerous other options to solve those problems existed. The return on their mechanical investment and
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by b1gTekken 28d ago
Financially ledger is just a social construct; the IOUs of the past are never paid off as they never mattered. Finance shit just keeps innumerates and those ignorant of physics believing wild end of the universe theories. For more look up D
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by b1gTekken 28d ago
But wait; there's more; the code written a decade ago manually was also just to increase shareholder value!
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by b1gTekken 28d ago
Same happened at the start of the cloud era; everyone created a YT competitor, Twitter clones, MySpace clones, a cloud platform to host on (though it was just a wrapper around AWS like wrappers we see around OpenAI [looking at you Heroku])
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by b1gTekken 28d ago
Turns out tech people are not the only literates to use text based systems. Why should Anthropic, a company out to capture eyeballs of billions care about 450 point score in a single Reddit thread. That metric is p-hacking... found a numb
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by b1gTekken 28d ago
Some struggle regardless of remote or onsite because office job culture has become fucking stupid FOMO fueled social animal farm, not a meaningful economic contributor in real terms. That never comes up though as the dogma must survive.
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by b1gTekken 28d ago
Don't know you, text on a screen, don't care. American freedom; off the hook assuring a social safety net exists for you is pretty great. Will go my entire life never having to worry if you end up buried in medical debt living in
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by b1gTekken 28d ago
And statistically worse in many ways. Statistics are just euphemism for history, prior observation; stats exist for both categories. We can write and carry on about wars we won and ignore Vietnam with stats just as we do English. It's
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by b1gTekken 29d ago
Not just in employment; voting out incumbents improves economic growth for the majority: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766 Since the early 1980s, start of the Millennial generation, inflation is 300%; takes $800k&#x2F