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by belligeront 2y ago
I have not been myself, but there is an exhibition currently at The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University called "Day Jobs": https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/day-jobs
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by belligeront 2y ago
Shouldn’t individuals and companies also have a set of morals?
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by belligeront 2y ago
What is antisemitic about suggesting that there should be conversation about how AI is used in warfare?
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by belligeront 2y ago
He claimed in 2002, after the book was published, to have found additional evidence that IBM established a Polish subsidiary after Germany invaded Poland to sell machines to the Nazi government. https://www.sfgate.com/opinio
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by belligeront 2y ago
Highly recommend listening to this HBR podcast about the same topic. [1] TJ Watson (of IBM) is quoted as saying: “I’m an internationalist. I cooperate with all forms of government, regardless of whether I can subscribe to all of their princ
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by belligeront 2y ago
It has been reported Israel is using AI to choose bombing targets. How is that not intellectually interesting or relevant to a forum about technology? https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
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by belligeront 2y ago
I find the use of "this is a business" logic to dissuade political discussion about a company's own business practices to be extremely troubling. Yes, there can be a discussion about the proper way to have these conversations
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The business of making the trains to Auschwitz run on time [2002](sfgate.com)
5 points by belligeront 2y ago|1 comments
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by belligeront 2y ago
I thought this was relevant given recent stories about AI being used to identify military targets. The author claims that IBM established a subsidiary in Poland named "Watson Business Machines" to work with Nazis after Germany inv
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by belligeront 2y ago
>bulldozed the forests for 100km in every direction, covered the area in housing Luckily we invented the elevator so we don't have to bulldoze forests to build more housing if we don't need to
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by belligeront 3y ago
What are peoples concerns here? 3 companies owning 11% of the single family homes available for rent in a metro area doesn't seem like a massive concentration of ownership. Some people prefer to rent rather than buy. Some people don&#x
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by belligeront 3y ago
Many people are reading this stat to say that NYC is dying because of post-covid crime or some other stat. I really think this is a misreading of the situation. I think it is far likely composition effects from: - High-income people who wor
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by belligeront 3y ago
I don’t have a strong opinion on the events of the past several days. But a lot of the behavior I’ve seen on twitter from Open AI employees, some led by Sam, feels very cult like: posting in all lower case, the heart emojis, rumors of emplo
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by belligeront 3y ago
Relatedly, University of Chicago has a popular survey where they ask Economists their views on policy proposals (along with their confidence in their answers), and their most recent survey was on LVT: The question: > Shifting the burden
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by belligeront 3y ago
Why is providing rental houses bad? Should people who don't want to or cannot afford to purchase a house not have access to single family houses?
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by belligeront 3y ago
Seems similar to what Venkatesh Rao has written about "The Clueless" in his "The Gervais Principle" article. It is a really great read: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-pri
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by belligeront 3y ago
> looked at census data on the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas and found there are 5.47 million vacant housing units, with an average vacancy rate of 7.22 percent. This feels sensational. Imagine a common scenario: a unit is rente
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by belligeront 3y ago
Allowing SROs, which have been banned in most cities.
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by belligeront 3y ago
It seems like many companies have recently become more willing to take actions that I view as extremely trust breaking: - Forcing employees who were hired as remote employees to relocate for RTO - Rescinding offers - Layoffs with seemingly
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by belligeront 3y ago
I also believe they will increase congestion in cities since when occupants switch from drivers to riders, they are less affected by the costs of road congestion (congested roads may mean riders get to their destinations slower, but because
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by belligeront 4y ago
I've seen both versions of these. A good TPM is extremely valuable though, especially for work that is highly reliant on coordinating other teams. The bad version was a net negative to team productivity.
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by belligeront 4y ago
Citation here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/gettingstarted-...
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by belligeront 4y ago
paulg has now been banned from twitter (presumably for noting that he was making a mastadon account) https://twitter.com/paulg
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by belligeront 4y ago
Amazing that just a month ago he tweeted[1]: "It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.". It'
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by belligeront 4y ago
He's also acted with hubris with his engineering claims. For example claiming that the reason twitter is slower in india is that there are 1200 RPC calls, which is pretty absurd. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/statu
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by belligeront 4y ago
People who travel frequently, does the lack of physical SIM card concern you? I'm not sure how widespread eSIMs across countries.
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by belligeront 4y ago
This is a regressive tax. It forces higher taxes on renters (as a class, less wealthy than homeowners) than homeowners.
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by belligeront 4y ago
Here is a recent case where a driver of a Jeep swerved into the oncoming lane to at high speed try to hit a bicyclist. They were only given a misdemeanor. This person should not be allowed to drive a motor vehicle. There is almost no conseq
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by belligeront 4y ago
I don't think there is much evidence, since voters don't directly vote on this, but some points to no: - Houston voted against zoning on a public vote - Many people report wanting to live in more walkable neighborhoods - The few
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by belligeront 4y ago
It is a huge amount of stuff: parking minimums, minimum setbacks, minimum lot sizes, height limits, maximums on number of units, density, architectural style, etc., etc., etc. Zoning codes are massive and complex documents that require huge

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