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by g3f32r 19d ago
I promise that I'm not missing your point. > "labor shortages" This is a misnomer is _my_ point. A labor shortage has a trivial solution, "pay more". It's intentionally framed as "labor shortage" b
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by g3f32r 19d ago
1) It benefits an extremely tiny slice of American entrepreneurs by allowing them to operate directly against the best interests of the broader American labor force? 2) This posits that there must be a large pool of highly trained and speci
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by g3f32r 19d ago
I'd posit that less than a half a percentage of users have used the page up/down keys in the last year.
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by g3f32r 20d ago
> If I ran the H1B program it would be an unrestricted work permit with an automatic pathway to a GC after 5 years. Don’t get convicted of a felony and here you go. Why would this policy be beneficial to Americans?
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by g3f32r 20d ago
Is there a job you wouldn't do for potentially infinite dollars? Can you assert that to be true for hundreds of millions of Americans?
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by g3f32r 20d ago
> Frankly I don't care if I'm fairly displaced. That's meritocracy at work. Right, The concept of a "meritocracy" only works if everyone is agreeing to the core tenets. If any group starts expressing in-group b
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by g3f32r 21d ago
Isn't this practically every TOS though? Nearly every TOS I've ever read has a "We can ban you for any reason, or no reason, are under no obligation to disclose any reason." line somewhere in it. HN's for example &g
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by g3f32r 1mo ago
> the government can ask. the government can ask .... who? If the claimed text is genuine, then the government is responsible for submitting the text to ...? all frontier labs? surely not every model within a lab is going to watermark in
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by g3f32r 1mo ago
> "Check that the software works as intended" is not going to cut it, as AI are very, very good at obeying the letter but not the spirit of the ask. Surely you don't think that he literally meant to use those seven words a
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by g3f32r 3mo ago
> Yep. And that's good! That's freedom of choice. Is it? Was it actually her choice? Or was she propagandized into being a fully-available consumer? Was she fed a steady diet of anti-natalist/anti-family formation and pro-
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by g3f32r 3mo ago
> Gradual population decline empowers lower-income workers. Remember this line the next time immigration/H1b debates heat up. The same mathematics are at play.
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by g3f32r 3mo ago
> learn multiplication tables I think sibling comments are taking issue with `learn multiplication tables` versus `memorize multiplication tables`. I find no value in the latter in kids but incredible value in the former. What I'm t
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by g3f32r 3mo ago
> students required more time studying, had worse exam scores and ordered more unnecessary tests compared to traditionally taught students. While I didn't do any additional looking into it -- this is often my biggest gripe. Is the _
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by g3f32r 4mo ago
> and the banks demand a bailout. Which will certainly be granted and thus Better Days *WILL* Come, at least in the localized "I'm taking practically no risk" sense.
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by g3f32r 4mo ago
Private torrent trackers have been doing this for a while. If some number of your downstreams act like shitheads - you get nipped and so do your other downstreams.
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by g3f32r 4mo ago
> You wouldn't trust an engineer a bridge that an engineer vibe-engineered would you? If it was as easy to stress test/battery test/materials test/etc a bridge as it is to test code - then yes. I'd trust an engin
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by g3f32r 6mo ago
... just force the data into a structured format, then use "hard code" on the structure. "Generate the following JSON formatted object array representing the interruptions in my daily traffic. If no results, emit []. Send thi
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by g3f32r 6mo ago
I suspect this is going to be an iteration of the Simpsons meme soon, but... Black Mirror did it first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_the_DJ
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by g3f32r 6mo ago
> to my Boomer uncle it's incoherent, if not an outright attack. These are separate things. If he's interpreting it as an outright attack, he _is_ hearing it correctly. But incoherence would imply he's _not_ hearing the co
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by g3f32r 8mo ago
Of course you can ask an LLM if the content is AI-generated. It's easily at least 50% accurate too.
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by g3f32r 10mo ago
> take any meaningful action to implement UBI I hear this all the time, but to what end? If the input costs to produce most things ends up driving towards zero, then why would there be a need for UBI? Wouldn't UBI _be_ the performa
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by g3f32r 11mo ago
We had a "smart person only internet". Then it became financially prudent to make it an "everyone internet", then we had the dot com boom, Apple, Google, etc bloom from that. We _still_ have a "smart person only int
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by g3f32r 1y ago
I think the comment was showing that the project takes 9 weeks either way, but coming to that determination was much more confident and convincing with a functional demo versus a hand-wavy figma + guesstimate.
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by g3f32r 1y ago
What's the minimum quantity of money a server can be paid after a 1 hour shift? If it's the same in both cases, that's his point.
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by g3f32r 1y ago
Isn't that a bit of a truism? A _past_ calorie restriction is associated with a _current_ calorie surplus. Obviously if the calorie restriction were being continued, one wouldn't be developing obesity.