gmd63

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by gmd63 3mo ago
Babying bad leaders who don't take responsibility for their actions is a good way to scare away good employees.
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by gmd63 3mo ago
If you can use mountainous capital to sell at a loss in order to distort the market, yes, that's not a "Free Market", as in, the vaguely understood competitive marketplace armchair economists idealize. True freedom in the mar
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by gmd63 3mo ago
No, the point is to implement laws that foster holistic growth, not gamesmanship that ends in terminal illness.
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by gmd63 3mo ago
I wouldn't call it brilliant. It's like cancer cells celebrating how fast they're growing.
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by gmd63 4mo ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. Objectively true. Less than 50% of the popular vote, and that's just voting Americans.
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by gmd63 4mo ago
Most Americans didn't vote for Trump.
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by gmd63 5mo ago
Wonder how the founders/board/investors of the bad incentives factory would manage their site after a massive crowdfunding campaign bet that they'd all still be alive in 2027.
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by gmd63 6mo ago
When ambitious competitors who can't accept loss or normalcy enter into a field that's saturated with skilled rule-abiding players, they'll cheat. Hypercompetitive fields will always surface cheaters given enough time. Then r
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by gmd63 6mo ago
To put it into context, 40 billion dollars is about 22,000 average lifetime earnings of a man in the US.
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by gmd63 6mo ago
Xi Jinping has disciplined millions of officials as part of his anti-corruption campaign. That cannot be some corrupt way to silence dissidents while being popular with an allegedly corruption-omniscient citizenry.
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by gmd63 6mo ago
I'm interested to hear your informed thoughts on why corruption charges still exist in China if everyone there knows how corruption is happening.
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by gmd63 6mo ago
Access to corruption is never widely understood and accessible to every person, otherwise it would be written into law and stated plainly for everyone to see. Corruption is a form of economic eugenics that breeds fraudsters and cheaters who
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by gmd63 7mo ago
This is just the citizenry paying double tariffs. First, we bought the higher priced goods. Now, the companies are trying to take our tariff payments again, this time from the government, to "make up" for the tariff money that we
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by gmd63 7mo ago
Because we don't want people whose profession is maximally exploiting perverse incentive structures to flourish. A society that grants outsized rewards to bad faith citizens is bad for everyone. The more influence those cheaters have o
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by gmd63 7mo ago
I'm interested to hear why you think that better pay wouldn't help the issue. Being comfortable with your living situation and feeling like you're respected in excess of your boss's federal or state legal obligations pla
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by gmd63 7mo ago
I'm saying if the populace wants taxes to fund open source and votes for it, and maintainers just stop working on open source otherwise that's also the free market. Doing stuff for free and then complaining about when it benefits
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by gmd63 7mo ago
Yep. The reason employees don't care about their work is that caring for their work is not valued. Box checkers and opportunists proliferate as loyal craftsmen get screwed over repeatedly. > You could take the Kansai airport baggage
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by gmd63 7mo ago
Also requires a culture of respect for the people who are handling baggage - an important thing lacking in parts of society in the US, where working fast food is used as a pejorative.
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by gmd63 7mo ago
We have a bunch of socially minded people providing free value in the form of open source that enjoy the gift they are giving to others. When they become aware that their charity disproportionately benefits selfish people who have opposite
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by gmd63 7mo ago
Needing to maximize shareholder value is a myth. There is no law that requires you to do that - people like to use the idea as an excuse to do scummy business.
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by gmd63 7mo ago
They also allow people to convince those who trust that prediction markets are accurate barometers of likeliness that certain events will be likely with a meager amount of money.
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by gmd63 8mo ago
It gives people who aren't aware of the bot accounts / thumb on the scale the perception that insane crackpot delusions are more popular than they are. There is a reason Musk paid so much for Twitter. If this stuff had no effect h
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by gmd63 8mo ago
Huh, the only time I've seen the government standing up for feds killing white Americans was under Republican leadership over the last few weeks.
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by gmd63 8mo ago
As someone who really hates what this unlawful administration is doing, I went to my local progressive club meeting for the first time expecting at least a fraction of what MAGA folks fantasize about - elite schemers developing an actual st
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by gmd63 8mo ago
It is disappointing to me that people can look at the list of infamous people he has already pardoned, who have paid him, and then expect that he won't continue acting on trend, just because some shallow-book manipulable prediction mar
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by gmd63 8mo ago
This is like book publishers asking to take a slice of your income due to presenting you with the information you studied to become proficient. Except the book publishers actually helped to create the information that helped you and didn&#x
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by gmd63 8mo ago
Those takes are informed and level headed. We have a wildly unqualified Secretary of Defense who was appointed only because he advocated in his book "American Crusade" for a crusade against the "American Left". A Project
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by gmd63 8mo ago
Do you know how ridiculous you sound defending Trump for bringing back a person from a foreign prison that he sent there without due process? Only because he got caught? The guy operates in bad faith constantly. It's why a huge chunk o
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by gmd63 8mo ago
The old skeuomorphic Apple icons were so easily distinguishable and yet still identifiable as Apple, a tough act to balance today amid competing design languages in oceans of competing apps. I thought they were great. That pen and ink icon
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by gmd63 8mo ago
The fuss about AI is interesting to me in music. The most popular and commercially successful artists are already basically using "AI" by having teams of people produce their ideas for them, if they're not outright buying a h

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