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by paimapi 6d ago
in your first cited study, product recalls are an incredibly bad indicator of unions decreasing product quality. if you're trying to minimize labor getting more of the share while preserving existing profit, you reduce overhead elsewhe
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by paimapi 6d ago
some interesting tidbits from the longer report: >Keyhole, a small San Francisco-based company that developed software for creating three-dimensional models of the earth’s surface [was] provided seed funding in 2003 [by a CIA-backed VC f
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Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)(costsofwar.watson.brown.edu)
182 points by paimapi 6d ago|384 comments
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by paimapi 6d ago
I think an honest answer would be to account for software bloat over time. I'm one of those luddites who likes to keep a phone for a minimum of five years. in order to accomplish this, I select phones that have higher-than-average in-c
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by paimapi 6d ago
> To be fair unions also produce garbage; would love to see some sources for this particularly in tech/video-game land that are much less laden with decades-old, corporate-collusive union bosses like there are in auto-manufacturing
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by paimapi 6d ago
the MBA logic based on a very biased and small sample size from a very select timeframe in the 1980s is that advertising during a recession leads to higher payouts when the economy recovers: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu&#x
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by paimapi 6d ago
and when you look up what spending while having a manic episode looks like, does it resemble a layoff? or is it substantively different?
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by paimapi 7d ago
why believe dragons are real? or wizards with magic? or cyberpunk dystopian futures?
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by paimapi 7d ago
of course, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were case studies of this. but it's far from the usage leveraged in this article or by most, really, and that's somewhat unfortunate
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by paimapi 7d ago
you'll never believe how modern public transit systems were kneecapped from the very beginning by big auto industry lobbyists (many such cases, for eg https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollecti...
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by paimapi 7d ago
that means it's a bad writer. a good writer knows who their reader is and curates their style and complexity to fit. Claude writes like someone who doesn't give a single shit about whether or not you've memorized an initialis
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by paimapi 7d ago
it absolutely is not. when we think of harm in a diagnosis of psychotic disorders, we're talking about things like getting shot to death by the police, running out onto the highway, etc. it is not callously making a lot of people have
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by paimapi 7d ago
One - delusion is a better fit if you need a term: https://mhanational.org/conditions/paranoia-and-delusional-d... > Delusional disorder is characterized by irrational or intense belief(s) or suspicion(s) that a per
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by paimapi 7d ago
I mean, it's the same sort of slippery slope that the progressive left was saying about the formation of DHS and ICE in the early 2000s that everyone poo-poo'd and said 'no way that'll happen in America' - that thes
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by paimapi 7d ago
I think it's best read as a humorous piece of creative fiction and you can employ your suspension of disbelief for this ride
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by paimapi 7d ago
it's not a person issue, it's a systems problem in the same way that desire paths reflect bad design. regular garbage receptacles maintained by the city with poop bags would solve this issue but there's not one for miles in m
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by paimapi 8d ago
I live in a city and I cannot tell you how often I see dogshit on the sidewalk, like just in the middle of the sidewalk the only neighborhoods where I don't see this are the ones where there's some nice retired older person who di
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by paimapi 8d ago
that seems to be the same problem that most product people in tech have - ie they don't use their own app anywhere close to as much as their average user. all the features they champion happen in walled-garden microcosms loosely backed
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Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration(openreview.net)
200 points by paimapi 8d ago|116 comments
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by paimapi 8d ago
for sure, because every one of those 3 billion images rendered by human hand and not automated with a tool would exist. we wouldn't have a magnitude smaller number of focused designs, of course, that's definitely not how art and d
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by paimapi 8d ago
yep, what our climate really needs is another carbon emitter similar to an entire state's worth of vehicles just so people can not pay artists or make dumb images of themselves ripping off some artistic style like Studio Ghibli. that i
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by paimapi 8d ago
plus the energy cost - https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-a... >Generating 1,000 images with a powerful AI model, such as Stable Diffusion XL, is responsible for roughly as muc
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by paimapi 8d ago
in the communities where I am, there are small 'hacker' collectives where people are working on combating surveillance, providing alternative non-surveilled software solutions, and helping other movement folks set-up and adopt les
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by paimapi 8d ago
> Federal prosecutors in Minnesota had been preparing to charge Castro with deprivation of rights under color of law for the shooting of Sosa-Celis, according to several people familiar with the case. [But] late on Tuesday, Matthew Evans
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DOJ Blocked ICE Agent Shooting Charge over Federal Prosecutor's Objections(propublica.org)
55 points by paimapi 8d ago|12 comments
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by paimapi 8d ago
Ah yes, the torment nexus, the exact thing everyone wanted
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by paimapi 9d ago
it's been around for quite a lot longer than that. 1984 was written in 1949 and wasn't strictly inspired by only fascist regimes - there were and still are a lot of similarities (eg ethnosupremaccy, nativism, etc) that have deep r
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by paimapi 10d ago
I test drove a new Subaru Forester a little while ago. I currently drive the 2015 version where the most advanced feature is the visual crash prevention system that brakes for you and a bluetooth sync that barely works and yet I hated the n
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by paimapi 10d ago
that's what a call a straw-man. NSPM-7 exists and is providing funding and direction for LEOs to target ideologically leftist organizations as tame as BLM or 50501 [0] this, in combination with the rise of Flock, Clearview, Axon, and o
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by paimapi 11d ago
agreed. the comments in here feel reactionary, not taking into account the sheer amount of influence marketing has on society. beyond just hyperpalatability, the tobacco companies also leveraged all they learned from their extremely success

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