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by rfwhyte 27d ago
Lol, classic hand-wavey "Just be rich" nonsense. People don't invest the bloody stock market because they can't afford rent and groceries. If labor's share of GDP were more equitable, and more akin to what it was du
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by rfwhyte 2mo ago
Something interesting to note, is that while "Hollywood" is fast losing its status as the nexus of the traditional film / tv industries, LA in the broader sense is already very well established as the global (Well at least &q
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by rfwhyte 3mo ago
This has always and will always be my fundamental concern regarding AI. It will inevitably be enshittified, and its enshittification will be both subtle and opaque, in ways the average users will be ill equipped to identify or avoid. The ul
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by rfwhyte 3mo ago
We do know pretty much exactly when they pyramids were built though, (+/- a couple hundred years, which in this context is "Exact" enough) as there have been numerous carbon datings of organic material found in the mortar bet
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by rfwhyte 4mo ago
When I lived in Japan, one of my roommates was a brown American dude of Dominican ancestry. He, like me, was a clean cut, hard working international student attending a well regarded local university. We had for many months on our daily com
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by rfwhyte 5mo ago
They relied on frontier tech because GREED. Let's not kid ourselves that the decision to use AI here was done for any other reason than it would save this company the labor costs of actual human employees. They decided their profit was
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by rfwhyte 5mo ago
What an utterly feckless and deflection filled response from the person writing this article. Literally zero personal accountability for the choices they themselves made that led to this outcome. "Jer" could have chosen to hire ac
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by rfwhyte 6mo ago
Sure there's a difference, but when you can buy the base lens for $100 and 3D print your own cinema housing for $50, it becomes a lot more odious that IronGlass is charging what amounts to around $2100USD for a metal rehousing that is
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by rfwhyte 6mo ago
Anyone with half a brain, or who doesn't stand to be personally enriched by the plague of parasitical gambling / prediction sites can see they are obviously a net negative for society, yet they stand to make some already very rich
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by rfwhyte 6mo ago
The only counterpoint to the article's central thesis I really have is that frankly I don't think there even was a "Strategy" for this war beyond the fact it will distract the American populace from the Epstein files and
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by rfwhyte 6mo ago
Capitalism rewards those who CAPTURE the most value, not those who create it. Capitalism at its core is a system of expropriating the value of labor by those with capital who themselves create absolutely nothing.
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by rfwhyte 6mo ago
This post absolutely reeks with the privilege of wealth. For the vast majority of people on this earth, the "Returns" from their labor matter a lot more to them than some vaunted, abstract ideals, as those ideals won't put fo
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by rfwhyte 7mo ago
You can very easily replace the battery yourself for less than $100 USD too if it ever becomes enough of an issue that you feel you actually need to do something about it. My M1 Max is at about 88% battery health, but it still gets 4X-6X lo
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by rfwhyte 7mo ago
Ad buyers wouldn't be buying ads if they weren't effective.
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by rfwhyte 8mo ago
You have to keep in mind that at this point, a substantial majority of Americans are overweight, and something like a full third of the US population can be considered "Obese," and so the notion of them doing any form of physical
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by rfwhyte 8mo ago
The fact the BBC article doesn't even mention the Irvings is a pretty glaring omission. The Irvings basically own NB like its their own private fiefdom, and if anyone's doing any major polluting in the province its almost certai
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by rfwhyte 9mo ago
The US has never really been either. At its core, the US has always been an oligarchy with the veneer of democracy to keep the pleebs in check. Any country that has only ever really been able to choose one of two political parties who both
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by rfwhyte 10mo ago
I'd wager two things: 1) Mosseri himself will still continue to enjoy the benefits of a flexible / remote enabled work / life balance that he is now denying his employees. Standard rules for thee not for me type BS that is ty
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by rfwhyte 11mo ago
Very telling / depressing that literally 3 out of their top 4 highlighted examples of the "Amazing" features this browser provides are just ways to help you be a good little consumerist drone and buy more crap you don't
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by rfwhyte 11mo ago
AI of the sort that will be sold via subscriptions or monetized through advertising (Or something similar to advertising yet even more insidious that is still yet to come) will be the exact opposite of a "Friend," it will in fact
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
Guess the child born into abject poverty in a war-torn country in sub-Saharan Africa who died before their 5th birthday due to malnutrition and disease just didn't properly prepare or have enough ambition then right? Classic survivorsh
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
$400 USD for a $50 Japanese stainless steel blade, and what amounts to the guts from a $10 electric toothbrush. I mean I get that you spent some R&D money on developing this thing, but selling something direct to consumers at 10X the Bo
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
Some context it seems a lot of folks in these comments have missed is that the off grid folks apparently use 1/120th of the town's water, yet contribute 15% of the town's water revenue. So effectively they are subsidizing the
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
The #1 reason I would never EVER use any of these AI agents or browsers or whatever, is despite what these companies may say, they don't work work for ME, the work for the corporations who own them, and those corporations don't gi
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
Its not just Rotten Tomatoes, the vast majority of so called "Reviews" the average consumer sees these days are being manipulated in service of corporate interests. Amazon's full of paid reviews for scam products, so called &
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
They are far less interested in stopping crime than they are in ensuring the wheels of the capitalist world-eating machine remain sufficiently greased. The primary role of the police after all is to protect capital, not people. Shutting dow
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
Fortunately the kind of AI generated images as described in this article is broadly against real estate board rules across most of North America. At least where I live, you can use AI to put furniture in empty rooms and to remove temporary
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
The depressing reality is none of these people actually believe in their vaunted missions or purposes or whatever nonsense they spout to justify the exploitation of their employees, they believe in money, and are willing to say and do absol
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
"We don't believe in work life balance, we believe in exploiting our employees."
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
What a shock, the guy who works for Trump and at a bunch of right wing think tanks thinks UBI is a bad idea. I'm sure there's no political bias or cherry picking of data to support a predetermined conclusion going on here whatsoev

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