shigawire

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by shigawire 3d ago
Democracy in business would be worker co-ops or employee ownership schemes. It would still be fully market-based, not planned.
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by shigawire 8d ago
I can acknowledge that I should be vegan and still be unable/unwilling to make the sacrifices to do it. People are flawed.
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by shigawire 25d ago
Competitive authoritarianism is a closer term that IR people use.
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by shigawire 25d ago
But the people generally seem to want whatever the person who spends the most money on media says they should want.
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by shigawire 28d ago
It strikes me how broad the range in work experiences are. I have never had coworkers who cared about anything besides getting the work done. The idea of politics in the workplace is foreign to me, but I know it is common.
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by shigawire 28d ago
Popular influencers have talked about them more recently. I think it also coincides with the zeitgeist of "oh yeah my local politics are important and affect my life" People are being awakened to that reality by the proliferation
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by shigawire 28d ago
If you look up a family member or coworker (without medical necessity) an automated process will flag that and you may be fired or face other disciplinary action.
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by shigawire 29d ago
There are tons of problems with this, but the simplicity is comfy.
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by shigawire 1mo ago
The difference is wealthy people get the care immediately in the US while the poor can go to the ED and get a bankruptcy.
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by shigawire 1mo ago
We still have Social Security for now. Entitlements are sticky for better or for worse.
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by shigawire 1mo ago
Oh no... Anyway let's feed, house, and heal our population like the Bible says.
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by shigawire 2mo ago
I'm not that guy but I've advised end users submitting tickets to prompt inject the importance of the ticket so that it gets triaged higher by lazy people only using AI and not actually reviewing. Not sure how efficacious but I kn
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by shigawire 2mo ago
China is a bloc unto itself
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by shigawire 2mo ago
Trump seems objectively bad at his job by a number of metrics. So it seems reasonable that would be the consensus in most forums.
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by shigawire 2mo ago
Can you read dense novels with this? I feel like you'd miss subtleties, but grasp the overall story or simpler books.
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by shigawire 2mo ago
Maybe dumber phone for day to day tasks. Then another phone that only has connectivity by sharing WiFi from the first phone. So it's only a tiny barrier but if you need it, you turn on wifi sharing and take out the "real" pho
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by shigawire 3mo ago
>Elon voted the same way as 51% of naturalized citizens Doesn't make him right.
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by shigawire 3mo ago
I have a certainty that I don't want to make a bet predicated on SpaceX needing to generate revenue from their AI products that is equivalent to several thousand dollars for every human in a middle income and up country. I'd bet i
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by shigawire 3mo ago
I'm a different guy... But I think he doesn't care and doesn't need to care. His main product is personal branding and hype -- caring about how it works is hardly relevant.
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by shigawire 3mo ago
We've given up on the next generation of technology and choose to wallow in sweet hydrocarbons.
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by shigawire 3mo ago
This makes me feel like a spend too much time on slides for my rinky dink enterprise software feature projects.
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by shigawire 3mo ago
The problem is the stock is not valued based on the space part. It's sky-high valuation is based on absurd projected AI revenues.
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by shigawire 3mo ago
Stanford students are criticizing Google for enabling Israel. If Google was providing support for Hamas they could protest that too.
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by shigawire 3mo ago
The good faith interpretation is that innovation is spurred by having some guarantees that your innovation isn't immediately ripped off. It allows for investing more into R&D. I'm not saying the current system achieves that, b
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by shigawire 4mo ago
Disagree on best for the country.
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by shigawire 4mo ago
Global market for oil. If the oil intensity of your economy is high, higher oil prices impacting all goods/services will outweigh increased oilel revenues.
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by shigawire 4mo ago
That is the idea behind "mass drivers" on the moon I believe. Maybe that search term helps.
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by shigawire 4mo ago
As someone who changed careers as my youngest was born - hard agree.
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by shigawire 4mo ago
It is to make a system where people are less incentivized to commit crimes.
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by shigawire 4mo ago
That part was intentional

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