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by techapple 2y ago
I guess there’s two ways this post could have gone, and it went the way of “you know that sinking feeling that you’re not good enough, you’re right!” I wrote a book last year for my family. Very few people outside my family will ever read
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by techapple 2y ago
Why?
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by techapple 2y ago
It’s very confusing me to try and remember which numbers are measured in years vs decades. “Cost of 5 to 11 trillion dollars” without context is confusing. Also lol good thing he found $100 billion in savings.
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by techapple 2y ago
I seem to recall a lot of expectation that Trump would usher in the era of post-neoliberalism and we would be focusing more on improving the lives of everyday Americans and not fighting foreign wars. But then it seems like there’s a lot of
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by techapple 2y ago
It’s funny I know two people who did startups, I think I think most fail the way one did, failed to get traction, slowly dissipated and after closing up shop, ended with an offer to joy another company as principal engineer. As opposed to t
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by techapple 2y ago
Trump’s funny in that he has a habit of advocating for fairly progressive things and then being corrected by the Republicans around him. I’m pretty sure he ran on universal healthcare in the first election for a short time. Either way I’m
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by techapple 2y ago
This surprises me. It seems like there’s some level of acknowledgement that this may get in the way of the government being effective, but didn’t Musk sort of literally take a stand that anyone fired for an X post should sue their employer
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by techapple 2y ago
I don’t understand your argument, isn’t the whole point of electing an outsider like Musk or Trump that they won’t ask why the fence is there, they’ll just remove it?
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by techapple 2y ago
I love this question, but the unfortunate sort of boring answer is that the internet sort of granulized culture so much. This is in general like the shared culture debate of why don’t we talk about tv shows at the water cooler anymore. I t
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by techapple 2y ago
Just to play devil’s advocate because why the heck not lol, isn’t the theory here that people are tired of waiting for all the analysis of every chesterton’s fence and we should just act?
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by techapple 2y ago
This guy says he works remotely from a van, who can gets me back to a previous question, are there any concrete case studies of companies that are actually using AI to replace swaths of employees?
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by techapple 2y ago
How does something like this get enforced?
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by techapple 2y ago
I guess this depends on the kind of CEO, but I think a lot of the CEO’s job is to be a human being / celebrity with a perspective. Is Elon Musk a better CEO because of the decisions he makes about his companies or because he gets other
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by techapple 2y ago
Didn’t the CEO of the parent company of Politico recently call on all the executives to pray for president Trump? https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/politico...
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by techapple 2y ago
Two things concern me: First thing that Trump did was fire the inspector generals whose job it is to provide over site. https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/politics/trump-fires-inspecto... And the second is t
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by techapple 2y ago
Something I’ve noticed in these headlines is a lack of clarity when saying “because of AI” between “retooling the workforce towards an AI strategy” and “AI is doing the work people used to do”. Reading multiple press releases on the workday
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by techapple 2y ago
Interesting, though app downloads I’d kind of a weird metric because new things would expect to have more downloads then old things.
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by techapple 2y ago
I would more likely say that the qualities that make one popular or wanting to deal with the bullshit of managing Americans disputes are in opposition to the qualities that make one qualified. See: almost every politician that’s not a Demo
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A thing I wonder about like the nature of government and power is why does it feel like going back and forth between ridiculous policies. Like I’m sure 10 years from now, we’ll be uncovering crazy things the Trump administration did that w
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by techapple 2y ago
Interesting they say their goal is 5-10% when normal attrition is six percent, that means essentially their goal is -6 to 4%
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by techapple 2y ago
Except the way I read this is that it’s not that AI is taking jobs (at least not in the way that most people mean) it’s that they’re laying people off to invest in AI. So, I have a question. I see lots of reports of individuals writing blo