thisisit

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by thisisit 12d ago
What is this argument really? Comparing one man’s corruption to a whole party with decades of history. “Honey my cheating on you is bad but look at this man Trump with decades of public philandering.” Whataboutism at its finest.
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by thisisit 14d ago
While voting by mail himself. Yes the hypocrite-in-chief. Rules for thee, none for me.
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by thisisit 21d ago
> Protecting workers from that kind of competition seems fair. Tariffs aren't bad in itself. They are just a tool. At the cost of consumers paying for goods/services? Your take is as reductive as the take in the comics. People
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by thisisit 21d ago
It is more than Chinese steel: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/world/canada/trump-carney... Asking them to change French programming laws, and stopping the "Buy Canadian goods" law etc.
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by thisisit 21d ago
They know the stick is huge but with how everything is going with US and the TACO mentality they feel US will be back on the table once the reality starts hitting. The whole story about why the talks failed: https://www.nytimes.c
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by thisisit 24d ago
> how do these people consistently survive their self-inflicted disasters? Because they don't believe the disasters were inflicted by them. The other aspect is managing the manager. This comes in form of delivering something what th
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by thisisit 24d ago
Add to that at one point Claude was the go to models for the very basic use case for LLMs - text generation. With newer models text generation outputs have gone from probably human readable text to dense philosophical treatise about "l
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by thisisit 26d ago
Yes sure. Add it to the pile of contradictory goals: 1. Bring back manufacturing jobs 2. Remove trade barriers 3. Make US rich by collecting huge amount of tariffs If 1 is true then there is no benefit for countries to remove trade barriers
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by thisisit 26d ago
This ignores two facts. One, US has been the largest buyer of imported goods. As much as people think turning away is difficult and needs planning. Two, turning away requires time and planning. Supply chain isn't built in one day. Peop
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by thisisit 28d ago
The worst part is that this will be connected to another AI. The insurance company's AI chatbot responsible for verifying claims. 'You took illegal drugs hence your claim is denied" and "there are no humans available to
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by thisisit 1mo ago
It is often easy to fear the unknown. When you don't have a concrete fear or example it is easy to make the worse scenario in mind. And every reassurance can be swept away with a "But what if..". The way I see it is that we a
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by thisisit 1mo ago
There are republicans left and most will devolve to equivocating talking about corruption under Biden (Hunter Laptop), Clinton etc and maybe say "everyone is corrupt and this is just slightly more corrupt maybe more in the open" w
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by thisisit 1mo ago
You are debating one hyperbole with another hyperbole. After all not everyone has Trump as President who thinks the only way to work with allies is to bully them. Will this particular thing going to define US for next 50 years? Probably not
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by thisisit 1mo ago
> PWC et al don't go around doing reports on these tiny companies bro. The only information you get is if you know people in that place and they tell you yourself, which is how I got to know. I knew the post screamed "trust me
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by thisisit 1mo ago
I have been using LLMs to help me turn my journals into interconnected notes and sometimes it is so confusing to read the notes that it doesn't resemble any human would write. Its like the models are getting stronger while also losing
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by thisisit 1mo ago
First I'd like to understand what are these "small" non-tech companies in tiny towns 45k to its employees? The last labor survey had average Indian salary pegged at 21k. > it pays for itself in literally a day Most comment
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by thisisit 1mo ago
Sometimes people say AI is the next big thing since the internet and at other it is like cloud computing where companies can charge premium. Both cannot be true at the same time. If you look back in the early days there were premium ISP pro
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by thisisit 2mo ago
> didn't realize that inflicting disease on people was their goal I think the lesson here is just because someone is anti-something doesn't exactly mean they stand for something. Just because someone is anti-corruption it doesn
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by thisisit 2mo ago
You do realise that you cannot prove a negative? So the right conclusion even informally cannot be “ probably not making me any dumber”.
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by thisisit 2mo ago
This is a bad take. > Think about it another way. Consider how much money Microsoft spends on maintaining Excel. There are open source alternatives that have >90% of the functionality, they'll even work w/ Excel files and ge
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by thisisit 2mo ago
> Taylor Sheridan can do a new series where a Ranch owned by a family for many generations is targeted by a Datacentre company. More likely he is going to make something like Landman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La
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by thisisit 2mo ago
> you still need to poke around, figure out what you want, what to do, etc. Is it different? because then: > you can even be vague, and they'll probably do an ok job if it's not something super complicated That's lot of
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by thisisit 2mo ago
Current discussions is like deja vu. One time there was hype around of no code/low code development using PowerApps, Zapier etc. The sell was - Creating your apps was easier than before. You don't need to know any programming lang
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by thisisit 2mo ago
More like keeps "extending by 1 more week"
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by thisisit 2mo ago
whataboutism is a tiresome argument. Lets agree that these folks are wrong and ideally they should have petitioned 12 years ago. The question to ask is - for an admin which loudly claims to make America healthy again and talk about making e
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by thisisit 2mo ago
Despite paying for Claude access, I don't use Fable but I find this always changing policy quite exhausting to follow. There is 2x usage, there is no 2x usage, there is 2x usage but only x hours, there is no 2x usage, there is Fable ac
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by thisisit 2mo ago
You missed two things one, a consist thread across all your examples - every market ends with a duopoly along with smaller competitors and two, which of these industries started with multiple billion dollars companies competing with each ot
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DOGE Is Officially Ending. Agencies Are Hiring Again(notus.org)
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by thisisit 2mo ago
> I was worried this time last year that by this time this year, companies would have slashed their engineering teams down to a handful and everything would be driven by mostly autonomous agents with human guidance. But it just hasn&#x27
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by thisisit 2mo ago
I was just about to comment the same. It’s like a hammer in need of a nail. Here’s where ChatGPT released and jobs dovetails so it must be true. It will also be interesting to see 2019 through 2021. There was a glut of hiring post COVID and

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