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by trod123 2y ago
This article isn't worth the time spent reading it. About the only thing they got right is the fact that large business has become delusional, and being delusional is not just a dick move. Being delusional is synonymous with blind and
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by trod123 2y ago
Paywall: https://archive.ph/Mf8hQ
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by trod123 2y ago
Its not the deception that's the problem, its the false advertising and fraud. In the last two years (shortly after GPT) I've got a list of about 400 of these outfits. Indeed and LinkedIn don't remove them when reported. Many
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by trod123 2y ago
You are disregarding the ongoing trend of replacing IT workers with AI.
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by trod123 2y ago
You can make more as a fast food worker, and don't have to sweat when all the IT systems go down because they chose to replace you with AI.
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by trod123 2y ago
The economy is not fine. It is like a race car, insofar as the problem scope is one of lagging indicators and hysteresis, (i.e. speed and fuel), but not as you elaborate. Starting in 2010, the FED started quantitative easing. This marked th
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by trod123 2y ago
The economy in tech is dramatically bad. The national unemployment was 1.5% in August. The tech sector was %7.0?. The tech sector has hiring freezes starting in late October thru to March. August is the peak hiring, and the tech sector unem
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by trod123 2y ago
If this were any other market, you might have a point but this is tech. The Tech sector is not correlated with changes in interest rates. It has a long history of not being correlated with interest rates (20+ years). Do note that each one o
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by trod123 2y ago
> I believe the discussion of the "fix" for Healthcare as who has insurance and who doesn't is wrong ... I agree. I'd go so far as to say its evil, and the banality of evil that results in discussions surrounding this
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by trod123 2y ago
Well some of the more discerning people have been waiting for the shoe to drop in sheltered asset classes since the major red flags during the pandemic started occurring. A large number of structural changes were made that fundamentally mak
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by trod123 2y ago
I'm not OP, but I consider your response quite reasonable. I found your reply informative and specific, though I took a more fundamental approach in my response to OP, focusing on components required for a "rule of law" compa
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by trod123 2y ago
> the law must determine what is fair as society changes over time This has been the ideal that has been put forth generally quite a bit, but it also almost always neglects the structural failings that must equally be addressed at the s
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by trod123 2y ago
> I do not find "the justice system treats them differently... circular appeal to authority. You may not know it, but you are effectively referencing the difference between a "rule of law" and a "rule by law" in
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by trod123 2y ago
Sounds like what you have works for you, seems like it would be quite brittle to me though. > Idk why bash scripting is a "lost art" I suspect that has to do with the fact that writing or reading it is often an effort in futili
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by trod123 2y ago
Technically you shouldn't, but some people don't consider this a loss of credibility as a whole. The moment Ubuntu started deceptively poisoning their repo with pre-packaged fixup scripts that would violate security policy by fixi
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by trod123 2y ago
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips become stained, the stains become a warning...
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by trod123 2y ago
Recessions typically are pullbacks of the market sector for 1-2 years, but not necessarily slowdowns in growth, though there is no globally accepted definition for a recession. Depressions typically have stagnant growth, starting in one sec
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by trod123 2y ago
You are comparing apples to oranges. Unemployment calculations from data recorded during that time have since changed. The same unemployment numbers are not the same mathematical objects being compared. At this point, we can never know the
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by trod123 2y ago
> Eventually ... Yes, but the problems start in severe economic crises. Specifically, when those several months turn into years. Many filters during the hiring process, prior to interview will discard those candidates who have gaps since
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by trod123 2y ago
I disagree with your conclusion, you have several flawed premises. The market has been slowly shrinking into fewer and fewer hands over time, which is why it has become more competitive over time. This has also led to cooperative behavior a
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by trod123 2y ago
I second this, though its a bit unclear to any non-domain expert in systems or systems organization. Defining the problem and identifying constraints is always the hardest part and its always different for each application. You also never k
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by trod123 2y ago
Well the descent of the community into delusion is an expected result from the lack of effective moderation and the echo chamber that has malign subversion campaigns running through it. The fact that no action has been taken towards correct
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by trod123 2y ago
Not the best comic, this is very misleading albeit factual in only about 50% of its comic. Importantly, it ignores the drivers of technology in the first place, instead blaming the rich (visually), or the bourgeois (silently), and then make
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by trod123 2y ago
> What about this? Sounds like it may "silence" people who flag stuff that [those in power] think should not be flagged. In practice, when you write clear consistent community rules and guidelines that are unambiguous, the aver
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by trod123 2y ago
Bulk data collection is not costly to collect, its cents per person; if that. Javascript running on the visitors endpoint is not costly at all (the customer pays for it). Bulk data purchases of anonymized data are also quite common, and eas
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by trod123 2y ago
This is just one of many aspects of fingerprinting. Canvas is only a single element. Each fingerprint component can be used to correlate other components, including TLS channel options which generally last the entire session the website is
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by trod123 2y ago
Fonts are the low hanging fruit. More sophisticated servers run a whole battery of hardware fingerprinting tests. It runs deep. If the device has been powered on for a certain period of time (usually a few minutes), the voltage normalizes a
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by trod123 2y ago
That would never work. Information is inherently more valuable when no one knows it. Just like a ponzi scheme, they need to forever collect more invasive information to reap the same benefit over time.
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by trod123 2y ago
That's not true. The jitter had very little intended effect since accurate system timing can be derived from the instruction processing time of arbitrary javascript code in a mostly browser agnostic way, specifically iteration (i=i+1).
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by trod123 2y ago
It uniquely identifies you out of all the people on the planet, and through that identification it allows correlation of a number of highly personal and related information points including related persons, roommates, their information, etc

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