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sleight42

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sleight42
·hace 13 horas·discuss
You essentially described the Republican and Libertarian perspectives in the US.

The Republicans seem to see it as immoral to potentially give a few people support they don't need even if that means that most of the people who need the support actually get it. And, instead, they believe that having an inconsistent array of private interests will somehow be more able to service an enormous population than having an organization (like government...) that is large enough to match that population's needs.

The Libertarians seem to either genuinely not care about the rest of the world or, more often than not, seem to be naive about how life can be for the less privileged.

It's the lie of the "rugged individualist" in America. Most "successful" people come from successful families. Social mobility, in the US, is part of that lie. Here, we celebrate the person who rises from poverty to become wealthy as a member of a sports team, or as an actor, or similar, while disregarding that these massive successes are outliers.

I'm so often disappointed in my own country.
sleight42
·anteayer·discuss
Me trying to fix our living room couch. Yeah. I fell ya, man.
sleight42
·hace 12 días·discuss
I was going to say: develop practical widely deployed fusion energy far far faster.

Not sure about all of your choices in particular but "100 Manhattan projects" caps it all nicely.
sleight42
·hace 13 días·discuss
Wish I had that microbe. Ozempic made me suicidal. Still here though. Zepbound doesn't that that effect. Maybe the smaller dosage of the GLP-1.
sleight42
·hace 15 días·discuss
7 hours old and not flagged? Amazing.
sleight42
·hace 15 días·discuss
Reasonable???
sleight42
·hace 19 días·discuss
> If your team can generate code faster than it can review it, you have a bottleneck. The constraint is human judgment, not output.

Given almost any group of coders, who are proficient in their technologies of choice, coding speed almost always exceeds reviewing speed. Same as it ever was.

Given any arbitrarily worthwhile problem to solve, the actual cost is in solving the problem or the cost to serve or both. Cost to serve if the solution is inefficient or the problem space barely tractable.
sleight42
·el mes pasado·discuss
Argentina, for example. Coworkers there told me about this. Madness.
sleight42
·el mes pasado·discuss
Lost me at "simps" and "cucks". Ad hominem? Don't care. I have standards.
sleight42
·el mes pasado·discuss
Waiting for this to get flagged because, once again, the US sucks.

A lot of us know why the US is behind in wind and solar. It's because of a five letter word that starts with "T".

Do better, America.
sleight42
·el mes pasado·discuss
... said the FBI/NSA agent
sleight42
·el mes pasado·discuss
> Knowledge workers hold a different relationship to their labor than manufacturing workers did. For a cognitive professional, expertise is not only an activity. It is a large part of the self.

Really? The way a knowledge worker feels about their labor is different than a manufacturing worker? They don't or can't have similar pride in their labor? In their skills?

This is some seriously self-aggrandizing bullshit. Touch some grass.
sleight42
·el mes pasado·discuss
Imagine that. People who are responsible for guiding the morals of much of the world's population see moral implications in AI. How dare these mere "religious leaders" guide their flock.

FFS. Morals come from somewhere. For many, that's religion. Deal with it.
sleight42
·el mes pasado·discuss
But we can't have that because then we'd be wasting potential profit. /s
sleight42
·el mes pasado·discuss
Were you alive in the 80s? Flying really was better back then. The food was edible. The seats weren't optimized for torture.

"Inane regulations", however misguided, generally exist to prevent the Torment Nexus. PE devolves companies into the Torment Nexus to create more profit.
sleight42
·hace 2 meses·discuss
It's almost as though GitHub should never have let itself be sold to Microsoft...
sleight42
·hace 2 meses·discuss
It speaks to changes here that this is so upvoted. Several years ago, I wrote something very similar. It was downvoted into oblivion.
sleight42
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Ah nuts. And here I have a 3s+ and then I "upgraded" to an X1C.
sleight42
·hace 2 meses·discuss
The hell with you. I'm autistic.
sleight42
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Autism fetishism.

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