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yeah and i stand by what i said, big tech isnt hiring undergrads with american degress, or american undergrads. whichever you want to spin it
but when this occurs within the context of a deliberate shutting them out of the labor market, it is certainly directly affecting who reproduces.
its a really straightforward phrase, why are you arguing semantics?
i believe that to some degree we are witnessing genocide
when people cannot make a good enough income to have children when young, and only manage to squeeze out one at 35. you have to wonder what exactly the word for that is?
the workers dont even really have american undergrad degrees
I work in big tech, I dont see any american undergrads almost anywhere. Its all foreigners. Older americans at the top, who joined over a decade ago, overseeing this odd workforce. A strong word, but somedays it feels like a soft genocide is occuring
Clearly a lot of people benefit from this situation, which is why you can’t speak about it publicly
It’s so weird how this is getting downvoted. It’s obviously true for anyone with two eyes
Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:00PM (#50320670)
the recommendation system is so sad, its stealing good content from all of us. they just churn the same click back crap
Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:55PM (#50320632)
Wait a second, forget the content, is the html/tech behind this actually more pleasant to use than googles hyperoptimized youtube website?
Hyperborea
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:47PM (#50307544)
I work on a major distributed system at a faang. We are currently in the process of letting ai be the first responder on all incidents
Re:The Agent SDK on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:47AM (#50274577)
Why would anyone use this over the Anthropic sdk
Thats what they are doing, except with a unified model, not a seperate app for each one
Re:Claude Duet on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:49PM (#50186601)
These will be what replaces employees. One day you update the model from opus 5.5 to x.5, and it can just do a full job.
Re:The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:55AM (#50180119)
yeah very weird what happened to him, sad
no i think there are alot of people inside companies that are essentially playing telephone. they are communicating, writing documents and emails, "working". but really they actually produce nothing
The big secret is most people actually arent producing actual useful output. And so there is nothing to automate... they dont actually do anything.
im willing to bet its easier to generate a new office than it is to fix libreoffice
its a catch all for people whos brains didnt develop correctly, people who are a genius, and boys
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:03PM (#50008488)
amazon is far worse than microsoft
the value from bankers comes from relationships, sales, and their weight in doing a good IPO. its not about hours worked
you want me to post their name?
I still think regular people, and markets, have not caught onto the implications of superintelligence. Its happening, and the tech oligarchs have seen it behind closed doors
Spoke with a banker at a well known investment bank in NYC last week. They told the law firm they want the fees cut in half or they walk. This is to a top 5 law firm. Lawyers are trying to charge the same prices, when both sides know they are working half the hours. This is even at the most premium top end, where an engagement bill can run up to 30 million.
these models are trash
just go use the models on a creative endeavor
you probably aren’t using the models to their full capacity if you don’t notice the difference
i use open weight models all the time, whenever a noteable one drops i will use it for the day, they are not even close for involved work.

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