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Re:Where every major LLM stands politically on Thursday June 25, 2026 @10:47AM (#48674277)
They agree on immigration, both illegal (border security) and skilled (H1B). They agree on trade policy and tariffs. They agree on public stakes in AI and semiconductor companies. They used to agree on foreign intervention, though Trump 47 less so.
Re:Where every major LLM stands politically on Thursday June 25, 2026 @10:35AM (#48674079)
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump being diametrically opposed really makes you wonder how they came up with the positions on the graph.
Re:We’re secretly winning the war on cancer on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:32AM (#44248040)
Universal in what country? In the US I've had two MRIs in the last few years for non urgent things and both were scheduled within less than a week.
Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth on Friday May 09, 2025 @12:33PM (#43938655)
Your evidence is the most absurd "antitrust" lawsuit in history. What law did they break? Macs come with Safari and Android devices come with Chrome, where's the lawsuits?
Re:20 years to give away virtually all my wealth on Thursday May 08, 2025 @01:16PM (#43928533)
> by any means necessary

This implies that they got rich by pillaging instead of countless people voluntarily giving them money in exchange for what they offered.

It definitely always works. If your skills become obsolete then it's time to find new ones or stop working.
> Have any of these economists ever tried to scrape by as an entry-level graphic designer/illustrator?

"Equip yourself with skills that other people are willing to pay for." –Thomas Sowell

Re:Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @12:06PM (#43333871)
you don't need to bring up trump in a camera thread
the people with the highest compensation packages are by definition the least replaceable
Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:32PM (#41384017)
neither does education, what's your point?
Re:A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @02:35PM (#41382704)
> Definitely under appreciated and under paid, but I learned a ton about working for a living.

a lot of the discussion about wages ignores the value of experience; students pay to spend their days learning but it's somehow unfair for someone to get paid to learn job skills that transfer to other jobs

> extreme form of coffee hipsterism

I know a lot of coffee nerds and cold brew is disdained for not extracting enough flavors. This is just someone who never adapted to the world hoping the world will adapt to them.

> Papers don't establish ground truths in science > it doesn't shake the foundations of science

the comment doesn't say any of that, just that resources are wasted participating to these "conversations"

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:43AM (#36537035)
> if MIT rejected applicants with better profiles because of the URM checkbox, in some sense they didn't deserve to get in

"better" is subjective and imo anyone who goes on to succeed at the school is as good as the next person; there are lots of other equally arbitrary decisions that go into college admissions

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned on Thursday June 29, 2023 @11:51AM (#36522120)
> I went to MIT, and to this day I wonder how much checking "Hispanic" helped me there and if I "deserved" to go.

the problem with aa is not about people getting in that didn't "deserve" it, it's people getting in who don't have the means to succeed; elite colleges brag about their diverse admissions but don't talk about people who go on to fail when they could've succeeded at less prestigious schools

if you succeeded then you deserved to get in.

then you know it's not a great article.
> My personal, uneducated, unverified hypothesis was that companies overcompensate price increases for three main reasons:

profit-maximizing sellers can only increase prices if demand rises, otherwise they will sell fewer units at the higher price (and if they could've made more money selling fewer units at a higher price then we can assume that they were already doing that because they are profit maximizing)

the only way that demand can rise (allowing prices to rise) in unison is if there is more money going around, which is what happens when the money printer goes brr, which it did https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

> To have record-breaking profits means that are markets are record-breakingly inefficient

or more innovative companies captured the market share of less innovative ones, e.g. lockdowns bankrupting brick and mortars in favor of online giants

Re:52% of UK gig workers are earning below minimum wage on Thursday May 11, 2023 @11:48AM (#35903905)
you can flag it
Re:Haskell in Production: Standard Chartered on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @02:32PM (#35805966)
> Some niche languages enthusiasts can be very picky and reluctant to work on other languages, and would pick Haskell when a simple python script would be more appropriate.

in my experience, these people also refuse to learn about any software engineering best practices as they are "for OO languages" and "not needed" in haskell

I get taxing companies for things that cost taxpayers money, but why do this based on recyclability? It seems like more of an economic problem: if recycled plastic costs more than new plastic, then why is it better? Charge companies for packaging that ends up in the landfill instead, otherwise these companies are essentially being subsidized by taxpayers to package things however is more profitable without having to account for that cost.
Re:How to be a -10x Engineer on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:16PM (#35445941)
> Name all your variables 'data'.

Name a class "Entity" and make everything else derive from it. Write code that can't be deleted, ever.

Re:How to be a -10x Engineer on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @03:54PM (#35445078)
basically the 0x engineers the article talks about wrt opportunity cost
it's a tax on your bank account, but other assets can increase in value proportionally with inflation
there's also "empirical evidence" that minimum wage laws don't lead to unemployment, that doesn't make it true
Acting like "food" is a company is absurd, there is a ton of competition and substitution in the market, no one actor has the capacity to influence "food" prices in general. If they did, then were they just being altruistic three years ago by not raising prices?
Re:Why Construction Projects Always Go over Budget on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:05PM (#35283294)
like what?
Re:Why Construction Projects Always Go over Budget on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:45AM (#35261832)
government agencies are the only ones that get MORE money when they fail to deliver

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