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psivchaz

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  • Wealth inequality risks triggering 'societal collapse' within next decade, report finds

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  • I don't think we're going to fix things in any meaningful way. I think we're watching a big collapse. Not the end of humanity like some want to predict, but very rough times ahead.

    I am with you that we should help each other out, and there's ways to do that. We can feed and shelter people now, and we should, but much more than that becomes infeasible quickly. And I think it will become even less feasible as things get worse.

    I think what the other person was saying is... If there's a way to fix things, to make things better or at least lessen the harm, it's going to take a lot of people doing a lot of things. Things that aren't always profitable right away, but pay off later. Better public transit systems, more renewable energy, huge programs replacing the old but crucial infrastructure that brings us clean drinking water, turning useless land into productive fields, and so much more. If we had the political will, we could offer everyone the ability to work on these programs and in return have a better quality of life, while also building a better future.

    And to be clear, this isn't all manual labor. Probably most of it isn't really manual labor. It's math, it's planning, it's machine operation, it's coordinating and transporting, it's organizing and communicating. To solve our problems will require a lot of people with a lot of skills, and if we can encourage the right people to be in the right place, we could solve so many problems and make so many things better.

    We won't, though. But we could.

  • "Please fill out this survey about how we didn't hire you."

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  • I agree but I feel like you'll almost never get honest feedback, and companies never seem to do anything with the feedback they get. I mean if you're firing someone, you'll probably get a list of grievances that are exaggerated because they're upset. If someone is quitting, they might hold back to not burn the bridge so to speak. The only time I had an exit interview was also the worst job I ever had, and I doubt they did anything as a result of me telling them, "Hey, when you tell someone they can't take their legally mandated break, and then write them up for not taking that break, it's kind of a demoralizing dick move."

  • YSK that Bitwarden will require you to enter verification codes sent to your email before letting you log in, starting February 2025 (Edit: This is for those who aren't currently using 2FA)

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  • Using different apps for password management and for 2fa is good for your security and good for redundancy. If your vault is compromised, you don't want your OTP info compromised with it. I personally use Aegis.

    That said, Aegis is still an Android app and while I have a backup of it's data, I think I'm still out of luck if my phone breaks until it gets repaired or replaced. I've been trying to figure that one out, because it doesn't seem like there's a lot of good options with desktop support.

  • Trump says ‘clean out that whole thing’ as part of his plan for Gaza

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  • I genuinely believe it comes down to the moral question of: is inaction itself an action. Or maybe are you responsible for the results of not making a choice just as you would be if you did make a choice. I say yes.

  • Big Sale! But not on everything...

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  • That's the neat part: Convicted felons ARE excluded from most public service jobs like being a teacher or a mayor. It was widely believed that this included the presidency until the Supreme Court decided it somehow didn't.

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    Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi?

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  • I love the other comments you made, but I want to point out one other thing: How did those privileges come about? That is, what were the conditions that led to the government taking the power to grant companies de facto monopolies?

    In some cases, it was an unintended consequence of political conditions. For example, private insurers came to rule our healthcare system because of a cap on income to raise funds for WW2. In order to get around this cap, employers offered non-cash benefits and the rest is history. Libertarians love this one, it's pretty cut and dry that a form of socialism shot itself in the foot.

    However, there are many other cases where it was an unintended consequence of regulation written in blood. An easy and popular example is the FDA. Making food and adhering to food regulations at scale is definitely something that requires so much up front capital that it has been favoring existing corporations for quite a while, leading to a relatively small number of companies controlling a huge portion of the food supply. But that regulation came about because companies large and small, unfettered and unrestricted, were adulterating the food or cutting dangerous corners to maximize profit. The solution can't just be less regulation, those same companies will continue to dominate but now with the ability to outright feed us poison while buying or otherwise destroying any competition.

  • Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: ‘We don’t care about professional coders anymore’

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  • This has happened before. GUI tools were going to mean less developers with less cost, but it didn't materialize. Higher level languages were going to cause mass layoffs but it didn't really materialize. Tools like WordPress were going to put web developers out of business, but it didn't really. Sitebuilders like Wix were going to do it, too, but they really haven't.

    These tools perform well at the starter end, but terribly at the larger or enterprise end. Current AI is like that. It can help better than I think people on here give it credit for, but it can't replace. At best, it simply produces things with bugs, or that doesn't quite work. At worst, it appears to work but is riddled with problems.

    I genuinely believe AI isn't over hyped in the long run. We're going to need solutions to fix our current way of work. But I feel confident it's still further away than the people investing in it think it is, and they're going to be paying big for that mistake.

  • Thousands of Los Angeles homeowners were dropped by their insurers before the Palisades Fire

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  • TBH, if insurance companies started pushing for climate change policies it would probably make those policies less popular. If there's an industry less trusted than Big Oil, it's Insurance.

  • Leo

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  • The bar is kind of low these days, so the fact that he doesn't go lower still somehow makes him better than a large chunk of famous people.

  • Dr. House is based??

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  • It's been a while since I've seen it, and I forgot quite how much an asshole Tritter really was. I think Tritter is sort of sympathetic in that he's right: House is an addict, breaking the law to feed his addiction, and he probably shouldn't be practicing medicine. It works on TV but in real life, would you really want the doctor who spends his whole time high and doesn't care at all about you except as a puzzle? But I forgot that the whole thing started over him feeling personally insulted, and I forgot exactly how much he sucked as a person.

  • Dr. House is based??

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  • I genuinely can't tell which of the two you're talking about. This describes them both pretty well. I give the edge to House for being slightly more sympathetic.

  • Bull yogurt

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  • One time I was at a restaurant and I noted that it didn't have a changing station. Sure enough, during the meal my kid needed to be changed. I asked my wife if her restroom had a changing station, and she told me it did.

    So I took my kid up to the host stand and asked to talk to the manager. I politely explained that I needed to change a diaper but there wasn't a changing station in the restroom so asked which table I could use, or if I should just use the bench in the waiting area. Manager got flustered and had a waitress check if the women's room was empty and then stood outside the door while I changed the diaper.

    About a year later I happened to go back, and I did notice that the men's room had a changing table. It's a small thing, but I felt like I won one.

  • IEEE 754

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  • You'd be dismayed to find out how often I've seen people do that.

  • Tesla shares slide after it reports first drop in annual deliveries

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  • What on Earth are you talking about? Someone posted a thing above that shows Tesla at #3 in profits.That's pretty big. The dude sucks, and he's openly tossing money around trying to influence elections, and he is a known liar and fraud. The company is way overvalued. You don't have to exaggerate and say Tesla fails at selling cars to criticize him.

  • Trump rages at Biden for wrecking his plans for executions: ‘Makes no sense’

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  • It's more odd to me that the ones who believe in original sin and forgiveness for everything are the ones anti-abortion and pro-execution.

  • Brian Thompson pleaded guilty to drunk driving in 2017, spent a few days in jail, and then became CEO in the same month so he could kill more people.

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  • I'm a big fan of justice reform on a lot of things. We're way too harsh on so many things, and there's a bunch of stuff that shouldn't even be a crime. Drunk driving is not one of those things, fuck drunk drivers.

  • UnitedHealth Group leader breaks silence on CEO murder, says health care system is flawed

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  • The thing that gets me is that it's true. It's a patchwork... of so many people taking more than they should and giving less than they should. If UHC tomorrow used every penny of the premiums they charge purely to cover healthcare, they still wouldn't fix the problem. A fix would require change to the pharmacies, the drug companies, the medical equipment companies, the hospitals and hospital networks, and more levels of bullshit middlemen than I even know exist. No single person, be they President or CEO or billionaire, can fix it.

    He is still an asshole though. He is just pointing to the problem and saying "Good people are trying to fix it." Are they? Where's the evidence? I would love to read an article that made me think, "Yes, the healthcare industry is making one small step in the right direction" but it hasn't come up. If this dude wants me to sympathize with him or with Brian Thompson, he should say ONE THING that either of them has ever done to address the problems of the industry and make things genuinely better for everyone. My money is that he can't.

  • UHC Shooter Update: He is an Ivy League Tech Bro with Chronic Back Pain

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  • I want to live in an America where this guy specifically goes free and then later gets rich off of a book titled something like "If I Did It, This Was Why"

  • Interesting. It's a constant reminder

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  • It's been a long time but I recall a study featured on Freakonomics where a national park tried different signs to get people to not steal rocks. Signs like, "Taking rocks hurts the ecosystem" and "Taking rocks is a crime."

    The only effective one was something along the lines of, "A million people visit this park every year and leave things alone." Suggesting that telling people to do the right thing is less effective than peer pressure.

  • Rule medication

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  • It's way more professional than I could manage under the circumstances.