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beepbopboopp··on Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program
This ones easy, it's because the other ones provide a service people generally want, so the faustian bargain is always "Ill give you this thing I dont want to as long as you keep providing the thing I like."

Flock provides nothing direct to the consumer which means this is going to get worse and Id stake a wager they rebrand after raising their next huge round.

beepbopboopp··on What will our economic future look like?
I mean, this clearly a technology change. Would you have stopped the printing press because young people got worse at verbally telling the ancient stories? Or when kids stopped understanding what a card catologe was?

We are in the middle of a major change and it very well could be net negative, but for the most part history just keeps marching and its fine, just different.

beepbopboopp··on New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal
Politics is the act of organizing people.

Your whole comment misses the point of the sport. It is not effective to look for the most accurate or rhetorically tested point, the goal is to rally as large a group around a point that dosent make them look like hypocrites, or materially clashes with how they present their identity in other parts of their lives.

This point being mealy mouthed is by design.

beepbopboopp··on How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
Unpopular take: This was significantly better for employers and employees.

It worked as both an effort and presentation filter which both reduced the overload of candidates, allowing for more attention, higher variation of skills that didnt often show like traditional resume bonafides and mad companies more likely to invest more in employees as it was a pain to go do again.

For employees it was great too. Much like the world pre-dating apps the business world wasnt all looking for the equivalent of trust fund, 6'5", blue eyes. As well as the points mentioned above.

beepbopboopp··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
Infantino either has already paid out people or already accepted money. Its unbelievable that he didnt poll for enough votes before launching. Theres a now a greater than 50% he has to step down.

Crime only plays if you do it correctly.

beepbopboopp··on Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display
Oh man, when they moved Endeavor through the streets of LA it was like a championship parade.

Your collection is incomplete as you have not useen the Space Shuttle pass through a Wendy's drive through, the extremely rare and unlockable, hidden operating mode.

beepbopboopp··on Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists against facial recognition
The stadium pays no property tax. Its a bummer some enterprising pro-bono lawyer hasnt bullied some clever points of leverage onto city subsidized projects that strip some of the god-like powers to deny access from these places.

On a personal note, James Dolan seems universally disliked by staff, fans and regular people alike. It's almost impressive.

beepbopboopp··on xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab
Or the model was a marketing expense to capitalize the data center model. Im not saying it was intentionally that, but its been an effective "that."
beepbopboopp··on The dead economy theory
Any machine with an on-off switch is functionally an organized and automated work flow.

If I understand correctly youre talking about reactive adjustments, but thats not completely accurate either. There is a lot of projection that this MAY happen, but currently, the capital owner/stewards are going to constantly watch outputs and adjust to them based on the results. You're probably correct in that they will spend far less time doing so, but anyone with a vested outcome is going to have to adjust these things as the responsiblity for the outcome will always land on the owner not the machine.

beepbopboopp··on The dead economy theory
I mean you could have written this article for mechanization word for word, I think the difference is that its coming for the white collar folks this time, who also are the folks writing the think pieces and media.
beepbopboopp··on Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions
If you think there is even a 2% chance you're going to need a government bailout over the next decade, you simply cant be calling your product the grim reaper.
beepbopboopp··on FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive
It was so funny, he mostly predicted the election correctly, but people confused probabilistic forecasting for sports lines.
beepbopboopp··on As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating
Serious questions, how is this destruction and not just "change?" It seems throughout time the world has experienced acute shifts, dying offs and other events. In those transition periods many animals that you know and love today finally got a shot at main character roles. Heck the reduction of o2 in the air that killed/shrunk a lot of dinosaurs is basically the opening slave for you to be able to write this Hacker News comment.

None of this is to say don't mourn or long for any of this, but the show doesnt end, the charecters just change.

beepbopboopp··on The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad's Assassination Campaign
Ok, whats your favorite Jordanian or Lebanese invention of the last 15 years? How about Palestinian movie?
beepbopboopp··on The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad's Assassination Campaign
Man, a simple google would help. Lets start with the USB flash drive, Iron Dome, PillCam. The drip irrigation technology alone has transformed arrid farming. Factor in Mobileye, ICQ, Check Point's firewall and Waze and this is legit just in the last decade and half.
beepbopboopp··on The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad's Assassination Campaign
Violence aside, one group (The West) has been responsible for nearly all standard of living, technology and medical breakthroughs and the other has mostly been stuck in some 1800s machismo culture. Im not saying the west or israel are innocent of atrocities, but if you were to take out graph paper and and create a ration of lives of (death or suffering) to (lives/quality extended). One team absolutely MOPS the other.

Murder probably isnt the best way, but the idea that either side is clearly evil or the villain is far off.

beepbopboopp··on Afroman found not liable in defamation case
Its not even police specific.

In any game, if one side has 10x more accountability for misbehavior than the other, the low consequence side will keep testing boundaries until they are stopped.

beepbopboopp··on Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers
Please share how this revolting to you
beepbopboopp··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
Name one truly major market that is more business friendly
beepbopboopp··on U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office
The account was created 2 hours ago. Everything is dead internet theory.
beepbopboopp··on The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says
The 90s kids were chided for TV and video games by the 80s and 70s kids.

Im not saying people need to get offline more, but this time period isnt particularly unique in that sense.

beepbopboopp··on The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says
Calm down, what actually happens is there is a reaction to new technology and then once its been used there is a counter reaction which takes into account what works and what dosent.

Is there a previous decade you'd prefer to return too for quality of life? Why?

beepbopboopp··on ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?
This is an argument against the general data collection internet NOT chatGPT.
beepbopboopp··on Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?
> Will there be the same overutilisation occurring if users have to financially support the infrastructure, either through subscriptions or intrusive advertising? > I doubt it.

Yea, I think this is wrong. The analogy is more like the App Store, in that there is very little to do currently other than a better Google Search with the product. The bet is that over time (short time) there are much more financially valuable use cases with a more mature ecosystem and tech.

beepbopboopp··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
Eh, distribution of the model is the real moat, theyre doing 700m WAU of the most financially valuable users on earth. If they truly become search, commerce and can use their model either via build or license across b2b, theyre the largest company on earth many times over.
beepbopboopp··on EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
I want to start by saying I have no skin in the game here. While not perfect, Saudi has very clearly moved "Westernly" on many ideas, most notably social and economic ones. It can even be argued that their recent moves in that direction have made it near impossible for the other large economy companies to move too far the other way. Th

At what point does the narrative about their investments on the larger stage become less pejorative?

beepbopboopp··on What happens when private equity buys homes in your neighborhood
It seems like the only solution is going to be an FDR style president that sort of runs up against traditional liberties in order to to build. I do wonder if an interesting quirk of the current president essentially consolidated executive power for questionable reasons, leads to a candidate that uses some of those changes to bulldoze these types of projects back into America.
beepbopboopp··on AI enters the grant game, picking winners
I think the question is probably would something closer to chaos be more effective that the current general system? If so, than this is probably promising.
beepbopboopp··on Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome
These are consumer products that are basically commodities to all but the largest power users. If you loved their product than this approach should make you ecstatic as its the only way they'll be able to survive as an independent.

OpenAi literally retired all their models to the anger of the likes of people like you because they know this is all basically a race for the most familiar consumer assistant on a monthly subscription.

beepbopboopp··on Supreme Court formally asked to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
I think the most interesting part about this is that this is first "out group" that theyre taking aim at that truly has money, power and extremely organized cultural weaponry.

It seems they think coming after this group with impunity like they have the poor and some other specific minorities is going to work out with little consequence or true backlash. Id bet this group serves more third rail than they are anticpating.

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