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its funny how the tech community is so pro capitalism but also pro open source, which seem completely at odds.

animals do frequently get along and cooperate, ironically what youre doing is a reflection of capitalism, youre projecting the current economic system onto the animal planet. Think of that famously wrong study from the 70s about alpha wolves, its been disproven but people still of it as true because it molds to the economic system they understand.

But also, I dont even think it matters. We have to live under an economic system that lets people sleep on the streets, and maybe more importantly: will commit full scale ecocide on the natural world because maybe you'll start a small business someday?

ai [handshake] dating apps == obvious scams

on one hand its off topic, on the other hand does it do any of us any favors to close our eyes to this? Lots of tech is ultimately involved in this and when people here talk about 'acing that palantir interview' it should be known that they are, directly or indirectly, involved in this.

yeah I purposely picked a sample size to include the modern order established after ww2 because its largely so different than what came before it and includes basically all of chomsky's lifespan.

I mean, its because for the last 80 years America has been the belligerent aggressive party in every conflict. Are you going to bat for Iraq? Vietnam? Korea?

I get downvoted every time I point out that generative AI is at this point mostly a bad faith tech used by scammers and over confident CEO's desperate to lay people off.

the culture on this site is a combination of reddit tech bro and linkedIn ceo-poster. Everyone here thinks they are the next great founder. You will toe the line of capital expansion over all or get downvoted.

This is true! I would also like a study that separates the danger of smoking, any substance burned and inhaled is dangerous, but is it more or less dangerous than the actual thc?

Isnt it possible that people smoking weed were treating conditions like anxiety or depression and are more likely to commit suicide in the first place? Weed has had a real deficit of actual study and although some people can get a dependency on it I have a hard time qualifying those people as addicts when stopping weed is so much less dangerous and difficult than other substances. Its a complicated topic that requires quite a lot of care when you talk about it, because labelling someone as an addict is a tall order and also weed has been a moral panic for so long.

which makes it worse right?

My take on RTO is that its a soft layoff. You can get rid of a ton of people, reduce headcount, next quarters numbers look good. The other reason? Managers just like the office. Its a spot of manager power, they like that.

hacker news: a collection of the smartest tech minds on the internet, but only for code!

what is the good reason, can you tell me

shame were doing a large push to return to the office anyways

finally, someone who took a humanities class!

I guess if you look at pay as solely a result of 'work done' you'd come to this conclusion, and it should work this way, but really its got more to do with the relationship between employer and employee. A person in prison has a very different legal status than someone who doesnt and they do tend to get paid less.

and hear i am browsing hacknews at work on monday morning, wishing I was still asleep. Really gives you perspective, I hope you get out safe and sound and soon and things work out for you.

so is this going to be the next big thing, like the metaverse? Werent we all supposed to be paying virtual rent?

Australia, a white settler colony in the southern hemisphere, racist? Yeah, I dont find that hard to believe at all. Why would you use that as an example?

You give away the game right here. You don't consider 'rioters' americans, you're already othering them right in the question. Fascism 101!

they can be a tad overzealous!

what no one is reckoning with right here

The AI skeptics are mostly correctly reacting to the AI hypists, who are usually shitty linkedin influencer type dudes crowing about how they never have to pay anyone again. its very natural, even intelligent to not trust this now that its filling the same bubble as NFTs a few years ago. I think its okay to stay skeptical and see where the chips fall in a few years at this point.

you hire consultants so you can cut staff and quality, but the CEOs were already going to do that.

I think this is the kind of logic you wind up with when you start with the assumption that the Big 4 tell the truth about absolutely everything all the time

it was some kind of roman salute, from the heart lol

I really miss the anarcho hacker days, those people were cool

a lot of HN users are like a hair away from being openly white supremacist itself. Sometimes HN is just 4chan linkedin

surely that cant be real good god

its hard to really get how culturally tied to cars Americans are. Politicians in NYC essentially act like 'a car' is the unit of citizenship in the country, and not 'a person'. We make laws so cars dont get offended, we prioritize them over lives and safety. Its honestly pretty crazy.

thinkingtoilet more like shit for brains