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Except when Zuck decides it's profitable to violate the rules.

The man is without any redeeming qualities.

Meta cancels the contract with the outsourcing company they contracted to classify smart glasses content after employees at the company whistleblow about serious privacy issues with the content they were paid to classify.

Even if so, it doesn't matter, because 4 - 8 years later it'll be reversed again. And because it takes longer to rebuild than dismantle, it will never be the same.

This is the cycle now. 180 degree turns in policy every 4 or 8 years. There's no long term planning.

China and Russia must be enjoying this.

When I worked at a company that was using Palantir's software about 15 years ago the average age of a Palantir employee was in the early 20s in my experience.

It was almost certainly everyone's first job.

It's not too hard to think of ways you can get a bunch of young folks do your bidding without them questioning the motives or what kind of moral challenges the job has.

Zuck and his minions are also responsible for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide

Your examples pale in comparison.

It's a documentary

Physical therapists will be replaced by AI?

Kindergarten teachers will be replaced by AI?

Politicians will be replaced by AI? (they could, they will just never allow it to happen)

Yes, but if you know the general direction of where it's going that reduces the search area quite a bit.

In this case, for example, the French Government publicly announced where it's going.

> Last year this podcast said that nobody wants to solve this because solving it is going to eliminate (IIRC) hundreds of thousands of jobs. Which is a point to consider.

Yet we're ok with spending trillions on AI to eliminate jobs everywhere, including healthcare.

I don't think that's the reason.

Personally I'm of the opinion the reason it isn't being solved, is because the people whose job it would be to solve it get to keep their jobs due to donations from pharma and insurance companies.

Feeling very conflicted right now.

On the other hand, it'd be absolutely hilarious if they succeeded with this argument. VPN vendors would not find that as hilarious I bet.

And on another the hypocrisy is mindboggling. I guess you can't blame the lawyers from going after every angle, but this is quite creative.

But really I do just want to find out if money continues to buy justice.

I sincerely hope Facebook loses and is found to have knowingly infringed on copyright of all the books in the lawsuit. At $150K per violation, I'd almost feel bad for the poor shareholders. Zuck would probably take full responsibility and fire tens of thousand of workers.

They will never pay this without a fight.

Good time to specialize in "tariff litigation", if you're a law firm.

Quoting your comment: "You definitely don't want to hire the person who thinks - bizarrely - that using library functions is a sign of weakness."

So true...I've failed interviews, because the interviewee did see using library functions as a sign of weakness.

My employer has no formal titles for engineers pretty much for this reason.

> We also don't engage in mass surveillance

What?

It's not extremism. It's plain old American capitalism.

Both parties are being funded by the same people, so both parties play ball with the same set of funders.

You're only one year and change into it. It takes longer than that for most people to become anywhere near proficient at it.

I've found the AI assisted auto-completion to be very valuable. It's definitely sped up my coding and reduced the number of errors I make.

It reduces the context switching between coding and referencing docs quite a bit.

There's nothing surprising about it given US history.

The US administration has always labeled any resistance against it as terrorism at least ever since 9/11. You might remember the justification of killing young Afghani males, who were posthumously labelled as terrorists. They drone strike an apartment complex and report 25 dead terrorists, conveniently omitting to report on dead children or women, because there were 25 males between the age of 15 - 25 among the dead. No evidence of terrorist activity required.

The only change is that the same justification is now being used within the US borders.

The dead are still, however, The Other, which is how it's being justified now as it was when the dead were foreigners in a war zone.

This right here exposes the bullshittery about the reasons behind preventing sideloading on Android phones.

For Google everything is about protecting revenue, even when doing so exposes their users to real harm, and that's why they will not address the issue of copycat apps, poor practices on play store security or anything else that lowers the number of downloads on apps on play store. But, heaven forbid, I want to download an app that doesn't create revenue for them onto a phone I OWN, Google spends money lavishly.

The Internet cranks are right. Google is run by bean counters and all the invective the cranks heap on the Google leadership is entirely earned.

They don't care. All of their money is on AI.

SMB? ICP?

A regular person's account would've been terminated for something like this long time ago.

"Your papers" is also not democracy.

If the majority of H1-B workers were white, none of this would be happening.

It's already happening. Every major tech company is investing in engineering presence outside of the US.

My employer sent out a company-wide email late last year outlining an aggressive growth strategy in two new tech hubs in Ireland and India, and encouraging employees to apply for open roles in those locations.

So not only do they process illegitimate copyright strikes / DMCA takedowns, but they also don't process legitimate ones.

Google is broken to the very core.

This is what happens with a company that tries to minimize costs of support to zero.

Xi Jinping is probably sending thank you cards to Trump right about now.

Hopefully a bit more diplomatically than that, though.

But, I agree. Encourage him to go over all of his work once or twice more, and use spellchecking tools, before committing or sending out email/slack/whatever.

If he's truly dyslexic, it won't necessarily help all that much, but if he's just really sloppy it most definitely will.

I'm curious as to what's your time horizon for "in the long run". When is this transition to bitcoin going to happen?

lol. Where did I say I hate psytrance?

In fact, I have a fairly sizeable collection of trance music on my NAS, mainly more mainstream stuff, but some is psytrance.

It's unreasonable to assume psytrance would organically occupy such a large portion of top Spotify songs.

TLDR; just because I think large number of Spotify psytrance songs are AI generated, doesn't mean I hate psytrance. Only childish people would think that.