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it turns out it's possible to believe something out of racist and xenophobic furor that also ends up being true

Yeah completely unlike the regular worker whose factory gets shut down or gets injured on the job or any of a million things that breaks the fragile little house of cards that gives them any kind of basic human dignity at all.

The capital class doesn't need you to defend them. You're embarrassing yourself.

Yes, OSHA will make sure that the employer pays a small fine after they fire you for reasons completely unrelated to refusing to destroy your body.

Worker in the US do not have substantial protection. It's limited to penalizing employers and even that almost never happens.

I'd like you to show up on site and let everyone with shoulder and back issues (which is everyone) that you've cracked the case wide open and it's their own fault.

It's wild sometimes the level of man child bubble the average HN poster lives in.

'The IT guy who thought he could fix the 3 million dollar sortation skid' is such a common trope amount people who actually know what they're doing that it's funny to see you casually drop it here as evidence of ... I'm not sure what.

You're going to die alone and unloved if you're not careful.

Disassociation can be a useful thing to be able to do, sometimes. Under certain circumstances you can be better at dealing with dangerous, stressful situations, for example.

It's generally maladaptive but there's a reason the brain does it.

In the same way that drowning is a lack of air, yes.

I am an automation engineer for power generation and transmission facilities. Modern industrial HMIs that are the analogue of this always show the structure of the system. This is a weirdly common thing people have been saying on these threads and I have no idea why.

How exactly would an open project do that?

Yes, in our advanced utopia the winning politician is not known up front, we get to pick from the two politicians who managed to accumulate the most debts to corporate interests! It's much better.

Lol I don't know if this is a dog whistle so much as a dog call.

There is nothing inherently unique to African culture that means Africans need western saviors to understand why their primitive clannish ways are holding them back. The same social unit is native to all human culture.

The problem is that the rest of the world wants African natural resources and a weak, distributed African power structure is good for that.

Getting your product in front of more eyes will result in conversions. That's the whole reason they're doing this.

Many businesses are going to be more about who accepts liability for work product than who makes the work product. You can't sue codex for breach of contract when your customer database wipes.

It's always so easy to see who lives in the right wing echo chamber. They're addicted to outrage.

Sorry champ, literally nobody is going to be infuriated by you pointing out that migration exists.

Uhh what? Literally nobody wants to work more hours. They might want to make more money or get more done but nobody wants to sit in the chair more.

Text interfaces can offer precision and breadth of tooling that guis don't.

I do a fair amount of CAD so I'll use that example. Nobody who uses CAD professionally is clicking all the little buttons for tools. They're using commands, shortcuts, scripts, etc.

A GUI is slow and clunky. A textual interface, once learned, has way more degrees of freedom.

Just because you have a bee in your car doesn't mean you should ignore the hive growing in the trunk. It's silly to reject all threats because a less severe version of that threat already exists.

I would make the case that government ownership of the machinery of commerce makes both worse. The money and power inherent to this arrangement is corrosive to both sides. Keep them separate and let each fight the other to the proper tension point. If we want revenue there is already a way to do that - we call it taxes

Deeply embarrassing that we tolerate this kind of behaviour. Large corporations are useful machines, but you don't let the machine run when it stops benefitting people. The fact of Amazon's existence is not a natural feature of the universe, and they should continue to exist only if their benefit to society is greater than their cost to society. I'm not sure that what they provide is particularly unique anymore on the retail side at least. Break up AWS and Amazon retail, they're too powerful together.

Yes, one of those markets with infinite demand where supply has no impact on price. Those ones.

Industrial HMIs are still exactly as focused on communicating important info as old relay logic systems were

Yes... The ones who 'run' it. Mid level government employees are worker bees, they aren't setting policy.

Women in smaller tribal units might have experienced less threat than they feel now.

It's so interesting that people assume the color of sodium lamps is the color of night just because that's the color technology made it at one brief moment in time. Just goes to show that illumination is culture, just like everything else

I'll take that bet. Care to formalize?

The expensive part is not assembly, it is validation and documentation of that design and the lack of ability to spread those costs over multiple units. Site built units are fine so long as the design is sufficiently decoupled from site conditions that it can be exactly reproduced.

You're conflating internet prices with cost of living when it's almost entirely unrelated. You live in one of the more densely populated areas around, that is significantly more important. I pay more than $100usd for 100mb bonded DSL because there are probably fewer people in my county than a Singapore city block.

I think we've barely scratched the surface of available 'evil' applications for AI that will be immensely powerful. Building, for example, an application capable of building personalized emotionally targeted advertisements based on a user profile would be incredibly effective and probably expensive but I bet it would pay dividends.

You're making the mistake of supposing that since you are often extroverted you assume that many or even most people must be similar, just on a gradient. This is quite an extroverted think to think, so I believe you :)

I'm here to tell you that you are most certainly wrong on this point. People exist that view this kind of thinking as so bafflingly alien that they can't understand how someone would think it.

Social interactions require enormous expenditure of energy for me. They are not pleasant or energizing, they are rituals that must be accomplished to help me blend into a world that is not designed for me. I am most assuredly not being convinced of this by books I have read.