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Why shouldn't the creation of knowledge and expertise come with a price tag? The question is "is it cheaper to create a system that creates new expertise than it is to hire someone with that expertise?" As long as the cost of the system is less than the cost of the generated expertise on the open market, it's a worthwhile investment.

IME, both Apple TV and Amazon Fire stick devices do this too.

This gets at one of the core beliefs lots of people seem to have about socialism: that human nature means it will be implemented poorly.

It's pretty hard to test that out, though, when one side of the political spectrum is so convinced it will happen that they devote a significant amount of political effort to making sure it happens, preventing us from ever finding out what a well-funded and run socialist experiment would look like in the US.

> neighborhoods or people to try to protect, to the detriment of everyone else wanting to live there

Wait, you have a problem with a city government trying to serve the people who actually live in a neighborhood rather than potential new residents?

That's the whole point of a city government. To serve the people living in the city.

> Psychopathy is a condition characterized by the absence of empathy and the blunting of other affective states. Callousness, detachment, and a lack of empathy...

That doesn't seem like a personal attack so much as pointing out that this belief lacks empathy and is callous, which I tend to agree with. The standard argument, which I'm sure you're aware of, is that some controls and regulations on the ownership of firearms is a net good for society by reducing accidental deaths, suicides, and murders.

Guns aren't responsible for any of those things, people are. But guns dramatically change the scale at which they happen. Ignoring that because of a belief in absolute freedom from regulation for machines designed to kill is callous and un-empathic. Or, to use a synonym, psychopathic.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/psychopathy

That's clearly not the kind of research that's going to be done.

Funding of gun studies means we can make arguments backed up by data instead of partisan bickering. Calls to arm teachers in classrooms or mandate trigger locks on guns have real world effects, and both sides think they're right about it. Funding for studies of specific actions and policies help us as a society make more informed decisions.

More info: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5993411/

These rules were created specifically because so many people were profiting off the ad revenue of music in videos. There's not a simple way to determine if the audio just happens to be in the background or if the content producer is benefiting from the inclusion of music they don't have rights to.

The creation of a trueRandom function certainly seems to solve this problem more than taking away a useful tool for cases where pseudo-random is good enough.

Agreed, MFA is so important that a company should be willing to pay for it.

It tells me that you didn't bother paying attention to the spellcheck in your writing tool, probably didn't take the time to carefully re-read a document for errors, and likely had no one else look at your resume for feedback.

None of those are things I'm looking for in an engineer on my team. I want an engineer who uses their tools to make their work more efficient, who pays attention to details, and believes feedback is a way to improve the quality of their work.

Source: am a FAANG-adjacent hiring manager.

It is kind of hilarious how often rent-seeking behavior is called out as evil when it comes to software companies, but actual rent-seeking with real estate is seen as virtuous investment.

Detecting wrong answers doesn't tell you anything about how many right answers there might be.

It's a lot longer from zero (or negative, in you have student loans) to a quarter million if you're working outside the SV/software engineer salary bubble.

This is the downside of having an AG who has been indicted on criminal charges for thee last 6 years. How much can you trust the guy?

Managers aren't for bookkeeping or commanding; they're for leadership.

Is it productivity, or is the work to mine new "knowledge coins" just harder now that we've done some of the easier work?

Big agree, although I think in this case even the auto-generated stuff being talked about is awful.

I thought it was a pretty compelling idea when I first saw it in the original Jurassic Park movie, even if that was a metaphor for "hacking."

Uh, it's pretty clear there's a board level leaker here. This kind of leak is how the board forces action onto the CEO.

Maybe bylines will become important again.

Also, wasn't this a plot point in Neil Stephenson's "Anathem"?

Considered by who?

Good advice that is applicable towards doomsday cults as well.

This is why I keep one of each in my home. By having an Echo, Google Assistant, and an iPhone, I figure I'm able to give everyone access to my data, making it worth less. (</s>)

What exactly is sane about figuring out how to make 200,000 contractors full-time employees inside of a week? I don't think there's a company in the world that could pull that off.

If a company says, "hey, we're a marketplace" and a court says, "actually, you're not" then the company has to figure out how to adapt. There's change and an emotional toll to the drivers in that scenario whether they become employees or not.

Ridesharing is profitable today. The reason these companies lose money is because of investments in other areas. Whether that's wise or not is up for debate, but both Lyft and Uber are public companies. Neither is seeking VC money at this point for further injections.

Who says it is? I'm questioning whether the taxi drivers actually have any more rights. The parent comment here said that the disruption that caused ridesharing to rapidly grow this mobility segment was because the drivers were independent contractors instead of being employees. My point is that taxi drivers were never employees, either, and that the success of the ridesharing companies had more to do with user experience and reliability than their business model.

Most traditional taxis are independent contractors as well. It's the ridematching versus dispatch system that is the advantage, not the employment model.

It's easy to see all the folks here who don't remember having to wait an hour for a taxi to show after calling, if it ever did. Pushing a button on your phone and getting a ride five minutes later is magic in comparison.

There's pretty robust housing market data out there.

Anecdotally, an apartment in my building in SF with the exact same layout as mine (I got new terms and re-signed the lease in May) is now renting 10% cheaper than I signed two month ago.

Wait, you've met multiple billionaires?