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> There'd be a massive jump in the likelihood of finding a living snail.

And there would be an ever bigger jump in the likelihood of some billionaire being the first to eat extraterrestrial escargot.

My brain immediately went to British Petrol

You have read my mind!

This obsession with hyper optimization at every level is wasteful and unhealthy. I prefer to hire a mix of good enough people, it's a less conflictual team environment. At the end of the day if they are professional, they will get the job done.

In female AI voice we seem to have encountered the overlap between your typical simp and corpo simp.

Funny thing is, when an attractive female goes against a corp... the simps picked the corp... we are well off into a Blade Runner 2 digital girlfriend scenario aren't we?

If any enterprising soul wants to join up and start selling chatGPT enabled anime body pillows, DM me, I have a supplier ready.

The USSR comment is even less funny.

Vice then released the following documentary "How low-income southeast Asian single cis and trans women are paid 3$/h to cry"

5 years later Prof. von Tränenberg is awarded the Nobel prizes of Chemistry and Peace for the discovery of synthetic female tears.

Marketing drove up demand, production had to be ramped up, and that's how we ended up in the dystopian nightmare of dozens of single women in open warehouses watching tragic romantic comedies, crying into a trough.

It's only a matter of time now until the military industrial complex picks up on this and puts it in a missile. I can see it already "M-249 Mistifier - wide area pheromonal aggression reducer. Safely pacify opposing forces with no civilian casualties and no reputational damage."

> Your customer and company doesn't approve your paycheck. Your line manager does.

Here's a quite common problem. Execs tell you to listen to the customer, that's where the money comes from. Your direct line manager cares exclusively about himself at the customers' cost. What do you do? Which level of the hierarchy would you obey?

> Going behind their back because you don't agree with their decisions or actions is not professional.

Should you go behind the back of your manager and report his corrupt behavior to their manager?

Please don't take this as snark, I've been in this situation multiple times and it's actually a difficult moral decision depending on the stakes.

> I mean, if I am looking for a notebook, I rather have FB/IG (or Google or whatever), show me adds of a notebook that I might end up buying, instead of the generic poker/porn adds that we had on the beginning of the internet.

I would rather have <best case of personalized ads> rather than <worst case of random ads>. That's not an equal comparison, neither does it represent a common scenario.

> It is almost impossible to have a free internet without ads. So on one side, people want everything free, on the other side, we don't want ads, so there is a clear problem here.

People do want ads to subsidize free internet usage, as it has been since the Internet's inception. People accept random ads or even contextual ads, but people flat out refuse targeted ads. This refusal comes out of many reasons, many of which you'll find in other comments around here.

Mine are self-determinism and privacy. I don't want someone, regardless of how well intentioned or competent they believe they are, to collect sensitive data on my habits, preferences and choices to then attempt to influence me. I like to make my own mistakes and own up to them.

> leadership literally lies to congress, judges, the public, their users and their customers all the freaking time.

The judiciary system takes lies into account. Doing that while testifying under oath might end poorly. See SBF's trial for reference.

> >> Laws generally don't allow you to sell or otherwise relinquish your rights,

> Ahh, we are not asking you to sell. We are asking you to give them in exchange for services.

That's covered in the "or otherwise relinquish your rights" part. Privacy is a right, you can't sell or relinquish it, in exchange or donated, doesn't matter.

> Trying to squeeze into a few major metros is a terrible choice for young people who want a decent life.

If remote work is a possibility, or big cities decentralize a bit, that makes sense.

We've seen during COVID, if people can move from San Francisco and keep their jobs, they will do it.

> What if the bulk of CEO / board members' salaries & bonusses where structured as company share value, cashable no earlier than say, 20y from now? 'Pocket money' now for living expenses, a rich pension later if company does well long term.

Pretty interesting concept actually! Much like stock as a golden cage retainer for tech workers. Who would have to be lobbied for that to go ahead?

The closing off and lack of a diversified approach to solving energy problems also reveals the incapability or unwillingness of the CEO to think of the long term success of a corporation now singularly focused on the exploitation of a non-renewable, finite resource. They are now more focused and perhaps more profitable these quarters, but next FYs they will be more vulnerable to other competitors in the energy sector.

Short-termism seems to be an unavoidable condition when markets demand higher efficiencies.

China and free market in the same sentence is quite a paradox.

Did you mean to say they moved from a planned economy to a market economy? A market economy yes they do have, but free? Boy oh boy that it is not. Plenty of western companies wanting to enter that market are finding that out the hard way

Can't wait for the Nintendo Switch Drone Operator Labo Pak

> At the gym, people assume anyone with big muscles must be an expert in medicine. Let's not make the same mistake here.

Who would be better at building strawmen?

An average HN commenter, a farmer, or an etymologist?

And here I was thinking a lunch interview would evaluate your masticative abilities...

Good example for the above comments on how certain business practices can make people have expectations that can be interpreted as entitled

Seatbelts made cars more expensive for people who didn't want them and a person without a seatbelt is much more likely to traumatize someone in an accident with their easier and more gruesome death.

Few decisions are made in a vacuum with no impact to others.

Connectors like HDMI ports should not be the first point of failure, especially in monitors. That sounds like planned obsolescence.

> As a tech lead, the big problem I see now is that people are not hungry anymore.

What incentives need to be aligned and how, to starve them a bit more and make them hungry again?

> Why would an increase in revenue be an implicit reason for salary increases?

Because increasing salary when revenue increases is a positive way to ensure employer-employee relationship is reciprocal to some extent. Otherwise people will take or not take actions to ensure that relationship gets balanced back into reciprocity. Have you heard of quiet quitting?

I actually feel quite safe knowing that someone with more rigorous military training than police training, and with more familiarity with their service weapon, is ready to act in case of a bomb, knife or vehicle attack.

> but steamed steak doesn't taste good.

You've never heard of steamed hams? Clearly you're not from Albany.

Human nature? Sure, but very much lack of regulation and of good corporate privacy policies. First, customer data should be in a special, highly logged environment. Anyone logging in for whatever reason needs a justification. Next audit or periodically or if something goes wrong, those logs are checked and people confronted with why they're accessing random person X's data for no work related reason.

Won't make those incidents disappear completely, but it will sure kill off fetching data from a friend of a friend for shits n giggles.

There is rampant theft in retail in SF? What kind of products, living essentials or luxury goods?

If its living essentials, locking them behind a secure vending machine could mean the next easiest target would be people's homes...

Why don't we call this AI model HaRVi?