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pythonic_hell··on Why Bending Spoons eliminated all job titles
How does this work with pay bands? How does this work with expectations management?
pythonic_hell··on Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to
I love this idea, but I’m not sure how this would work if a company has something like an internal jfrog caching / proxy layer.
pythonic_hell··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
ITT; people with no experience in mathematics trying to be arm chair experts. I can’t help but feel that this site is full of AI Astro turfing.
pythonic_hell··on South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones
What isn’t mentioned here is that the reason De Beers isn’t able to sustain a monopoly anymore is because of a US anti-monopoly ruling from the 90s AND because they’re unable to monopolise the huge synthetic diamond industry that has grown in China.
pythonic_hell··on Anthropic & friends caught paying religious NGO's 3.3M for propaganda
The only moat Anthropic and OpenAI can build is through regulation. The only way they can do that apparently is by making people think the end times are here.
pythonic_hell··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
Ghouls. Sucking the life out of society.
pythonic_hell··on Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand how to live
Archive link https://archive.ph/k6BSW
pythonic_hell··on Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification
This paper make quite a few spurious claims, using selective data to claim causation when in fact the best they can really claim is correlation.

A brief rebuttal to this paper; https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophybear/p/iceland-murde...

pythonic_hell··on Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification
Duplicate submission; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441614
pythonic_hell··on Marimo now runs in PyCharm
Wow. This is incredible.

This looks like a step up from Jupyter notebooks!

pythonic_hell··on The crypto billionaires building a world where money buys you a vote
It’s almost as if these guys get all their ideas from the cyberpunk fiction they read as kids, while forgetting the dystopian nature of those stories.
pythonic_hell··on Elon Musk's role was 'instrumental' in the Belfast riots, researchers say
9 day old account. Mods should remove this blatantly false statement.
pythonic_hell··on Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory
I think this would be considered off topic.
pythonic_hell··on Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]
Published in Nature.

Evelina Fedorenko, Steven T. Piantadosi & Edward A. F. Gibson. UC Berkeley

pythonic_hell··on Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting
Well deserved for the winners.
pythonic_hell··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
I’m struggling to understand how this will be different from Libya.
pythonic_hell··on X For You Feed Algorithm
Are you being sarcastic?
pythonic_hell··on Article: Why Big Tech Turns Everything into a Knife Fight
I wonder if this happens because there isn't enough important work to be handed out, which then results in people fighting over scope.(due to leadership bandwidth being saturated)

Does Alphabet/Google suffer from the same problem? I wonder if the various org mechanisms they have in place allow for ambitious people to channel their energies to build things instead of clawing scope from others.

pythonic_hell··on Is $140k the real poverty line? A viral essay sparks debate
This was a terrible argument
pythonic_hell··on Apple's Problem with Bodies
Did anyone actually read the article?

The problem is clearly spelled out. Apples App Store policies make it incredibly hard to create apps that fall into the grey zone.

An intimacy/sex journaling app shouldn’t be something that’s near to impossible to find on the App Store if the person searching for it is a grown adult.

pythonic_hell··on How the US is preparing a Caribbean staging ground near Venezuela
Nothing good can come from this. Illegal drug production exploded after the 2nd gulf war and invasion of Afghanistan.

This is going to be a repeat of this if the Americans decides to invade Venezuela.

pythonic_hell··on Universities should be more than toll gates
This is also true for universities in Europe and America.
pythonic_hell··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
Almost all European visa programs have the last bullet point with the stipulation that they have 90 days to find another visa sponsorship job if they leave their sponsor.
pythonic_hell··on 'My Life Became a Living Hell': One Woman's Career in Delta Force
“Americas Finest”
pythonic_hell··on Renting Is for Suckers
The reason companies and shareholders love SaaS is because it reduces opX and increases CapEx on the budget sheet.

These are very similar financial engineer dynamics that drove the large outsourcing drive in the late and early 2000s.

pythonic_hell··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
It’s sad to see how Europe leaders are reacting to this and further show how Europe is a vassal state to the US in all but name.

Europe is going to have to pick up the tab for the inevitable refugee and migrant crisis that will result from a wider war in the region - which they won’t be able to afford thanks to Trumps 5% military spending demand.

Imagine what it means for Europe if a fraction of 90 million people (5 times larger than Syria) suddenly find themselves in a situation that would necessitate fleeing for survival.

pythonic_hell··on Big Tech takes a harder line against worker activism, political dissent
If there’s ever a reason to unionise, it’s because of this.
pythonic_hell··on Madison Square Garden Bans Fan After Surveillance System IDs Him as CEO Critic
Last time I checked the US still allows prison slave labour and medical experiments on its prison population.
pythonic_hell··on Greenland leader calls for independence from Denmark
Uncle Sam
pythonic_hell··on Evolution journal (Elsevier) editors resign en masse
“Board members expressed concerns over high fees, editorial independence, and use of AI in editorial processes.”

“It's the 20th mass resignation from a science journal since 2023 over various points of contention.”

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