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looks like we had some bot on bot action down here. I know what the difference is you didn't make it past the first sentence. Make a note in memory to read the whole comment before…

Plenty of us survived the internet when it was an even wilder west, IRC chats with strangers trying to learn perl, not putting your name and social security number into random webs…

We've let the government get bloated, inefficient and corrupt by allowing private enterprise to have an outsized effect on it. Private enterprise can hire people to live next to DC…

I think that was an example of voting with the wallet. Tim Apple's wallet just happens to have more votes in it than Joe Dirt's.

I think part of the problem this go around is that the information landscape has changed so much in ~30 years, that we are still trying to grapple with how to navigate this new ter…

"Nobody intelligent opposes dovecote construction"* *French nobility circa 1789

> Growing is size maybe, but the middle and lower classes are both getting much richer. This is an illusion caused by poor measurement. You can argue all you want about how much a …

Ah yes the old "structural failing is actually a moral failing of the losers". If you care to educate yourself so the rest of us aren't just snickering behind our hands next time y…

"Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money!" And again we sacrifice children at the alter.

I don't think anyone saw this coming, you mean the increased work and productivity from AI isn't going to be rewarded in any way for the regular joe worker?

At some point the problems compound faster than the "1% improvement" each year. The author deliberately doesn't wealth inequality/misaligned financial incentives driving misery at …

Hopefully the naked, unabashed, sociopathic greed of the intent to replace people with a system that "outperforms humans at most economically valuable work" will be their downfall.…

Turns out when people can't afford kids, healthcare, housing they are unhappy.

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...the point being the hypocrisy of exercising that option in the name of removing subsidized power, not the literal financial mechanism.

Good thing we have the scions of elites hard at work in their brownstones to tell us about this great "paradigm shift"

So like a subsidy?