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Community college programs are extremely cheap, and state schools are a thing. It's also not unheard of for any state workers to get lower tuition costs as a benefit. You're 40+, y…

What does winning even mean for the USA here? I'm not going to benefit if OpenAI or Anthropic become trillion dollar companies, and I sure as fuck won't benefit when more myopic bu…

eh, it sounds like you don't really have a community you can socialize with. You just had a digital community. Digital communities are easy to come by but they lack the nutrition y…

That's true but it also seems to downplay how much elites + corporations have control over our society and somehow when people want to build a better world, you have to first expla…

They have the backing of a trillion dollar corporation and can literally hire some of the best talent on the planet. People nor budgets are an issue here. Why do we keep giving exc…

Probably goes back to the Roman idea of ownership + dominion; you're legally allowed to neglect your property. Compare this with some American tribes, during the same time period, …

No, society is allowed to decide what is acceptable and what isn't. Acting like trillion dollar corporations do not have a massive influence on American society is borderline mush …

They don't hire well at all. You look at who is on their research team and it's people with social science PHDs, not computer science. Looking at the state of the site it's not a s…

Yeah but everything else on their site screams LLM-slop. It's not unique or special, it's literally the same cookie cutter startup design of the last 15 years.

Management nowadays are for sure playing with surveillance software against their workers. Let's please not think otherwise, it's one of the main value adds that LLM companies are …

Why? People care about their craft and people care about what they interact with the world. The vast majority of people don't like using poorly made things, especially when it is f…

They're a VC backed company, they aren't building for the user at all. The VC is their user. Just need to see reality for how it is in the tech industry, products aren't made for u…

You would like the book "Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber. It does a lot to talk about modern anthropological studies that corrected a lot of misconceptions about early humans.…

Why did you think it was appropriate to nag the hiring manager while you finished a MOOC?

You don't need historians to see the crisis as it was happening and as it's ongoing, the only question we need to ask is how long should the people held accountable be in prison fo…

It's okay, when enough terrible decisions impact a company they tend to do really poorly thought out layoffs so you'll be in the blast radius sooner or later. Too bad there's no re…

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That's pretty cool and worthy endeavor. Having public domain pictures of cultural events seems like a worthy cause IMO.

Okay nice, after looking at the macroview look at the immediate impact into local communities and how much data these companies refuse to, rightfully I might add, share with the pu…

That's not what is being purported, you're doing a complete misdirect. OpenAI wants to IPO so Altman can potentially capture a trillion dollar bag, with so much money on the line +…

Sorry but software development is more important that what some tech bro at a malware company thinks. I'm not confused at all. This is the culture of SV and it is the culture that …

Anyone that is against American big tech immediately makes me sympathetic to their side. They'd have to do a lot wrong to destroy such good will.

That we should act like "self made men" when in reality it took entire multiple lifetimes worth of effort where people in power were finally allowed to create a society where a com…

I'm sorry but purposely ignoring standards that were decided upon by multiple parties is always a shithead move. It shows that you don't actually care about community standards and…