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What do you think drone operators and their support staff do?

> Why is using it for code more acceptable than for art? There's no good reason for it. Nobody seems to piss on an artist who leans on AI for the programming side of their game, wh…

It's interesting how people want to tar and feather people for working at... A shitty social media/advertising firm for being in the periphery of morally questionable practices, bu…

It's possible that they think they are doing good things according to their moral framework. There are hundreds of millions of people with truly insane moral frameworks. It's possi…

Not doing the strike would have had similar job losses. People who have nothing to lose can at least spread the pain out.

It'll probably happen the day after 'Thank you for your service' will take stock of the human misery that service has inflicted upon the world. I wouldn't hold my breath.

It's not a destructive force in this case, as it deters future malfeasance.

Punishments for bad behavior need to exceed the crime, otherwise there's an clear profit-positive incentive to do crime.

99% of Vancouver by area does not have anything resembling 'SF level drug disorder', and if your 'nice US suburb' didn't just punt all of its fucking problems into its nearest down…

It's very similar to trying to secure a human who has infinite tolerance for risk, zero empathy, and no sense of self-preservation. In other words, a toddler who was given a sword.…

A particular Google product being shit is a data point, but is orthogonal to my opinion about why it is slow to launch products/features.

They can't, we are all living in a suicide pact of 'Let these guys do whatever they want, consequences be damned.'

Which would be disastrous to the conglomorate as a whole. It's good for Google that they can't.

The tooling is not the problem. If shit takes forever to launch, it's because there are many stakeholders that need to be satisfied (some for security, some for regulatory, some fo…

Korea. A lot of people have been gambling on margin.

Forests burn and grow back. Healthy forests (not poorly-managed monoculture) are carbon-neutral on human timescales.

Such are the wages of destroying trust in the supply chain. When you elect visibly corrupt people who promised to destroy that trust upstream, you double the burden for everyone do…

Whether is not copyrightable is not relevant to this. The parent poster's point is just as salient. The creator, not the sumbitter needs to meet the criteria in question. A clanker…

Right, the Saudis have never destabilized anything, nor have their embrace of batshit-insane wahhabism created the environment and the people that flew two airplanes into some high…

I think they are finding that a bad peace was better than a good war.

I'm pretty sure that Qatar and the Saudis are not exactly pleased with having their stuff blown up.

A devops friend of mine raises an intriguing point - he does not aim for many-nines reliability with dev infrastructure. He aims for people being able to keep doing their work when…

There are hundreds of billions of person-to-person encounters annually and almost all of them end just fine, yet people feel the need to: 1. Come up with a beautiful story about ho…

He's been a turd that any reasonable person would endorse stripping of his wealth for years. Hasn't affected the bottom line one whit.