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Re: Companies are lying about AI layoffs?

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Post by anothereng »

lisbbb wrote: post #147

My former employer, a consulting company, just bought out a small dev consulting firm in...wait for it...Guatemala! Yes, Guatemala. Because as you all well know, Guatemala has such a long and cherished history of providing skilled software developers to the world. Oh, oh, wait, no, sorry, it's because they're really, really cheap. The main advantage of Guatemala over India is the time zone, that's it. And $5/hr or wh…

Im sure there are good engineers in Guatemala. Americans simply don't like competition and losing their jobs to foreigners I get that but don't pretend like you're better just because of the country you were born into.

Re: Companies are lying about AI layoffs?

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Post by jiveturkey »

ethanwillis wrote: post #155
jiveturkey wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Again, however, the data in the article does not show that. The article is attempting to argue this point with facts (hard data), while not presenting said hard data. It's especially egregious because of the naming of specific companies.

Why is it especially egregious to name companies?

It's a false accusation. The numbers have no meaning. Is that not obviously the point of contention?

It's one thing to say, this is aggregate in the industry (and still be misleading), or say group by MAG7, or AI companies, or some sector. It's another to name Amazon as the ringleader when the data don't show that.

Re: Companies are lying about AI layoffs?

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Post by zenlot »

soulofmischief wrote: post #178
soulofmischief wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might seem like an opinion if you're uneducated about the American political system, but if you kill the negativity and actually go study how our government is balanced, you would realize that Congress represents the people, the president is a necessary function within our political framework, but the intention was never for a single person to represent the entire country, or we wouldn't have an entire legislative…

To go further, there is an inherent expectation that the president might go against the wishes of the people, which is why we have two other branches of government designed to enforce checks and balances. This check and balance system has completely failed due to mass coordination, but the idea is that individual governmental positions have theoretical pressures against corruption, the possibility of corruption is bu…

Lol. You're a product of the system. And you believe what the system tells you. If you'd actually go and study how your system works, you would realize your non sense you're typing. Either you're an uneducated kid, still have time to grow up, or the one who's been first in line during covid vaccinations.

PS: you didn't answer the question, how many presidents US have?

Re: Companies are lying about AI layoffs?

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Post by motbus3 »

toss1 wrote: post #166
motbus3 wrote: post #161

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Masses are weak and dumb. It is the law of averages. If split apart because of minor factors such as a race, genre and etc, the forces cancels out and no one works together. Can you think in a modern type of media that exactly does that? It takes to much effort to get people out of inertia. Powerful people, au contrarie, work together. They same places, same parties, have same connections, their kids go to the same s…

Exactly right on every point. And they won't willingly change. And absolutely, the metaphor is absolutely right where the table is set with one brown person with one cookie, a white person with two cookies, and the oligarch with a pile of hundreds of cookies, and the oligarch is telling the white guy to watch out because the brown guy will steal his cookies. And the stupid white guy believes it. That said, when even…

On top of all that, it is seems so easy to avoid taxation by having off-shores and buying assets and stocks and whatever to just make the money "disappear". Top richest guys in the world are basically not paying taxes at all.

Re: Companies are lying about AI layoffs?

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Post by soulofmischief »

zenlot wrote: post #183
soulofmischief wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To go further, there is an inherent expectation that the president might go against the wishes of the people, which is why we have two other branches of government designed to enforce checks and balances. This check and balance system has completely failed due to mass coordination, but the idea is that individual governmental positions have theoretical pressures against corruption, the possibility of corruption is bu…

Lol. You're a product of the system. And you believe what the system tells you. If you'd actually go and study how your system works, you would realize your non sense you're typing. Either you're an uneducated kid, still have time to grow up, or the one who's been first in line during covid vaccinations. PS: you didn't answer the question, how many presidents US have?

Your comment contains so many baseless assumptions, there is nothing to gain from speaking to someone with such a closed, negative mind. I don't think you have the capacity to understand how wrong you are, and your vagueposting of "go and study how your system works" is such a lazy, hollow argument.

If you cannot explain how "the system works" and need to ask me to go learn myself, then you demonstrably don't know what you're talking about. You're employing a bag full of argumentative fallacies in lieu of providing a coherent, effective argument.

Re: Companies are lying about AI layoffs?

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Post by zenlot »

soulofmischief wrote: post #185
zenlot wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lol. You're a product of the system. And you believe what the system tells you. If you'd actually go and study how your system works, you would realize your non sense you're typing. Either you're an uneducated kid, still have time to grow up, or the one who's been first in line during covid vaccinations. PS: you didn't answer the question, how many presidents US have?

Your comment contains so many baseless assumptions, there is nothing to gain from speaking to someone with such a closed, negative mind. I don't think you have the capacity to understand how wrong you are, and your vagueposting of "go and study how your system works" is such a lazy, hollow argument. If you cannot explain how "the system works" and need to ask me to go learn myself, then you demonstrably don't know wh…

So many words and 0 to gain out of it. Why would you even write this? Don't have where to offload your rubbish?
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