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My new startup: on demand deepfake exercise footage of yourself.
Needs more blockchain.
And NFT!
GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
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#362What is next? Be healthy ransomware? Forcing people to exercise on camera, for keys?
Upload videos of you eating vegetables 3 times a day for a week. I'd also like to see a walk-through of your pantry to make sure there is no sugary soda there.
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>I believe your vision is to replace all satisfying work with soul-crushing work. If all your work is done by people who don't want to work there I am hesitant to believe what I think you are implying here. Do you think everyone in cheaper countries would prefer to live in more expensive countries? Even if provided a stable income far above everyone in their area? I also dont know what would be soul-crushing? It's do…
Yeah, so the details really matter here. A lot of people hear "In country X they live on $2 per day," and think that you can experience the same standard of living in that country as you do in the US. But that's really not the case. Even in places that enjoy a relatively high standard of living, while things like food and rent are cheap, all the things that are imported from the developed world cost exactly the same,…
I think you're right about the state of leveraging over seas labor today, but the gap is so large between life over seas and life for SWE in USA that I have no doubt that a middle ground can be found to put SWE in USA out of a job once overseas experience reaches a satisfactory threshold. There is a lot of negotiation to be found between $2 and $50 per hour.
If nothing else, Land Price will be a big driving factor. If both sides have equal budget for commodities and investments, overseas wins on home budget.
>off-shore contractor
this does not need to be a contract arrangement. The person hired overseas could be hired indefinitely to support the product, with typical transition plans in place. same as today with local workers.
>coming up with specs is a frustrating and unsatisfying process, and is akin to writing code, except that you don't actually get to run the code and see the fruits of your labor
We might be operating with different levels of "specs". I am not saying you need to tell them exactly what to write.. it would be the same as a manager talking to a subordinate at a tech company today. You tell them what needs to be done and they have the skill and autonomy to do it.
I agree that this arrangement does not work with low-experience overseas workers. However, the point I am trying to make is that I think overseas experience will catch up way faster than the local need will become more complicated. So even if local employees maintain a lead in skill and experience, overseas does not ever need to catch up to them - they only need to catch up to necessary qualifications. Local people can offer more, sure, but this is a field that discourages over-engineered solutions. That implies there will be significant diminishing returns on all the extra skill local employees provide.
Again, this is not the case today because the lower experience workers are not just lower experienced but too inexperienced in general. Some time in the future they will still be lower experience, but they will be experienced enough. the only question is when, which is a gamble, but i think soon. On the order of 5 - 20 years would be my bet. It already happens but is a rare exception to the rule - so that timeframe is how long for it to become a common occurrence.
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very typically it is clans/mafia that corrupt the governments. such claims that mafia/clans are better than governments are very short-sighted and childish by nature.
What happened is that all the bad clans which produced no economic value have corrupted governments and are now using it to extract value from the good, value-creating citizens. Most of the bad people are already rich. Good, value-creating citizens never had to consider joining a clan before because they were able to easily capture profits from their own labor without much extra effort on the value-capture/extraction…
While I agree on most points made here, It still struggles for me to understand this boundary of us-them when it comes to government. I AM the government when it comes to policies I create/support/empower at university, municipality, my circle. There is no straight line between society and government really.
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> This is a bit of a sweeping statement. Colonization has a big role to play here also I agree completely. Colonization set the stage for many of the persistent struggles faced by many in the developing world. But colonial powers didn't teach people in India how to oppress their own people, even if they wasted no time taking advantage of and amplifying the pre-existing situation. Today, when a country as productive a…
At a primary school in Utter Pradesh (a state in India) salt and bread (roti) was served to children as part of mid-day meal. Then the state government did what any sensible government will do. They filed a case against the journalist for criminal conspiracy maligning the image of state government. Since last few years it has become fashionable to call Indians who criticize the government "anti-national" as if nation…
Yes, it's a situation with the far right riding the up-winds of economic growth whose foundations were largely put in place by previous center-left governments, and supercharging themselves with nativist/nationalist politics that victimizes their own minority populations.
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Even in countries with universal healthcare, people regularly can't afford treatment because expensive treatments aren't included.
My grandma got a million dollar cancer treatment over a few years, multiple surgeries, chemos, meds, dozens of appointments. We paid for TV and parking(and we could have gotten free taxis to the hospital/doctors appointments but she didn't want to ride with a stranger...) Are you talking about 3rd world countries?
I'm thinking of New Zealand. We frequently hear of people who can't get some expensive treatment because it's not funded by the government. Can you say for sure that every medical treatment available in the US is funded by your government? Will they even fly patients to the US for specialist care if it's not available locally?