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It's funny that you think they can't just raise the prices at will. (And by funny i mean really sad)
Do you think it’s a monopoly? Is it not a competitive market? I see many strong Western competitors along with an expanding array of high quality open source options out of China.
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Do you think it’s a monopoly? Is it not a competitive market? I see many strong Western competitors along with an expanding array of high quality open source options out of China.
But the open source options out of china are forbidden because being spied by china is evil while being spied by USA is good… usual free market lovers dropping it whenever.
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Sorry, I’m speaking positively. You accurately describe the status quo . I’m speaking about how I’d like it to be.
>You accurately describe the status quo Yes i'm glad it finally sinks in. >I’m speaking about how I’d like it to be. So when are you hiring so we can all enjoy working in a workers' utopia?
I generally never am. I believe strongly in paying a large premium to market for quality and then letting smart people be smart. I’m also perfectly comfortable hiring on gut feeling and references alone without a whole song and dance—I’ve only once had someone ghost their background check once and had to fire someone after a fuckup of a hire once more.
As a result, turnover is low and vacancies short to the point of non existence.
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But the open source options out of china are forbidden because being spied by china is evil while being spied by USA is good… usual free market lovers dropping it whenever.
Forbidden by who? I can select Kimi as my model in Cursor right now at my American company. What are you even talking about
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Forbidden by who? I can select Kimi as my model in Cursor right now at my American company. What are you even talking about
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/deepseek... *by whom
This is a weird conversation. At first you were concerned about prices and now you’re railing about the US Navy not using Chinese models. What’s your problem here?
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There absolutely is a difference between people that die because we, as a species, cannot afford to spend the combined sum of all of our productivity on health care (which means that you will have to tell some people "no", even though they will die as a result of that), and a tyrannical dictator specifically ordering the death of people because they are a political threat to him. Maybe you feel that a pill that costs…
I'm curious, what's your opinion on Nestle?
I'm not a particularly big fan of massive companies in general; it's a concentration of power that I think is dangerous. At the same time, who do we have to blame? Who ordered absolutely everything of Amazon, who took all those Uber rides, who slept in those airbnb rooms? If we, as consumers, had the good sense to spread our money around a little, we wouldn't end up with companies like that.
I'm not opposed to the ultra-rich, assuming of course that they stayed within the boundaries of the law while becoming so. They worked hard, they made smart choices, and they profited from it. And so did we - otherwise, why give them all that money? What I am opposed to is the outsized power they wield thanks to their fortune, and if that power gets misapplied, I have no problem with breaking those companies up into multiple smaller entities.
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https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/deepseek... *by whom
Err so the American DoD — generally always concerned about supply chain considerations — prefers American models? And that’s surprising or problematic to you? This is a weird conversation. At first you were concerned about prices and now you’re railing about the US Navy not using Chinese models. What’s your problem here?
> It does 100 interviews, and it’s going to hand back the best 10 to the hiring manager, and then the human takes over,” he says. Yikes. One thing that's incredibly important about reaching the interview-stage of a job application has been that there is a parity, or even an imbalance favoring the candidate, in human time usage. The company's people (often multiple people at once) have to spend time with the candidate…
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Err so the American DoD — generally always concerned about supply chain considerations — prefers American models? And that’s surprising or problematic to you? This is a weird conversation. At first you were concerned about prices and now you’re railing about the US Navy not using Chinese models. What’s your problem here?
And you think it won't expand? Why?
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Why would it be unstable? Most of Europe still has it. The US chose to do away with it.
The fundamental contradiction between the working class and the owning class (over maximizing vs minimizing wages) continues to exist, which means that any system that tries to manage that contradiction can't be permanently stable. Social democracy is the best known and most successful strategy for managing class conflict, but in the US and UK it was only fairly stable while the USSR meaningfully threatened to overta…
But plenty of countries did not follow down that part. There's no reason to assume this can't be stable, but you do need to limit the influence of big money and neoliberalism on your society.