JohnBrookz

It’s a different type of hell.

Only mistral could re rerelease deepseeks model and do a worse job.

This shouldn’t be news. I grew up in Texas and most of my high school’s top 8% were cheating to stay ahead. Older siblings handed down tests and kids snuck into classes to steal exams.

At my university most kids I knew cheated. Having done the work honestly - lots of classmates would ask if they could glimpse my answers during exams.

In my naivety I believed that there would be somewhat of a comeuppance but no they’re just as successful (and some even more!) than I. When the outcomes are extreme, people will do anything to stay ahead.

Most Americans are honest hard working people. Don’t be them is the hard lesson I’ve learned.

Not surprised. Every relationship in America is transactional. Work is cut throat especially at stacked ranking companies. This country is basically a social Darwinian hellhole. Friendships here seem try and extract the most value from others. I have an incredibly close circle of friends thankfully.

It’s very unlikely you’re using custom encryption. You only need to submit this if you are.

Empire maintenance is hard. USAID was a form of soft power that prevented the necessary use of blunt force.

Given the rhetoric against China, the consolidation of power and rise of nationalistic fervor. I suppose we’re just a few years from war with China. Presumably under a false flag operation ala Gulf of Tonkin style.

Fascism is capitalisms iron fist.

Historically you pretty much have to wait for the institutions to over extend itself before an opportunity arises for means reversion. Fascism can never be satisfied with the status quo- it must take actions for actions sake. The enemy is always inferior yet all encompassing. Fascists will always lose in a war of equals because the longer they stay in power the further they stray from reality.

Not true lol. I used to work at JPMC and got a 20% bump switching to a much much less sexy industry writing software.

This is pure cope. Brand loyalty will do nothing against the Chinese car companies. American car companies relied heavily on tariffs and import limits to compete with Japanese car companies.

The Chinese don’t have a gun to their heads so we can’t make them sign a plaza accord 2.0.

Why not do something you care about? I started a company recently making apps for comic book collectors and it’s been more fulfilling than anything else I’ve done.

The article was pretty clear and cohesive on its messaging. I’m not sure what you’re confused about.

The decline continues but steeper.

Market instability

I think what’s weird is the formatting isn’t even something I can control for. In the past few MRs my tech lead asked me to apply changes he made which when compared has zero difference .

That’s the perfect time to go on strike.

Yeah this ignorant. The root of Americas problem isn’t the government, it isn’t the billionaires, it’s the people, the culture. Billionaires don’t fund themselves, politicians don’t vote for themselves. The average adult has the literacy skills of a middle schooler and yet they’re entrusted to vote.

Schools aren’t failing just because teachers are underpaid. Learning is a two way street- the kids don’t want to learn. It’s the reason why most of our engineers and doctors are from cultures that value education.

The current American system is designed to exploit as much of the ignorant masses as possible.

Americas cancer is its culture.

If you’re in the major Texas cities you know there’s really only one.

I have no idea what they were talking about. For all I know they could have been talking about soccer.

This happened at intel and was very noticeable even back in 2010. Indians hires other Indians. At every company I’ve been at if you were not Indian you were not invited to the conversation. Sitting in meetings where you were excluded from 30% of the conversation was wild. I never felt like they were rude or anything though- just that I was an outsider.

Best team I worked with was very diverse and they actively worked to help each other get promoted and protect each other.

I’m an engineer at a grocery chain that essentially has a monopoly in most of Texas. The chain has a good and well earned reputation for the public but it definitely uses underhanded monopolistic tactics to maintain dominance.

As it’s grown and expanded you can definitely tell that the ethics and how they treat workers / customers has gone down hill. Maybe it’s all the Amazon managers they’ve absorbed.

1. An economy driven by physical commodities like oil are susceptible to corruption and stagnation. 2. Norways dependence on oil has prevented it from doing anything meaningful economically or technologically.

Bambu labs got me into 3d printing. It’s the most seamless and simple 3d printer and functions as basically an appliance. Huge leap for 3d printing and I suspect we’re closer than ever to making jt affordable and easy.

It’s amazing how rapidly Asia has developed the last few decades whilst the west has stagnated.

Living in the west feels like I’m trapped in time. The future is too scary and uncertain for us. What happened to optimism?

I was a non technical founder idealist. Then my friends told me I lacked the skills to be a business and a technical founder.

It was honest and useful. I dropped out of nursing school, went to business school and taught myself how to write code. I worked at some F500 companies for a few years (still there sadly).

But last week I launched my first product with a cofounder and it’s probably the best one on the market. My “technical founder” is much more technical than me but I’ve filled out a little of both gaps.

If you’re a non technical founder I can’t take you seriously. Unless you’re a walking pile of cash with a top hat, no sane technical founder would risk it.

Here’s a paradoxical take. If you build an AI you want it to be super intelligent and take power away from humanity. Why would you want humans to have power over something more intelligent and powerful than us, that’s called a weapon.

Ironic. The product I’m building relies on Haiku. It’s brilliant, cheap and fast. Their models are very capable and much more accessible to small companies.

Without crypto we wouldn’t have regulation that protect normal people from magical internet money.

It’s hard. I think people get sucked into the matrix. I had a friend who was a really interesting person. Had well thought out beliefs and we used to talk about philosophy, politics and science.

Eventually she got a high paying, high stress high finance job and eventually she had no time to really think about things. Instead it was easier to repeat talking points she saw on the news and spend what little time she had enjoying her money. We still keep in touch but she actively isn’t interested in our old subjects as they’re too stressful to think about. It’s a fair point.

My coworker is reasonably decent engineer and intelligent person. His motivation in life is to just make money to feed his addiction to video games, gambling and drugs. We’re friends outside of work so I encouraged him to break away from his vices but to him there’s not much in the “real world”. It’s not entertaining, optimistic or fun so he plugs in after work.

I have a lot friends like these. The funny thing about the cave allegory is that in modern times the world outside of the cave is much more chaotic, hateful and scary.

I think this would apply to most people but really it’s just how capitalism works.

I think for some people the value of starting is business is having control of who you surround yourself with.

I want to work with ambitious, smart and kind people who actively want to build a better world. I wouldn’t mind working at a company like that even if the job was tough.

Unfortunately most companies are ran by greedy ambitious people with no wisdom or care for tomorrow. Long term is end of the year for these people and big picture expands only to the business they work in. The people you work with aren’t any better either typically.

So really the only option is to build a company.

Yes. I work at a very comfortable job with decent pay and benefits.

What burns me out is the bureaucracy, politics and having to deal with people who simply aren’t curious or interested about anything in the slightest leading the charge.

I’ve been working on a startup on the side with my friend for almost a year now and the work has rarely ever burnt me out.

Maybe I’m surrounded by the wrong people, but even amongst my educated peers their opinions are regurgitated. Not even from an interesting author but what they’ve seen online or in mainstream culture.

The only exception being my contrarian friend but his opinions aren’t any more intelligent, just different.

Has this really been any different since the dawn of modern propaganda though? The only difference is now we use it to sell goods not just political ideas.

I think the few who leave Plato’s cave on their own are far less than what we would like and those who remain will never truly be free. Their comfort lies in the cave.