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Sadly, that matters very little!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-10-earners-drive-nearly-1...

If this is to be believed, regular consumer goods won't matter anymore, and instead you just cater to the wealthy.

The fundamental problem is that everyone is expected to pitch in to help train these AIs, but only a handful of people benefit from it.

The fundamental problem with interviewing is that you're not preparing yourself to understand a business' problem and needs, but you're preparing to have to impress your potential colleagues, a non-trivial number of which are already jaded.

Big tech can afford this because they have a constant stream of candidates.

Probably the only thing holding the reins on AI takeover is the lack of legislative coverage. Once the AI user is not held responsible for the AI's actions, (and let's face it, this is the likely outcome. It's not like politicians are going to decide in favor of regular people) then we are going to have a new social class of completely useless people.

What does the government plan to do with them? Kill them off? Because if they leave them to die, they will revolt.

It's brutal out there. I'm currently 36 years years old. I got laid off in March last year from an outsourcing shop because no work was coming, mostly working with PHP, with some Javascript and python sprinkled in there. I thank the Lord for not having a wife and children, because it would have been so painful watching them suffer because of me, and I thank my parents for helping me float through the tough times.

I got a small leyline around September with a part-time job doing Wordpress stuff for a former client. No days off, zero security, just barely surviving month after the other. Fortunately, things are turning around for me! I'm starting a new full-time job next month. It's pretty well paid too, hybrid role, so I will be able to rebuild my savings, contribute to my pension fund, keep up with my balooning mortgage, etc.

The Lord is indeed merciful! I really hope I can make it work, because I get maybe an interview every few months or so.

I think the most brutal part that no one talks about is just how many scams are out there that target unemployed people. I tried doing freelancing for a while, but I never got paid even once. Contracts don't even matter because I don't have the muscle to enforce them. I almost fell for a bunch of scam job interviews/offers as well. I think I broke into tears after an interview that seemingly went well, then I got forwarded some forms to fill, one of them asking for my credit card information for payment.

It's beyond my powers to help him, but I hope things turn around for the OP as well.

I think the real crux of the issue is : why does education cost so much in the first place? Because it's excessively bloated.

I thought European universities were bloated, but they look like lean running operations compared to American ones: high quality food, parks, gardens, recreational facilities, sports facilities including personal trainers, courts, etc. It's more like a vacation resort and I think students often end up treating it like one.

Back in my day, the food at the university cafeteria was pig slop and we liked it!

I was there for the total eclipse from august '98. It was absolutely surreal! Chickens were going to bed.

I hope I am not being too inflammatory by saying this but it's ... quite amusing how sheltered Americans are in thinking that a little political tension is a danger to their own country.

Bosnia was about to be destroyed and more recently, attempted to be divided by neighbors and they're still fine.

Look at anywhere that's not Americas or Western Europe.

Of course, this is just an anecdotal observation, but I think what changed weren't the games, but the players.

I was playing Dark Age of Camelot back in the day and we'd spend hours just waiting around, chatting, meeting new people, trying to group up and try to clear a dungeon. Of course, our compositions were less than ideal but we'd try to make it work. Hey we have no one durable but if we take little Timmy's mercenary here and put some high armor gear on him and dual wield shields maybe it would work. Of course someone would go to bed or to dinner and then off to find a new player we go. Trying to make it work was the name of the game. With time, you'd amass a big friend list of reliable people you know you could call on a moment's need if they were online and most of the time they would be happy to help.

Modern players are borderline obsessed with time. No one wants to waste time experimenting with content so they look for guides to clear as fast as possible. Getting wiped immediately results in remarks of "you're wasting my time". The human aspect of the MMO has been stripped away by bots, fast travel, people generally being rude and the mumble/teamspeak server or discord group chat. Somehow, it feels like the MMO is a reflection of our current society.

This article's conclusion isn't wrong but the premise is. Standups are NOT for developers, they're for business types to tighten grip over a project, to make sure everyone is there at a certain hour, reporting to clients, etc.

We have two daily standups, one in the morning and one in the evening, each about 30 minutes or more. Moving from a company with no standups to one that treasures meetings so much has been a killer on my soul...

I'm in the same boat.

Honestly people like to say "x social media sucks" but in actuality it's far simpler than that : people suck in general. Only now you get to see it for yourself at a more general level as opposed to anecdotal experience.

I will say though, the US has historically had a very hard time taking ideas from European countries and getting them to work the same way here.

I think this is because everyone only sees the upside of the system. When getting down to the nitty and gritty, a lot of sacrifices are made to keep those systems in place, sacrifices that go against the individualistic fiber of American society. To take some spicy issues to put them in this framework :

"Free" education. It's not that free, it's just mostly accessible. European Universities are very lean running operations, whereas American universities are grandiose and more like a vacation resort.

"Free" healthcare. It's also not that free, just accessible and most of the time, overburdened. There are a ton of public health measures put in place to cut costs of it. Just this week for example they announced doubling of taxes on alcohol.

The USA can make it work, for sure. It's the most powerful nation on earth and runs laps around everyone else combined on pretty much every metric. It would take over 100 years of continual USA degradation for anyone else to even start measuring seriously against it. But for systems like this to be put in place requires a serious shift in how people think about society which will not happen in our lifetimes.

Like, salaries do not seem to have similarly risen, so who the hell is buying these houses?

People and institutions looking for a way to 'park' their funds in a safe investment.

How is your Phaser experience so far? I like how intuitive it feels, but the fact that it uses the same javascript I use at work makes it a huge turn-off for me.

To be fair, the user profile also changed a lot over the years. What used to be a 'programmer for power user' space, now it's all about minimalism and pretty, dysfunctional interfaces. I can see why one would become jaded and separate themselves from users.

Also another problem that doesn't seem to be talked about a lot is that way too often, the stake holders and the developers have nothing in common with the end user.

This quote sums it up perfectly :

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep ,his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” C.S. Lewis

There are so many problems with this feature :

- it can easily be used to identify also other types of dangerous material such as warnings against government activity or posters of organized protests

- some malicious actor can send you this kind of content in order to get you in trouble

- false positives

- moral busy bodying (your employer not agreeing with you going drinking sunday night)

Honestly, it feels like we're about to enter a new age of surveillance. Client-side surveillance.

It has been tried before. What happened is that the established players will start giving it away for free until you are out of business.

When I went to university, a great deal of exams were oral. You would draw a few tickets from a pool and have 10-15 minutes to prepare your answers. I'm sure there are alternative ways to examine students that don't require such draconian surveillance.

I'm jealous of parking abundant American cities. In this part of the pond, your choices are between walking, taking a face-planted-against-the-window bus or train, or take your car and spin around for 30 minutes at your destination trying to find somewhere to leave your car.

Neither of these are very good. I'd rather one problem be solved than have a choice between 3 awful compromises.

I guess this explains why I feel so trapped. Like a pawn to my own circumstances.

To live life is to live in servitude. I'm a slave to my own needs of bread, water and circus. To supply this never-ending need I must serve someone else too. I must serve the needs of my family as well : they want and expect things out of me too. So where does that leave me? A never-ending cycle of busy-bodying. I can't even get mad or push back anymore. To what end? I'm simply a spectator to my own fate which unravels before me. If it wasn't me, it would have been someone else. Since it wasn't someone else, therefore, it has to be me. I am just a replaceable cog, but this cog still needs to be put to use in a machine.

This made me realize death is the true gift of God to mankind. An end to our seemingly never-ending drudgery.

I'm aware that, as a founder, he's obviously very interested in the success of his product. His mentality however carried over the acquisition and past inertia. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I think his problem is that he's passionate.

And I don't mean the corporate lingo 'passionate', I mean the actual passionate. I strongly advise any passionate people to not seek to turn their passion into a job. Because it's a long journey full of suffering.

Your bosses will drive you insane. Your clients will drive you insane. Your coworkers will drive you especially mad. You will feel pain every time you will be asked to cut corners. No one will appreciate the finer details of your work. You will become the office insufferable twat. Passed every promotion.

The sweet spot is somewhere between "I don't hate it" and "I kind of like it". You can learn to like something if you do it long enough.

Interesting point of view since it's so directly in contradiction to mine. I always viewed enlightenment as an unique, untransmissible experience (unique as in it's different for each individual, not that you can only have it once).

I think it's near impossible to be able to convey these as teachings since it's such an intimate experience ultimately modeled by the world around you. Perhaps that's just my definition of enlightenment, an intimate understanding of the internal and external world.

If I am ever to reach this state, I hope it's an inner state of peace and acceptance because my current angst is wearing me down.

Ah yes, we had something similar in Romania too, only that it was on national television. I got so many games and programs from it. Since they had reception everywhere in the country I was able to record them from the country side or a monastery too.

Hello everyone. This is a translated excerpt from a desecretized KGB operations manual that offers an example on how their counter-intelligence division caught a spy using a numbers station for one-way communication.

You are correct. This is in a former soviet state.

No, they could not monitor all conversations. They could only listen to as many calls as they had agents to listen to them. It was not possible for them to listen to everyone at once, nor could they use this as means of discovery. They had to suspect someone in the first place in order to decide to expend the human resources to listen to their calls.

I think you're taking this a bit too lightly. As a side topic, I am surprised to what extent state surveillance was a thing here in the telephone era.

The secret police had about 50k full-time agents, 600k double-agents and about 400k-500k informants. From a population of 18 mil, that's about 1 in 18. Consider an usual family. You have a brother or a sister, two parents, 4 aunts or uncles and 4 grandfathers. Odds were in favor of one of them being at least an informant.

For your community? There definitely was an informant or double agent among them. Just knowing that the threat is there has a massive effect in how people communicate and bond with each other, effects that can still be felt to this day.

What's a good browser for personal use nowadays? I have Firefox on my desktop but on mobile the experience is very lacking, with many pages downright breaking. I'm currently trying out brave which seems to at least block ads and tracking.

Thanks for the clarification.I'll give it a trial run to see how it pads out for me.

What's the advantage in using this over something like say, Blokada?

It's a shame, really. I used to play Granblue Fantasy with their Chrome app. It was very convenient and accessible.