If we’re barbaric, it’s because we murder criminals, not because it’s on Youtube.
100% agreed
You all imagine the people who will whoop and cheer; I imagine the people who will recoil in horror
I strongly doubt that though. I feel like a lot of people will cheer. And in any case this will desensitize people to violence; given how reactionary the US populace is, it’s probably not a good thing overall
What is the progress tho? US has been genociding an entire people for the past 3 years. It is as fucked in the head as it ever was.
Actually the top 1% in the US is ~600k per year. It’s a lot of cash but not entirely outside the realm of possibility for some extremely senior software architect/manager combo at some VC startup, which is also within the lemmy target audience.
It also allows you to very quickly iterate on rough drafts of ideas for research. Or review your code for bugs/vulnerabilities. It helps you remember a specific term from a distant corner of computer science you’ve forgotten. I’d say it absolutely does cut a significant percentage of your work time (approaching 50% nowadays), and it can pretend to replace you for 95% of your job if you don’t care about the quality of code or architecture or maintainability.
AI also has at least one obvious economic utility right now. It significantly improves productivity for software engineers. I’d say that with the latest crop of LLMs you can about double the productive output of an experienced developer without sacrificing quality (and literally 50x it if you only care about features getting delivered).
The questions are:
You can guess how those three questions are answered by USA and China.
Given the zh/jp examples given, I don’t think the OP is looking for palindromes.
I’m not sure I understand your question fully. Are you looking for two distinct words with the same/similar meaning and etymology but with completely reversed letters? That’s not going to happen in alphabetic languages, because it’s simply not how languages work - completely reversing the actual sounds that come out of your mouth is a phonetic impossibility.
You will be able to find examples where two morphemes have swapped places, similar to your manners/etiquette example, but usually the meaning will change too. The first example that came to my mind is boathouse & houseboat - the former is a building used to store boats, the latter is a boat which is also a dwelling.
This is just called “a job”. I wish I could get paid $3000 for three days of work tho
My recurring bills, in the order of decreasing cost
And I’m planning to cut out rent (will be replaced with property tax and maintenance tho) and the hetzner VPS within the next year, because it feels like too much already. I don’t know how people pay for like a dozen things every month.
So you expect every business in the country to have train tracks pull right up to it?
That’s actually a pretty good idea to aim for eventually, yes.
I haven’t read the paper but the article smells of bullshit. Extraordinary and unsubstantiated claims in one field (H-bond changing because of a manganese cluster and sunlight???), popping up during research in some other, barely related field, suggests to me that either SCMP journalists made insane shit up again (as they often do with popsci articles) or the original paper didn’t have any chemists peer review it.
You definitely don’t need containers to “run something that needs a different dependency”, it’s a massive waste of time and resources and just not what containers were made for. There are/were a thousand other solutions for this, from Nix to chroot to building from source to LD_LIBRARY_PATH to AppImage.
Containers were initially sold as a “security boundary” of sorts. The ability to run some software with the peace of mind that it won’t ruin your OS or leak all your data if it’s vulnerable. It’s the entire point, but it turns out to be extremely difficult to get right. We managed to make a boundary against accidentally messing something up, not against targeted attacks.
It sure feels like it when it’s wooshing past you at highway speed on a bicycle.
To be fair you need to read like 2-3 books to fully understand the modern concept of socialism fully.
However in this case even reading a wikipedia article would be a massive improvement
I have re-read the comment thread like three times and I don’t see any other interpretation.
“just imagine like you had to kiss you’re boss on the mouth the unlock your full bonus” (textbook workspace sexual harassment)
Response:
How is this anything but defending sexual harassment?
So you think that workplace sexual harassment (exchanging bonuses or promotions or other benefits for sexual activities) is fine, as long as the coercion is only monetary?
Mostly politicians would oversee programs for civil benefits
Western politicians would also bomb the shit out of brown people in other countries. Politics was never “boring”, it just managed to present itself that way for the privileged citizens of the empire.
That’s not how (non-speculative) profit works under capitalism.
All profits that a capitalist accrues are eventually extracted from a laborer who puts in more work than what they are paid, where
The profit is the difference between the labor power expanded in a working day and the wage (the labor power necessary to maintain a “supply of labor”).
If you remove the wage, and therefore the laborer, you are left with no profit. Capitalists understand that intuitively. Some will speculate on the amount of labor power to manipulate the perceived value of their company (hence the hiring/layoffs cycle), but a sustainable business requires a steady supply of labor for which (at least under capitalism) they must pay a wage.
If, by some miracles, capitalists manage to produce & gain control of an AGI (I strongly doubt this will happen with LLMs), and manage to force us to bootstrap a fully automated supply chain without overthrowing capitalism, we will indeed enter into another economic system entirely, and it won’t be good for most of humanity.
It’s not really the wages they are after. Paying a wage on one end and getting paid market rates on the other end is how they generate profit, no matter how much automation advances.
It’s those pesky labor rights they want to get rid of. AI helps in two ways: take away power from workers by threatening replacement, and automate data gathering and surveillance to physically control those who try to oppose capitalism.
I actually agree with you in principle: both should be legal and regulated. The extent of legality and regulation needs to be decided according to the use value/danger/harm of the item in question. Guns are generally much more dangerous than “party” drugs and so need to have stricter regulations.