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I’ve had a tough time finding a really good burger in nyc, honestly, though I haven’t tried very hard either. I live right near Emily but afaik their burger, while well-regarded, uses a mayo-based sauce which is not something I’m really interested in
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good tips, ty posters
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Apr 12, 2023 21:58
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the big lie: maybe this android phone will be good
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Apr 15, 2023 15:53
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I do get using an android if you are either price-sensitive (either poor or don't care enough about phone to spend lots of money on one) or love one of the niche form factors apple doesn't offer fortunately for me apple does sell the niche form factor I like, "normal size"
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Apr 15, 2023 18:09
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Achmed Jones posted:stock buyback plus the recent reveal that the ceo gets a quarter billion a year while they're laying people off. no new layoffs (yet) awuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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Apr 26, 2023 02:55
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Achmed Jones posted:i am like 98% sure that the awu is mostly pinkertons. it's too stupid for it not to be intentional it’s pretty silly but it’s also the only thing that can possibly work. and it’s a union, so, well, if more normal people join it’ll shift its priorities accordingly. some folks do some good stuff around contractor organizing too. I joined back when the first round of layoffs hit, and if everyone else had done the same thing there wouldn’t be a second round— I’m more than willing to be cringe if that’s what it takes. and, well, I was already cringe to begin with
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Apr 26, 2023 03:52
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tbh I’m not convinced the minority union structure was a good idea either. but you got really angry about this really fast. it’s not like I set up the thing op, I just joined later because I figured that’d be at least more effective than not joining
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Apr 26, 2023 04:10
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perhaps I’m just not acclimated to the high intensity posting environment of the tech bubble thread in conclusion google lost cloud to a bookstore. that’s something we can all agree on
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Apr 26, 2023 04:16
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lol np, it’s clear you’ve thought a lot about this subject and have strong feelings about it
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Apr 26, 2023 04:28
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bob dobbs is dead posted:they arose as an alternative to dividends because people got absolutely nuts about any cut to any dividend ever and for tax reasons. that insanity about cuts is actually a completely rational nuts because the numerics of equity valuation whiplash intensely when you change a dividend ever at all. difference between renormalizations and exponents basically I don’t really understand the point about dividends having a more dramatic effect on valuation than stock buybacks. setting aside the tax benefits of buybacks, isn’t the financial effect of a buyback for shareholders going to be the same as an ad hoc dividend of some size (calculated as a simple function of previous stock price, size of buyback and number of outstanding shares)? or are you just saying the strategic ambiguity of buybacks means you have less dramatic shifts in price compared to if you actually have to change your company’s policy as to how much dividends they’re going to pay each quarter
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Apr 26, 2023 06:11
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bob dobbs is dead posted:peeps do not do ad hoc dividends in public market land, as a rule, altho they theoretically can. they set up quarterly or whatever dividends and then if they ever change them everyone starts running around with their hair on fire okay, so it’s just for practical reasons regarding the real market, and not fundamental economic reasons is there an argument against raising taxes on buybacks? except “taxes on dividends should be lower instead” of course. it looks like a pretty open and shut loophole to me
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Apr 26, 2023 06:40
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I’ve always thought the problems are interesting in finance but I hear the industry is not exactly a world of great work life balance
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Apr 26, 2023 06:43
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wow I can’t believe members of congress might start voting on bills without having read them now. what a totally new and unprecedented change.
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Apr 26, 2023 17:27
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personally I’m thinking I’ll get laid off, that’d give me plenty of time for both zelda and personal projects
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Apr 28, 2023 22:31
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I wouldn't take a job where they wouldn't give me a 4K monitor for programming I don't think it's at all necessary for gaming though. I'm happy "different resolution for UI and rendering" seems to be coming over from consoles, at least
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Apr 29, 2023 23:27
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a date that will live in infamy
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Apr 30, 2023 14:46
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bob dobbs is dead posted:if the subway was nice richer peeps would take it. it isnt nice because all the poo poo, the trains, the stations, are decrepit and old. they are decrepit and old because they are multiple times more expensive than what the east asians get plenty of rich people take the subway though. not rich rich but bottom of the 1% rich sure. class avoidance is more of an issue for buses (and much of that is imo down to the buses being bad, if they were able to provide consistently better service I think you’d see wealthier people using them a lot) everything you said about price disease is true ofc
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May 4, 2023 20:12
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read pedestrianobservations if you want good analyses about what’s so hosed in american public infra spending
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May 4, 2023 21:40
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there should just be noise checks like the smog checks for motor vehicles, and louder vehicles should be required to pay more on their registration also the minimum for bodily injury insurance should be 100x median income
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May 5, 2023 01:15
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Internet Janitor posted:so you're saying you think it's ok to be obnoxious as long as you're rich? drat you really owned arthur c pigov with this one
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May 5, 2023 01:51
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as a tech worker it’s tough to trust bloomberg, given they never walked back their bogus hack story from 2018
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May 7, 2023 21:23
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bob dobbs is dead posted:"there are entire categories of cons that depend upon the marks dishonesty" “lying for money” is probably the most interesting book I read in the past five years
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May 8, 2023 21:14
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bob dobbs is dead posted:romans also had basically few mathematical advances hey they killed archimedes, that’s like a negative advance also I thought they saw tyr as mars usually, and odin as mercury
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May 12, 2023 01:37
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I only remember this because I was reading about tyr recently and how nobody’s really sure where he comes from, he fits in weirdly with the pantheon, and there’s a popular theory that he’s from an older, forgotten set of gods. and because it stuck with me that the romans thought these guys worshipped mercury as the king of the gods, since I figured they must have thought he was a strange god to put in that position
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May 12, 2023 01:44
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anyway ancient history is sick, especially sources from the era. I’m reading herodotus rn and it’s so cool that this dude compiled everything he could find out that he thought was worth recording, two and a half millenia ago, and I’m just sitting on my couch reading it now
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May 12, 2023 01:50
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my favorite thing so far is he is talking about some urn, and its history, and then he goes “and then some other guy added a dedication to the spartans on it. I know the guy’s name but I’m not gonna say it because gently caress that guy, that’s not an act that’s worthy of me writing it dow, that’s just some bullshit”
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May 12, 2023 01:54
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also that ullr thing owns
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May 12, 2023 01:57
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this is simplistic but my theory has always been that llms are especially popular with people with no interior life, like executives, since it has similar capabilities
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Jan 7, 2024 00:43
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it won't get used this way but an ai chatbot could be useful as a support duck. ask it questions and try the stuff it suggests without believing it too hard.
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Jan 10, 2024 20:38
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I have a bad feeling that the fist of copyright won't smash ai for red queen reasons; if a state regulates generative ai products out of existence, they'll just go to somewhere else where the things are legal. but it's possible things will work out more positively; the us historically has been very successful enforcing its strict copyright regime across the globe, and also is incapable of legislating so if the stuff gets deemed illegal a fix law will be difficult to pass
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Jan 10, 2024 20:47
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another round of google layoffs today if layoffs, colluding on compensation and so on really bothered people they'd take collective action. as such, the amount of pity I feel is limited by the unbending logic of the contrapositive
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Jan 11, 2024 18:04
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yeah messing with history can be used for good things if you do it right. of course no one does because it's web development but it's not an inherently busted idea the same with right click honestly, I was skeptical about web uis with right clicks in them but it can be useful for stuff that really wants to feel like an application
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Jan 11, 2024 18:07
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VikingofRock posted:Google actually does have a union! But they are a minority union, are not registered with the NLRB, and are unable to engage in collective bargaining. So I can understand why Googlers would want to avoid paying dues to an organization with zero actual power, and why it would be hard to organize a separate, actually effective union, given the presence of the existing useless union yes it’s a minority union because a minority of workers joined it. if enough workers joined that winning a card check in some reasonable bargaining unit was feasible they would have a different status. “was organizing a minority union a good idea” and “should one join such a union” are quite different questions with imo different answers, similar to “what would I do as an elected official” vs “who should I support”. but I do acknowledge the strength of the impulse to avoid paying dues while still preventing the contrapositive from altering one’s perception of their own politics
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Jan 11, 2024 21:34
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marvin miller is a goddamn national hero
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iirc the concern with discord is that their valuation is dramatically out of whack with the business they’re actually running, so they’re going to have to try to expand and thus gently caress things up at some point not sure how that relates to the layoffs though
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when I lived in california I just outsourced all my proposition opinions to Pete Ratestheprops doesn't help with deciding to sign things ofc but that doesn't really matter anyway
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Jan 16, 2024 18:19
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I find it hard to begrudge news organizations asking readers to give them money. What else are they supposed to do when advertising revenue has fallen so far?
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Jan 19, 2024 23:32
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honestly I've thought about a ft sub, I hear good things about their reporting. but you'd have to really read a ton of it for it to be worth it. and their premium sub looks extremely lol
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Jan 19, 2024 23:39
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bloomberg... I realize this is reductive and I'm sure they have lots of good reporting but I can't help but think about how they never walked back that weird tech security story from 2018
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personally I like lead for simple syrup. healthier than sugar, of course, and it doesn’t go bad in the same way
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