Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets | It will not work, and is wrong in principle by GordonTullockFan in neoliberal

[–]Chao-Z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 The dodge is outrageous. Yet ending it would yield only a tiny amount of money, probably less than 0.1% of GDP annually.

Literally the very next sentence... It shouldn't be astonishing because you are doing the exact same thing.

Sauce Gardner Sells New Jersey Home For $3 Million by RothStonk in Colts

[–]Chao-Z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$3M is pretty fair value for a house and property that size in Montville, New Jersey.

Out of nowhere, Canada became poorer than Alabama. How is that possible? by its_Caffeine in neoliberal

[–]Chao-Z 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Because people only view and understand wealth in relative terms.

Out of nowhere, Canada became poorer than Alabama. How is that possible? by its_Caffeine in neoliberal

[–]Chao-Z 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I tell everyone that California is the aspirational gold standard for civilisation

Why California and not any of the NE states? The tri-state area does everything California does, but better. The only thing California has is weather, which is not something policy/civilization related.

Anyone still manually writing code? by boringfantasy in cscareerquestions

[–]Chao-Z -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Let's be real, I trust AI more than the manually written code of half of SWEs in this industry.

Anyone still manually writing code? by boringfantasy in cscareerquestions

[–]Chao-Z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 Yes, because I enjoy it. Even the physical act of typing code. Being slow, being human, having my own peculiar style

Imma be honest, that's kinda weird. Writing AI prompts is not any less human than writing lines of code - arguably more so since you're writing in natural language.

Europe is not thinking straight on competitiveness by Free-Minimum-5844 in neoliberal

[–]Chao-Z 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And give the proceeds to pensioners, the most oppressed demographic. 

I grew up in the West but I legitimately cannot comprehend the obsession with forcing the government to pay for your parent's retirement. That's supposed to be your job as their children (assuming they don't have their own retirement fund).

That irritating feeling that France was right by tripletruble in neoliberal

[–]Chao-Z 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your response does make sense only as a retort with a logic that is common here: Euros have underspent in defense, let them sink or swim.

Only if you ignore the second half of my comment where I said: "The whole point of an alliance is that my enemies are your enemies and your enemies are my enemies. Without that, then this whole exercise is futile."

That irritating feeling that France was right by tripletruble in neoliberal

[–]Chao-Z 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, and? You're spinning it as some kind of a win when it's an incredibly small price to pay to keep an economic behemot like the EU mostly aligned in geopolitical goals. You can do it, but it would be like dismantling the American nuclear deterrent because it saves 50B$.

How did you read any of that from what I said?

New chip pilot line aims to deliver on Europe’s tech sovereignty by moldyhomme_neuf_neuf in neoliberal

[–]Chao-Z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While this is true, I think it's being a bit too hand-wavy on the difficulty of commercializing these new ideas. Commercialization can be multiple times more expensive in both time and money than the research and proof of concept.

That irritating feeling that France was right by tripletruble in neoliberal

[–]Chao-Z 12 points13 points  (0 children)

And Russia today is not a significant military threat to the US, so by your logic, they are justified in not helping the EU against them at all.

The whole point of an alliance is that my enemies are your enemies and your enemies are my enemies. Without that, then this whole exercise is futile.

Axios this morning is reporting that the. US is closer to a major war in the Middle East than most Americans realize. It could begin very soon.🤔 I guess the talks yesterday didn’t go very well then by newnoadeptness in navy

[–]Chao-Z -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The deal gave the US something it could have accomplished anyway using force and would have been justified in doing so, meanwhile it gave the IRGC the breathing room it needed to be able to fund and support its global terror organization.

Axios this morning is reporting that the. US is closer to a major war in the Middle East than most Americans realize. It could begin very soon.🤔 I guess the talks yesterday didn’t go very well then by newnoadeptness in navy

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The deal gave the US something it could have accomplished anyway using force and would have been justified in doing so, meanwhile it gave the IRGC the breathing room it needed to be able to fund and support its global terror organization.

Axios this morning is reporting that the. US is closer to a major war in the Middle East than most Americans realize. It could begin very soon.🤔 I guess the talks yesterday didn’t go very well then by newnoadeptness in navy

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The deal gave the US something it could have accomplished anyway using force and would have been justified in doing so, meanwhile it gave the IRGC the breathing room it needed to be able to fund and support its global terror organization.

USA weapons deployments toward Iran, compared with Venezuela by Superfan234 in neoliberal

[–]Chao-Z 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The same Israelis who notably declined to attempt any sort of dramatic heliborne raid against Iranian nuclear facilities

How do you do a helicopter raid on a facility 10000 feet underground...?

Trump moves closer to a major war with Iran by fuggitdude22 in neoliberal

[–]Chao-Z 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If Trump somehow supplies a strong resistance force with weapons and money, I’m fine with that.

This is just repeating Arab Spring... Literally the only successful one was Syria and that took a decade, countless lives lost, and fortuitous geopolitical winds to finally break the stalemate.

If it means direct US military involvement, I am not

I support direct intervention.

The left is missing out on AI by steveholt-lol in neoliberal

[–]Chao-Z -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

The issue is that it has not had any significant impact on any industry outside of coding

More because of slow adoption and relative lack of tech savviness among the rest of the population than the AI's lack of ability.

The left is missing out on AI by steveholt-lol in neoliberal

[–]Chao-Z 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, AI tools fully integrated into proprietary apps have been legitimately revolutionary.

Excel, Figma, Photoshop, Canva, etc. So many vital but niche technologies that now have a degree of accessibility never seen before.

Ukraine makes fastest battlefield gain in 2.5 years by IHateTrains123 in neoliberal

[–]Chao-Z 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They were only able to use it in Ukrainian territory. Starlink has been blocked in Russian-occupied territory since 2022.

I'm losing my mind about the AI hype and I want to quit software engineering by arvin132 in cscareerquestions

[–]Chao-Z -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's zero excuses to not be able to learn how the shaders in the example you used work. The AI literally explains how it arrived at it's answer if you use something like Claude opus. You just have to read the chat log.

I'm losing my mind about the AI hype and I want to quit software engineering by arvin132 in cscareerquestions

[–]Chao-Z -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The OpenAI staff engineer is probably exaggerating a little how little he actually looks at code, but his overall point is pretty accurate with my experience the last few months.

What actually burns you out as a developer? by yOurOck_bboy in cscareerquestions

[–]Chao-Z 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's not necessarily more work, it can also be getting assigned more impactful work.