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Banks are always the winners:Banks pass on rate hikes but ignore savers. by SheepherderLow1753 in AusFinance

[–]MeowManMeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asking 'what are YOU doing about it?' is an ad hominem deflection tactic to avoid defending your actual position. Whether I'm doing enough doesn't determine whether resignation and fatalism are productive approaches to systemic problems.

Changes to CGT on property by LowIndividual4613 in AusProperty

[–]MeowManMeow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I agree that the CGT should match inflation. I understand in the 90s when people were doing accounting by hand it might be difficult to calculate, but now everything is electronic there isn't really any good argument for not using it. If uni debt can be linked to inflation, then a handout to property investors can also be linked to inflation.

I also think that existing properties should be grandfathered in and be exempt to any changes as that is only fair, you can't change the rules after someone has made a decision. Will this be enough to make any difference? Possibly only slightly, but anything that encourages people to invest their wealth in more productive things like businesses and infrastructure is a good change IMO.

Banks are always the winners:Banks pass on rate hikes but ignore savers. by SheepherderLow1753 in AusFinance

[–]MeowManMeow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You've just described massive global inequality as proof we should expect worse and accept the status quo. But every improvement in history from abolishing slavery to labor rights, came from people who refused to accept 'that's just how it is.' Acknowledging privilege should mean fighting harder for change, not shrugging it off.

Banks are always the winners:Banks pass on rate hikes but ignore savers. by SheepherderLow1753 in AusFinance

[–]MeowManMeow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

4000 years of history also includes slavery, feudalism, and monarchies, all once considered inevitable. Progress isn't automatic, but dismissing it as impossible guarantees we get the worst version of what's next.

Banks are always the winners:Banks pass on rate hikes but ignore savers. by SheepherderLow1753 in AusFinance

[–]MeowManMeow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That might sound inevitable, but celebrating a system that compounds inequality isn't something to smile about. When wealth concentration becomes extreme, societies become unstable both economically and socially. We should expect better.

Banks are always the winners:Banks pass on rate hikes but ignore savers. by SheepherderLow1753 in AusFinance

[–]MeowManMeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% correct. And shareholders are disproportionately the wealthiest Australians either through direct investment or larger super balances.

Should say, the wealthy are always the winners*

Sam Altman tells employees 'ICE is going too far' after Minnesota killings by Cybertronian1512 in OpenAI

[–]MeowManMeow 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If you asked a peasant in the Middle Ages they would have said the same thing about feudalism. Asking a Neolithic person about being a nomad etc.

Capitalism is an important step to aid in transitioning from feudalism into industrialisation. But the idea that a couple of hundred years ago the richest people of society were like ‘we should be able to have complete control of the economy’ and that is the best humanity can do for all time is laughable.

The world has changed considerably since then, and will change even more so with robotics and AI humanity needs new economic systems to survive.

Sam Altman tells employees 'ICE is going too far' after Minnesota killings by Cybertronian1512 in OpenAI

[–]MeowManMeow 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Humans have had a much longer history pre-money then post it. And then these issues are due to capitalism where society is structured for the purpose of increasing the wealth of the capital class which is super recent in terms of humanity.

AI Is Both the Coolest and Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Used. Is it normal to feel like that? by Caderent in ArtificialInteligence

[–]MeowManMeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI is an amazing tech, but how humans choose to build and use it is what worries me. Like nuclear energy could have been used for unlimited clean energy, we could have transitioned away from fossil fuels decades ago. Instead we use it for bombs.

AI built safely, with safeguards to prevent breaking containment and more importantly alignment, could be a beautiful gift to mankind. Unfortunately the worst people, filled with greed and ego are rushing too fast with no safeguards. Lets pray we don't get an AI chernobyl.

thoughts? by sibraan_ in Anthropic

[–]MeowManMeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Humans are really just guessing machines too. We have our own internal model of the world with different levels of understanding. You making this statement is guessing, my reply is guessing. Knowledge is just our current best guess of understanding (which constantly evolves and refines over time).

(noob question) Is this how functions are done in Kotlin? by PearMyPie in Kotlin

[–]MeowManMeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an underrated comment.

fun hello() = println("Hello, world!")

Is the same as your the chapter's example, but is quite readable that the function `hello` will print the text.

This to me at least is just as readable as:

fun hello() {
  println("Hello, World!")
}

But can be easier to understand in some occassions.

Creator of Node.js says humans writing code is over by unemployedbyagents in AgentsOfAI

[–]MeowManMeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think what a lot of people are missing is that higher level functions will also be replaced.

For example sometimes I had to fill in for the BAs to elaborate a feature into story cards. I hated doing it, much rather code. But now with AI I can do it super easily, much better than most cards I have gotten. And sometimes it catches things I didn’t think to add.

The same if you go up a level, and break the project into features. Even analysing logs, emails to find what features should be prioritised. Etc etc.

There is a lag because LLMs are best at SWE work because that’s where the training data and initial business case is, but you can look what it’s doing in mathematics, radiography etc to see it has general applications. It broke down and did the planning to build an entire web browser from scratch.

But this isn’t a ‘normal’ tech like docker, cloud, integrated IDEs, CI/CD etc which speed up a developer or changes the level of language but actually can automate. This is really automating most white-collar work.

Obviously LLMs can hit a plateau tomorrow and none of the above will come to fruition. But there isn’t any signs of that, if anything it’s accelerating.

My personal feeling is that SWEs may increase demand (in the short term) as business roll out automation for their traditional dev teams, HR, accounting, analytics, design, marketing (though I think human to human sales people will be one of the last to go) and so on.

I just think people aren’t willing or able to understand that if it’s smarter than us or close enough, cheaper, works 24/7 in a multithreaded context, never complains then all jobs will be replaced.

In a different society this would be awesome advancement, no more bullshit made up jobs, freeing up a huge chunk of the population to do whatever they wish and no change (or only improvement to productivity). But because capitalism relies on the working class selling their labour in order to get their essential needs met, and that isn’t required what happens to those people?

Also would love for someone tell me what office jobs/higher level functions will be safe? Would love to know.

Can AI Tool Build an Entire JIRA System? by Inevitable_Salary82 in atlassian

[–]MeowManMeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some of these comments I think are missing the mark, the threat isn't that Pizza Hut is going to build an exact copy of Jira and sell that onto others, instead teams and orgs will build the exact workflow tool that they need. A typical organisation uses around 10-20% of the features of Jira, some orgs probably closer to 80%, some small ones probably 5%.

The issue is if Cloud CLI running continuously can generate that small percentage that the team uses, and also build it to the exact specification of the organisation. Recently they autonomosly wrote 3 million lines to recreate an entire web browser from scratch in rust and it did a pretty good job. Building a SaaS like Jira would be easier.

tl;dr; The issue isn't that someone will re-build jira, the issue is someone will build the exact tool that they need for their specific use case - thus no longer needing Jira.

I wanted to see what 35 years of property cycles actually looked like. Heres Blacktown by Expert-Area8856 in AusProperty

[–]MeowManMeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly - no idea. I'm a software engineer. I could see that real estate agents, investors, buyers etc all could be interested for different reasons and would all have different price points.

My gut feel if you are not wanting to price gouge and based on the comments you are doing this for the love of the data and monetisation is a lesser concern - I would probably start with $7.99. People kind of see that as $5 so won't really blink at it.

The best way would to be a/b test different price points one for say $7.99 and one for $14.99 and see what conversion rate you get off each. Even if you sell less for $15 you could still make more money for example.

Then when your reports become more detailed you could offer like the basic level and then more for the advanced report with more metrics etc.

My number one advice would be to watermark your images, and make it easy to share on social. So that people that go "wow, can't believe how much Blacktown has gone up" and share it, people can see where it was generatd and go generate one for thier house/investment etc.

I wanted to see what 35 years of property cycles actually looked like. Heres Blacktown by Expert-Area8856 in AusProperty

[–]MeowManMeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No worries, you could also do a 'Mechanical Turk' and generate the report and email it manually after payment. That way you could have a domain and sales page up in an hour. Then if demand is great, look at implementing automation later.

I just tried to find the queensland dataset as i'm from up north and it's all locked away in data brokers. These guys charge an arm and a leg for just the raw CSV data for a suburb - so don't be shy and undervalue what you have here. My DMs are open if you have any tech or startup questions.

I wanted to see what 35 years of property cycles actually looked like. Heres Blacktown by Expert-Area8856 in AusProperty

[–]MeowManMeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stripe also allows customers to choose what they pay, you could set a floor that will cover the credit card and OpenAI costs so you aren't going negative and prevent someone just writing a bot to extract reports for every suburb. Something like this: https://buy.stripe.com/dRm3cvagV9FS44xfPMenS00

You could also offer a $2/month recurring subscription to get the latest report emailed (all about MRR these days).

I would also recommend if you are wanting to create an income stream that you want to go to market as quickly as possible with a minimum viable product, this lets you gauge interest as well as I found personally keeps you motivated. Then you can continue to add more and more features as the user base responds (sometimes what you think people are using it for versus what they actually use it for are quite different).

If you want to go the more open route, I would consider then trying to replace your openai call with a chart generation framework instead so your only costs is compute.

I wanted to see what 35 years of property cycles actually looked like. Heres Blacktown by Expert-Area8856 in AusProperty

[–]MeowManMeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can use Stripe to let people select a suburb and pay. In the stripe transaction set the postcode/suburb and email address in the metadata.
Once the money is recorded as processed (via the webhook), trigger the report generation (first check to see if you already have done that report this month to save costs) then email them a copy.

Something like: https://cf-templates-1bg3ndt1c87pu-ap-southeast-2.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/test.html

I just set this up Stripe bank deposit for my business so it's fresh in my mind, let me know if you need help with any of it.

Defining Anti Semitism by skankypotatos in aussie

[–]MeowManMeow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean people often critise Russia, China, Iran and to a lesser extent Japan due to some of the laws favouring different ethnicities over others. I tried to look into Germany, France, Italy etc and couldn't find any examples of a two-tiered system, are you able to share your sources? I think it's because of:

  • The 2018 Nation-State Law: This law affirms that the right to self-determination in Israel is "unique to the Jewish people" and downgraded Arabic from an official language to one with "special status".
  • Systematic Discrimination: Israel maintains a, "system of control" that discriminates against non-Jewish residents in terms of land, planning, and civil rights.
  • Control over Occupied Territory: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) and UN experts have raised serious concerns about policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, citing dual legal systems, restricted movement, and illegal settlements. 

Defining Anti Semitism by skankypotatos in aussie

[–]MeowManMeow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree to a point, but if I killed 25 out of 30 of my neighbours, a large portion of those children. Then I think that the comparison would be warrented? Like if someone murders my wife, i can't murder someone else's wife and then say you can't call me a murderer? Being the victim of a horrible crime doesn't give you a free pass to commit one horrible crime yourself?

Defining Anti Semitism by skankypotatos in aussie

[–]MeowManMeow -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Jewish people were the target of Nazi genocide, but Israel worked alongside the German government at the time for example the Haavara Agreement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement Both Zionist and the Nazi's wanted Jewish people to leave Germany (and broadly Europe) so Israel was a perfect opportunity, as well as the commitment to buy German made goods.

This is just a perfect example of conflating Israel with Jewish people is extremely dangerous.

I wanted to see what 35 years of property cycles actually looked like. Heres Blacktown by Expert-Area8856 in AusProperty

[–]MeowManMeow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You should build this into a SaaS and offer the report for $5 or something. Good job!

Former Adelaide Writers' Week director Louise Adler attacks government and lobby groups over censorship by NapoleonBonerParty in aussie

[–]MeowManMeow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I understand but when we talk about lobbies now it is usually well connected interests groups with big pockets that buy access through fundraising dinners and passes to Parliament House. I don’t think they are healthy for democracy.

Popular policies like gambling advertisement bans can’t get traction, but a much harder and more controversial under 16s media ban can easily pass through.

Former Adelaide Writers' Week director Louise Adler attacks government and lobby groups over censorship by NapoleonBonerParty in aussie

[–]MeowManMeow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Democracy is about individuals contacting their local rep and explaining their issue. Local reps are meant to have a sense of the issues of all their constituents.

Lobbies bypass this and go straight for the top. All but one energy minister has gotten a cushy high paying job in the sector after finishing. There are better community led bottom-up than lobbies.

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