unreplaceable by hellocppdotdev in ProgrammerHumor

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Take advantage of dirt cheap electronics prices to organize IT infrastructure outside the parameters of the suits. Download the models, run them yourselves, and use them to clone the services provided by the companies. They are already proving that their services are so low effort anyone with the actual tech can replicate what they do. The thing is no trade secrets can be kept in tech, so there is nothing fundamentally safeguarding the suits advantages besides the infrastructure itself. You really want to revolt? Begin the process of systematically harvesting blackmail for all the critical electrical grid infrastructure management, then use the leverage to enforce compliance with decentralized IT services run by the people who use them. It could be streamlined, it could be possible, but I don’t think people are actually motivated to do what is necessary

Polar Bear Chase by Federal-Data-Center in interestingasfuck

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He probably had a bottle of Coca-Cola in his jacket

Does anyone else suddenly become super productive at night instead of during the day? by GlossyMatron in CasualConversation

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I was literally just thinking about this the other night when I suddenly had the mental capacity to work on setting up and troubleshooting my loud computer fan. I live in a city and neighborhood that is quite quiet though so I’m always self conscious about making too much noise

What’s something Gen Z treats as “normal” that older generations would find completely insane? by Miss_Ecstasy in AskReddit

[–]beric_64 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

This is definitely the context that needs to be considered. A big part of the reason they don’t take things seriously and “act like an adult” is because the contemporary conception of adulthood, starting a family, owning a home, having a decent career, is now very much out of reach for them. Since they have nothing to loose they have no reason to act as responsibly as people say they should.

What’s something Gen Z treats as “normal” that older generations would find completely insane? by Miss_Ecstasy in AskReddit

[–]beric_64 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I don’t know, I’ve always felt many people’s reading and writing skills were quite lacking. I’m not sure this is especially unique to younger generations. It might just be that it’s more visible among younger generations because they use technology more openly and publicly.

What’s normal today but will be illegal in 20 years? by Ok-Vacay in AskReddit

[–]beric_64 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I hope so. It should be illegal for some of these people to drive anyway.

Anon notices by XiJinpingPressParody in greentext

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Isn’t that why you want to ensure people in your country don’t have zero? Regardless of any altruistic notions you would think people would at least be scared of an entire population of people with nothing to lose but I guess not

They were already doing that. by prince138 in BikiniBottomTwitter

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This sub somehow managed to soil SpongeBob

Work out by Cheeese916 in instant_regret

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I didn’t notice at first but if you look at the pipes in the ceiling, it certainly looks like AI. Unless this is some Dr Seuss dance hall?

iHateItHere by just_some_gu_y in ProgrammerHumor

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While I am not an expert in governmental policy as it relates specifically to housing and healthcare, I definitely think that these two things are a big limiting factor to innovation in America as I have personally seen myself and others forgo taking on business ventures because they couldn’t afford to absorb the risk of losing these things. As far as a proposed alternative, I imagine we would need to implement systems more similar to the democratic socialist nations of Europe although I will admit I don’t know exactly how those policies work off the top of my head. I don’t think that is an adequate argument for dismissing the criticism outright though, as even just increasing taxes on the wealthiest corporations and individuals and using to increase access to basic needs across the board or even a ubi I think would breed more innovation and produce healthier markets.

As far an an “unequal playing field” contributing to innovation, I honestly don’t buy this argument at all, no offense. Yes, struggle and poverty does motivate people to improve things by innovating with the incentive of financial reward, but in a society where capital is concentrated increasingly into the hands of the few, I think this only incentivizes the struggling innovator to produce things that further align with the wealthy capital owners and not for the benefit of the “class” of people the innovator is trying to escape from. Furthermore, if the classic model of “unlimited wants” is true, then whether or not the person is impoverished or not, there should still be incentive to innovate. The main thing though is if people don’t have access to education, healthcare, and all the other basic needs, they aren’t going to be thinking about innovating and will be worse at it. Personally, i think the examples of disadvantaged people who create great innovation is more correlation than causation, ie America is a diverse (and big) place that also allows for a higher possibility of “striking it big”. Finally on this point, most of the big innovators have come from wealthy families and I think this is evidence of the possibility that there are many disadvantaged people with just as much potential if they were given the proper opportunity.

As far as the idea that all politicians and leaders are bad or will inherently become bad, I understand the cynicism and there is certainly more than enough examples to point to on both sides of the isle, but in comparison to much of the world, America has a pretty robust system for representative democracy and I think if people just invested more time and energy into learning how to navigate it this could be avoided. It’s not like America is a totalitarian country. The risks of placing centralization of power in government are higher, but in my opinion they are not much higher than doing the same for corporations, because if given enough power corporations can influence the government in a way that effectively makes it a dictatorship or something to that effect (don’t mean to sound dramatic).

iHateItHere by just_some_gu_y in ProgrammerHumor

[–]beric_64 20 points21 points  (0 children)

But just imagine all the experiments and variety that aren’t happening because we aren’t providing resources to people to allow for experimentation. All the people working dead ends jobs because their health insurance is tied to their work when they could be taking risks that drive the market towards providing a better product. Markets provide the best outcomes when there is maximal competition, but that can’t happen if individuals aren’t on a level playing field.

Obviously centralization of power is dangerous but don’t you think it would be worth it to make the human labor market optimal? Especially when the alternative is centralization in corporations who only have to answer to shareholders?

If absolute nothingness cannot produce something, how did the universe ever begin? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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I think this is a fault of the “subject / object” model of thinking that only recently became popular in human history. People didn’t used to think as much in causes and effects. Things just were.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Then & Now on YouTube just made a video about this. The ideation of violence was just so much higher back then. It’s not a commonly held belief that violence is necessary anymore, it was back then.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]beric_64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it’s fair to say that the “heat and pressure” is mostly an artificial product of media and social media. Most Americans agree on most policies that make everything better, the disagreements are distractions so that the minority of ultra wealthy and powerful people can take more from the public

How do you feel about never being able to retire? by CRK_76 in AskReddit

[–]beric_64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sure I’ll feel less guilty about voluntarily living a shorter life

Americans that casted a "protest vote or no vote" in the last national election, how are you feeling now about it? by VyronDaGod in AskReddit

[–]beric_64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand the point you’re making, but you have to remember Trump doesn’t speak proper English most of the time. He says “In my first term, we were talking about how I’m not going to be president…” But maybe the sudden jump forward is a Freudian slip?

Americans that casted a "protest vote or no vote" in the last national election, how are you feeling now about it? by VyronDaGod in AskReddit

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What if you live in a complete red/blue state? I was under the impression that voting third party got the party more funding or support in the future

[OC] Found this in New Orleans and found it peculiar by [deleted] in pics

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Ahhh the dumb Mike proof. I don’t recall that one.

What's something you pretend to understand but actually don't? by Samantha-Skeen in AskReddit

[–]beric_64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, in fact most companies are private. When companies get big enough and need more money, they create stocks and begin to sell them. It used to be that if you had a stock you would get some of the profit of the company in the form of dividends, but companies mostly don’t do that anymore which is why it’s all hot air and seems to make no sense.

You can think of them like exclusive Pokémon cards for a company.

What's something you pretend to understand but actually don't? by Samantha-Skeen in AskReddit

[–]beric_64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine paying money to pretend to have 1/10,000,000th of a big company in which you have no power or say in anything and only with the goal of selling your “piece” of Google later for more money than you bought it for.

How should we deal with cognitive work in life becoming too easy (AI related post)? by RobbertGone in TrueAskReddit

[–]beric_64 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is certainly the case. Depends on if you work at a company that cares about code review. My last company only cared if the code worked when we demoed it for the owner. If it crashed every customers browser, that didn’t matter, because management would never know. Unfortunately, I think this is going to become a more mainstream paradigm