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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

and Trump would just... "your beer? Haven't seen it. There's just MY two glasses of beer here. A great beer, the greatest. My uncle invented beer, Fred Budweiser Trump. Great IQ, very good genes!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

like sending Vance literally following her around?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

laugh all you want, but YOU are next, former Twitter users who refused to pay for their blue badge and had the gall to move to Mastodon or others!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yes, that was all completely wrong. If Trump had been the one on top of the building and had fallen down (maybe accidentally hitting a stray bullet on his way down)... now THAT would have been closer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think they don't matter with outrage, because outrage explodes in ways that are hard to predict. I mean, I can see the problem with the ad now that it has been pointed out to me. After reading about it repeatedly, I now find it bad and ridiculous and what were they thinking? But at a first look, as a test audience I would have probably rated it as "meh, ok".

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago (13 children)

It is about fragility, like others said, but It is also about uniqueness, in the sense of "oh, so you think you're soo special!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
  • they said they are coming to get us, Ilya
  • let's hope they do, Piotr... I'm so tired of this! What do we have today, by the way? Insults, death threats or stupid memes?
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

to be fair, he did turn orange

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"illegal" is overrated, anyway. Trump did a ton of illegal stuff and yet, here we are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

ah I get what you're saying., thanks! "Good" means that what the machine outputs should be statistically similar (based on comparing billions of parameters) to the provided training data, so if the training data gradually gains more examples of e.g. noses being attached to the wrong side of the head, the model also grows more likely to generate similar output.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I think you just found a good example to prove his point, though?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

AKA "shit, looks like now we need to re-hire some of those engineers"

 

I have posted this on Reddit (askeconomics) a while back but got no good replies. Copying it here because I don't want to send traffic to Reddit.

What do you think?

I see a big push to take employees back to the office. I personally don't mind either working remote or in the office, but I think big companies tend to think rationally in terms of cost/benefit and I haven't seen a convincing explanation yet of why they are so keen to have everyone back.

If remote work was just as productive as in-person, a remote-only company could use it to be more efficient than their work-in-office competitors, so I assume there's no conclusive evidence that this is the case. But I haven't seen conclusive evidence of the contrary either, and I think employers would have good reason to trumpet any findings at least internally to their employees ("we've seen KPI so-and-so drop with everyone working from home" or "project X was severely delayed by lack of in-person coordination" wouldn't make everyone happy to return in presence, but at least it would make a good argument for a manager to explain to their team)

Instead, all I keep hearing is inspirational wish-wash like "we value the power of working together". Which is fine, but why are we valuing it more than the cost of office space?

On the side of employees, I often see arguments like "these companies made a big investment in offices and now they don't want to look stupid by leaving them empty". But all these large companies have spent billions to acquire smaller companies/products and dropped them without a second thought. I can't believe the same companies would now be so sentimentally attached to office buildings if it made any economic sense to close them.

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