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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
networking is important for sure, but i think software more than most other industries (say, finance) has a much lower barrier of entry for an individual with no/low resources.
a data point for your second paragraph: i play D&D weekly with a woman that got hired at google straight out of high school and worked there for 10 years.
Comment · 1 year ago
well for one they're targeting ukrainian soldiers..
Comment · 1 year ago
the idea that propaganda doesn't work is certainly an interesting one.
Comment · 1 year ago
the authors of this paper[0] were able to use AI to figure out if a block of text was written by AI, so hopefully this becomes a tool available to educators very soon.
Comment · 2 years ago
> It was not part of his economic agenda at all.
Then why did he make the IRS reprint COVID relief checks so he could add his name to them?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/inside-the-disaster-trumps-si...
Comment · 2 years ago
Well, it wasn't biden that posted record profits was it? It was the grocery stores.
> And the record profits Professor Weber mentions? Groundwork Collaborative recently found that corporate profits accounted for 53% of 2023 inflation. EPI likewise concluded that over 51% of the drastically higher inflationary pressures of 2020 and 2021 were also direct results of profits. The Kansas City Federal Reserve even pegged this around 40%, indicating that sellers’ inflation is now a pretty mainstream idea.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2024/02/07/why-y...
Look at this picture:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxfam-us/www/static/media/files/Beh...
Then this one:
https://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/0.1-v.png
The green line is the top 0.01%, the red line is the average american.
Comment · 2 years ago
if you aren't considering the fact that your data is what enabled these companies to become such massive giants in the first place, you may be living outside of the EU.
Comment · 2 years ago
> allowing smaller brands to compete
to name a few: LISEN, Qifutan, Loncaster, YKYI, Holikme and SXhyf. And who could forget VWMYQ?
Comment · 2 years ago
This is incredibly enlightening. Thank you.
Comment · 2 years ago
have seen this at many house parties. The young people gravitate towards the noise while the older ones clump up around the periphery
Comment · 2 years ago
There are a number of valid criticisms about IBM
Comment · 2 years ago
our current economic model kind of depends on the idea that we can always disrupt the status quo with american free market ingenuity once it begins to stagnate but maybe we have reached the limits of what friedman's system can do or accounted for.
Comment · 2 years ago
this kind of stuff + VR in the next 5 years is going to result in some really interesting stuff.
where is DOGE when you actually need them?