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Comment · 19 days ago
What I struggle with is how much of this learning loss and educational inequalities was engendered by needing to keep working and having a world where 1 job is just not enough. 1 job per person is also not enough.

We are strongly underestimating the impact of the income <> time gap economically which leads to an inability to lean into these situations.

We also have ended up in a place where that pursuit of capital limits our government participation. having class on TV would have been a different result. Closed groups of home school would have had a different result. Instead even the threat assessment was pushed down to the individual re: whether to mask, whether the service you want/need is open etc.

Would it have been perfect? No. Could it have been improved, yes.

Comment · 19 days ago
Don't worry they'll run a patch just for that.
Comment · 20 days ago
What I love bout this is how closely it hews to the principles of design research. Same principles, applied deeper in the experience as LLMs make things more accessible than no code, or CMS before that.

All people creating, need to speak to other people. Loved reading this.

Comment · 4 months ago
Its happening at a global moment of chaotic behavior. When prices are soaring, information and institutions are disintermediated, jobs are hard to come by and layoffs easy, insurance is tied to your job and your kids' well being to your location -- well, most people get real quiet about stuff.

Even then I think a LOT of people are saying something but the narrative mechanism of inevitability is really strong.

Comment · 4 months ago
Six months into a new role, started getting rejections from applications nearly a year ago. It feels like not a single norm from 2019 has persisted.
Comment · 6 months ago
He's low enough that he felt he must go along with kidnapping the leader of a foreign country
Comment · 7 months ago
Not a silly question. If you go back to the 2000s, you'll see the growing militarization of local police. This is partially an economic prop-up where the military can now sell police departments materials/arms/etc. and police departments can buy them. Thus the military needs more. Nice little situation they found.

At the same time as these departments getting more funding, it feels like most departments have decided its better to use taxpayer funds to settle court cases rather than train and be more selective.

Comment · 7 months ago
Who purchases and greenlights adoption? These cycles are very long and partnering with consulting firms gets you cross industry access.

In fact, if you look at basically every major AI/LLM player you'll see a similar "alliance" or "partnership". Its a sales channel of high end referrals.

Comment · 8 months ago
The goal is the grift + outrage. If you can get both, great. If you can get just one, a very solid win. Each time something is thrown into full chaos there stands a private actor or dozens to make 7-8 figures.
Comment · 8 months ago
Literally yesterday google changed how secrets work. Its very possible to introduce change.
Comment · 8 months ago
I was with you until the end.

This is a public forum and thus nothing is ever bog standard because presumably every week new people join with varied to no experience in the ways of the corporate world. Further, much of the software ethos is about being a worker/owner, which rarely comes true and takes some time to realize is incorrect.

Comment · 9 months ago
Was it them that did that or employers freezing wages and losing R&D credits/facing tarrifs / wild instability?
Comment · 9 months ago
Your argument - esp the 'blue cities' bit given that the majority of metro(polis) cities in the US could be called blue (minus Miami, Houston, Dallas)- feels slanted.

OP your post was "if you dont like face scanning don't shop there" because shops need face scanning to stop crime.

However your next comment was that cops don't help. Here's the thing. They have a pretty terrible track record of help in any city including red ones. Have you called after having a fender bender on the highway in any state? Near a city, the answer is "no public property or third party damaged? exchange info yourself". Despite this they have been well-funded in the last few election cycles and this does not depend on the party elected.

How about when an iphone gets stolen, or all the people using airtags to track their luggage? The private sector also does a so/so to shit job of helping you. Apple will let you find your phone, but its up to you to go get it, or wipe and restart.

Tracking and storing all of my info and my face does not make the cops more effective at their jobs or prioritize this shop owner you know. Tracking and storing my info and face, doesn't help the shop keeper.

It does however, seem that all this tracking of my info results in my information getting leaked time and time and again. Meaning that I've gone for a shop and somehow the probability of something being stolen from me goes up

Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
This is happening in california. In fact there are three current situations: 1/SB9 cutting R1 lots in half 2/ ADU laws, which let you build up to 3 homes/units where there was one and further, can be combined with SB 9 3/ AB2011 which lets you turn defunct strip malls into housing

Honestly, this plus things like PermitFlow make me feel like we will be able to build enough. The issue will be making sure the housing is affordable rather than expensive and empty.

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