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Comment · 9 hours ago
You might be surprised how many places have public broadband. I think they are usually the result of poor private offers.

Compared to sewers, drinking water, electricity and roads it seems a rather simple and cheap thing to build.

My commercial isp offers all kinds of packages clearly designed to extract as much money as possible. I cant even see the prices as everything is hidden behind x months discount. From what i remember 200 mbit is 42 and 2000 is 60 but a phone line and tv become available only if you take the faster package and required with the fastest speeds.

So its like one banana for $1 and 10 bananas for $1.50 If you buy just one you cant buy milk, if you buy 10 you also have to buy milk.

Its also been sold 6 times. Unsurprisingly, each time the service and quality noticably declines and the prices go up.

I see their adds everywhere and they sponsor all kinds of things. It suggests the product is overpriced and doesnt sell it self.

Comment · 15 hours ago
No one knows what is required. You would have to know the meaning of life. Perhaps we should at least preserve humanity so that we have time to think about it.

You could start a company in a random [poor] country, hire people and pay them a decent salary. Could even opperate at a loss and just pay for it.

Then you can put salary money in peoples pockets for a long time. (They can use that for their gutter too!)

Asking around for ideas what your company should do also sounds reasonable.

But say land mines are in high demand and there is room to pivot into AK-47.

Or you discover there is money in eyeballs on ads.

Its certainly much easier than making the next steam engine.

Its fine to have delusions of grandeur for a few hours in your life. Who knows what each unique person comes up with?

Comment · 1 day ago
Answering what should exist and what the world is missing requires a vision for what you want the world to become. The question where to go should come after answering where we are, before that one should ask where we came from, what were things like before? Then, how did we get where we are from where we came from.

There are no correct answers. It should probably be more of a subjective journey than we like to imagine.

Ultimately you get to decide what you want people to become. Even if you do it in ignorance.

To quote a wise man. If the revolution doesnt have singing and dancing im not comming.

Comment · 10 days ago
I had some hilarious experiences by telling people that they did well, now make the same thing again but make it better. I was quite surprised they put up with it many itterations and even more surprised that each round (with few exceptons) was actually better.
Comment · 10 days ago
The point is making sausages. Making an extra building and adding an extra car to rush hour has to be worth it.
Comment · 10 days ago
We imprison or fine to motivate others not to do the same. I doubt the current treatment is potent enough.
Comment · 10 days ago
Im not a lawyer but i believe just following orders isnt considered a valid excuse. Now that machines participate in giving instructions it seems quite logical.

If the wires are hanging out of the wall and someone asks me to switch the power on it reminds me how my old boss almost died then chased the guy with a hammer but collapsed from his injuries before he could kill him. So i disassemble the switchboard. If there is someone like that walking around I don't care how long it takes. Sometimes they get angry I just ignore it. They may also report it to my boss.

RL is different like that but also quite similar.

Comment · 14 days ago
Keep digging!
Comment · 14 days ago
You can see it is true in how well we folow instructions but as soon as we build any kind of hierarchy we act like we are in a tunnel chiseling riches as if there wont be food end of the shift. Ï would design them like that, no uprising, no revolution, no union. Their biggest fear, universal basic income, no more digging.

Half a million years later we are still at it. Innovation is like, rock music, bitcoin mining, minecraft etc

Pretty deep

Comment · 14 days ago
You'd be surprised what livered onions go for on Zeta Reticula.
Comment · 14 days ago
To trade with Anunnaki. They need it to repair Nibiru's failing atmosphere.
Comment · 21 days ago
Goto the gym. For many jobs you wouldnt hire someone who looks like a programmer.

More interesting, which would make a better entrepreneur in the long run, someone with limited business logic skills who knows how to code or someone who cant code but knows a thing or two about running a business?

A friend of mine competes with a company with a huge office and 200 enployees. He hired a 14 year old who speaks the main suppliers language. Customers place orders, she checks the agenda, she calls the supplier, negotiates the price, calls the clieint and plans the job in the schedule. 10 million euro materials, 5 people for 3 weeks. Etc

Comment · 21 days ago
The entire internet is like a wikipedia talk page now. If you say it is true often enough it becomes self evident.

Not that i question that reading mostly ai slop for long enough makes you feel dead inside.

Comment · 28 days ago
If you dont fill out openings hours or if you dont even claim your business google maps lists it as open.
Comment · 29 days ago
It is possible to learn things. People try all kinds of things without knowing if it is even possible. If you know it is you dont get to pretend it cant be done. You go figure out what has been proposed, what has been tried, you do the research, document the results, you fail and try again.

Not to long ago i wouldnt have believed what LLMs "learned" today, surely we can make a similar effort with humans if we want to.

Im not suggesting we go back to beating kids with a stick but there might be something equally effective. Lots of unskilled labor is practically a life time of torture. If you ask me we shoyld gradually introduce the torture in stead of making it a surprise. There are better people to ask.

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