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Vegas64

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  1. I think the argument is that for some of these aggrieved white males, sure, they are lost to the other side making promisses, etc. But there are some who can be reasoned with and who can come around from the initial bloody nose with a little empathy and pep talk, who can be saved from the dark side. You seem to think there is not a messy middle ground where perhaps slighted people can feel safe in calling out a wound, maybe feeling sorry for themselves for a minute or two, but then taking a step back and weighing everything out on the balance and making a decision to move forward as non (or less) aggrieved. You seem to think all these white guys who carp about the changes they are facing are either all lost causes or actually have no right to those feelings. At least that's what it seems like based on your responses.
  2. That was unintentionally funny, too, but the main call out there was showing the author, in his own words, is trying to say he and his ilk are still liberals.
  3. I think the argument is, much like it does in your whole professional career, it helps people to get onboard with the new reality. Whereas if you were to take a more antagonstic tone of the just deal with it and glossing over the personal impact with a lack of implied care or empathy, it invites conflict. The point is to minimize conflict.
  4. Reminds me so much of this lol Preach.
  5. Have you never had to deliver tought news to someone, a child, an employee, a player, that was coming from above you? Maybe you didn't completely agree with it or maybe you could see from their perspective how it wasn't fair and there was some tough breaks and bad news, but that decisions and strategy was set and the direction was final? I think that's the posture he's saying to take. Acknowledge/address that the situation sucks for them and have some empathy but, like, there's not a lot we can do about it and it ain't going back the way it was. We can take 15 minutes to mourn it but we have to move on and build a bridge and get over it. Or as Bezos famously said, "disagree and commit".
  6. https://thisecommercelife.com/blogs/comics/the-story-of-ai
  7. Back to AI and the bubble, read this and though it appropriate and directionally correct:
  8. While not that extreme and I joke, but I have become definitely more progressive on certain things in my old age. Namely marijuana legalization is 100% a no-brainer and billionaires and late stage capitalism is a scourge. I'm an agrieved middle class guy who is seeing the light that we are being squeezed and wrung out. "bled of every dollar and left an empty husk" as you so eloquently stated. It's we (99%) who have the leverage and grievances. It's they (1%) who should be changing for us. Fitting that today is Festivus, I guess.
  9. Isn't this the screaming red flag of a capital K, K-shaped economy?
  10. Worse still because the team around him cannot shoot the 3 with any consistency when Max Christie and Naji Marshall go from ice in veins to ice cold.
  11. I'm morphing into a delusional progressive in my old age. Sue me!
  12. But it raises the question, when looking at wage and income and life inequality, why can we NOT use income-based or wealth-based relative pricing to help the poor and be more fair to the wealthy? It's the opposite of the day fine system in european countries where your speeding ticket is relative to your worth and ability to pay. It handicaps it to your wealth and makes it more fair. I get this is different but also has shades of the same idea but goes further in that it might actually help to subsidize good and healthy food for the poor based on the "overpay" of the "what can a banana cost, 10 dollars?" crowd.
  13. Taxation of the middle class, as it stands today, is thinly veiled theft. Leave the 98% alone. Tax the billionaires. Full stop.
  14. NOW we are getting to some interesting cocktail party conversation (and I still gag everytime this thread is bumped and I see the title "Lost Generation" and it not being a Hemingway or Post-WWII expat literary community reference).
  15. I would say they chose poorly.
  16. I've literally never used carplay. Sorry I'm an ancient human being. You'll be sad when we are gone.
  17. I think he means the human error was in accidently including it in his post at all (it must have been a fat finger situation or it was somehow copy/pasted from the phone when he posted)? Or maybe he was posting on surly and driving which would be insane to me lol
  18. Humans. AI. Nothing is 100% perfect, I guess. lol
  19. The only way I've ever heard that term previously is when people would talk about "heritage indian firms" in the context of tech consulting (e.g. Infosys or Tech Mahendra, etc.)
  20. I know you aren't asking me, but I would hazard a guess: - He works at a good law firm. - There are a TON of crappy law schools. Tier 3 and 4 level rankings nationally. - The majority of the racial/ethical minorities that make up your stat come from the law schools that accept anyone with a BA from any schools and arent generally competitive. A lot of the aforementioned are first generation college students who probably didn't go to prestige undergrad. - The recruiting of a top law firm still targets top targets (undergrads) which still over-represent white (but probably now skew more women).
  21. I get the old AI hallucinated meme but I don't understand the GPS and 4 mins to drive 1.4 miles on a route. It looks pretty basic to me.
  22. Here is something fascinating from a TIL tidbit from AI lore. The whole reason there is an AI wars at all (OpenAI, Google, Meta, Grok) and not just Google AI and a bunch of midgets, is because of Elon Musk and his infamous pettiness. Because the company he invested in (DeepMind) spurned him (and Zuck) and took less money to be bought by Google, Sam Altman and Elon spun up a company (OpenAI) to get back at the betrayal he felt by Larry Page who he thought was his homeboy up until then (and whom he accidentally made aware of when showing a Breakout video on a private plan). Elon's cache was able to poach a handful of great AI researchers from Google who up until that point had every AI expert in the world (and if you follow their coaching tree makes up every AI company we talk about today) and it's suggested that without Elon's involvement and recruiting (remember Elon in 2014/2015 was still a golden child and hadn't turned heel) Google would have ran away with it. Fascinating.
  23. Who wants to tell him? lol
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