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Oh, the invisible hand is definitely there. Though, it's just slipping into your back pocket and lifting your wallet.



Corporations that pay employees below subsistence levels are indirectly bailed out by food stamps programs. I wouldn't depend on them for moral anything.


>Corporations that pay employees below subsistence levels are indirectly bailed out by food stamps programs

I never understood this argument. How are the corporations being "bailed out" in this case? The employees need sustenance regardless of whether they're employed or not. If anyone is getting "bailed out" it's the food stamp programs, because the programs are means tested and receiving income from employment reduces the amount of funds that need to be handed out.


Food stamps are a handout to Ag, not Walmart.


From an organizational standpoint its better because it lets a sysadmin/security person sandbox anything and everything instead of having to become proficient with the tooling for every different language (which may not even exist).


I think the key to being happy as an introvert is not depending on the approval and adoration of others for your accomplishments. If you do, you're going to be bitter and toxic over not getting it when you feel you should.


For sure. I bet the guy wouldn't care if he knew they were dismissing him behind his back. But still, it made me angry because there's this whole "networking" culture down here, and it's all very superfluous and scammy.


Perhaps it's the combination of AI being so overhyped in the general public plus media that's already inundated with CGI, that it just doesn't blow them away?


Best one I've encountered is: "Customers whose accounts are up for renewal, are the ones most at risk of churning"


One insight we found (with just a calculator) is that 85% of our customers that say they will leave, will stop beign our customers.

Sometimes you don't need a huge machine learning model. Just ask the customer, record answer, and outcome.


If you need big data, the thing you are looking for is small and the effect size of what you are optimizing will also be small.


Very well put.


Just reading certain code is enough to taint a human programmer though. Some companies have policies against hiring developers with experience on some OSS projects because they have their own clean room implementation they want to protect.


> Some companies have policies against hiring developers with experience on some OSS projects

Can you please elaborate on this?


They're basically following this process to build their products: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design


Season 1 of halt and catch fire


Right. I don't see any way this is legal.


Never heard of single one. I bet you just invented it.


Just need to reword it a bit, "This Disney character doesn't exist" can also be "This is not a Disney character (because it doesn't exist)". Sums up the assertion being made well too. Not a Disney character. Except their lawyers may disagree.


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