This is the way

Oh come on what is this argument, other than a gross generalisation?

The THTR-300 served as a prototype high-temperature reactor

This was one prototype reactor, which by the looks of it may have been managed by some incompetent people. Concluding from this that nuclear power is inherently unsafe, is like saying air travel is unsafe, because the 737 MAX fell out of the sky a few times.

“Be ruthless to systems, and kind to individuals” ~ Michael Brooks

Developers have high workloads and managers are remarkably oblivious to sloppy work.

Ava the AI BDR

Deleted your client’s entire database because someone told them to as a joke (in an unrelated post on StackOverflow 11 years ago).

But think of the short-term shareholder value! Have you no decency?

Yeah in all the libraries I’ve been to the standard policy is usually no food, no drinks except water. Maybe it’s the soda lobby which wouldn’t tolerate discrimination between water and soda?

My guess is they’ll ship them off to Israel as soon as consequences are a real possibility. People accused of pedophilia often do the same thing and get away with it.

Can’t wait for the day Satya Nadella gets fired, hopefully it will happen when the AI bubble bursts

Now that’s class solidarity!

That rate of exploitation is pretty wild though, $2/hr while earning hundreds for the employer. Most capitalists begin uncontrollably salivating just thinking about that.

This is a power thing though, the closest we have/had in terms of rate of exploitation was silicon valley software engineers. They got basically free everything to distract them from how much they were being exploited. If working circumstances were worse, they would have demanded higher pay or quit, because they could afford to.

As the article notes, in the Philippines that is not the power dynamic at all. These are already among the highest paying jobs, and I doubt these workers are in a position to bargain for better. There are too many people willing to take their job, either in their own country, or in other impoverished countries.

The police works in part at the behest of that senator, he deserves all of the blame.

Yes, and he’s such a great communicator as well. In those few paragraphs he packs arguments to convince people ranging from idealist liberals to cynical leftists.

Yes, 100%, the Democrats should have been taking turns disrupting until thrown out. Fuck respect for these institutions, it’s not like the Republicans are showing them any respect for institutions, with their executive branch constantly breaking laws.

But they earned that money. /s

Given she freely admitted to shooting a puppy, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was her.

Nuclear waste is a problem for the most like any other. Given enough investment it can be solved, and no I’m not talking about finding better ways to store it. China has made major advances in this regard, their newest reactors generate waste that is much less long-lived (hundreds rather than tens of thousands of years), and they can reduce the volume of that waste through recycling.

I’m not saying nuclear waste is not a hard problem to solve, it is and we must be careful as a society to make sure it is managed well. In the meantime, we have a climate catastrophe which is much more pressing. Coal plants, which provide base-load electricity, are a prime target for conversion to nuclear, because their steam turbines can be reused. This could decarbonize a large part of the electricity mix of many countries.

Nah, just a TI-84 and teach them programming in BASIC

But then how are the Dems’ big tech donors going to run grocery stores out of even more business?

But it can be sold as good enough to credulous management, thereby still doing damage by getting people laid off in the short term.

There’s this famous quote about investing which goes: “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”. I think that equally holds for the labor market. Just because you and everyone around you knows your job can’t be replaced by AI, doesn’t mean there won’t be an attempt to replace you which lasts long enough for you to lose your house.