grungydan (u/grungydan)

grungydan commented on America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1 semianalysis.com/2025/03/... · Posted by u/lasermatts

chii · a year ago

> simply providing easy immigration for qualified tech workers.

I dont believe those tech workers would wish to move, unless the political system in china changes to one that is more amenable to democracy; not to mention that having high salaries in the US, it will be impossible to achieve similar levels in china after migration (even if the PPP remains the same!).

grungydan · a year ago

Because our so-called "democracy" is working so very well in contrast?

grungydan commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri

sleepyguy · a year ago

It was as if they invited him to the Whitehouse to set him up for a lecture and scolding. They had no intention of anything other than humiliating him in front of the world. It's shameful what our administration has done.

grungydan · a year ago

So it was just like literally everything else this administration is doing. Shocking.

grungydan commented on ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER) hardmodefirst.xyz/chatgpt... · Posted by u/bethanymarz

piyuv · a year ago

This is more of a failure of the healthcare system rather than a win/success of LLMs.

grungydan · a year ago

Most astute comment so far.

grungydan commented on ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER) hardmodefirst.xyz/chatgpt... · Posted by u/bethanymarz

grungydan · a year ago

“Really?” One finally said, with emphasis. Then, a nod. “That’s actually pretty amazing. Good on you. That’s exactly what we want AI to do—help people catch things early.”

Today, on "that totally happened."

grungydan commented on ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER) hardmodefirst.xyz/chatgpt... · Posted by u/bethanymarz

grungydan · a year ago

“Really?” One finally said, with emphasis. Then, a nod. “That’s actually pretty amazing. Good on you. That’s exactly what we want AI to do—help people catch things early.”

Today on "that totally happened."

grungydan commented on Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users cnbc.com/2024/02/22/cellu... · Posted by u/rooooob

ejb999 · 2 years ago

What is your solution? Let the government run all internet infrastructure?

Maybe we should let the federal government run it, like it does the Social Security Administration - which btw, shuts down its website for 4 hours every weekday night and even longer on the weekends.

** They shut down a freaking website for almost 40 hours a week ** because they don't have the technology or skills to keep it running 24/7...in 2024.

No thanks, the reason that this is even in the news is because widespread outages are so rare.

grungydan · 2 years ago

Did you miss or just ignore where I agree with you that our government is a massive joke? That doesn't mean that I don't want a real, functional government that operates for the good of its citizenry, or that we don't live in a corporate dystopia where we get charged every last cent they can get away with and barely provide their purported services. You're acting like these networks are otherwise as reliable as they say, provide the advertised speeds, and that these companies aren't doing the bare ass minimum possible to maximize their already egregious profits while paying their employees crap like every other company.

grungydan commented on Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users cnbc.com/2024/02/22/cellu... · Posted by u/rooooob

softwaredoug · 2 years ago

I'm just curious how we as a society manage the uptime of such a critical service? Do we have laws or enforcement in place to regulate / enforce how well basic cellular service (at least the emergency tier) must work in the US?

Just imagining the dropped emergency calls today, etc?

(Genuine question)

grungydan · 2 years ago

> laws or enforcement

No no no, see, we have those. But we only use them to make sure that our for-profit prison complex stays massively profitable and the people in power retain that power.

grungydan commented on Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users cnbc.com/2024/02/22/cellu... · Posted by u/rooooob

grungydan · 2 years ago

Isn't it wonderful that we allow almost entirely unregulated monopolies that have no actual obligation to provide the service for which they take your money?

Telecoms, airlines, insurance scam..ahem companies...

Must be nice. I wonder if I could just stop showing up to my job and keep collecting my check. No? Why not? We allow the entities that write our laws and have politicians rubber stamp them to do it. Seems a mite unfair.

grungydan commented on Boeing Disaster Proves Americans Businesses Greedy Mentality Is Broken businessinsider.com/boein... · Posted by u/j1elo

hyperhello · 2 years ago

“It's not Americans I find annoying; it's Americanism: a social disease of the postindustrial world that must inevitably infect each of the mercantile nations in turn, and is called 'American' only because your nation is the most advanced case of the malady, much as one speaks of Spanish flu, or Japanese Type-B encephalitis. It's symptoms are a loss of work ethic, a shrinking of inner resources, and a constant need for external stimulation, followed by spiritual decay and moral narcosis. You can recognize the victim by his constant efforts to get in touch with himself, to believe his spiritual feebleness is an interesting psychological warp, to construe his fleeing from responsibility as evidence that he and his life are uniquely open to new experiences. In the later stages, the sufferer is reduced to seeking that most trivial of human activities: fun.”

― Trevanian, Shibumi

grungydan · 2 years ago

What useless, self-important horse manure.