just_change_it @ just_change_it @lemmy.world

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Jesus christ these headlines mislead everything.

They were using machine learning to try and figure out what people were buying. Machine learning has lots of errors until you train it. The "hundreds of workers" were training it by telling it what each thing was. E.g. it was creating training data for it to learn from.

The goal was to train ML enough so that humans were rarely necessary, obviously.

Innovation is part of the executive buzzword bingo board for all announcements.

It doesn't actually mean anything to these people. The only thing that has weight is what will enrich the wealth of the ownership class (shareholders.)

why the hell that level of inefficiency was tolerated.

Patents, e.g. legal monopolies.

Maybe fines and penalties for undercutting someone who holds a patent should be scrapped for nonprofit manufacturers of generics.

Maybe profit should come second to the betterment of humanity.

It's a truly bizarre single issue to focus on considering how high impact it is to the masses and how it presumably isn't enabling them to make more money or solidify control.

If they just brought in a couple of populist policies that made the masses happy they probably would have majority control indefinitely on a platform of hate against the minority.

MURICA

Slow your roll captain conspiracy. That sounds like lunacy.

It's way more likely that illegal aliens transported this ship under the cover of night to cover up the melting of the steel beams by jet fuel. They don't just crumple like that on their own after all. We've known all along these cargo containers are hollow on the inside.

If you think biscuit is bad... you should try pan.

I've tried explaining the various English denominations of various bread items to Spanish speaking people and it's just not easy. Roll, bun, loaf, baguette, brioche, pita, ciabatta, soda bread, brown bread, rye... it's all just pan.

I've gotta ask... how? why?

I think I would have broken down in your shoes. I'm curious how someone gets into a situation like that or even survives it, if you're willing to talk about it.

• 7-4 job (eg. 8 hours * 5 days = 40 hours)
• 4-12 (3 days a week = 24 more hours)
• 18 hour weekends (2 days = 36 more hours)

100 hours of work per week. Maybe 92 hours on the two night weeks. I think i'd have a heart attack within 3 months. I don't know how someone would do laundry, prepare meals, clean dishes, do grocery shopping or honestly do anything.

How's that scheduling work? You doing a day per job or something? 4 hours per job at multiple sites per day?

I've seen people do two jobs in their youth but it's very, very rare someone has more than a full time gig + part time weekends and maybe a night here and there.

I know professional workers who moonlight as teachers at local community college for a course some semesters, and then do a day a weekend at the rock climbing gym to stay in shape and help others share the joy of their hobby as an example. I guess you could do some uber or whatever on top of that but I don't consider that to be a job given the context.

The answer is probably very simple. He probably has enough assets to pledge them as collateral for a loan, but he doesn’t want to. He wants other people to pay instead. That’s how he always works and why no one in NYC will do business with him.

Pretty much.. why pay anything at all if you can get somebody else to do it.

He doesn't want to pay for it. He doesn't want to pay the loan fees. The rich have always factually been above the law and in this case there seems to be more than a few people who are willing to go along with just giving the guy stacks of cash. Even if someone offered him the full amount i'm guessing he would keep soliciting for donations for it to see what he could get out of it.

It's business fraud 101 and he's a master of it. He wouldn't be where he was if he was stupid.

He's also trying to sway public opinion to be on his side, it props up his campaign and is on message of being politically persecuted whether or not it's true. It's on message with the republican party's "the democrats are the enemy" unification strategy too. If the judge backs down and asks for less or maybe even nothing at all then suddenly he's off scot free until the appeal is done. Odds are the appeal would not increase the fines either.

A room is basically ~1k/mo here if you're renting with roommates, maybe up to 1500 if the place is really nice. 1800 for a studio, give or take.

Entry level roles are usually 60kish+ but everybody hits 100k very quickly in any kind of white collar gig. With the pharma industry being here a huge portion of roles in greater Boston are pharma or pharma adjacent with 200k-400k salaries(+bonus/options) which drive up the cost of housing like crazy. Plus some finance and legal too. There's a few ad agencies, plenty of healthcare companies and some world class hospitals. Plus a significant amount of highly desirable colleges that lure in the rich foreign exchange students. It makes for a really expensive housing situation unfortunately.

Consequences are for the poor and unpopular. The legal system is just there to protect the wealthy owners, it's not there to deliver justice.

Nothing is ever black and white. This is just a stalling tactic or another attempt to reduce the penalty or mitigate the situation until he's past voting time.

If he wins he'll just wheel and deal to get others to pay for favors. He's not banking on losing.

Wife refuses.

You're calculating it based on take home pay or something? because 1/3rd of 700,000 / 12 = $19,250/mo

Household income is about 230k. Mortgage comes out to less than 50% of take home pay. 230k/12 = 19166/mo (gross) 4500 is 23% of gross income.

Afaik every couple around here by 30 with professional experience and a degree is making over 200k (so 100k per person.) I've seen IT support roles for 100k+ (example from the highest paying company i've ever seen, liberty mutual insurance: https://searchjobs.libertymutualgroup.com/careers?location=Boston%2C%20Massachusetts%2C%20United%20States&department=Technology&pid=618496295577&domain=libertymutual.com&sort_by=relevance )

Greater boston area, not inside boston. Malden/Medford/Everett/Chelsea area. Everett and Chelsea are NOT desirable.

The smallest of places are 650k+ here for 2br minimum. You can find 1br condos for 500-600k sometimes.

We're talking about 20-100yo+ homes. Not new construction. There's no "luxury" involved. No yard or acreage. Often no parking included.

lol i'm looking at paying ~4500/mo for a 3br 2ba ~1300sqft.

It really bothers them if others don't work harder than they do for less pay.

yay, another article that uses the term "slammed"

It's just more war on innovation to keep the status quo. The farmers grow the crops with government subsidy to feed the cattle to sell the beef to restaurants to fatten more people up and further prop up private healthcare and pharma subscription treatments (wegovy anyone?)

Heaven forbid anything change. It's important that big farm gets their subsidies and that americans use animal suffering for their profit because that's the way it's always been.

Water is wet and this is just beating a dead horse. I've seen this same topic covered again and again and again.

Isn't there anything more relevant to talk about? isn't this supposed to be an election year?