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  • "Google CEO decisions"

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  • Yeah that is technically true in that the law doesn'tsay that verbatim, but long term profitability is the goal since that is what is in the best interest of shareholders. The actual language is:

    1. Duty of Obedience - basically CEO needs to do what the board and bylaws dictate

    2. Duty of Information - don't mislead shareholders

    3. Duty of Loyalty - put shareholders' interests first. Meaning long term profitability

    4. Duty of Care - make business decisions with necessary forethought and planning, don't be negligent.

    This is basically interpreted as ensuring the long-term financial success of the company. Long term financial success = maximizing profit. Profit allows you to expand and make more profit. Therefore profit is the primary goal.

    Saying profitability isn't what the law dictates is sort of like "civil war wasn't about slavery, it was about states rights". To do what? Own slaves. "A public corporation's fiduciary duty to investors doesn't mandate profit-seeking, just acting in their best interests." And their best interests are....? Profitability.

    https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/fiduciary-duty-to-investors

  • Republicans now plan for taxpayers to cover Trump’s $400 million ‘privately funded’ ballroom

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  • Sooo... staged an assassination attempt to try to get public support to pay for a fucking ballroom with taxes? Incredible.

  • "Google CEO decisions"

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  • Read. I said it is a bad goal for them to have, but the system requires them to have it.

    It is a weird reaction to be surprised or indignant that a corporation would do this. It is literally their job and why the profit motive is bad.

  • "Google CEO decisions"

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  • In zero-sum games, it can be the case that short term profit is the winning choice. One example is Go.

    When AlphaGo was created and got good enough to beat world champion Go players, it did so largely by making moves that seemed to humans to be wildly aggressive and focused on small territorial positions (the game is won by surrounding territory and secondarily by capturing pieces, which reduces the opponents score). These small, highly territorial moves tend to force the human to respond locally, preventing big strategic moves, and then the AI just maintains its aggressive posture, keeping the human on defense while the AI keeps making points.

    Most humans would have ignored these small battles for territory and focused on larger, more "strategic" moves that gain regional "influence" or help create opportunities to score more points down the line. But the computer's moves were "correct" in the sense that they won games against the best players in the world.

    BUT there's a reason AplhaGo isn't allowed in tournaments, for instance. So if the goal of AlphaGo was something like "be the top rated Go player", it would have failed dramatically since it can'tplay in ranked tournaments.

    Long story short, if you're optimizing for 1 variable, like points/wins/money, it may be only logical move to focus on aggressive incremental gains that give up other strategic objectives. So, Google is optimizing for something that is clearly incorrect from the perspective of providing the best service - but likely correct from the perspective of making the most money even at the cost of the service being worse. And Google has a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to maximize profits, basically guaranteeing this type of behavior

  • it's a good thing

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  • The experience I and some other ppl I know had was like:

    Child Me: what is heaven like?

    Them: you're always happy all the time because you're near god and singing his praises forever

    Me: but wait like what about playing or doing stuff I like doing now?

    Them: well you wouldn't have a body anymore, and you'd like doing those things because you'd be in heaven then. It's like being in church forever, but you always feel happy and loved because you're with god.

    Me, disturbed: What about my friends and my parents and family?

    Them: yeah they'll be there if they were good, but they wouldn't have bodies. If they were bad theyd be tortured in hell for eternity by demons.

    Me, more disturbed: and I'd still be happy despite that?

    Them: basically, yeah

    Me, super disturbed: god sounds like a seriously bad dude and everything you've said is terrible

  • India reels under severe heatwave; 98 of world’s hottest cities recorded in country

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  • 98 of world's hottest cities

    It is 98/100 of the world's hottest cities, just fyi - not like 98 of world's 69,420 hottest cities, or something

  • GIMP rebranding as WLBR?

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  • I wonder if it's a regional thing? I've only ever heard it in movies or older TV shows. Where I live people are much more likely to just say "crippled" or describe someone as walking with a limp.

    I was confused when I saw Pulp Fiction as a kid because I was like "why is this handicapped guy in a leather suit and what does him being hadicapped have to do with his apparent hobbies" lol. But like I said, never really heard it used in other contexts.

  • GIMP rebranding as WLBR?

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  • Gimp is really just a rare/archaic ableist slur anyway - like to refer to someone with a limp or otherwise a leg/lack of a leg that impedes their gait. I've never heard it used in my life.

    The sexual usage is from gay bdsm subculture in the 70s that the large majority of ppl who are aware of it are only aware because of Pulp Fiction.

    My vote is for pimp

  • 36-year-old left the U.S. for China—now pays $1,000 rent and $100 for groceries for family of 4: It's my 'version of the American Dream’

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  • Yeah. Anywhere would basically be like this if you have enough money to retire luxuriously in that country. And anywhere you do that, poorer people will be making that lifestyle possible with their labor.

    While I don't doubt that the average urban Chinese citizen has a higher standard of living than the average urban US citizen, saying that moving to a poorer country where you are rich by comparison is "the american dream" is pretty wild when you're just taking advantage of economic disparities caused by capitalism.

    It's irresponsible to move somewhere permanently when you don't plan on really trying to integrate & instead just want to live cheaply as an expat.

  • France's Macron Urges Europe to ‘Wake Up’ Against United Front from US, Russia, and China

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  • Seems like a useful thing to say, though, regardless of who says it, right?

    As a non-european, I'd like to see european resistance to the fascist forces of the US and Russia.

  • Caffeine jitters/anxiety

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  • Tbh, cutting back was a big benefit for me.

    I was up to 4+ coffees per day. At my worst, 8+ to self medicate with that sweet, sweet dopamine (which I now get from prescription meds). I did not realize how much it was increasing my anxiety and making me agitated.

    I am back to 1 or 2 per day, not typically after noon, and it is much better. I sleep better, my baseline anxiety is lower.

  • Nah China "bad"/"authoritarian" and the DPRK is an "evil evil dictatorhsip" ~lemmy liberals

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  • I was agreeing with you

  • Nah China "bad"/"authoritarian" and the DPRK is an "evil evil dictatorhsip" ~lemmy liberals

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  • The framing and double-standard is chauvinist and bad.

    But there are reasons to be skeptical of suicide stats worldwide due to cultural ideas and norms around suicide. Like, look at the US. It was common practice for coroners to put accident as cause of death even if it was clearly suicide - and still is, to some degree. Only recently have statisticians began including certain other cases of "accidental" death as suicide (some single car crashes, gun "accidents", ODs, etc).

    And different countries have different methods for reporting out on suicide. It's not founded to say countries are intentionally skewing suicide stats, but it would be constructive to be skeptical about how those figures were arrived at before believing memes without citations.

  • Anthropic nuked a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks — support via Google Form is the only recourse for vague usage policy violation

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  • Disliking AI is fine and good. But that is a really dumb argument.

    "60 employees who can't be productive without the internet? And this is progress?"

    "60 employees who can't be productive without computers? And this is progress?"

    "60 scribes who can't be productive without clay tablets? And this is progress?"

    Etc.

    Edit: LLMs/AI are going to change some things. They are going to make (shitty) coding and various automations much more accessible. They are probably not a revolutionary technology like computers/internet, but that they could be a core part of some people's workflow is absolutely not unthinkable. It has been shown that there have not, so far, been major boons to productivity on the whole, but that doesn't mean they don't have some use cases.

  • Biggest Competitor for Amazon Kindle - Kobo - has formed an official Cooperation with iFixit for repair kits & guides

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  • Kobo is pretty good. I like mine. Is it as nice and user friendly as Kindle? Probably not. Do I own it, not rent it, am not served ads, and don't have to deal with shitty DRM? Yes. Zero regrets. Got one for my sister and my wife, too. They also really like them.

  • He has risen!

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  • Came here to say this. Very confusing

  • What's the best film you've seen in the last few years? Doesn't matter when it came out

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  • That was the point, though, I think. It's a commentary on how society treats violence and mental health as individual, isolated character flaws rather than as systemic problems. Having a female & feminine character be the violent/troubled one was a brilliant choice imo because it goes against our stereotypes and further highlights this. That uncomfortable feeling you have would probably be less so if it was a character you expected to have issues like that

  • What's the best film you've seen in the last few years? Doesn't matter when it came out

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  • Hard to pick one, here are a few:

    • Triangle of Sadness

    • Challengers

    • Conclave

    • The Wrestler

    • The Drama

  • What are you cooking #001

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  • Cheddar cheese biscuits (a la red lobster) come to mind - butter, baking powder & soda, salt, garlic powder, sugar, milk would be basically all you need.

    Have that with eggs served however you want. Bonus points for eggs benedict if you can get a lemon too and some more eggs to make a hollandaise.

    $4 for flour and cheese, probably $1.50 of butter, $1 of various pantry things, ~$0.50 for a lemon, ~$0.50 of milk, $3 for a dozen eggs. ~$10.50 total. 4 servings. ~$2.13 each

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    Saved Commands/Scripts

  • Buddhism @lemmy.ml
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    How should a Buddhist react to/think about the death of a "bad" person?

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    NAS Server OS/Software Suggestions

  • Go - Weiqi - Baduk @lemmy.ml
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    Opinions on 9x9 for beginners

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    How do you use AI to train?

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    Go in Art: Guan Yu plays Go during bone surgery

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    Go in Art: Minamoto no Yorimitsu and His Retainers Defeat the Earth Spider

    ids.lib.harvard.edu /ids/view/422831064
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    The history behind the community banner and a little piece of Go lore: Sato Tadanobu Bravely Resisting Arrest

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sat%C5%8D_Tadanobu
  • Go - Weiqi - Baduk @lemmy.ml
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    What first got you interested in Go?

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    Go Problem Tree for Absolute Beginner to Double Digit Kyu (30k - 10k) - Like Duolingo for Go

    gomagic.org
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    How to Play Go - Beginner Tutorial

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    Real board Kifu-Spread on Lee Sedol's infamous "The Broken Ladder"