Herring

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by Herring 8mo ago
I'm not having this conversation. It's like creationism or anti-vaccine. You can solve this YOURSELF in 10 seconds by googling "UK austerity" or "Germany austerity" but instead you just want to argue from ignor
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by Herring 8mo ago
You won't get anywhere if your solution to climate change is widespread poverty and insecurity. In fact from what I can tell the more secure societies are more likely to push green policies (comparing Europe vs US/China). Intuitiv
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by Herring 8mo ago
Western societies are aging. If you don't take in immigrants (which is basically the government becoming the far right), you're on a timer. Your economy will slow, insecurity will rise, and the far right will surge anyway. It&#x27
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by Herring 8mo ago
Well how much have the countries aged? In that case you should expect it to go up, maybe it's still a lot less than it should be. I'm a statistician. That (first) graph is a case study in how to lie with statistics. They should te
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by Herring 8mo ago
That graph is really deceptive. Eg the Greece curve is going up (!!), which can make you think there was no austerity. Probably the GDP in the denominator shrunk faster than the govt could cut pensions.
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by Herring 8mo ago
Those three examples all implemented some kind of austerity, which reduced safety nets and increased economic insecurity. Western societies are aging. If you don't take in immigrants (which is basically the government becoming the far
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by Herring 8mo ago
Reminder that the most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance. Support for such measures (eg welfare, healthcare, unionization, redistr
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by Herring 8mo ago
Most US companies are run like tiny little fascist dictatorships, which is a great training ground for the real thing. Contrast eg Norway, where businesses operate inside of a formal 3-way agreement (Trepartssamarbeidet) between the governm
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by Herring 8mo ago
> We have no loyalty to our party. We are the party of purity testing and infighting. Or as the rest of the world calls it, “not being a criminal organization”.
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by Herring 8mo ago
> the whole system If there were democrats on that list, they’d already be in jail.
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by Herring 8mo ago
The Republican party won't change so long as they keep getting rewarded electorally. People respond to incentives, not to pleading. To put it a different way, if America wants republicans to get good at collective decision making, they
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by Herring 8mo ago
You're European? You guys shipped over all your individualist (aka antisocial) people to the US. They have no idea how to work together to build a society, can't trust each other, so all they do is hustle and pray that having mone
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by Herring 8mo ago
Yeah I'm not happy about it either. Moving to a different country, sometimes learning a different language, is hard.
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by Herring 8mo ago
Guess they'll just have to learn to vote in their interests.
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by Herring 8mo ago
Even the richest Americans face shorter lifespans than their European counterparts, study finds https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-04-02/wealth-mortality-gap In some specific cases, the mortality rates of the wealthi
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by Herring 8mo ago
+ The far right is rising there too.
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by Herring 8mo ago
The poor have nothing to lose. It's the same around the world today, poor countries have high fertility. The OECD middle class has low fertility because they're worrying about other stuff (lost wages, career stagnation, etc). The
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by Herring 8mo ago
Yeah Tesla and Waymo know this quite well. There's a reason we don't have moon bases yet.
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by Herring 8mo ago
Everybody gangsta until the permafrost starts leaking massive amounts of methane.
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by Herring 8mo ago
> In 2000, less than one percent lived on farms and 1% of workers are in agriculture. That was a net benefit to the world, that we all don't have to work to eat. The jury's still out on that one, because climate change is an
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by Herring 8mo ago
Yes, because you don't understand them. That's basically the difference between Western and Eastern style religions. Here it's not a theory, it's a path. It's about you . When she writes “To light a candle is to ca
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by Herring 8mo ago
China has many faults. Invading other countries is not one of them. They haven’t dropped bombs on foreign soil in over 40 years. The Chinese playbook here is to first copy then out-scale and out-innovate until eventually nobody remembers wh
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by Herring 8mo ago
The author has a background in Taoism. That book didn’t really make sense to me until I started practicing Zen. Like most things in that tradition, it’s less about a “message”, and more about learning something about yourself. Cf meditation
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by Herring 8mo ago
That Thatcher example was brutal. I have an interest in social housing (Vienna, Singapore). The idea of selling it like that is insane to me, like if Taiwan sold TSMC for pennies on the dollar. And made it illegal to start another chipmakin
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by Herring 8mo ago
Since the end of WW2, Democratic administrations have presided over significantly higher job growth than Republican administrations. https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.c...
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by Herring 8mo ago
> My interview to join this team was whether I could build something of my choosing in under an hour with any coding agent of my choice. You should have led with that. I think that's actually more impressive; anyone can spend toke
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by Herring 8mo ago
$100 says they're still doing leetcode interviews. If everyone can do this, there won't be any advantage (or profit) to be had from it very soon. Why not buy your own hardware and run local models, I wonder.
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by Herring 8mo ago
Nope, which is why people generally live longer and are happier in Europe compared to the US. The newest iphone doesn't make up for lack of health/friends/free time/education/sane leaders etc.
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by Herring 8mo ago
Don't always trust everything you read in papers. Researchers are usually under incredible pressure to publish something, anything. Wait a few years and see if the paper survives the test of time. LLMs work reasonably fine for me in ne
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by Herring 9mo ago
Make it remote and I’m in. That budget looks painful for SF. (I know I know, hardware)

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