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by Herring 9mo ago
I think the plan is for Claude to maintain it. He hasn't read a single line of code.
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by Herring 9mo ago
Yeah Americans don't want to face that their culture is the problem. Trump is still slightly more popular than he was at this point during his first term https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil
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by Herring 9mo ago
It's so tricky. You can do most things right like Denmark/Netherlands, then you mess up just one (housing) and the far-right surges. Now you can't import immigrants to deal with your aging population, which means you're
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by Herring 9mo 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. Europe found that out the hard way, and America is in the early stages o
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by Herring 9mo ago
Maybe recheck how exposed your country is. It's really bad for Canada, since ~77% of all Canadian goods exports are headed to the US. It will take a long time for them to diversify. Same with Mexico and Taiwan, and to a lesser extent V
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by Herring 9mo ago
Maybe I misspoke, I mean it's an institutional+cultural failure. Looking forward, if we're to ever get out of this, it'll need something real big. Like another great depression leading to FDR's New Deal. Or Europe's
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by Herring 9mo ago
They had no choice. Trump literally rewrote the republican party in his image. Congressmen who weren't falling in line got fired or forced to retire. Many many times, eg see Liz Cheney. The last time a purge like this happened was at t
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by Herring 9mo ago
Well if it ever gets to be a full replacement for phds, you’ll know cause it will have already replaced you.
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by Herring 9mo ago
That's kind of a question for your priest, but I'll give it a go. https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart I like to spend a lot of time at the World Happiness Report because it gives me a better sense of economic
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by Herring 9mo ago
Bullies hate this one weird trick.
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by Herring 9mo ago
Dude trump is NOT a temporary blip. His approval rating right now is slightly higher than it was at this point in his first term. Last time it took a great depression to convince Americans to actually care about each other (socialism-lite),
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by Herring 9mo ago
I genuinely love the speech but scanning the WHR, Canada has been dropping in happiness almost as fast as America. https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart They would have gone right-wing in Carney's election if not fo
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by Herring 9mo ago
He is pissed. Damn. This will take a very long time to clean up… Assuming it’s reversible.
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by Herring 9mo ago
Nope never been to Montana, so it appears you are being misled by a literal red herring.
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by Herring 9mo ago
It's not gonna work. Dems have been meeting Republicans in the "center" for a long time. Republicans just go further right. You think conservatives like Obama? It's not a rational thing. Like you said "Biden housing
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by Herring 9mo ago
Yeah.. that's how tribalism works. Dems don't really understand the kind of blank-check popular backing that Trump has. Studies have shown for a long time the human brain is frequently wired to prioritize group loyalty over factua
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by Herring 9mo ago
I've met all sorts of very rational people, but when you bring up immigrants their brain reasoning centers turn off and they start frothing over Haitians eating dogs. You have to know how to trigger it, cause Trump knows it extremely w
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by Herring 9mo ago
Yep, he's still slightly more popular than he was at this point during his first term. https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil...
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by Herring 9mo ago
It's becoming a real problem how the human brain is wired to prioritize "group-loyalty" over "factual accuracy." I'm sure it worked great when we were in small groups living in caves, but it is making the moder
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by Herring 9mo ago
Note I didn't say Karpathy's nanoGPT, I said use the speedrun. Transformers are universal function approximators. When well-tuned, they often start to approximate other innovations. Not always, thank god, but often enough that you
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by Herring 9mo ago
I'd say try the nanogpt speedrun. It's much easier to train, and gives you a better comparison vs optimized systems. https://github.com/KellerJordan/modded-nanogpt
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by Herring 9mo ago
Take a few quantitative courses (ie statistics). Roughly speaking, you usually want to compare similar-ish groups. It's like if you want to examine the effects of diet on a human body, you can't just mix old and young haphazardly.
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by Herring 9mo ago
> In a different world where there are higher wages, more people would have more spending power. Then companies wouldn't have to spend as many dollars on advertising, which they could split between higher wages, higher margins and
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by Herring 9mo ago
Yeah, and a moat can just be a solid trusted brand. Claude Code can't take that away.
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by Herring 9mo ago
China hasn't dropped bombs on foreign soil in over 40 years. The US killed a million Iraqis not that long ago. I think this "China evil" framing is a smear, like how Republican conspiracy theories used to say Democrats are pe
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by Herring 9mo ago
They already do, a lot. The point is to reach the Atlantic (Europe).
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by Herring 9mo ago
That attitude "we're gonna make a ton of money and leave you with fascism" is why US tech is not going to last in the EU in the long run. It's unsustainable, like a parasite that kills its host. Basically they're ou
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by Herring 9mo ago
It doesn't have to be touching, it just has to be significantly closer than Maine, so it's much easier to monitor everything or set up a chokepoint if necessary. And if I know anything about Trump, he'll start talking about I
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by Herring 9mo ago
I think it's about the Northern Sea Route (NSR) which is opening up cause of climate change. A Chinese Panamax ship recently completed the NSR transit in just five days, showing that it's a viable alternative to the Suez Canal rou
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by Herring 9mo ago
Yep, see the article > Denmark isn’t just resisting U.S. tech; it is one of the few nations actively building its own sovereign alternatives for critical infrastructure. > In Rogaczewski’s view, sovereign digitization is not just a

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