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by alecco 1y ago
That is misleading. Potatoes are ranked as one of the most satiating foods per calorie. The problem is people put a lot of butter/oil on them. Or eat them too processed.
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Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right(ft.com)
6 points by alecco 1y ago|1 comments
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by alecco 1y ago
Stanford became Harvard.
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Sam Altman does damage control: GPT-5 rollout's unpopular changes will be undone(xcancel.com)
4 points by alecco 1y ago|0 comments
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by alecco 1y ago
Good stuff. A minor observation: > I use the Socratic Coder[1] system prompt to have a back and forth conversation about the idea. (prompt starts with: 1. Ask only one question at a time) Why only 1? IMHO it's better to write a long
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by alecco 1y ago
If there was an option to have Claude Opus guide Sonnet I'd use it for most interactions. Doing it manually is a hassle and breaks the flow, so I end up using Opus too often. This shouldn't be that expensive even for large prompts
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by alecco 1y ago
AFAIK since incomes are stagnant, tax revenue is very dependent on capital gains. Governments and central banks can't afford to let the stock and real estate bubbles pop. Governments need taxes to a) keep the circus going and b) paying
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by alecco 1y ago
> Maybe we need AI as matchmaker and Master of Ceremonies, introducing people to each other and hyping them up to actually engage with one another. It wouldn't work without fixing first all the mental health problems caused by phone
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by alecco 1y ago
Same here. I stopped using Gemini Pro because on top of it's hard to follow verbosity it was giving contradicting answers. Things that Claude Sonnet 4 could answer. Speaking of Sonnet, I feel like it's closing the gap to Opus. Aft
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by alecco 1y ago
I am not American but the pattern is the same according to friends there. DO NOT GO THERE AS A REMOTE WORKER. They will hate you because those people are destroying small communities by raising rentals and real estate prices, while keeping
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by alecco 1y ago
How Can I Balance Time-Blocking and a New Kid? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aucuJr-qC6s (Cal Newport)
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by alecco 1y ago
Terrible advice. Let me guess, you live in a big city, or in an anti-social suburb, or something along the lines. My family's tight-knit small city is great for raising families and almost everybody has some interesting hobby. Even mot
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by alecco 1y ago
Banks already ID you in person (at least the ones with branches). And LinkedIn has been useless for years for most of my family and friends.
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by alecco 1y ago
One hand washes the other.
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by alecco 1y ago
> I have not had the self-recall fix done Why? Also, isn't that only an issue in early P320s? (at least according to Sig) > and I'll never chamber a round in it again Isn't this good enough for most uses? Heck, a long t
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by alecco 1y ago
> This is what happens when the MBAs and the bean counters take over. Google CEO is a McKinsey guy.
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by alecco 1y ago
> Because they're told to. Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street.
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by alecco 1y ago
> a Nobel prize winner Mandatory comment pointing out the "Nobel" in Economics is not a real Nobel Prize. It was made up by the central banking cartel to reward economists who say the things they like. From MMT to ideology stuf
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by alecco 1y ago
Donations are against "maximize shareholder value" and other directives by the high lords of BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street.
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by alecco 1y ago
Now that the menial can be done faster we can focus on Deep Work.
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by alecco 1y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-al... Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. Our ancestors had families during wars and famines. In the case of
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by alecco 1y ago
Agree. But I think Anthropic is the outlier. Maybe ElevenLabs, too.
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by alecco 1y ago
Intel spins off GPUs and smart people make a decent competitor. AMD gets its act together, maybe acquires one of the tensor-based companies. Some other competitor like Samsung releases something unexpected they've been building in secr
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by alecco 1y ago
> The rest of the list though... Please read some unbiased history books. Catholics: Copernicus, Mendel, Pascal, Ampere, Fermat, ... And The Renaissance is always skipped by them for some reason. Figures like Napoleon or The Catholic Mon
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by alecco 1y ago
Beware Hollywood and English literature propaganda: Catholics were morons; pirates are cool; French and Spaniards are dumb, evil, and cowards.
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by alecco 1y ago
A scientist with published works. Or at least someone that wrote a well sourced book and asked many people.
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by alecco 1y ago
Am I missing something? Why is his opinion relevant? I'm not going to read all that unless there's some signal of some kind. Podcast bros and their hype cycles are tiresome.
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by alecco 1y ago
> You can literally go outside and talk to people. Only in small towns with high trust societies, sadly.
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by alecco 1y ago
Hedge Funds call ETFs, pension funds, etc. "dumb money". I suspect they also feed the finance media narrative stating how on average they are not good at trading.
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by alecco 1y ago
Hmmm. I'll just leave this here https://x.com/ns123abc/status/1940980667455836578

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