cynicalpeace

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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
You're describing SO experience 3 years ago. I don't use SO at all now lol
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
Because he didn't get what he wanted, which is money and security guarantees. Zelensky and his team wanted this minerals deal to happen because they saw it as a step towards getting Americans on their frontier, which would act as a shi
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
This wasn't some neighborhood argument. Zelensky should've appealed to their egos in order to get what he wants, which is money and security guarantees. Now it's even less likely he'll get that.
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
People like that will be well served by the niche businesses I mentioned, and those businesses will make a killing. but the average person won't be using it
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
levelsio, eric smith, david park, jacob of rezi, etc
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
Absolutely correct, huge blunder on Zelensky's part, even though many here are angry with Trump
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
A lot of people here are angry with Trump about this. But if you watch the full meeting, it's clear Zelensky could have avoided this fiasco. Just the facts: 1. Zelensky did indeed say thank you, at the beginning of the conference. 2. Z
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
Greater than $50k profit per month per employee sounds very profitable to me.
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
It is true because levelsio, eric smith, maker of interviewcoder, etc exist.
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
There are some businesses trying to do emotional support with AI, like AI GF's, etc Some will make some profit as a niche thing (millions of users on a global scale, and if unit economics work, can make millions of $) But it seems it w
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
"There Is No AI Revolution" Good write-up. But it focuses too much on the big companies. Many indiehackers have figured out how to make profit with AI: 1. No free tier. Just provide a good landing page. 2. Ship fast. Ship iterativ
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
See this video where he questions the Fed Chair about the dollar's role as the world's reserve currency [1] He notes that the dollar's status is a tax on producing and a subsidy on consuming. He also notes it's a nationa
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
The "we can just print dollars" part is wild. Especially since the world really wants these dollars. Any other country would see rampant inflation immediately. Instead, we've exported these dollars worldwide, enriched the mon
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It's an interesting idea, I would agree that that's money in its ideal form. There's a push and pull to it though too, because when you accumulate money, it's not just that you may have pleased someone, but that you have
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
Money is really an IOU from society to you. Money did not originate as a mediator in a barter system, but rather as a unit of account to keep track of who owes whom, at least that's the predominant theory amongst monetary theorists now
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
Oxford English Dictionary- pathological: "involving, caused by, or of the nature of a physical or mental disease" Trump doesn't suffer from any physical or mental disease, despite what many people would like to falsely claim.
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
Illegal border crossings have plummeted to historic lows after Mexico sends 10,000 troops to the border would be one indication. [1][2] [1] https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/us-news/illegal-border-crossin...
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
There are good and bad parts to the CHIPS Act. Spending $174 billion on bureaucrats to pretend they're innovating is one of the bad parts. Anyways, we were talking about tariffs. If the subject is "orange man bad" we should m
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
You're asserting it's a herculean effort to onshore production. I disagree. It seems we simply disagree about its feasibility. America is a huge country full of hardworking people, and we've done it before. It's actually
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
> The assumption that everyone has an issue with a device is where you loose me I made no such assumption. This is far astray from the original thread
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I'm not "blaming" anyone. Not sure how you can have the software without the hardware. Screens are addictive. Why they are addictive is an interesting question- but regardless of the software being used- video games, social m
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
Maybe it could be the Juul to Apple's Phillip Morris? Phones occupy the same space as nicotine in my head, so why not explore that comparison?
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
How possible is it for there to be a "disruptor" to the smartphone market? I think Apple's selling point is the app ecosystem, but I personally don't use apps all that much. Just a few big ones and they're all just
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
That would have been a good time, but actually the opposite of what America did (successfully) in the 1800s. Britain had pulled far ahead in manufacturing, and only afterwards did America institute a policy of protectionism. The result was
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
There is no strong evidence to suggest tariffs were a major cause of the recent (starting in 2021) inflation, just read the wiki on it [1] Trump started his first bout of tariffs in 2018, long before any surge in inflation. The TLDR cause w
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
I'm wondering the same thing. Most of these workflows are just context management workflows and in Cursor it's so simple to manage the context. For large files I just highlight the code and cmd+L. For short files, I just add them
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
> are Americans willing to either accept wage decreases in line with non-Americans, or accept price increases that would cover the cost of paying American wages? The answer is definitively "no", and thus reindustrialization can
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
Tariffs were the central political issue from Reconstruction (1870s) until WW1 (1910s). It was the main source of income for the federal government prior to the propagation of the income tax during WW1. We actually learned a lot about tarif
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by cynicalpeace 2y ago
> it fills me with rage that Elon has this sort of unchecked power. The check on this is the market. Don't understand your point other than "Elon bad"
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It worked with twitter though. The site did not implode like all the naysayers predicted, it's at least as good, if not better than it was, just going off of usage statistics. This is basically 0 based budgeting, where you get rid of e

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