dgb23

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by dgb23 8mo ago
That's a problem with all tax havens. They drastically increase inequality and inflate assets, especially housing and rent.
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by dgb23 8mo ago
Money describes prices, not value.
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by dgb23 8mo ago
Ireland is a tax haven though?
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by dgb23 8mo ago
I'm a bit ashamed that I never visited. Just recently realized that I definitely want to go there soon.
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by dgb23 8mo ago
That's mixing up the tool with what it is used for.
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by dgb23 8mo ago
Also 130'000 seems to be moderate. It beats expectations but is only slightly above what is needed to keep employment stable.
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by dgb23 8mo ago
> but when it comes to the hard stuff they still suck. Also much of the really annoying, time consuming stuff, like frontend code. Writing UIs is not rocket science, but hard in a bad way and LLMs are not helping much there. Plus, while
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by dgb23 8mo ago
Some people do to a degree. Just not quite in the sense that this headline suggests. There are now approaches were the prompt itself is being structured in a way (sort of like a spec) so you get to a similar result quicker. Not sure how wel
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by dgb23 8mo ago
But there is functional equivalence. While I don't want to downplay the importance of performance, we're talking about something categorically different when comparing LLMs to compilers.
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by dgb23 9mo ago
You're missing one important feedback loop in this system: That debt is subsidized by foreign institutions, which have been slowly pulling out as they recognize that the US has been consistently consuming beyond their means. Also almos
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by dgb23 9mo ago
I think the almost opposite is the case. Passive, (especially global) index funds doing so well and outperforming the vast majority of actively managed, general funds ( ) is not a given, but they point to a different problem. It means that
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by dgb23 9mo ago
They also reported tiny profits that are just slightly above what they get in as subsidies. P/E compared to other similar companies is also through the roof.
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by dgb23 9mo ago
Yes, that's very often the case with things that would very likely be shared if it looked good. There are things that don't get shared out of principle. For example there are anonymous votes or behind the scenes negotiations witho
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by dgb23 9mo ago
I guess the important (and hard) part is to not make a categorical error and mix up design of high level functionality and UI with the plumbing underneath it. The plumbing also needs iteration and prototyping, but sound, forward looking dec
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by dgb23 9mo ago
It seems like the problem of pushing pixels around in an exact way and iterating on visual design is a problem that needs very specialized tools, regardless whether there is LLM support.
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by dgb23 9mo ago
China is has started to trend their fossil fuel consumption downwards since last year and have a similar per capita consumption as Europe.
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by dgb23 9mo ago
Some of the best US standup comedians I know don't fit this narrative.
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by dgb23 9mo ago
You're right that later in his life he spread antisemitism and other terrible opinions as he was extremely elitist towards the peasantry. Definitely not a fan of that sort of thing. But I didn't want to make a value judgement abou
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by dgb23 9mo ago
I like that the author came to the idea by cross pollination via web components. However, it's basically describing the "modifiers" part of BEM, which is a pattern that emerged from structuring CSS. Neither custom element or
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by dgb23 9mo ago
It was the same clergy (or rather parts of it) that used the printing press to great success. Martin Luther used it to spread his influence extremely quickly for example. Similarly, the clergy used new innovations in book layout and writing
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by dgb23 9mo ago
"Caused by government deregulation" could also be phrased as "not prevented by regulation, while caused by financial markets". The rest of the market recovered quickly once the government re-arranged debt and prevented a
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by dgb23 9mo ago
The financial markets collapsed in 2007/2008 and survived because of government intervention.
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by dgb23 9mo ago
Many global indexes are also traded in USD. Ironically last year has been good for those who held EUR based or CHF based indexes.
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by dgb23 9mo ago
From a contemporary standpoint these categories are basically just ideologies. There has been a steady shift in economics towards empiricism, dynamic modeling and so on since a while now. Ideologies always have glaring blindspots, so their
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by dgb23 9mo ago
This is correct. A decent example would be comparing the CHF, EUR, USD over the last few decades. The CHF is to the EUR what the EUR is to the USD.
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by dgb23 9mo ago
The EU is perhaps the most decentralized large power in the world and is held to an astronomically higher standard than any other such power.
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by dgb23 10mo ago
> Capital gains are risky to generate. Many investments completely fail and when that happens, investors get very little tax relief. You seem to conflate and misunderstand a few things here. For one, capital gains are paid out from profi
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by dgb23 10mo ago
With Blow the devil is simultaneously in the details and at the meta level. For example in the Witness, which I consider one of the best puzzle games ever made, you get a fairly simple core mechanic, but the game builds upon it in very inte
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by dgb23 10mo ago
> People laugh at games with thousand-case switch statements or if/else chains but they shipped and the end user doesn't care about logarithmic complexity. Both Blow and Muratori would likely advocate for the this type of code
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by dgb23 10mo ago
The irony is that parents feel like their kids are safer and more sheltered when they restrict their movement, while the opposite is true. There was never a time in history where kids would be targeted and manipulated by corporations as tod

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