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451.
by eru 2mo ago
Compare and contrast https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic...
452.
by eru 2mo ago
You might like https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/ more if you don't like Greenspan.
453.
by eru 2mo ago
I think we are in agreement.
454.
by eru 2mo ago
Why was that bound to happen? Inflation also raises nominal wages. It's not clear what impact inflation has on the relative price of labour vs goods and services.
455.
by eru 2mo ago
The working class doesn't hold that much in cash, do they? Competition in the labour market means nominal wages go up when inflation goes up. Many working class people have mortgages (though I'm not sure whether they have fixed
456.
by eru 2mo ago
Employment ain't guaranteed either, so I'm not sure that guarantee is worth much. And you can be pretty sure that many workers would walk if the extra goodies they are accustomed to but which ain't guaranteed were to be withd
457.
by eru 2mo ago
That's a bit silly. There's always some noise.
458.
by eru 2mo ago
Sustained inflation is always caused by money printing. Most of the mechanisms you are describing would only effects shifts in relative prices.
459.
by eru 2mo ago
Assume you have no overall economic growth, but workers get more productive over their lifetime (as they accumulate experience). In that scenario, each individual worker sees increases over their lifetime, even though the average stays flat
460.
by eru 2mo ago
I'm not sure averages are that interesting, because the people at the high end have an extra-ordinary amount of influence on the average. You might want to look at the shape of the distribution?
461.
by eru 2mo ago
> [...] on the greater national economic level (it's insanely inefficient and completely irrational to churn employees because you're willing to pay new hires more than your veteran staff). A certain amount of churn is good on
462.
by eru 2mo ago
The way to benefit from irrational hiring practices is by starting your own company that's less irrational, and thus can scoop up good workers for relatively cheap (while still paying them more than they get in the rest of the market.)
463.
by eru 2mo ago
The standard answer is agglomeration effects, I think.
464.
by eru 2mo ago
Your job hopping comment is interesting and is generalisable: reduce monopsony in the labour market, and you get more competition for labour that actually bites. The minimum wage is a strawman by comparison: it doesn't actually help wo
465.
by eru 2mo ago
I'm not sure the post-WW2 had to pick sides. There were plenty of non-aligned states, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement for one example, but there were plenty of others. Picking sides (and sw
466.
by eru 2mo ago
I'm not actually sure anymore they are overcharging on the API use cases, because there's so much competition.
467.
by eru 2mo ago
They'll get old soon enough.
468.
by eru 2mo ago
> And these models are not going away, nor their prices going up [...] Well, DeepSeek just raised prices.
469.
by eru 2mo ago
Many people like https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/property-based-test... In this day and age, https://hypothesis.works/articles/claude-code-plugin/ might be useful.
470.
by eru 2mo ago
I saw the blue rim, but I didn't notice much effect on how the real world looked like after. But then, I'm red-green colourblind.
471.
by eru 2mo ago
Try property based testing perhaps.
472.
by eru 2mo ago
It's a bit weird, because that seems like something that approximately the same in every code base, so should be relatively easy to train generically.
473.
by eru 2mo ago
I guess the path of least resistance then would have been to patch the executable to remove the check.
474.
by eru 2mo ago
College isn't for skills anyway (for most careers). See Bryan Caplan's Case against Education: attending college is mostly to signal conformity.
475.
by eru 2mo ago
> "Here" and "not here" is a complete set. > Globalisation's great right up until your manufacturing base decides they don't like you, or you them. Your manufacturing base might be in China. You might be
476.
by eru 2mo ago
> If you had a 27B model on a cerebras-like chip, it'd probably be much faster than any human could interact with it, so it'd race to idle just like CPUs. I don't think the main use case is for a human to directly interact
477.
by eru 2mo ago
> GPUs have been getting physically bigger with huge heatsinks and fans to support those bigger dies power consumption. Just compare the TDPs: You can also look at what's been happening in mobile and especially with Apple's int
478.
by eru 2mo ago
If China stops selling you solar panels tomorrow, you still have all the solar panels they sold you until now. And why do you see reshoring as the only alternative? Seems like a false dilemma. There's more than two places on the glob
479.
by eru 2mo ago
Solar power and batteries are getting cheaper and cheaper at the moment. So Watts should become cheaper in the long run. Especially when chips are becoming cheaper (in the capex sense), then you can afford to only run them when power is ch
480.
by eru 2mo ago
Luckily, competing Chinese companies are selling cheaper and cheaper solar panels to anyone who's willing to take them.

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