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by jameslk 9d ago
A rando on the internet that put together a table of presidents and numbers has no bearing on facts, it falsifies nothing Presidents cannot pass fiscal policy. They can only sign or veto new fiscal policies or act on existing policies passe
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by jameslk 9d ago
Higher inflation rates started before any of those, but those things didn’t help
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by jameslk 9d ago
Congress is the one that largely makes the fiscal policy choices. For example, during Clinton’s second term when the deficit was almost eliminated (some claim there was a surplus, but there wasn’t because of social security liabilities), yo
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by jameslk 10d ago
> The (vast?) majority of the debt happened as the result of the Republican party both increasing spending and cutting taxes every time it lands someone in the White House and before midterms flip the House back to Democrats. Both partie
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by jameslk 10d ago
Joe Biden didn’t cause a spike in inflation, congress did. And the policies that caused it wasn’t under Joe Biden’s term Also, inflation wasn’t temporary
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by jameslk 10d ago
High inflation and large debt preceded the tariffs. That said, the tariffs didn’t help either. That’s why I said largely Ultimately the president is enabled or constrained by laws enacted by congress
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by jameslk 10d ago
Neither party has realistic plans to reduce the debt. It’s been that way for decades. Kicking the can down the road gets more votes
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by jameslk 10d ago
The high inflation since Covid and $40 trillion in debt didn’t happen under one party
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by jameslk 10d ago
Both parties are responsible for the inflation and debt. Fiscal policy is largely driven by congress, not the president
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New Colorado Library Has Camping Gear(5280.com)
1 points by jameslk 17d ago|0 comments
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by jameslk 1mo ago
> This presupposes that a company's competitive advantage comes primarily from their CEO. It’s the premise of the thought experiment: to be able to make a profit, the AI executor must achieve a competitive advantage in the market. I
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by jameslk 1mo ago
At what point does a company become a company if one person doesn’t make a company? What’s the threshold for non-labor where a company becomes a company?
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by jameslk 1mo ago
Yes I would think that would be the endgame goal. But in practice, I’m very skeptical a purely AI-driven executor can stay competitive when the market and government supporting it and surrounding it is driven by humans
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by jameslk 1mo ago
In a 1-person company, who or what generates a profit?
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by jameslk 1mo ago
I get it’s a joke, and often a frequent cynical joke made here, but I actually think it’s a good thought experiment. Almost like a new Turing test The thought experiment, to be clear, is building an artificially intelligent CEO or company f
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Amazon's Zoox to begin charging for rides in Las Vegas after clearing NHTSA(cnbc.com)
1 points by jameslk 2mo ago|0 comments
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by jameslk 2mo ago
> Since it's a democracy, if it was an issue people cared about, they would have voted in someone in local/state/national level who would oppose surveillance, no? The US is a representative democracy, which means US citize
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by jameslk 2mo ago
> But a bit weird how a core American "surveillance = big no no" belief was thrown out in a few years. I can't speak for China since I'm not as familiar with that culture, but as for the US, the culture has not change
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Uncle Bob: My current strategy is to not read any of the code by my agents(twitter.com)
14 points by jameslk 2mo ago|4 comments
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by jameslk 3mo ago
That's wild. If Anthropic is willing to risk ruining the trust of their userbase for the sake of protecting their moat, it makes me wonder how strong of a moat they have to begin with
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by jameslk 3mo ago
That overall drop in share of income since 2000 is related to the "giant sucking sound" Ross Perot warned about in 1992: "It's pretty simple: If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can m
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by jameslk 3mo ago
The submitted title is a bit sensationalist given the article’s conclusion: > Is this decline a distinct change from the recent behavior of the labor share in the U.S.? Along the two key dimensions we investigate, our answer is no. Firs
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by jameslk 3mo ago
The great aging of working populations: China: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Populati... Japan: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e&#
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by jameslk 3mo ago
I'm highly anticipating the answer to the great question of life, the universe, and everything On a more serious note, I found this interesting from TFA: > The biggest question, though, is what sorts of rules should be put in those
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by jameslk 3mo ago
Most big companies attract rule followers. They err on the side of avoiding taking risks like this, which is why they work there (and why there’s so many in this thread talking about rules). It benefits big companies to have mostly rule fol
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by jameslk 3mo ago
I honestly can't think of a reason why you bothered say it, given that the quote from TFA addresses it
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by jameslk 3mo ago
That's the point of why they're doing it. From TFA: "Private equity investors are turning to AI-generated replicas of software to assess whether acquisition targets have a competitive advantage [...] 'We are leveraging v
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by jameslk 3mo ago
In the article, they explain the goal of vibe coding prototypes is not to rebuild software, but to test the defensibility of businesses based on their software so they can decide whether to acquire them or not
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by jameslk 3mo ago
From TFA: “We are leveraging vibecoding to show what a software company can and can’t do, to understand where it fits in the value chain and to understand whether it is the actual code that is the defensible part of the business or somethin
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Chinese AI models have overtaken US rivals in token consumption(ft.com)
4 points by jameslk 3mo ago|1 comments

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