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by kansface 4mo ago
Income (returns) are not guaranteed. Go for progressive capital gains if that’s what you want. A wealth tax is a crazy bad idea.
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by kansface 4mo ago
The expected a priori utility of any social intervention is strictly negative… even if “more thoughtful” does check out in reality for higher ed, $700 billion and 15million man years yearly is rather expensive.
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by kansface 5mo ago
3 10mm bolts failing simultaneously after two decades (on direct it seems) is unexpected! If it were an installation problem, I can’t imagine it would take that long and that they’d all go at the same time. Ditto for corrosion… people tak
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by kansface 5mo ago
Golang truly excels at cross compiling.
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by kansface 5mo ago
> What type of features did you implement on your 100k LOC week? I work on 3rd party API integrations, of which, we have hundreds, each in its own repo. We need to build thousands more at a fraction of the cost. Any given integration h
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by kansface 5mo ago
> I dunno I've seen agents make boneheaded mistakes even a junior engineer wouldn't make. Yes, of course. > you're effectively killing the pipline for senior engineers. Then what? I honestly don't know _what_. Its
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by kansface 5mo ago
> I just can't figure how _how_ to burn that much money a month responsibly. I always have a few agents (2-5) doing research and working on plans in parallel. A plan is a thorough and unambiguous document describing the process to
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by kansface 5mo ago
> If we had a functioning congress, I wonder if we might end up with legislation that these things need to be watermarked or otherwise made identifiable as AI generated.. Not a lawyer, but that reads as compelled speech to me. Material
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by kansface 5mo ago
Just because he hasn’t pulled the trigger doesn’t mean there isn’t an actual red line.
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by kansface 5mo ago
This feels pretty fertile atm to me, because it has been prohibitively expensive to do. I expect there is a ton of low hanging fruit. Why not in the age of AI?
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by kansface 5mo ago
This is bad epistemology. Incentives change the behavior on the edges.
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by kansface 6mo ago
It is a reimagining of Pascal’s Wager. On the original front, I don’t see the neo-Rationalists converting to Christianity en masse.
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by kansface 6mo ago
You will improve what you practice, possibly. This is advice for learning to play by ear. I was given the exact opposite advice by my classical guitar teacher in college because I was playing one thing and hearing something else. Sometimes
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by kansface 7mo ago
I've generated 250KLoC this week, absolutely no changes in deps or any other shenanigans. I'm not even really trying to optimize my output. I work on plans/proposals with 2 or 3 agents simultaneously in Cursor while one doe
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by kansface 9mo ago
> I don't know. The World Happiness Report relies on one simple question, which is easy to criticise but at least it applies a clear and consistent method. The simplicity is nice, but for the (probable) fact that suicide attempts&#x
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by kansface 1y ago
People's time is conserved, so a couple of questions: 1. What percentage of decline can be attributed to social media purely as a time sink? 2. What percentage of decline can be attributed to increased political polarization encroachin
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by kansface 1y ago
What would the post office do with spam? Their existing business model is chiefly predicated on delivering junk mail. I’m not sure how the federal government would deal with fraud on the payment side, either. The US does not have a strong
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by kansface 1y ago
Yes, but the judge has not been shipped to El Salvador in the middle of the night. Resolving the matter in court _is due process_.
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by kansface 1y ago
You advance civil war as the remedy for the hypothetical. I’m squarely with Lincoln on the matter.
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by kansface 1y ago
No, absolutely not. Trump would federalize the national guard as did Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and charge the governors with treason. You advocate for de facto succession of the states - we settled that matter with blood last time
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by kansface 1y ago
The EU effectively backdoors tariffs against US software vendors via fines and the occasional if ineffective subsidy for local competitors in the local language.
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by kansface 1y ago
I was going to comment that air fair is comparatively cheaper since 1995, but its only ~15% in the US (and increasing).
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by kansface 1y ago
Musk leveraged TSLA stock to buy Twitter.
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by kansface 2y ago
North Korea _has_ nuclear weapons.
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by kansface 2y ago
I lived and worked through the Python 2->3 fiasco, working on a Python library that had to run on both versions. I have since abandoned the language. Python3 was both slower and and not backwards compatible whereas TSC 7 is 10x faster a
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by kansface 2y ago
What language are you writing? I mostly write go these days, and have often wondered if it is uniquely good in that language given its constraints.
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by kansface 2y ago
Any thoughts on why this is the case? I have the same impression, but now I'm wondering if its survivor bias. I never lived through it, and have only been exposed to the best of it on the Internet.
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by kansface 2y ago
I wonder which is more harmful?
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by kansface 2y ago
USAID is reputedly the tool of the CIA.
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by kansface 2y ago
I'm for the ban chiefly on the grounds of economic fairness in access to markets. China doesn't allow access to any US social media products. We should only open our doors to Chinese companies conditioned on reciprocation.

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