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by manlymuppet 1mo ago
I have nothing to say about the actual model, but unrelated--why do so many of these demos include people buying things autonomously? Even if I did trust an AI to get everything right, it's not like the AI can read my mind. If I was or
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by manlymuppet 1mo ago
What’s particularly bad about Zitron is his financial analysis. Some people have the idea in their heads that “yeah, Zitron is wrong about a lot of things, but his economic data and analysis is tight.” That couldn’t be further from the trut
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Tiki-Taka – Football(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by manlymuppet 1mo ago|2 comments
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by manlymuppet 1mo ago
A tactical style for playing the game of football (soccer) that's really fascinating to me. From Johan Cryuff in the Netherlands, to Barcelona with Pep Guardiola, Lionel Messi, and now Lamine Yamal. And Spain recently won the World Cup
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by manlymuppet 1mo ago
Well the two--building for power users vs for a general audience--often work against each other. And trying to satisfy every audience at once is a good way to satisfy none. You don't want your app to be a Jack of all trades; focus is r
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by manlymuppet 1mo ago
Power user experience is not the same thing as user experience in general. If you want to make the argument that all developer tooling should be keyboard-driven, fine, be my guest. But most people aren't willing to deal with the learni
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by manlymuppet 1mo ago
As much as I dislike this administration's actions, why? Doesn't the Department of Defense get discretion to contract for whatever reasons it likes, as long as they think it serves public interests? If Pete Hegseth, who is albeit
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by manlymuppet 1mo ago
What’s with all the big acquisitions recently? Is it advantageous for some reason to announce all of this stuff now?
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by manlymuppet 1mo ago
Potentially horrible for monopoly reasons, but if other big acquisitions in the AI era teach us anything, developers are about to get a whole lot of free and discounted trial credits. That’s at least a plus. I will happily burn through as m
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by manlymuppet 1mo ago
They headline U3 because it's best at answering the question "who is looking for work but can't find it", but of course they use U6. It's literally one of the main metrics in the monthly unemployment report by the B
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
The unemployment problem is about people looking for a job and not being able to find one. If someone doesn’t even want a job though, that’s not something you can “fix” anymore. To include people who don’t want to be employed in the labor f
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football_tactics#%... The link keeps defaulting to the overall article, but the relevant section is the '"Forward" versus "collapsing" defences' p
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Gegenpressing(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by manlymuppet 2mo ago|1 comments
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Everything we try will rely on some assumption, but I think it’s unfair to call that fantastical. What assumptions do you think are uncalled for? Norway, Sweden, Denmark—these are countries where this model has been proven to work in practi
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Another guy to love: https://youtube.com/@SteveMould
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
I am familiar, and I love that guy too!
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
This is a great summary, and I agree with everything you mentioned here. One additional thing to mention though is that Americans are also just richer. Even if you include government benefits (social transfers), Americans rank extremely hig
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
I don’t mean “wanting” in the traditional sense. In economics, “wanting” is more closely defined as a sort of always-on, unconscious self-interest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarcity Sorry to be so overly-intellect
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
As far as I understand, that’s (negative unemployment) not possible with the way the statistic is measured. I might be confused though as I’ve never heard of the term. In any case, COVID was a hellish time for pretty much every economic met
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
There’s no duration for when you’re counted out of the labor force; only when you stop looking for work. Your incentivized to report your looking for work (and provide proof) to get unemployment benefits, and those who opt out of such benef
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Fuckin love this guy
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Because America is the innovation capital of the world. I know that sounds like corny and biased American exceptionalism, but I think it’s just objectively true. Other countries can have vastly superior government policy, and that shows up
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
They (the bottom deciles) were outpacing inflation. By a significant margin too. That’s at the very least, a good stride against inequality’s problems.
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Haha I agree. Although my bidet is phenomenal, air conditioned white collar work has always felt like a lucky getaway from real work to me.
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Seeker and giver, and the ebb and flow between—-enlightening. Great perspective.
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
And yet, within the last couple years, the unemployment rate has remained stable within its usual 3-5% healthy band, and the total amount of people employed has increased overall. Where labor has contracted in some places, it has grown else
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
That’s true, and you could even use any measure you’d like. Perhaps the Gini coefficient. I should specify that I’m not trying to make direct claim about inequality. Only that, for anyone against the ails of inequality, the bottom wage earn
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
I wouldn't mind the minority near the top losing ground if the majority near the bottom got more.
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Actually the opposite was stated in the paper. > This compression accelerated in 2021: real wage growth in the bottom two deciles remained positive and close to its pre-period pace, while all other deciles experienced declines of about 2
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by manlymuppet 2mo ago
Jobs are created by desire, and the labor required to fulfill the market's desires. People won't ever stop wanting things. Our wants today are vastly different from our wants a hundred years ago, and thus the labor pool looks vast

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