neilwilson

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English to LinkedIn Translator(linkedinspeak.com)
3 points by neilwilson 7mo ago|2 comments
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by neilwilson 7mo ago
Turn plain English into sharper, more professional LinkedIn wording. Rewrite post drafts, About sections, bios, and comments in a style that feels more polished and platform-ready.
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by neilwilson 7mo ago
It's always struck me that agents should be operated via `systemd-run` as a transient scope unit with the necessary security properties set So couldn't this be done with an appropriate shell alias - at least under linux.
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by neilwilson 7mo ago
Comparing a currency issuer like the US to currency users like Italy and Greece is a category error. You can compare Alaska to Greece or California to Italy. But you should compare the US to other currency issuers - like the Eurozone, Japan
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by neilwilson 7mo ago
It’s rather more simple than that. In a floating exchange rate world, which is the one we live in a dollar is just a 0% bearer bond. So when a government bond matures it is replaced automatically with a simple bank deposit. It’s nothing mor
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by neilwilson 7mo ago
That confuses two points. Employees sell labour hours. At the basic living wage those hours are interchangeable between all people offering them. Even to the extent of age or infirmity. That’s what “unskilled labour” means. The conversion o
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by neilwilson 7mo ago
Yet the state pension tells us that isn’t the case. The state pension is a UBI allocated by age rather than physical area. We have millions of data points showing that when people receive sufficient to live on they stop working. The result
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by neilwilson 7mo ago
Except that doesn’t work as there remains a systemic shortage of jobs on offer. The societal deal with the private sector is that it employs everybody at a rate that allows an individual to live in return for the chance to make a profit. A
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by neilwilson 7mo ago
You have to work if you want to get paid. Otherwise you will get fired. The obligation of the state is to provide you with a guaranteed alternative job offer, not a guaranteed income. It’s up to you if you take up the state’s offer or not.
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by neilwilson 8mo ago
Yes, but that's the point. We're not writing code in a computer language any more, we're writing specs in structured English of sufficient clarity that they can be generated from. The debugging would be on the specs.
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by neilwilson 8mo ago
I suspect that is where we will be going next - automated verification. At least to the point where we can pass it over the wall for user acceptance testing. Is it possible to write Cucumber specs (for example) of sufficient clarity that al
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by neilwilson 8mo ago
You'll get the same software in outcome terms. Which is what we want. Tokens are cheaper than getting an individual to modify the code, and likely the tokens will get cheaper - in the same way compilation has (which used to be batched
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by neilwilson 8mo ago
Once writing code is cheap you don't maintain code. You regenerate it from scratch. What you maintain is the specification harness, and change that to change the code. We have to start thinking at a higher level, and see code generatio
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by neilwilson 8mo ago
That doesn’t mean manufacturing is down, if new output is automated. The trade deficit is shrinking, and which necessarily means there is more domestic flow as foreign hoards of dollars are liquidated. That flow has to go somewhere. Could b
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by neilwilson 8mo ago
What has been the impact on the distribution in the firm. Have more staff been hired, have more supply contracts been handed out, have worker bonuses increases or has it all flowed to the bottom line? This is the other side of tariffs that
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by neilwilson 8mo ago
What is a gilt or a Treasury? It is a private saving certificate bought by people in exchange for bank deposits they have previously accrued. Those bank deposits are transferred to Treasury by deleting the bank deposit and by the bank trans
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by neilwilson 8mo ago
For the deficit in government spending to reduce the private sector has to save less. They are one and the same thing. The immigrants are spending all they get. Nothing to do with taxes. Learn how the accounting works
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by neilwilson 8mo ago
For the deficit to reduce we overall have to be saving less.
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by neilwilson 8mo ago
So immigrants earn so little they can’t put aside any savings? Or somebody is. Not the flex Cato thinks it is. The government’s red ink is our black ink. The trouble is “safe savings” doesn’t have the same air of doom about it.
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by neilwilson 8mo ago
By only doing projects for which there is sufficient political support across the board, not the ones that are supported by a tiny vocal minority of the electorate. Either we live in a democracy or we do not. Democracy determines the correc
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by neilwilson 9mo ago
But importantly the person buying the stock certificate etc preferred to see that rather than a cash balance. For every seller there has to be a buyer.
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by neilwilson 9mo ago
There is more sterling available to FX, which is where the exchange rate is set. The tax flow has been moved one step along. So the uk importer doesn’t pay the tax (on the goods), the uk exporter does (on their staff). That changes the ster
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by neilwilson 9mo ago
Fixed exchange rate thinking I’m afraid. Try it again but with a floating exchange rate - understanding that importers into a currency area pay the local area costs of exporters from that currency area. Reducing the tax thereby means there
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by neilwilson 9mo ago
Vat is stupidly complex. Try doing an international conference for example. Not to mention the impact on imports as the OP discovered. Quite why people think tax stays in one place is beyond me - all costs are passed on and tax is no differ
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by neilwilson 9mo ago
It would be far better if we could get a government in who would use Brexit freedoms to scrap VAT and all the other sales and import taxes. They are an administrative nightmare and both unnecessary and ineffective. Stick to simpler taxes. T
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by neilwilson 9mo ago
The most sensible solution is synthesised natural gas. Then we can use the existing LNG storage and plant. It’s a lot easier to store and transport than hydrogen and the capital items already exist. Curtailment fees should be replaced with
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by neilwilson 9mo ago
Correct. They don’t. It’s an illusion caused by where the accounting boundary is drawn. That’s why “imbalances” never close. If goods and services were exchanged for little models of the Eiffel Tower nobody would say there was an imbalance.
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by neilwilson 9mo ago
Except in a floating exchange rate that isn’t what happens. For somebody to leave the Eurozone for the Dollar zone there has to be somebody coming in the opposite direction to exchange with. Macron is still talking nonsense of course. The E
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by neilwilson 9mo ago
We finally realise there is no such thing as a “reserve currency” in the floating exchange rate era and that the concept is a long dead hangover from fixed exchange rates. And that’s definitely going to upset the gold bugs. (In reality lots
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by neilwilson 9mo ago
That’s what a C compiler does when generating a binary. There was a time when you had to know ‘as’, ‘ld’ and maybe even ‘ar’ to get an executable. In the early days of g++, there was no guarantee the object code worked as intended. But it w

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