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by pclowes 6mo ago
I understand the concerns and I am not sure I would allow myself to be recorded until I knew more. However, I do think we are in a situation where everybody knows that healthcare costs need to come down that doctors and medical professional
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by pclowes 6mo ago
Look at revenue per employee. Revenue growth year over year. Margin etc. then just look into any command center, 90% of screens are displaying Palantir software.
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by pclowes 6mo ago
Very small workforce (~3k) for a fortune 500, much higher than consulting margins. One of if not the single largest AWS customer. Only software company that is also a defense prime. Also their software is has some rough edges but is very po
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by pclowes 6mo ago
> which is a database consultingware company and a JV version of Oracle in all the senses we care about Are you sure about this? I would kick the tires on that theory a bit.
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by pclowes 6mo ago
I think there are mistakes and then there are mistakes. There is a point where the postmortem needs to stop being blameless. Getting things like this wrong is an existential risk to a important institution. We can’t be genuinely concerned a
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by pclowes 6mo ago
This isn’t about the PR. This is about the back-and-forth. If the maintainer authors every PR they don’t have to waste time talking with other people about their PR.
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by pclowes 6mo ago
This is wild. A mistake of this magnitude should result in several positions becoming vacant and many politicians being ineligible for any future offices. If a government can’t budget accurately everything else they do is likely even less c
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by pclowes 6mo ago
Merging code
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by pclowes 6mo ago
Just stumbled across this: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-04-16/debunking-a...
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by pclowes 6mo ago
I am doubtful here (but eager to see data that says otherwise) - The US median per capita income is quite high (top 2 or 3 globally IIRC). In light of that and the stat that the bottom 40% don’t pay federal income tax makes me think the tax
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by pclowes 6mo ago
I think we can debate on how progressive (in terms of as you earn more you pay more) the US tax brackets should be. They are already fairly progressive relative to peer nations. However, I am skeptical that higher taxes or just taxing the r
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by pclowes 6mo ago
That’s not the point the point is to illustrate that right now for every tax payer 20% of every dollar collected is spent on interest. Not even on the principal just on the interest expense.
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by pclowes 6mo ago
1. I am not a boomer. 2. Do you think an ageist ad hominem improves your argument? 3. What even is your argument? That in this contrived hypothetical the person in question is making a “shitload” and that somehow invalidates that 20% of EVE
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by pclowes 6mo ago
Yes, IRS SOI tables. https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-stat... You can find high-level summaries from various websites, but they might have a bias eg: taxfoundation
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by pclowes 6mo ago
I would need more data here. The US is highly solvent because of the global dollar as well as being a hegemonic military superpower.
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by pclowes 6mo ago
Yes, both parties have objectively failed their mandate to look after the long-term interest of the American people and instead focused on short-term wasteful policies focused on their own party goals. Governments that consistently make bad
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by pclowes 6mo ago
They are almost all also going bankrupt. Also, those governments may be efficient but the US is not. You do not get a more efficient government by making it larger.
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by pclowes 6mo ago
Put another way if your tax rate is 33% and you had to pay the government first. Then every dollar you earn goes to the government until May 1. In this scenario if you have to pay govt interest expense first then almost every dollar earned
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by pclowes 6mo ago
We developed chronic overspending habits when interest rates were historically low. This made servicing the debt cheap and deficit spending reasonable. Why wouldn’t the government borrow at 0.14% (!!!) with GDP growth at say 3-4%. Now the m
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by pclowes 6mo ago
I did not know this, really puts a perspective on it, thanks
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by pclowes 6mo ago
More and more I find my politics drifting towards whoever will balance the budget and pay down the deficit. Since that party doesn’t exist I am politically homeless.
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by pclowes 6mo ago
I think Detroit is well past its “bottom”. I have visited there every year (briefly) for the past 14yrs and it has some really vibrant and cool aspects now. My anecdotal evidence is backed up by Detroit Metro real estate outpacing the natio
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by pclowes 6mo ago
I don’t think that is true. I know several very high-performing engineers (some who could have retired a long time ago and are just in it for the love of the game) who use AI prolifically, without lowering any bars, and just deliver a lot m
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by pclowes 6mo ago
Yes, and those houses are by definition the traditional architectural vernacular of the area. Traditional architecture in each area evolves from survivor bias and navigating delicate trade-offs in the climate they are placed over long time
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by pclowes 6mo ago
I get what you’re saying but Falling Water is notoriously damp, rusting, and uncomfortable. Most of his houses are form over function.
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by pclowes 6mo ago
Pale Blue Dot subtly shaped my perception of Earth. We are not standing on earth looking up at the stars. We are being held by earth as we look down into an infinite abyss of death. Everything we are depends on that fragile bubble holding u
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by pclowes 6mo ago
> “The house is a work of art” I really disagree with this and think this sentiment lies at the heart of a lot of our current architectural and housing issues. Yes, houses should be beautiful and inspiring. However, they should not be “a
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by pclowes 6mo ago
I need to visit it in person I guess. The photos always leave me feeling like I am looking at a very small conference center and the feel of it seems off to me for a house. I dont quite get the appeal of a lot of his work. It sometimes feel
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by pclowes 6mo ago
Exactly, I am very bearish about the prospects of any new languages post-LLM era gaining traction. Unless they are highly specialized or somehow better for LLMs.
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by pclowes 7mo ago
We use markdown because LLMs are great at it. Markdown in the same directory as the code it documents is very readable by humans and LLMs. Given LLMs proficiency in markdown and that reading it in view and edit mode is comparable I bet many

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