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by rhelz 2mo ago
I'm tired of articles which try to make us not feel bad about being eclipsed by AI. We've got to change from the mindset of an artisan--who stakes his being on mastering skills and acquiring knowledge--to that of executives. Figu
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by rhelz 2mo ago
At this point, they simply cannot let themselves. Admit all their bloviating at family reunions was bullshit? Admit that annoying socialist nephew was right all along? They simply can't admit to themselves what they did, the guilt
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by rhelz 2mo ago
The real problem isn't the price of the missiles. I wouldn't even care about the price of the missiles if they actually worked. But Iran kicked our butts. We don't have air superiority, we cannot guarantee the shipping of
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by rhelz 2mo ago
Trump doesn't give a flying flip about Iran having Nuclear weapons. If he cared at all, in the slightest, he wouldn't have unilaterally broken our treaty with them.
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by rhelz 2mo ago
This. Since it has been demonstrated that we can no longer guarantee the shipping of oil through the straight of Hormuz, nobody has any reasons to price oil in USD or to finance our deficits. Get ready for the mother of all tax increases.
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by rhelz 2mo ago
It stops being puzzling when you recall that Trump is a con man. This whole thing was never about making America great again, it was about lining Trump and his family's pockets. By every metric which matters to Trump, things are goi
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by rhelz 2mo ago
Both the reasons (AIPAC + pricing Oil in USD helps finance our deficits) are why we were there. But both of those reasons have been severely weakened, to the point of probably being eliminated anyways: 1. After the midterms, we'll ge
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by rhelz 3mo ago
(in a Forrest gump accent) my momma said that locks on doors only keep honest people honest. I'm not Forrest Gump, but my mom actually did say that and it's true. What ever we have can be taken from us by powerful people, even l
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by rhelz 3mo ago
Bring this together with another headline on HN.... "Google fixed more bugs in Chrome during June than in the previous two years" (or something like that). Either it is the biggest revolution in productivity ever, or everybody die
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by rhelz 3mo ago
chuckle it is oddly reassuring to hear somebody's worries and complaints, Especially when from a country like New Zealand--apparently, New Zealand is so great that even our billionaires want to move to move there. There are plenty of
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by rhelz 3mo ago
I'm still refactoring my theory of mind in the face of the obvious successes of AI.
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by rhelz 3mo ago
Depends upon how laze-faire you want your capitalism to be.
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by rhelz 3mo ago
Sure, better ethical principles might solve this. But extracting maximum profit is the prime directive of capitalism. This might be shit ethics, but it is brilliant capitalism.
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by rhelz 3mo ago
Sure, they are your problems, but to expect capitalism to solve your addiction is just magical thinking.
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by rhelz 3mo ago
It's not capitalism gone wrong. It's a great example of a historic success of capitalism. You can't expect capitalism to solve your addiction problems.
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by rhelz 4mo ago
The point that taxation is qualitatively different from having your 401k's value cut in half is well taken. But it sure was a "very heavy brake on compounding", though---even at 8%, it takes 9 years do recover a 50% loss. B
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by rhelz 4mo ago
Well, I'd wager most of the people who are advocating for the wealth tax have already felt economic disaster. Many economic disasters. During the dot-com bust, my 401k was cut in half. How is that for a wealth tax? Cut in half agai
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by rhelz 6mo ago
A couple of things happened. One, the Supreme Court handed the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, and not Al Gore. Bush did not continue the policies of Clinton. He cut taxes, which increased the deficit, which made interest ra
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by rhelz 6mo ago
Ah, the 90's. Bill Clinton raised taxes, which eliminated the deficit, which made interest rates go down.....My biggest problem in life was wondering which company which was trying to recruit me had the best stock option package. The
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by rhelz 6mo ago
Amen. We can't normalize autonomous AI agents killing us as part of their nominal operation. This seems obvious.....
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by rhelz 6mo ago
// The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power // There must be a dictatorship of the proletariat, because they obviously don't know what
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by rhelz 6mo ago
If I could see the future well enough to answer those questions, I'd be a bitcoin billionaire.
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by rhelz 7mo ago
A high tech company store.
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by rhelz 7mo ago
I'm so old I remember the first oil crisis of the 1970's. That was a "before" and "after" event: the world has never been the same. Double-digit inflation. Dad bought a house and took on a 14% mortgage. If
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by rhelz 7mo ago
Beautiful! Thank you!
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by rhelz 7mo ago
Don't think of it as a government subsidy....think of it as more like a single-payer wage system.
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by rhelz 8mo ago
An AI generated course? And of course the fictional professor's name is "Amit Patel". I really hate this timeline.
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by rhelz 8mo ago
Half make *more* than $1000 a month?? Not bad odds for a not bad amount of extra income.
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by rhelz 8mo ago
I have done my fair share of misunderestimating before, but I've never been off by that much.
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by rhelz 8mo ago
It is a very bad idea. The reason which people who stand in judgement over other people (e.g. judges, teachers, professors, etc) are granted tenure is to make them less tempted to bribery. One way which professors are bribed these days is

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