schmidtleonard

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by schmidtleonard 7mo ago
> I think people are mature enough to be able to read past a headline What trainwreck of misconceptions could possibly compel an otherwise reasonable person to believe something so ridiculous?
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by schmidtleonard 7mo ago
Messaging is attention-weighted. It always has been, but the exploitation of this fact has been on the rise and in 2026 everyone should know it and internalize the consequences: if you signal boost statement A and bury nuance B, you are pro
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by schmidtleonard 7mo ago
"Convicted fraudster pardons convicted fraudster therefore you can trust convicted fraudster." Wild!
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by schmidtleonard 7mo ago
It's interesting that both the USA and China found that the prosperity maximum happened when capitalism was kept in line with a firm hand , even though China approached from the left and the USA approached from the right and later dep
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by schmidtleonard 8mo ago
Exactly, it's the Lex Fridman gambit: a reputation for asking safe questions to powerful people tends to snowball because "safe, popular interview platform" is something they are all looking to self-promote on. If you want to
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by schmidtleonard 8mo ago
Is there anything in Georgia not named Peachtree?
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by schmidtleonard 8mo ago
Brains turn off if you say Voldemort's name out loud. These ideas need to be rediscovered and rebranded.
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by schmidtleonard 8mo ago
TechnologyConnections debunked the Phoebus Cartel a while ago. tl;dw incandescent bulbs can be made more efficient and brighter by running them hotter, but this reduces the lifetime. The obvious Nash Equilibrium involves increasingly hot&#x
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by schmidtleonard 8mo ago
WWII revisionism is back in fashion these days, even in spaces that historically would have been only mildly to the right of center.
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by schmidtleonard 8mo ago
Death of the author.
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by schmidtleonard 8mo ago
The point pixl97 was making was that they believed anti-anti-fascist described the Flock CEO. If Flock's reputation spoke for itself, their CEO wouldn't have to play these kind of legal games.
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by schmidtleonard 8mo ago
The big social media businesses deserve a Teddy Roosevelt character swooping in and busting their trusts, forcing them to play ball with others even if it destroys their moats. Boo hoo! Good riddance. World's tiniest violin. This is a
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by schmidtleonard 8mo ago
> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. - Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, 1998
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by schmidtleonard 8mo ago
The problem is not solved and the techniques they use to deal with it run directly contrary to maximizing compute, because that's not historically something they have remotely cared about.
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by schmidtleonard 8mo ago
I can't believe parallel processing is still this big of a dumpster fire in python 20 years after multi-core became the rule rather than the exception. Do they really still not have a good mechanism to toss a flag on a for loop to capt
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by schmidtleonard 9mo ago
The trouble with thinking in terms of blocs is that they don't solve the foundational economic problem: who is the sin-eater who is trusted and willing to run the deficits so that everyone else can run surpluses? Without a clear answer
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by schmidtleonard 9mo ago
The interwar era between WWI and WWII is most instructive for what a multipolar currency world looks like. The Pound Sterling still mostly worked before WWI and the Dollar rose in the wake of WWII. The absence of a currency hegemon caused &
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by schmidtleonard 10mo ago
He probably means the civil war. I'd like to point out that the South was only a fan of States Rights exactly insofar as they let them do slavery. The millisecond it came to forcing Northern states to return escaped slaves, they sudden
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by schmidtleonard 10mo ago
Also, there is a massive conflict of interest associated with trusting the opinions of companies actively engaged in labor and environmental arbitrage. Opinions of politicians and think-tanks downstream of them in terms of funding, too. E
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by schmidtleonard 10mo ago
I think that's the CPU benchmark rather than the python benchmark -- and comparing CPU ARM64 vs x86_64 seems worthwhile.
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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
If a Bond villain bought all of the oil in the Middle East, would it affect prices in the US? (Yes, of course it would.)
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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
You tackled a contributing member of our community into the mud. I tackled you into the mud. We are not the same.
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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
1000%. The good solution is Georgism (perhaps with rolling leases, which are hard to manipulate, rather than LVT, which is easy to manipulate) but obviously everyone who bought into the ponzi will fight you tooth and nail so probably the be
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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
History of non-european printing press development: cool! Summary of above: cool and useful! Example based on the above: cool and insightful! Slamming someone for using a european example because that's what they know: not cool, not in
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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
> that's a very strong statement that requires some refinement Yes, but much of that refinement would be the gritty details of pushing back on awful self-serving definitions that were carefully crafted to mislead. Flouting them alto
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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
When you drive to work, you yearn for a negotiation with the local road monopoly? On cold nights, you dream of a glorious future where an unregulated energy utility could try to trick you into surge pricing? When you wrote your post, you di
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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
"It's not a war because side X won" is truly one of the arguments of all time.
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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
Right, and it's worse when you remember that the people who voted for this knew exactly what they were doing because it's how they made their money in the real estate market: obtain property rights over inelastic supply, pump chea
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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
> at least I don't suffer from TDS Trump earns the ire of his political opposition. Framing that ire as delusional is itself delusional.
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by schmidtleonard 11mo ago
He threw a double Sieg Heil at a US inauguration. That's not a rock you're under, it's a boulder.

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