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by thisisit 4mo ago
War insurance rates for shipping has also gone up: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/business/strait-hormuz-sh...
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Here's another train of thought because you don't seem to understand how incentives or even lawyering works. > then what's stopping all those people you fired from starting new law companies, where AI also does most of the
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It seems seeding chaos is the only thing these guys know how to do. What happens (or happened) when the shoe is on the other foot and the other guy wants to push climate science and vaccines? Run to Texas courts to stop the federal governme
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You have to look at the population split between urban/rural. In China it is 67/33 and India it is completely reversed at 30/70. And agri continues to be the number one occupation. Additionally, lack of opportunities is also
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by thisisit 4mo ago
> LLM's can actually be exceptionally good at research and pattern recognition, i.e. analysis. Sure but knowing where to start research is also a problem. Just saying “do research” isn’t going to work even with volumes of public inf
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This is going to be followed up with - DHS creates an “extraordinary” carve out for large tech companies and anyone who pays into Trump’s pockets. And mid size companies hire foreign workers in foreign countries and accelerate offshoring. P
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by thisisit 5mo ago
Its not about immigration at all. It is about creating a "us vs them" tribal narrative. That's why people defend even US citizens being harassed under this administration. And the justification is because they might hold a di
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This government and its supporters would say - Due process isn't applicable to everyone in the US especially who they perceive as being "illegal immigrant".
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Found this: https://github.com/farion1231/cc-switch It allows for switching models in Claude Code.
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I am curious - Is there a way to switch between models depending on the task? Because I believe Deepseek V4 is not multimodal and it will be good to switch back to Claude if vision or other capabilities are required.
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I have been in multiple meetings where corporate folks parrot AI and productivity but if I ask for a business case and/or productivity savings, they go silent. The funniest meeting has to be where someone said - "I have been using
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Did you miss the point above that? > But there’s also the issue of entering the US; if I roll up at the border and am asked to disclose my social media output, there’s a significant risk of an extremely negative outcome. Its no longer th
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Or more likely move towards substack or newsletters where the pitch is - Don’t let the LLM chose the output for you, go directly to our Substack/newsletter instead. This will happen especially with things like conspiracy theories becau
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You are basically repeating what you said above. It works. There is satisfaction of building the app yourself. Its your baby and it works - AI enables that and it will get better. Replace what you said with many hobbyist examples from over
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How Trump's crypto venture and Iran's top exchange use the same crypto networks(reuters.com)
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Oh they are well aware and using bitcoin for years. Nobitex is an Iranian exchange and they have been processing billions using crypto networks: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/how-trumps-crypto-ven...
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Quite often money is equated with intelligence and with time people want their opinion on everything under the sun - especially on things outside their area. With time so much smoke has been blown up their ass that they think they are bette
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So the future is - Everyone has their own apps built specifically for their own use case and spending tokens just for the satisfaction to have created something themselves? That sounds like a tool for hobbyists. I have no clue about wine co
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> we should reduce coordination overhead and empower individuals and teams to make decisions and execute on them. Improved collaboration. Says every new CEO and manager. The notion that this is ever going to be solved especially with dif
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Recently I had a request come through to allow finance analysts to vibe code their apps. During a discussion one of the finance managers let the cat out of the bag. Turns out our CFO had met fellow CFOs at a get together. They talked about
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> because if Iran gets to keep their approx 1000lbs all they have to do is make a simple gun-type device and sail it into New York City You need to stop watching too many movies and/or conspiracy videos. Given how security has gotte
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> For the US, the only pain is inflation, which is more a matter of political capital than anything tangible. As others point out Iran had their own fair share of issues and there were protests but now they have a common enemy to fight.
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Lot of people don't seem to get that - It is easier to go from terrible to average but much harder to go from average to good. I am sure AI bros are same people who were convinced consumer grade fully automated driving was going happen
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At what point people will realize "his first term" isn't a good bar and its certainly not because "he resisted" rather he at least had some better advisors and GOP had some control over him. This time around GOP has
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Whenever the topic of Chinese infrastructure comes up I am reminded of a 2016 Wired documentary about Shenzhen. It was positive portrayal of hacker culture in Shenzhen. But one thing really stood out to me. They had demarcation line separat
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This seems to confuse cause and effect. True, most engineers hate meetings because as your rightly point often there can be too many "types" of meetings - team meting, issue tracking, backlogs, design reviews, triage etc etc. Out
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Because the next email is going to be "we demoed the app to our CEO and he loved it and he wants it in production". I have never seen the team back down from their ideas. And also, I have been in similar sounding scenarios multipl
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My larger enterprise world today AI adoption seems to have taken a turn for the worse. Finance folks reached out asking if they could vibe code their own app using Copilot/Cursor/Claude for finance planning purpose. And because th
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The focus is now largely on stock markets. It’s not by mistake that we got DOW over 50k so don’t question anything as an excuse.
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> if a string of your country’s top rocket experts started disappearing, you wouldn’t just sit idly by The "if" is doing the heavy lifting here. And universe has lot of "ifs". Here's one: If this was a perfect di

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