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by twoodfin 1y ago
What research did you have in mind that would suggest anything like a 30X fiscal multiplier? Public spending efficiency is generally understood to range not that far from 1.00, depending on current economic conditions: Better in a recession
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by twoodfin 1y ago
You put your finger on it. And Apple is responding by not shipping features into the EU that it believes it will be forced to “standardize” and document for others’ use, like iPhone mirroring to Mac.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Efficient at what?
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I dunno. Transpose something like the civil rights era to today and this kind of risk avoidance looks cowardly. We really need to get over the “calculator 80085” era of LLM constraints. It’s a silly race against the obviously much more soph
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Also the core analogy is wrong: If I own the concession rights for an airport, I am absolutely taking a non-trivial commission on every Chipotle burrito and Starbucks latte sold there.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Well, I imagine at least the emotional aspect of this squabble had more than a billion reasons injected via Databricks.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Why?
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by twoodfin 1y ago
If you want to build your entire assessment of economic progress around the ratio of home prices to incomes, well, OK. Obviously policymakers haven’t over-focused on that number, and to some extent that’s a big mistake that is hopefully now
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by twoodfin 1y ago
That real weekly wage data is basically why Trump almost and then did get reelected in one chart.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
This chart I stumbled across yesterday at least matches my anecdotal understanding that, yes, there are places like Houston and Minneapolis where in fact what you’re looking for has happened, because supply has been allowed to rise to meet
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Now we’re moving from broad income & wealth to a very specific good in housing. Yes, housing supply should be much more abundant. The constraint on supply has not been the 1%, but government regulation through zoning and environmental r
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by twoodfin 1y ago
The median American household has a >30% higher real income today than in 1985. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N Personal income is up more than 50%. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/serie
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by twoodfin 1y ago
This stuff is ridiculously important for healthcare: It’s a demographic fact that both the US and the world at large are simply not training enough doctors and nurses to provide today’s standard of care at current staffing levels as the pop
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by twoodfin 1y ago
What I meant was something like the SAX streaming parse model disaggregated and broken into sniff / lex / parse phases all mediated by a modestly structured stream of the kind a tool like awk could process naturally.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Contemplating this, it’s too bad the Unix scripting ecosystem never evolved a tripartite symbiosis of ‘file‘, ‘lex‘, and ‘yacc‘, or similar tools. That is, one tool to magically identify a file type, one to tokenize it based on that identif
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by twoodfin 1y ago
classes != objects Yes, the typing and semantic models are wildly different. The point is that they’re primitive in a way that the other widespread alternative, C++, did not inherit from its Cfront heritage.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I don’t mean to be pedantic, but beyond the deliberate syntactic echoes, JavaScript and Java were the first two languages with (incompatible!) object-oriented data models enforced by the runtime to achieve widespread adoption with longevi
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Frequent bullet lists. Bolded key phrases. Varying sentence length for emphasis. “Not X, Y” phrasing structure. Pervasive second-person perspective. I mean it’s possible somebody just writes like that, but I wouldn’t bet money on it.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Insurance. It’s pure inflow vs. outflow margin. There’s not a lot of capital or operating expense to invest in relative to the massive cash flows.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
The “X—not Y” pattern is also a dead giveaway.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
It’s effectively a much more coherent, powerful way to do metaprogramming at compile time than overloading the template machinery.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I didn’t mean the term in anything but a colloquial sense: They believe certain outcomes are right and proper. Such outcomes don’t typically manifest themselves out of good intentions. What’s the plan? When Curtis Yarvin is at least in your
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I genuinely worry that the Rationalists are actually Fascist Anarchists who don’t own cars.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
IANABCE but… It’d be really great to be able to price predictions for various RWA at a fine grain: “Will IBM be >$240 next Friday at market close?” “Will George Alleline default on his mortgage for 46 Smiley Court?” But manually creating
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by twoodfin 1y ago
What creeps me out is that I have no idea of their theory of power: How will they achieve their aims? Maybe they want to do it in a way I’d consider just: By exercising their rights as individuals in their personal domains and effectively a
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I am nearly certain that’s not how Zuckerberg thinks about equity. You also have to publicly account for RSU’s to the market just like any other expense.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
The intrinsic research and analysis behind this article are great. I’m having a hard time, though, not tripping over the obvious (tell me I’m wrong!) ChatGPT “polish”. Multilevel tutorial outlines, bolded key points, “X is Y—not Z”, … I can
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Curious: How would you usefully & naturally add recursion to SQL without making it Turing-complete?
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by twoodfin 1y ago
If that’s the scheme it’s failing miserably: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
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by twoodfin 1y ago
https://hub.docker.com/r/intersystems/iris-community Should be super easy. There’s also a native Apple Silicon tarball that I’m not sure is as easy to get your hands on.

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