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by twoodfin 4mo ago
I don’t really get the SaaS-pocalypse hypothesis. That these products are “fairly simple” implies that the value they provide was never in the code to begin with.
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
The discourse about commercial real estate in downtowns (well-beyond this thread) has taken on a kind of “one neat trick” wishful thinking. If only the greedy owners or banks would recognize their massive investments had lost hundreds of bi
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Unfortunately, I suspect this phenomenon will not be limited to rhetorical style. To pick a proximate example: It’s often the case that the assertive, confident LLM LinkedIn-ese is obscuring an invalid argument. It would be surprising if re
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Why should the government have anything to say about price negotiations between producers and retailers of frozen pizzas? Robinson-Patman is terrible law that’s more or less impossible to enforce equitably. So it hasn’t been.
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Eh? I thought this was the main thrust of the argument: Mathematics has in fact always prized conceptual advancement and understanding over proof, despite presenting itself internally and externally as rewarding the latter. The author calls
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Political spending is perhaps the most important kind of free speech. It cost money to print copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Federalist Papers. The New York Times gets into politics quite a bit and is published by a mult
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
I just flag like I would terrible writing by a human and move on. It’s frankly depressing when (2018) oldies-but-goodies get reposted here for the Nth time. The clarity of thought and obvious effort that went into communicating that thought
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Rubber-stamping every warrant without regard for Constitutional and other legal standards would not be operating in good faith.
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Putting aside the question of whether AOP is a good model for software systems development, I wonder if the specific approach proposed is a good model for LLM-driven software systems development. LLMs really like the most important context
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Because the police got a warrant, exactly as this decision now says was required. And there's something called the "good-faith exception" for unreasonable warrants: If you get a warrant where it's required (or in this ca
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Loper Bright overruled Chevron and removed its special deference for statutory interpretation by executive regulatory agencies. More deference to the executive existed under Chevron than now exists under Loper Bright . Less judicial
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
You can simultaneously believe that the hyperscalers are becoming capital-intensive long-term in a way that’s bad for their profits and that as a result will be raising the COGS of Apple’s business in a way that also hurts profits.
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
This data was being “compelled” from Google. If Google had told its users that their data might be sold, had sold it, and the government had acquired it that way, this case comes out differently. In reality, Google simply stopped collecting
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
She doesn’t have to convince the “far right wing”. As long as CJ Roberts (not generally regarded as in any “wing”) is in the majority, he can assign the opinion to her.
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
No, that is not what it said. It said that the power to interpret Congressional statues from first principles rested with the judiciary and not with the executive. It eliminated the idea of a “gap” that executive agencies (whatever do y
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
There is simply no way to look at Constitutional doctrine pre- and post- Chevron and conclude that the decision put more power in the hands of the President and his administration. It did exactly the opposite.
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Repeal of the Chevron doctrine took the power of deference away from executive agencies and replaced it with first-principles judicial interpretation of statutes. Chevron and the unitary executive theory have essentially nothing to do wit
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
The Chevron doctrine gave more power to the executive agencies of the current administration, so I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
“Everyone in that neighborhood goes jobless”? The US unemployment rate is currently 4.3%.
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
A vendor of web services, predominantly to enterprises & institutions. I’m not trying to be obtuse here. For Apple it’s obvious: They’re a “gatekeeper” between software and hardware makers and iPhone users. If you want to offer your sof
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Consumers of what? Vendors of what?
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Who’s on each side of the gate?
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Interestingly, as I read the thread that spawned this reply, Sandy appears to argue that in fact it was worth it, despite being personally “wrecked” and believing it might have been done differently.
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Which places are distinguishing high-fee Visa cards?
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
The phrasing was indeed trite. The anecdote was intended to highlight the directness of his answer rather than the constancy of his position.
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
My favorite bit of Greenspan lore: Texas Senator Phil Gramm (pretty sure it was him) was a prominent GOP member of the Senate Banking Committee. Of course, Greenspan often testified there. Gramm would always ask Greenspan, along with his ot
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Now you’re just question-begging. If the only kind of “work” is “selling your labor” then sure, but I think a farmer tilling his own soil is “working”.
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Well, for one thing, billions of dollars of capital!
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
IBM’s mainframe business is also large and highly profitable. It’s not growing in any meaningful way relative to other technology businesses.
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by twoodfin 4mo ago
Sure, but at that level it’s totally commoditized by the hyperscalers. VMWare brings nothing to the table.

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