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by twoodfin 5mo ago
Of course they are. You can read reports to the SEC on executive stock sales all day. Here’s billionaire Tim Cook last month: https://m.investing.com/news/insider-trading-news/apple-ceo-...
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
I am not an expert, but my impression is that the era of US conglomerates was more a product of the financial superstructure: Post-WW2, demographic, economic, and technological growth created many large opportunities for business ventures.
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
Last I looked at the most cited version of that ratio, it was comparing Fortune 500 CEO total compensation—including incentive-based stock appreciation—to economy-wide average hourly wages. That makes about as much sense as comparing top 50
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
I don’t get the point you’re trying to make. What if X >> Y? Why should we think otherwise?
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
Do you know what the Citizens United organization wanted to do? Why didn’t they have a right to do it?
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
I think some people miss the Nolan film’s central irony: By the conclusion, the joke about the “near zero” physical possibility of the end of the world has transmuted in Oppenheimer’s mind into certainty that Trinity ignited social forces l
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
Are US retirement accounts largely growing on the back of “companies which extract monopoly rent”? That seems outlandish. My iPhone isn’t “rent”, neither is an Nvidia GPU, or an Instagram ad.
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
Pulsars also have a rotational period that provides a reference point for interpreting arithmetic notation.
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
Over the past 6 months, Anthropic has made more waves as a product company than a frontier lab.
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
Now the behavior of your compiler/runtime stack is dependent on the sophistication of your compiler or runtime relative to the particular code at issue + the specific information available statically or dynamically in the instance. Tha
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
If they really thought this was valueless skimming, why wouldn’t they just refuse to take these cards?
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
The wealthy in NYC pay the top Federal 23.8% LTCG rate, + the top New York State income tax rate (10.9%) + the NYC income tax rate (3.876%) on their long-term capital gains.
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
The Constitution applies to the People of the United States. Not only citizens, and not only people who haven’t formed certain kinds of voluntary associations (another right protected up front!)
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
Unfortunately for this project, the First Amendment puts the right to “petition the Government for a redress of grievances” alongside freedoms of speech, the press, and religious exercise.
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
State and local tax law is not “interstate commerce”, it’s state and local tax law. The SCOTUS ruling overturning Federal intrusion into state tax law would be 9-0.
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
The best direct reporting on this comes from Jobs himself in the so-called “lost” interview with Bob Cringely: Jobs: I had 3-4 people who kept bugging me that I ought to get my rear over to Xerox PARC and see what they were doing, and so I
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
How would that not require a Constitutional amendment?
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
Probably three times: If they don’t make the Intel transition, I don’t think the Macintosh survives the Tim Cook era. We’d all be using iPads.
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
Also, the same event both “showing” and “revealing” two different things is just bad writing.
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
I don’t get it. Unlike a lot of the technical article slop that is posted here, this obviously had a lot of human thought and effort put into the prompt. The LLM pass (unsurprisingly) made it worse. For example: The results were conclusive
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
Sure! Not knocking the architecture: Building out peer-to-peer federation in place of client/server makes perfect sense for DuckDB. And I’m a big fan of owning the protocol so you can optimize it to internal structures. Just making the
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
The use case is local user DuckDB talking to MotherDuck for $. This is not commercially a terrible idea. Why keep paying Snowflake for bog-standard SQL query workload when SF makes it easy to migrate to Iceberg & commodity engines like
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
LLM probably designed the attack, LLM analyzes the attack and produces the postmortem. Interesting days.
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by twoodfin 5mo ago
The message was pretty clear that the only “users” that matter to them now are agents. It’s not clear at all this is the wrong move.
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
I’m sorry people aren’t getting it, or are so committed to downvoting humor here they’re tagging the good stuff.
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
It was hard for an Apple ][ to compete with an IBM mainframe at enterprise data processing, but the power of personal ownership & commodity economics was disruptive enough that 30 years later 99%+ of enterprise data processing was takin
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Modulo Anthropic messing with the model for load mitigation, I wonder how stable this result is. 1,000 pings, how many correctly ponged?
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
The motorized tractor and other agricultural technologies aimed and did, in fact, “displace most of us” once upon a time. And now, because I’m not a farmer, I get to spend much more time with my family, in recreational pursuits, sleeping, …
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Technology has been replacing manual and mental labor for millennia, and especially in the last 150 years. A farmer or accountant from 1875 would be utterly shocked by how much we depend on machines and the social and industrial instituitio
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by twoodfin 6mo ago
Token cost or token demand?

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