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by z2 8mo ago
The value of labor i.e. wages depend on labor demand (the marginal product of labor) and bargaining power, not output per worker. If AI is a substitute for many tasks, the marginal value of an additional worker, and what a company is willin
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by z2 8mo ago
That resonates with me. Both in the lack of discipline as the adults in my world basically defaulted to, "You're so smart, keep it up!" And -- very much related -- the fixed mindset I developed not knowing until later how to
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by z2 8mo ago
Thanks for sharing. Just on the PKM side, is there something about this setup that Claude Code + AGENTS.md (that you get it to write for you) can't do? Is it the chat integration or does it actually have a better knowledge management s
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by z2 8mo ago
Tesla also announced they will be discontinuing the basic lane keep + adaptive speed cruise control they helped pioneer in cars sold going forward. But this is now a standard (free) feature even in basic vehicles like the Toyota Corolla. Wh
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by z2 8mo ago
Could they have gotten around this by actually serving Eggo waffles? Would that have then fallen under nominative fair use?
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by z2 9mo ago
I for one am enjoying my last few months of Windows 10, stable, responsive, no surprise updates at last.
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by z2 9mo ago
The two notes from this year are accidentally marked as 2025, the website posts may actually be hand-crafted.
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by z2 9mo ago
In comparison with Musk's companies ($15 billion in 2023, $7b in 2024), this seems to be a pittance. https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117956/documents/...
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by z2 9mo ago
Nice and thank you! I think there's a great opportunity to apply the same love and care and compete with utility apps that tend to come with ads and exploits today. Thinking of music tuners/metronomes, barcode scanners, unit conve
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by z2 9mo ago
Seems it's because out of the low hundreds people total who visited in a year and were expected to leave the US, some large percent didn't leave, joining the double-digit overstayers club. https://www.dhs.gov/sites
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by z2 9mo ago
Same, this was my first MUD by chance as some friends and I discovered it as a means to play games in a school computer lab that banned games. Good times. Taught me the definition of 'quaff' too.
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by z2 9mo ago
I've had success using my nose and a cheap $15 moisture meter against walls and ceilings. In my case I was already pretty sure the moisture came from the roof when it rained so went looking right after rainstorms. This was after also r
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by z2 9mo ago
Very true, worst case is 2n-1 syllables for n digits.
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by z2 9mo ago
Maybe draw a distinction between gift cards that users purchased, versus ones that the user didn't actually want, like credits from refunds that really should have come back as cash. And given the gift card balances going unused and ev
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by z2 10mo ago
It was a far cry from the full Portuguese citizenship offered for Macau, both in the latter's lack of conditions on acquisition (beyond being over age 15 at the handover), and in passing it on to descendants. https://www.quo
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by z2 10mo ago
For pinyin representation of Mandarin, these are very different sounds, while the equivalent (identical) Mandarin pinyin representation of し, じ, つ would be xi, ji, cu. I'm not as familiar with romanization systems closer to Latin pronu
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by z2 10mo ago
Naive question: could this have been survivorship bias? Could certain ones not have been written down or kept with the others?
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Electricity is about to become the new base currency(electrek.co)
2 points by z2 11mo ago|2 comments
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by z2 11mo ago
If by necessity you need to leave the door unlocked more, then you can expect more bandits to pass through. The frequency is a result of China's banning of all Google services, and the mess of Google Play alternatives making the univer
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by z2 11mo ago
Clearly the solution is to build more captcha style games of games to harvest all that brainpower. https://www.washington.edu/news/2011/09/19/gamers-succeed-wh...
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by z2 11mo ago
It's good to go through the exercise, but agents are easy until you build a whole application using an API endpoint that OpenAI or LangChain decides to yank, and you spend the next week on a mini migration project. I don't disagre
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by z2 11mo ago
I feel there's probably a formal academic topology for this, but it seems on one end you have party-dominant or single party authoritarianism (Singapore arguably) and on the other end you have cult of personality style. The former is o
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by z2 11mo ago
It is one of the core concepts of sovereignty--defining a territory and then deciding who or what gets to be inside. Along with a government with a monopoly on violence used inwards, and some foreign relations directed outwards, you have th
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by z2 11mo ago
Autonomy is not sovereignty. Tibet wasn’t “invaded” like a foreign country, it had been de facto autonomous after the chaotic Qing collapse, but no one recognized it as sovereign. If I were to guess at China's narrative, the PLA’s 1950
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by z2 11mo ago
No. That list shows coercive or authoritarian behavior, not classical imperialism. Imperialism means establishing colonies or directly ruling foreign territories for economic extraction. China today doesn’t occupy or govern other sovereign
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by z2 11mo ago
The most charitable interpretation I can think of, if OP didn't misuse the word, would be, the generic "China bad" narrative being applied to things like equating the Belt and Road (loans, infrastructure projects) to centurie
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by z2 11mo ago
Just as with CO2, a better comparison would look at per-capita figures and the destinations of consumption--for instance paper and furniture for export. It may also take into account the viable land area, lest we also want to condemn Austra
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by z2 11mo ago
Washington is one of a handful of states (all bordering Canada) that offer enhanced driver's licenses, which are by definition meant to prove US citizenship so you can use it to travel back to the US from Canada.
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by z2 1y ago
And (admittedly maybe by design) it ignores the real important part of citizenship, which is the residence rights to your home country and beyond when you're not traveling the world. The city-state of Singapore is nice, but a French pa
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by z2 1y ago
Don't pick your poison, mix them together! Industrial policy for losses, rent-seeking for profits.

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