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I am a really heavy Claude Code user but source control is still one area where I have regular bad experiences just using Claude.

The article mentions reduced job growth in SWE due to AI but the fed actually says the opposite: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE The people best suited for im…

Most of it is just blatant tax evasion.

Nurses in the US are actually very highly paid. Ask anyone how their week was. They'll all say it was crap.

Writing code can often just be the means to an end which is delivering value.

That still doesn't not make it not slavery. What if you don't agree with the social contract?

A new grad is not necessarily the same as a potential H1B hire. Tech workers are not fungible. A company might prefer to hire an Indian or Polish person who has won ICPC, has hard-…

I think the idea of shaming people for being successful conquerers is ironically very western. Ask what the Mongols think about their conquests or the Han or what the Turks think a…

I don't know what you imagine perceptions of the British empire to be but most people don't think the UK sent 10000 ships to India to zerg rush the existing power structures.

He mentioned native allies at several points actually, though he doesn’t emphasise them and their purported numbers are still like 100x lower than the forces they are facing. > And…

> That's partly because inequality doesn't fit into their models. Well Piketty being wrong doesn't fit in many people's models either. Economists routinely do talk about inequality…

Iceland is in the EEA so EU FoM is already a thing.

AFAIK a lot of these ideas are not new (the JSON thing was done with OS models before) and OpenAI is possibly the hottest startup with the most funding this decade (maybe even past…

> Since AI vision is not yet good enough, it’s possible that one reason the AIs do relatively poorly on this new test is because the verbal descriptions of the questions are not wr…

If you do a global comparison the US is incredibly richer rather than these countries being incredibly poor.

Self employment is 3 times higher in the UK than in the US actually: https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SL.EMP.SELF.ZS/r...

The UK leads in Europe for start up founding… Almost nobody in the UK works for the same company for 50 years and this used to be a thing in the US too. Canada has similar laws/iss…

At least in my industry non-competes seem to be a tool to reduce worker mobility and a way for competitors to collude and keep costs down. It's a highly-paid industry FWIW. I think…

Non-competes are a thing both in the UK and several EU countries and quite common in some jobs. Also quite enforceable and also not necessarily paid.

Given that women generally avoid dating lower-paid partners, there's a good chance you wouldn‘t or that those people would be outliers.

At least the version I hear most often about is a gross disparity between the genders without taking anything into account. IIRC if you look into it it's mostly a maternity penalty…

Those manufactured goods partially get enabled through these services

I get your grievances about Germany, but alimony/child support laws can turn out much worse than that in many parts of the anglosphere. Bad bureaucracy is also hardly unique to Ger…

Anytime Spotify makes money the music labels up their prices. Music streaming is not that great of a business model.

Yeah, I used it today to interact with some database stuff I have some passing knowledge about and it told me a bunch of wrong things. Though it also helped me solve the task; Chat…