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> No country has managed to reverse the trend of declining birth rates. Perhaps we can learn from the past? Birthrates between the world wars were below replacement level in much o…

Alas, last time I checked numbers were something that was announced in-band, so it could be trivially faked by the caller. But I'm not sure if that's still true.

> I assume ownership of the caller's number can be logged/checked. Alas, last time I checked numbers were something that was announced in-band, so it could be trivially faked by th…

What if the business says 'That wasn't me?' I mean, everyone can call anyone and name any company already.

No, no, just the opposite: school curricula are full of lofty highfalutin ideas. I didn't say anything is hopeless. It's just that adding more good and lofty ideas and topics to th…

Most of the things school curricula touch turn awful. It's never been easier for you and interested kids to learn these things on their own.

> The idea of being an "inventor" professionally only really works with patents. Well, trade secrets could also do the trick?

Thanks, that worked!

Alas, no Singapore. I wonder if you can add more cities?

Thanks. Sounds like a good deal.

Whether insurance make sense to buy, depends on relationship between your risk profile and the premium charged.

The big problem is that in general I want slack to be able to send some messages (otherwise I would ban that). But the difference between good and bad messages is something that's …

Thanks a lot!

At a former job for a regional bank in South East Asia my boss used to joke that outsourcing is really great for the company, because now they can fail to deliver their software pr…

What's a GCC?

The US has a lot of the world's best specialists.

You are right. And the hook is for convenience, not for safety. Having explicit sandboxes is good, of course. But in addition I also treat my whole computer like a sandbox, it leas…

People love to complain.

Why does it have to be a Mac? Your money probably goes further with a generic PC and Linux?

The app is split into multiple layers. Just like your browser can do everything already, but only lets websites use specific features.

Claude code actually has a hook to let you install a script to review these bash commands for you. You can get pretty with a few simple and conservative rules, as long as you teach…

You can actually use a hook to have a script review the (bash) commands for you.

The permissions system seems to be mostly finegrained to help you from problems that backups and sandboxes already solve. The more dangerous activities I find are sending messages …

However, you might be able to find a natural experiment were taxi drivers were randomly prevented from continuing with their driving career?

> First, I get exhausted reading LLM prose. I really don't want to read anything generated by something like Opus 5 at this point. Agreed. I find Opus 5, and even Fable, to be over…