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Your graphs roughly marry up with my anecdotal experience. After a while, when you know when and how to utilize LLMs/agents, coding does become more productive. There is a discerni…

In terms of difficulty was the HIV drug harder to develop than the COVID vaccine? If so, how much harder? The resolution of the AIDS epidemic, granted the logistics and targeting n…

The real game the current administration is playing is to land on Mars before their current term expires. This mirrors the political, prestige, and technology triumph of the Kenned…

I think this is a brilliant talk and truly captures the "zeitgeist" of our times. He sees the emergent patterns arising as software creation is changing. I am writing a hobby app a…

My listening to such billionaires explains a different attitude. Small investors, and medium investors hate market turbulence for sure. But when you are a billionaire, you can easi…

That's a great data point. Thanks!

It is a sound analysis but I think there are other non-legal factors at play. If the president tries to do X, then the lawyers block X, then in political game theory the president …

Sadly this is not the case in relation to EU laws. In the US system of law, it is based on codified "rules". If you follow the letter of the rules you are fine - no fines. The syst…

I'd like to expand out why I hold this belief. The political cohort behind the president is roughly in two halves. The first half are the original MAGA crowd (looking out for the w…

I agree. The bond markets are the ultimate heavy hitter. They have government level impact. See also: The French Revolution.

You are correct on the mechanism here. But my point is adjacent to that. Whilst you always get a buyer for the debt (here the bank), it is the yield that matters as the re-financin…

I agree it's classic brinksmanship and the tariff views he has are genuine and long held. But his numerous signals to the Fed to ask to lower interest rates and the commitment to D…

That's fair but I suggest that they are actually deficit hawks for the long term . In the short term, they've got financing troubles hence they care about the yield.

"It’s the T-bills wot dun it." That’s my read on why the U.S. just paused the global tariff hike to 10%. From the beginning, I’ve believed the executive branch's real goal was to p…

I was studying the code they posted on GitHub. One line of attack is to study the bugs/workarounds in the code. For example, https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aapple%2Fsecurity-pcc…

To quote Schopenhauer (English translation): ``` But space and time are not only, each for itself, presupposed by matter, but a union of the two constitutes its essence, for this, …

Remember that time when Linus looked at the camera and gave Nvidia the finger. Has that time now passed? Is it time to reconcile? Or are there still some gotchas?

Those problems of unaffordability of homes is a symptomatic effect of an earlier problem. During COVID-19, facing possible catastrophe in the Economy, Trump presidency pumped money…

What has happened here is all about the personalities involved, not a business strategy, not a legal strategy. It is "Forming, Storming, Norming, ... " (Tuckman's stages of group d…

This is a in-the-field narrative of the Carbfix pilot project to capture CO2 into Basaltic rocks. It is a true tale of the challenges, ups and downs of doing something innovative a…

Very insightful - I didn't know about Section 174. I feel sorry for the overseas labour that a US company startup would be now considering stopping for tax reasons. But I suppose t…

All tech companies I've been at have had this challenge of churn. As an engineer, the deeper the experience in a field, the more business value you can create (all else being equal…

I think that is 2/3 of the story. The other 1/3 is the "patch" workflow. In linux kernel development, it is all about sending patch sequences to a mailing list, comprising well-cra…

Well, striking language indeed. But.. what are the responsibilities of the board that may be hindered? I studied https://openai.com/our-structure One tantalising statement in there…