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Well... yes, it would. In theory, efficiency gains are deflationary. Huge efficiency gains are hugely deflationary. If we're producing 10x as much, why not print 10x as much money?…

What it cost doesn't actually say what it cost. I wonder what models they used. Napkin math of Opus for everything (probably not true) with no caching suggests $67,000. Cool articl…

And then you end up raising your grandkids instead of the kids you gave birth to. It's not something that comes without cost. And what if you don't particularly trust your parents …

I just want to say that I'm in a similar position to you. 32 and divorced my wife a couple of months ago. We had gotten together at 18--I had lived with her my entire adult life, e…

Testing my LLM-detection abilities. Did you write this yourself? Or is this LLM produced? The phrasings stick out to me as super GPT-like.

I think it's quite common that a company has way too many things that it could work on compared to what the amount of people they should reasonably hire can get done. And working o…

I'm not sure that follows from this article. In fact, I think the logical conclusion of the article is that, by trying to grow (address weaknesses and turn them into strengths) you…

Do you think normal people (think, your average investing American) are trading based on this news? They probably shouldn't be... I would think that by far most of the trading thes…

I think this would be expected though, no? Sure, there's flight to safety, but you're also reducing exports to the US, reducing the number of dollars flowing to foreign nationals, …

You're answering a question that wasn't asked so you can bring your view on unionization into the conversation. The implicit question is whether management should , not whether the…

I have a public transit commute, but at the end of the day it's 8 minutes of walking to the train, a transfer after 7 minutes, and then a 7 minute walk to the office from the train…

Could they not make sure that enough of their assets are in cash-flowing assets (think, rent-yielding assets, or treasuries, or dividend-yielding stock, etc.) that need not be sold…

As far as the change over time goes, I don't think anyone is disagreeing with you that social mobility used to be higher. I think part of the reasoning for that was an incredibly s…

I've had consistently bad experiences with Apple support.

I'd say your set-up is probably more rare than people whose own code and whose company code are both stored on Github.

I think it's confusing because person 1 was talking about America, person 2 was talking globally. That said, I eat dangerously close to .66 of a chicken every day.

Aha, maybe I'm putting dramatically too many grounds into my coffee, haha.

A few cents a cup?! Where do you buy your coffee? I buy coffee at about 12 bucks a pound. A pound makes about ten carafes of 4 cups (tbh, I use the term cup loosely, because a mug …

I can really relate to this. Thanks for sharing your story.

I'm getting shot in the foot by this right now as our team embarks on tackling some long-term tech debt. The approach we've found that works is health checks and manually looking i…

Isn't this flawed, though? If a venture company has a billion dollars in LP funding secured, then instead of having that 1 1 billion fund, they could have ten of the 100 million fu…

Does it not? Given their current profits, we would expect 25b in rolling year profits. Their market cap is 1.2t. Apple, with about 80b in rolling year, has a market cap of 2.8t Giv…

It's true that it isn't always the case. We have no more than 2 people on the team at any given office, and are spread across 5 offices and a few full-time remote on a broader team…

Probably not always, but in general, yes.

I think you're right about this, but there are companies that are putting distributed teams back into open offices just so that... they can sit in zoom meetings with their team. Bu…