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> It's actually quite rare to find someone who says I will help the poor, but only if my neighbour also pays, otherwise they can get fucked You are seeing all of this in a very, ve…

If you get this to work once rerunning it weekly seems fairly easy unless you actually need to see the data live and have perfect uptime?

IMHO this would make more sense if provided as part of a larger "platform" like Langfuse/Langsmith/etc. Otherwise you just end with a dozen SaaS products for highly specific use ca…

> I'm saying it can't be true most people don't want to help fund the poor if the majority are voting to tax themselves to fund the poor. Or people have a tendence to perceive a sy…

> have some individual incentives to develop services offered to the poor I never said that wasn't the case but historically that "some" was never sufficient. On average people are…

Well off people do not allocate capital in a way that's socially or economically (on a national level) optimal. So the government has to do that for them (even if those who the maj…

Well that would apply to a lot of thing governments spend money on. I think the idea is that governments are better at allocating capital in certain cases (obviously one might disa…

Unfortunately we don't really have any premodern (i.e. operating under the same constraints) atheistic societies to compare against. Maybe its just human nature to try and rational…

How can you compare something when you can't see or measure the outcome for an undetermined amount of time?

In any complex organization that might take several quarters if not more, though.

Well in Islam the story is different and they consider the canonical New Testament gospels not very accurate. Then you have all the ancient texts here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

> . I more dispute that there was actually a person named Romulus who was in almost any way related to the stories told about him or the founding of Rome. You and many Romans. I me…

> Romans began rewriting their history and erasing their past. Which is exactly what we are talking about right now. I'm not sure that's true. Of course some some details might hav…

I think the point is that Muslim accounts of the same events are sometimes very different to those of (Nicaean)Christians. Also we do know there were many competing narratives desc…

> The idea that some random historian or politician simply convinced everyone his fiction story Not on purpose, it's just that without written history it's very easy for stories to…

Interestingly we have surviving Hittite letters complaining about the Achaeans causing some trouble in the vicinity of Troy along with a guy whose name sounds very similar to Priam…

I personally find OpenCode's TUI atrociously awful, I guess a matter of taste.

> As a left-leaning forum Even if true it's almost entirely orthogonal. The "right" is usually only against government control, intervention and surveillance until they get into po…

Well everyone pays the same for oil (unless there are export/import control and adjusted by transportation costs) worldwide. So americans will be paying 2x as well its just that so…

> is laughable Exactly, that's why it was obvious he was speaking implicitly. And well... EU will have to clean up others mess that they sprayed all over Europe anyway.