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No I'm not. I'm responding to data about median income adjusted for PPP, and not adjusted for social services such as healthcare. Big difference.

- Around 76% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. - 71% of adults say that their monthly debt payments prevent them from saving. When we say America, we can't just mean the 20% who are o…

This, like so many of his talks, keeps popping up -- as it should. In our industry of software construction, there's only one true test, "Does it scale?" And the answer is and has been…

Clearly

> NPR is missing the basics here sadly, on purpose We need active journalism to watch out for our interests as citizens. What happens when it dies?

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I didn't go to the gym a single day for November and December and it was heart-breaking when I started again in January how much I had set back. But slowly I got back to a good rate again. A wee…

> he asked for help getting STD drugs from Epstein [to commit a felony] We're talking about the 2% of information made available, much of which is redacted. The investigations need to inclu…

I don't want apologies and resignations. I want investigations and the most serious of consequences if found guilty. I can't believe people aren't more upset about this.

We're all under a bad star right now. There aren't many options, lots of people underemployed and many more completely unemployed. Competition is fierce. I don't have much to say, un…

And I don't want to add fuel to a strange fire, but in 1764 when Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote a letter to Beaumont regarding the absurdity of belief despite evidence, he used this as an example: …

This is a fun story from the early 18th century if you haven't read about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_St._Germain …

Now try copper, aluminum and more. I saw a clip from a conference that said for copper, at 3% GDP growth, the global demand in the next 18 years will exceed the last 10,000 years, but 80% of known re…

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An older ThinkPad is a great choice. Sometimes when a company goes out of business or upgrade, they dump a bunch of laptops and you can get used ThinkPads on the cheap.

Reminds me of this article The Immaculate Conception of ChatGPT https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-immaculate-conceptio... …

When the singularity arrives it will not be remotely boring. These snake oil claims of the singularity will forever be boring and are getting more tiring by the minute.

LeCun, “I’m not gonna make friends saying this . . . ” he tells me, “but I was reading this and I thought everything that Chomsky . . . was saying could not possibly be true, [because] we learn every…

Today's video on the 1934 Silver Purchase Act is fascinating https://x.com/echodatruth/status/2004802236224766009 …

scaleway.ch has $5/month servers hosted in Switzerland and you can install POP3/SMTP

For the last year I have been having for breakfast every day: four or five eggs scrambled and three slices of bacon. Coffee with cream, no sugar. No juice. I can't recommend it enough.

OpenAI Declares 'Code Red' as Deep Seek Eats Their Lunch

I watched the Google interview with Ilya yesterday and this came up. There's a large disconnect between the evals and the real-world performance, and he admitted that the evals are targeted. The…