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ronbenton

2,022karma·354submissions·February 3, 2025
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Interesting to read findings that these brain game websites may actually have some benefit. I kind of just assumed they didn't work.
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His behavior has been so erratic for years now.
9mo ago·view thread
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Good lord the ads popping up and content shift make this site unusable on mobile
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Ride the indexes (or target retirement funds) The only people who have consistently "beat the market" ended up in prison for running Ponzi schemes
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>The CEO’s dealmaking blitz has convinced Silicon Valley’s giants to tether their fates to his company, essentially making it too big to fail Isn’t using the phrase “too big to fail” just a bit on …
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Wild to imagine 5 of these deorbiting and breaking up in the atmosphere every day
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So far, I have found that good AI-generated code comes from good developers. The prompt flow that seems to work best is to be able to break down a problem in logical steps, articulating specific requi…
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I am a bit "meh" on the YouTube "unlisted video" example. The name itself is fairly transparent in implying that there's really no security, the video is just not listed in a …
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Well hey it’s not like subprime loans ever got us in trouble
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Why does the CEO knowing how to develop software matter? This sounds more like the company was unable to sell the software, either because of product/market fit or some other reason
10mo ago·view thread
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I was just reading through those! A bit dizzying
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I believe the actual IRS tax code implementation is in a separate repo here: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file while the originally linked repo is the fact graph tooling …
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Good question. Copyright laws are country-specific, right? So perhaps it is just trying to be clear that there is no license being asserted outside of the US.
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Makes me wonder if someone has already trained a model on the tax code. Would be interesting for sure.
10mo ago·view thread
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Big W for the tax lobby, big L for the rest of us
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I wonder too. Perhaps the intent is for it to be standalone for general usage and not just as a part of the direct file project?
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URL makes this sound like it’s supposed to be scandalous
10mo ago·view thread
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Something about adaptability? Over time lots of jobs will go away—be it through obsolescence, offshoring, etc. I don’t think the answer is to try to get those jobs to magically come back but rather to…
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Just trying to maintain employment
10mo ago·view thread
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Pi-thon
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Appears to be back up for me now
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Perhaps you missed it or the author updated the article, but I think this does cover it: >Oh, and I highly recommend providers that offer a "catch-all" feature. This way, you can have one…
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