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Economics isn’t just “money”.

Economists study things like stripper names to abortion effects on crime. Go ahead and read the book Freakonomics.

Doesn’t matter. A billionaire’s existence doesn’t take away from the poor, since wealth isn’t zero-sum.

Focus on the poor, not the rich.

Warfare exists independently of economic efficiency. Colonialism would have happened regardless of technological advancement.

It literally does. Billionaires don't exist without everyone else also becoming wealthier.

It's why China was able to eliminate extreme poverty while creating hundreds of billionaires.

You may think this inequality is unfair, but economics isn't concerned about inequality. Why? Because inequality doesn't matter. What only matters is poverty, and the elimination of it.

And I always find it hilarious that socialists can never say "I want to eliminate poverty"

That's their job to figure it out, not yours.

Yah the Industrial Revolution wasn't a direct cause of any war. There are zero wars that are a result of economic efficiency. And, no, colonialism isn't economic efficiency. Economic efficiency is a very specific thing. It doesn't mean "whatever unfair thing I don't like".

They literally do.

Has there ever been a time where economic efficiency reduced the GDP instead of growing it?

Same with AI.

Should be obvious that whatever AI does, people are capable and resilient enough to naturally respond to it for everyone's benefit. It's just what people do. They don't sit around doing nothing because AI took their job- they'll figure out something else, to fill a new hole in the economy.

Moore's law applies to people's productivity as well, not just transistors on a chip.

The whole Catholic aesthetic is amazing. Really is the tops.

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Did they know the comments come from bots as well?

LLMs are experts at Django, as there's 20 years of training data on it as well as just being written in the world's most popular language. LLMs can pump out full featured Django sites like anything.

I don't know why anyone would use any other framework.

Why would you need fiber optics in planes for control towers to communicate with other control towers? Were the planes used as routers?

I have a question on non-profits in general. What exactly is the advantage of being incorporated as a non-profit, when all you have to do to not be taxed as a for-profit corporation is spend all your money each year and not show any profit? It seems you'd have more privacy as a for-profit corporation, since you don't have to disclose donors.

Letter should be thrown in the trash. Let him bring up charges if they feel a crime has been committed.

Why is Elon trying to implement infrastructure using wireless networking like Starlink? Wireless networking is unreliable and low bandwidth. It should only be used as an emergency backup system only. It should never be used as a primary communications network for critical systems like FAA air traffic control.

The original contract with Verizon to implement fiber optic infrastructure is the correct one.

No one wants to buy your product. Your marketing-to-revenue ratio should tell you that. If you're not making more money than you put into ads, then your product sucks. Time to drop it and get back to full employment.

Show me a tunnel underneath a building in the desert filled with small arms weapons with a poster on the wall with a map of the United States and a label written with sharpie saying “Bad guys here”. Also add various Arabic lettering on the weapons.

Very few system fonts are any good. Would you use Arial instead of Helvetica Neue? I certainly wouldn't. Put two posters side-by-side and you'd notice the Helvetica one as looking more professional, even without any design background.

Additionally, very few system fonts include all the weights. Fonts aren't just come in a single weight. The font you use for a giant page-filling title is generally skinnier than the font used for a caption.

Good design creates a reaction, such as causing you to buy something or interacting more with something or whatever, even for people that say they don't care about design.

Designers know you better than you know yourself.

So you're saying HoloLens had a tiny field-of-view because of its limited resolution?

HoloLens 1: 1280 x 720 (per eye)

HoloLens 2: 2048 x 1080 (per eye)

Vision Pro: 3660 x 3200 (per eye)

Yah no one was gonna buy HoloLens as a desktop monitor replacement. It really was a crap product.

People ARE using Vision Pro as a desktop monitor replacement.

Did not know HoloLens had 23megapixel displays to show high resolution text for coding. It must have been really useful back then with such a high resolution display that you could use for coding all day.

People really need to understand that its the details that make a product viable, not the concept.

If used as a display only, get rid of the M2 CPU subsystem, get rid of the external display, and maybe some of the cameras.

It doesn't need a battery at all. Just have it connect directly to a Mac to use as a virtual Mac display. It's what I use my Vision Pro for as its primary use case, to have an ultra-wide monitor in front of me without taking up any physical space. I use it for hours every day as my primary programming platform.

I really have no other use case, and don't need the VR/AR features. The virtual ultra-wide display of the latest VisonOS updates, which has the area of 2 4k monitors, is just amazing for coding. It's an incredible user experience and worth every penny for the Vision Pro for that alone.

Throwing away some of the AR/VR features and using it as a virtual display only would make it lighter and smaller. I could use something that doesn't block me from taking a drink while I code, for example. I couldn't care less about video games as well.

Would like to see Django fully use these to replace a lot of it's own complicated template syntax.

Can we replicate this with ZFS drives distributed across multiple machines?

Yes. Now people understand why open borders are a good thing.

Imagine how bad the US economy would be if we had tariffs and border controls between states.

This is hilarious

Everyone wants to think they're the most valuable thing in the world, but economics doesn't care about how much people value themselves. It only cares about when both buyer and seller agrees to the value of their work.

You may think a farm worker deserves $500,000,000 a year, but that won't matter until someone else decides to pay them that.

Ultimately, it's OK to say some things are more valuable than others, including the value of your labor.