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The price of gold was fixed in the US in that period. Gold lost buying power as the years passed.

Yeah, I want the assets I hold to increase in value, too, or at least not decrease.

Suppose you have some control over currency. You run a country. I'm that case, so you still want the currency to gain value compared to the alternatives?

Your choice is basically: holding currency is more profitable than building a house or running a business (or lending to those who do), or else less profitable. If you run a country, do you want houses and jobs and all that kind of thing, or do you want people to do better if they choose to hoard currency?

Sometimes it can be difficult to tell whether someone is a troll "just asking questions" or actually just asking that question. More so on HN than in most of the world, I mean.

I showed one of Wikipedia's AI samples to a friend, who answered at once: "that's exactly how the comms team at work writes."

Ah, I see. As for my personal neural network: I learned long division in school and got the best possible grade in maths, and I still don't think I had 99.63% accuracy on long division.

I'll suggest a possible answer: vetting customers is expensive, and if you don't vet, Spamhaus vets you.

Are neural networks ever 100% accurate?

I'm using Claude on APIs on which it was not trained, and it's doing well. The techniques it uses to debug and find solutions aren't that different from older APIs. "Let me dump all of this response and guess which field might be what" sometimes, "let me get a stack trace just before it goes wrong", many familiar development techniques.

I need to fill in timesheets, which uses a proprietary API. Claude guessed and iterated until it found out how to use that API, and filling in those sheets is now much less bothersome. I only need to enter a password every three days instead of four times per day.

He considers many possibilities, but not how many men died young on a battlefield somewhere.

Is this... existing DCs, or what could be built assuming that infinite building crews could build buildings and infinite amounts of RAM and GPUs could be installed in the buildings?

AFIACT, if I make a single request, the part that uses the most power is my monitors while they display the result and I read/use it.

Which makes me suspect that if I do something complex involving 2,000 requests, the power used is less than I'd use to achieve the same goal using my monitors and other office equipment. That depends on the goal of the complex action, of course.

$434M means something like "you can make a profit of $50m/year selling t-shirts etc, decreasing with time" which... wow. That seems wildly optimistic.

Fyi overhead often add anything up to 100% to the basic salary cost. Office space, hiring, travel, various forms of insurance, these things add up.

And serving DNS for the root or a big zone is technically challenging. You want 100% uptime despite DDoS attacks, that's not simple.

They needed more headroom under the bridge. The expensive part on the pictures you've seen is air.

There were hundreds of temporary supports, there were gas leaks and when they found a hand grenade from WW2 there was an expensive search for more surprises.