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Comment · 1 day ago
How can you trust it? Like how does it resolve if I got my Weird Al toupee from eBay? Is it if someone shipped me a box? Smart contracts make sense when there's a large, public event.
Comment · 1 day ago
Exactly and why wouldn't the thieves publish to the official VS Code or Open VSX market places?
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Comment · 1 day ago
Is there any Crypto that can be used for refunds due to fraud? That's my major concern. Until then I'll be stuck with Visa/Mastercard/Paypal etc.
Comment · 1 day ago
1shooner posted this link: https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/10-30-2026-claude-cod... this was not the official extension. Supply Chain is very important, please only use official builds. From the link above:

A malicious version of Anthropic’s Claude Code VS Code extension, version 2.1.313, was published to the Open VSX registry on Oct. 30. According to ChainCatcher, security researcher Paul McCarty, known as 6mile, described the finding in a post on the OpenSource Malware blog. Researchers confirmed the analyzed Open VSX release was malicious and submitted a threat report about the same version on Microsoft’s VS Code Marketplace as a precaution.

Comment · 2 days ago
Gary Tan has said markdown is code. Personally I see my job as establishing the architecture, creating tests, lint rules, etc. for my agents. Monitor the code, but if there's an issue create a new agent that monitors performance, etc.
Comment · 3 days ago
tldr; No sane drug professionals would have designed a relatively simple compound (144 Atomic Mass) as a Multiple Sclerosis drug

I think human review may screw things up. If you look at dimethyl fumarate[1], no card carrying medicinal chemist would have taken this serious. No pharma exec would have risked 100s of millions of dollars for clinical research trials.

  - 1950s people notices that a wood polish cleared psoriasis. Topical formulation worked. 
  - 1990s an oral formulation was created.
  - 2000s people noticed people treated for psoriasis that had MS, had fewer MS symptoms while taking this molecule. 
  - 2017 dimethyl fumerate is approved for MS.
  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_fumarate
Comment · 3 days ago
I'd be happy to do a 1999 Amish life style + LED TVs that don't spy on you.
Comment · 3 days ago
Income isn't wealth. Like you could tax Sergei Brin 1,000,000% of his annual salary and he'd be fine (he earns 1 dollar a year).
Comment · 3 days ago
There are two versions of wealth taxes for nonliving people that make a lot of sense:

   1) Endowments, Trusts, and nonprofits
   2) The Estate Tax
Comment · 4 days ago
Yes, Claude + skills is what we use too. Big picture, all of the old BI players are living on borrowed time. If you have to drag and drop; you'll be dropped.
Comment · 4 days ago
I wonder what happens if the Dems win the White House in 2028. Will he be extradited back?
Comment · 4 days ago
I can't even get a Temu kidney for less than $999, no way there's an iKidney for less than $30,000
Comment · 8 days ago
I have loved D3 for more than a decade but I'd never recommend it to a client because maintenance requires a large learning curve. Not any more, ${YourAIAgent} + D3 is awesome.
Comment · 10 days ago
Math and Computer Science have low costs to verify answers. Biology is high due to reagents and instrumentation costs.

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