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Comment · 17 days ago
Seems pretty straightforward. If you are surrounded by adversaries that vastly outnumber you, you invest in other forms of strength
Comment · 18 days ago
Interesting experience I supposed. Mine is the exact opposite. Neighbors in the suburbs are a community , whereas in the city, it’s common for neighbors to remain strangers.
Comment · 1 month ago
The Iron Age includes 4th century BCE
Comment · 1 month ago
It is also true developers can have a myopic view of what should be valued and that can be incongruent with the business.

You can make a perfectly rational business choice to take on tech debt to get a feature sooner.

Comment · 1 month ago
What are you alluding to exactly and who is “we” when you say “we need to experience immediate pain from reckless innovation “
Comment · 1 month ago
The key difference is that the models upgrade multiple times a year. It is an inherently different than a commodity market
Comment · 2 months ago
That is a fairly sterile reading of the situation. It’s hard to explain to those who haven’t been close to it.

It’s like how defaulting to invest in a 401k creates massive improvements for savings for the population with a 401k

There are those who will frivolously spend money that could pay an electricity bill, then end up without power.

Comment · 2 months ago
Depends how pervasive the issue. I agree a human in the loop for reasonable redress is appropriate
Comment · 2 months ago
I think the most reasonable answer is that first world countries provide access to many opportunities that do not exist elsewhere. People can and do lift themselves from poverty with these opportunities.
Comment · 2 months ago
It really doesn’t need to be that much more specified, give it context to the tools and level of analysis you expect then “why app slow” is a reasonable prompt
Comment · 2 months ago
The parent was obviously referring to 1st world countries
Comment · 2 months ago
In my lived experience, the majority of poverty is the inability to delay gratification. Whether you want to attribute that to personal failings or to other things is a separate question
Comment · 2 months ago
You can buy a 5 bed 4 bath house in Tulsa, OK for under $400K
Comment · 2 months ago
Anthropic has gotten much better results by just having a different agent audit the actions of the original agent. It works surprisingly well
Comment · 3 months ago
i thought it was clear we were talking about internet in the 90s, the original commentor said three decades ago...

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