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FWIW the examples in OP were generated by image models, not Claude - Claude just orchestrated the other models via OpenRouter

I went on a road trip through Southern NM a couple years ago. Highly recommend stopping at Gila National Forest - it's a certified "dark park", remote enough from sources of light to see the Milky Way with the naked eye.

One thing that struck me - towns down there had a template. 90% of towns we drove through were just a blood plasma "donation" center, a dollar store, a gas station, and a cemetery. Very bleak existence out there, oil and gas boom notwithstanding.

IIRC you can use Racket base so long as you define the “atom” function per the book authors

> if housing is far and away the best investment you can possibly make, both in the short, medium, and long-term.

citation needed? genuinely curious - are there studies about long-term returns from housing vs. other asset classes (namely public equities)?

While we're talking about funding basic research - how come these independent institutes and government funding agencies don't get equity (warrants, options, whatever) in the entities that ultimately commercialize and patent this research?

I reckon they probably take some cut as a licensing fee, but seems like participating in the upside would create significant incentives over the current regimes.

I don't know where you live but it's been decriminalized in plenty of places in the West, so even if it's not fully legalized the worst you face would be a nominal fine, not getting arrested.

You can accelerate 5-10 years to 3 months using pay for citizenship schemes. For example Grenada has one where you get citizenship and a passport in return for "donating" $150k USD to the government. Grenada's is interesting because you get visa-free access to China. Antigua and Barbuda are running a "50% off sale" (I kid you not..) where the cost is only $100k USD (normally $200k USD)

Lenders can and do buy this kind of data to underwrite their borrowers (credit cards, BNPL, student loans, mortgages, etc.). They don't need to get it from credit bureaus. Anyone who is underwriting off of bureau data alone is a decade (or more) behind state of the art at this point.

In China it's referred to as 中国特色社会主义, which means "socialism with Chinese characteristics"

0.6% compounded for 30 years would be barely $1.02M