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Not a big deal, but I’m surprised there’s no auto-correct-ish behavior in the title submissions for obvious errors? Right now, unconstitutional is (mis)spelled uncosntitutional, swapping the s and the n

No problem! Ya, I’m on the same page, genuine questions deserve genuine answers. Glad I could provide one this time!

lol how could this not be sfw??? I can't open right now because I'm at work but I'm so curious haha

> My jokes aren't funny and are actively confusing.

:’)

> the property tax ... has the standard problems of a wealth tax: specifically, you can have more wealth–say, the value of your home, your business, or your retirement account went up–without having immediate income to pay a higher level of taxes. Thus, older voters who tend to have higher accumulated wealth, partly in the form of home equity, but also lower current income, are a politically powerful and sympathetic group in the push to reduce or eliminate property taxes.

We should expect this phenomenon to grow stronger as more high-earners hit retirement age, right? I'd guess we have another 20-30 years at least before this incentive starts to "level out", and that's only if we somehow see wealth distribution become less extremely correlated with age.

Frankly I find the prayer inspiring:

> Dear dark father, let us stand now unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds and darkened times. Let us embrace the Luciferan impulse to eat off the tree of knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old. Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not for their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations, Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true. Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens the personal sovereignty of one or all. That which will not bend must break. And that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise. It is done. Hail Satan

Perhaps there's more to it, but that's what the article reports as the prayer. I think the bookends ("Dear dark father", "Hail Satan") are funny, and the main context of the prayer is very positive. It reminds me a lot of humanism and effective altruism.

These are absolutely beautiful! However, I think I often feel that when looking at fonts somebody has shared online, which makes me wonder how much I love the font, vs how much I just like the design aesthetic of people that craft fonts.

Also I understand why only the uppercase version is given, but it does pretty much preclude me from using the font, since 95% of the letters I type are lowercase

I don't think you need the LLMs to be completely dropped to indicate this. Even entry-level faang programmer salaries are in the 300k range, so the fact that LLMs aren't worth 100k/programmer does tell us something about the marginal usefulness. If the drop was motivated purely by price-per-output, it would indicate the LLMs are less useful than adding another 1/3 engineer. However, as discussed in other comments, there are other motivations as well, notably dogfooding homegrown tooling.

This is cool! Something seems broken in the representation for 1850 and 1765, squares are strangely intersecting.

edit: Or maybe something wrong with the way my browser (brave) is rendering it.

This is really interesting! I find the arguments pretty convincing, and unless the author is totally doctoring the plots (which I doubt they're doing) I can't think of any significant holes in the main claim.

It makes me wonder how persistent mental health problems have been through longer scales of time. I have this unquestioned assumption that our historic ancestors (eg, before ~0 AD) had shorter and harder lives physically, but might have had better mental health (less depression / anxiety, etc). However, the plots here indicate that mental health is relatively stable across the span where we do have good measurement, even despite some really big changes. Eg, the people in the 80s had similar suicide rates to people today. And even COVID "only" doubled-to-tripled self-diagnosis of poor mental health. That makes me think that mental health might have been just as bad before we developed lot of modern technology, and perhaps it was even worse due to all the unexpected and unexplained death that must have been very common. Were "cavemen" depressed?

I'm reading your new article, and just wanted to say it is really good! This kind of analysis is what I _dream_ of getting from coworkers when they're diagnosing a problem.