The thing about studying finance from the perspective of econ is that, when done right, you're also studying econ history and the history of risk management. And the thing about the last half century is how much this has devolved to offloading as much risk as possible on to individuals & the public.
I found out this week from a lady who lost her job as a scientist at the Dept. of Ag because of Elon/DOGE that landlords were asking her to prove she had a savings sufficient to cover 3 months of rent. I felt insane explaining to her how this is a form of moving balance sheet risk on to consumers.
yeah man I think we might need to discipline the rental market in a way that supply alone cannot solve. it's crazy talk, I know.
im not surprised the platonists believe many things are platonic forms, fungibly traded in the mind of god
reskilling is also a thing that largely does not actually work as people think it does lol
It conceptualizes human capital into a platonic form to be traded, obtained in a way that is demonstrably untrue. Once again, itβs a political problem.
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The postmortem of the *last* big outage shows that it was because they DOS'd themselves through vibecoded slop.
The problem is intrinsic to the velocity of code - the 100x agent coding future requires you to code faster than you can evaluate. Once code is no longer holistically evaluated, this is what you get. Anthropic cheats and has review and docs agents nobody could afford and their code is *the worst*
instead of "blowing up to infinity," you get "blowing up, the computer, physically, via approaching infinity" lol
exploding trees
I have now read with my human eyes roughly half of these 500k lines and can confirm this pattern is true of almost everything I have seen at every scale, from things as big as "plan mode" and "how agents work" down to individual config vars.
Every fucking time!!!
was asked what kinds of things i like to do for fun and my brain immediately reset to its default response I DON'T LIKE ANYTHING, I DONT HAVE TO SAY ANYTHING, I'VE NEVER "DONE" ANYTHING IN MY FUCKING LIFE
It was never about child safety. It's about control and surveillance. This bill is a slippery slope that ends with uploading your ID to use anything that uses the net.
World's most successful mammalian predator clade and it's yet another even toed ungulate.
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I'm sorry, it will happen again
endofunctor mom last night
Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?
The only president or major party candidate in half a century not to disclose his tax returnsβwho fought for years, at taxpayer expense, to keep them private, and lostβnow wants the IRS to MORE THAN DOUBLE HIS NET WORTH at taxpayer expense as a part of the systematic pillaging he calls a presidency.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s
Itβs absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you
Always juuuust enough Dems to switch aisles and prevent progress. Weird, huh?
Then he can be twice as bad at both jobs!
Man does all this feel like it's leading up to "Democrats win a landslide in 2026, barely retake the Senate, then Fetterman becomes the deciding vote to let Trump appoint replacements for Thomas and Alito"
This is also the first time I have seen that photo lol
Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.
Lmaooo
why is lao gan ma on pizza so good and necessary
This is yet another reason that justice needs to exist -- RFK Jr killed 83 people with his Samoan measles revival tour, most of them children -- "He visited the island to spread anti-vaccination conspiracy theories β which led to the deaths of 83 people, primarily infants and children. "