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by dcolkitt 27d ago
Yeah, I think what helps is I just have a running conversation on the Claude app open where I said: > "I frequently use Claude Code and often find the phrasing and language to be hard to understand. I've noticed it's large
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by dcolkitt 27d ago
> Models are amoral I actually don't think this is true at all. At their core, LLMs function over the geometry of human semantic space. Our notions of morality our deeply embedded in this geometry, because one of the things that hum
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Claude-meter: Monitor your Claude subscription usage in the macOS Menu(github.com)
1 points by dcolkitt 5mo ago|1 comments
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by dcolkitt 5mo ago
This tool helps you avoid going over your weekly and session Claude subscription limits with a monitor right in the MacOS menubar. It's like a battery indicator but for your Claude usage.
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
This is a fair point, but as of their most recent financials merchandise (excluding merchandise sold inside the parks) only made up $5bn of the $28bn in the "Parks, Experiences and Product" category. By contrast park admissions wa
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
It's interesting that Disney today almost the entire profits of the company come from the parks division (which also includes cruises, resorts and "experiences"). The media division by itself is in a massive war for eyeballs
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
> All of which still fails to add up to anything actually working and useful, 15 years in. The first packet switched network came online in 1969. Fifteen years by 1984 almost all the use cases were hobby, and it'd be another ten yea
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
I guess what exactly do you define as scamming? In terms of outright fraud, I agree there's a lot. It shouldn't be super surprising that scammers tend to prefer decentralized permissionless financial rails, for the same reason tha
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
I think it's easy to be cynical. But one major reason I'm a believer in decentralized consensus is because I think it can make the silo'd financial systems of the world as seamlessly interoperable as the Internet made the sil
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
Generally I would expect a higher degree of security from an agency with a $2bn budget whose primary purpose is the integrity of communications about financial markets than an average person with a credit card. Certainly you will admit at s
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
Bitcoin futures are correlated but nowhere near a 1:1 proxy for spot markets. Crypto markets are known for very steep "contango" in the curve, and it's not unusual for the price of the 30 days futures to be more than $1000 aw
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
The price of BTC initially jumped 3% on the hacked tweet. That's $25bn+ of market cap. The irony is the SEC itself is probably now responsible for the largest crypto pump and dump in history.
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
Michael Cera should play all the roles in the movie, like Eddie Murphy in the Nutty Professor.
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
The large majority of Americans live within 50 miles of where they grew up. And this number has been steadily ticking up. Geographic mobility is the lowest it’s ever been in the post war period.
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
> When I purchase a baseball card, I do not have the expectation that there is any additional value attached to the baseball card beyond what the collector's market will pay. What about music royalties rights? Those are almost alway
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
Good thing housing prices have at least come down with these high interest rates!
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
There's literally nothing in existing law that identifies tangibility as a specific criteria for what constitutes a security and what constitutes a commodity. In fact both the CFTC and SEC are specifically on record as saying Bitcoin c
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
Any speculative profit you hope to make on buying a limited edition Rolex is entirely reliant on the business of Rolex continuing to market the brand of Rolex. But if you don't have a formal contractual relationship with Rolex SA, then
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
Should be noted this decision came from an Obama appointee judge in a fairly liberal district (SDNY). The Second Circuit is half Federalist Society judges, and six out of the nine SCOTUS justices have been on a consistent battle to roll bac
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
The holder of a stock certificate has a formal legal contractual relationship with the corporation that issued the stock. The holder of a token does not have a contractual relationship with the entity that issued the token. Now there's
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
It only leads to housing prices rising (in the long-term), if NIMBY politics makes building new housing essentially illegal. There are plenty of examples of "boom towns" throughout history where prices may have rose initially, but
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
Just because China does something to their citizens (denies them access to foreign tech products that they'd otherwise enjoy), doesn't mean its rational for the US to do the same same thing to its own citizens. Consumers benefit f
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
GPT is a very impressive technical achievement. But that technical achievement is more in the field of compression rather than intelligence.
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by dcolkitt 3y ago
I'd also add that the almost all standardized tests are designed for introductory material across millions of people. That kind of information is likely to be highly represented in the training corpus. Whereas most jobs require highly
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by dcolkitt 4y ago
The Sapir-Wharf hypothesis (that human thought reduces to languages) has been consistently refuted again and again. Language is very clearly just a facade over thought, and not thought itself. At least in human minds.
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by dcolkitt 4y ago
The problem is that First Republic has $24 billion of off-balance sheet fair value losses, but only $4 billion of that is in securities eligible for the BTFP. $20 billion of losses is in its internal loans book. Even assuming the entire sec
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by dcolkitt 4y ago
But this isn't just a case of politicians arbitrarily shackling teachers. Research has shown time and time again that standardizing curriculum results in better educational outcomes, particularly at the lower end of students and school
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by dcolkitt 4y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that the way the BLS measures shelter inflation is known to be extremely laggy. And shelter makes up 34% of the basket. High frequency metrics of shelter costs (like new leases or Zillow's metrics) show tha
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by dcolkitt 4y ago
Higher income people have higher credit card debt because they spend more money. The issue is whether they're paying their bill at the end of the month or using it to finance their consumption and letting the balance grow. Guess to be
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by dcolkitt 4y ago
As much as this makes a scary headline, credit card debt is almost exactly in line with wages. From January 2020 to today credit card debt grew 11%.[1] Over the same period nominal wages grew by 16%[2]. So if anything the current US consume

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