intalentive

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by intalentive 4mo ago
>a strange devotion to carrying out every whim of a certain semi-allied state I won't name directly Israel. The White House is willing to sacrifice American power and prestige for Israel. We have to stop tip-toeing around the elepha
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by intalentive 6mo ago
That’s a nice story. In reality the “open society” is open to takeover by international finance capital. It’s like running a server with “admin”:”password” SSH credentials — a security vulnerability that cedes control to outsiders. Imagine
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by intalentive 6mo ago
There won’t be anti-trust as long as elections can be bought and there’s a revolving door between regulators and industry. We need a firewall to separate capital and state.
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by intalentive 6mo ago
Seems to be working fine in China. Bad management happens, and does not refute the idea of management itself. Good management works.
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by intalentive 6mo ago
Technology did change the world, and technocrats did shape it. This was part of what Burnham called the "managerial revolution". In the 1930s the fascists, communists, and New Dealers all took the reins and governed their societie
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by intalentive 6mo ago
Where is Germany going to get the fuel to power an ICE fleet? Where is Germany going to get the electricity to power an EV fleet? Germany faces much bigger problems than the auto lobby.
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by intalentive 7mo ago
Iran is the main source of resistance in the region. Libya, Iraq, and Syria have been pacified. Egypt has been bought off. All the groups still fighting Israel (Hezbollah, Houthis, probably Hamas) have received significant Iranian support.
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by intalentive 7mo ago
Chaos could be the point. That is the Libya model.
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by intalentive 7mo ago
I am going to steal this code and run a different analysis. The author mentions that skeptics avoid grifters without punishing them. I am curious how things play out in the Seven Samurai model, where instead of marks you have peasants and i
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by intalentive 7mo ago
Ah I missed that.
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by intalentive 7mo ago
I like Hotz’s style: simply and straightforwardly attempting the difficult and complex. I always get the impression: “You don’t need to be too fancy or clever. You don’t need permission or credentials. You just need to go out and do the thi
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by intalentive 8mo ago
Strictures which successfully regulated desire crystallized over the ages into particular forms of tradition and morality. Hence early conservatives like Carlyle and Chesterton were anti-capitalist: they saw the economics of desire as a cor
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by intalentive 8mo ago
Successful protest movements are typically successful because they are organized and/or leveraged by a counter elite or foreign actor. One example is the CIA orchestrating protests to topple the PM of Iran in 1953. Protest movements la
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by intalentive 8mo ago
I made the jump to Mint Xfce when MS announced it would stop supporting Windows 7. Pretty seamless transition. I still enjoy that older minimal style reminiscent of the early 00s.
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by intalentive 8mo ago
Also — what industrial plan? As far as I can tell, we just have tariffs without a complementary plan to encourage investment, build infrastructure, train workers, reduce labor costs, etc.
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by intalentive 8mo ago
I respect him for standing up for his people. It’s honorable, in my opinion. It would be dishonorable (and easy) to be a mercenary, profit-seeking individual with loyalty to no one but himself.
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by intalentive 8mo ago
No, not alone, I find GPT far preferable when it comes to fleshing out ideas. It is much deeper conceptually, it understands intent and can cross pollinate disparate ideas well. Gemini is a little more autistic and gets bogged down in detai
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by intalentive 9mo ago
This mirrors the military doctrine of "mission tactics" which entrusts subordinates with wide latitude in executing orders. But it requires a high degree of alignment and competence, which explains why YC focuses on founders over
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by intalentive 9mo ago
Yes, and a big part of the reason labor costs are so high is that living costs are high. The US worker is saturated with debt, fees, payments, rents of every stripe.
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by intalentive 9mo ago
Or Cloudflare, for that matter…
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by intalentive 9mo ago
Sounds like Yeltsin-era privatization is on the menu. “What assets can we strip from the Venezuelan people, for pennies on the dollar?”
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by intalentive 9mo ago
Geopolitically the US has abandoned world hegemony and is consolidating in the western hemisphere. Venezuela has massive oil reserves and its leadership has been anti-Zionist since Chavez. It’s a juicy target close to home, been a thorn for
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by intalentive 9mo ago
Great resource. I would also like to see a comparison of variable access times across different scopes.
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by intalentive 9mo ago
A big difference is central bank intervention. In the most recent Market Wizards book, the biggest gains came from traders who traded CB announcements and rumors.
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by intalentive 9mo ago
The text does not really support the title. It argues: “The Internet is not necessarily good for democracy, as optimists claim. It’s more likely to be a mixed bag that presents new challenges.” This is a good early example of the “populism
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by intalentive 9mo ago
I like how the grid pulses with the kick drum. Nice touch.
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by intalentive 9mo ago
This essay is missing the words “cause” and “causal”. There is a difference between discovering causes and fitting curves. The search for causes guides the design of experiments, and with luck, the derivation of formulae that describe the c
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by intalentive 9mo ago
We can try to breed little chihuahua or pug sized bears that will curl up at your feet.
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by intalentive 9mo ago
If you start a website that is too friendly to a foreign regime, it risks being shut down by the FBI. That’s what happened to the American Heritage Tribune. The US power nexus absolutely suppresses dissident speech, whether through lawsuits
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by intalentive 9mo ago
Can’t recall where I heard this, but I’m pretty sure the si=… is tracking information that associates the link with the user who shared it.

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