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> The money is being spent whether it's distributed to the masses and spent on food, or spent on a yacht.

I don't follow what point you're trying to make here.

> If anything it should be deflationary because the rich mostly don't spend their money, else they wouldn't be rich.

The exact opposite is the case. "The rich", like all people who are able to put money aside for retirement/savings, seek to secure their wealth by diversifying their portfolio. In other words, they buy assets.

The other part is that ultra wealthy people will pay far above market value for basically everything, which creates inflationary pressure.

Because of inflation. If there are people with astronomically more wealth than the rest of the population, they will push up prices. There is no such thing as a "high floor" in a system where there is extreme wealth inequality.
Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:49PM (#50090738)
What is shipping like from Zoro? The number one reason I tend to use Amazon for this stuff (nuts/bolts) is because shipping is free given a Prime subscription.

If I buy a handful of bolts from McMaster or BoltDepot, I'm paying like $10 to ship, on an order this is probably $10 in goods :(

So I'm basically always picking between Amazon and AliExpress.

Re:Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help on Sunday October 11, 2026 @11:25AM (#50044315)
It's for worse. Stop clicking on twitter/nitter/xitter links, stop following those people. If they care to keep you as an audience, they will move to another platform.
Re:Our $445M Series D on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:28PM (#50023882)
> It's fair since it takes their team members an equivalent amount of time

Well, they're being paid to do that. That's part of the unfairness. The other part is the time is bounded on the employer side. On the prospective employee side, it's unbounded - you're interviewing until you get a job somewhere.

Re:How Climate Resilient Are the Largest Cities? on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:37PM (#49612727)
It doesn't seem to account for earthquakes, which is appropriate, since it's a climate vulnerability index. But definitely something one would take into account when deciding where to settle.
Re:How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:09PM (#49589747)
Does anyone have any understanding of how they do this?

My knowledge of how these models work is basically that they are a black box that you put text into and get text out of. I don't phrase it this way to diminish their capability, but more to ask how, other than using a technique like stenography, are they able to hide their true chain of thought in a recoverable way?

Re:Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:33PM (#49566880)
The opposite of modesty is not "buying a Ferrari". Anyone at any level of wealth can be immodest.

Not saying I agree with GP, but your point doesn't hold up.

Re:OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:09PM (#49558821)
You said:

> For all you know, 90% of the proof could be useless, 8% would be writing out Shakespeare, and 1% abusing another bug in Lean.

So you were implying the possibility of there not actually being a proof at all.

Anyway, I disagree. I'd refer you to Tao's blog post about the Jacobian conjecture counterexample.

The existence of a proof is something you can use, with an LLM, to derive insight, just as Tao did with the existence of the counterexample.

Re:OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:32PM (#49557378)
Tao is saying that there is very little insight from something like an LLM counterexample (e.g. Jacobian conjecture counterexample he investigated further on his blog) - you don't learn much about the subject and _why_ a conjecture was true or false from an LLM giving a counterexample. That's why he wrote the blog post - to analyse what the counterexample says about the subject.

Tao does not disbelieve the counterexample (it's seemingly easy enough for him to verify it is a counterexample).

Parent is saying something very different - they're saying they literally don't have any faith that this is a proof. Given its size, it could just be a bunch of completely useless statements that do pass the type checker.

Re:EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:32AM (#49522554)
No, condescending people call them "aspiring". Anyone who knows and likes art calls them artists.
Re:No Country for Mediocre Mathematicians on Monday August 31, 2026 @02:08PM (#49512809)
To the credit of the original commenter, that is why they said "give it one or two years". _Right now_ we need the experts to formalize/check. They're saying they think LLMs will reach a point in the near future where that won't be necessary.
Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective on Sunday August 30, 2026 @03:24PM (#49501927)
It doesn't mean preposterous or not preposterous. It does mean there is general dispute regarding the proscription.

Appealing to it is not really progressing your argument. Both decisions are controversial, you don't make a more convincing argument as to why one controversial decision should not be considered controversial, by pointing to a different, also controversial, decision.

Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective on Friday August 28, 2026 @04:07PM (#49483575)
You're appealing to another proscription decision that is extraordinarily controversial.
Re:AWS Acquires DuckDB on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:34AM (#49450955)
Generational wealth generally is used to mean something like you and at least your children can live very comfortably off of investment income for the rest of your lives, I.e. none of you have to work for a living. That’s why sibling’s def of 1.5-5m per child is much closer to the commonly understood meaning.

We can debate “live comfortably” if you want, but no 4.5 people are doing that from the investment proceeds of 1m.

What you are describing is kind of more like social mobility.

Re:AWS Acquires DuckDB on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:59AM (#49449331)
1 mil is not generational wealth in the US. It is a big chunk of money, no doubt. It’ll buy a reasonable 2-3 bedroom house in the city I live in, with nothing left over. No one’s definition of generational wealth involves not touching the money for two generations…
Farage won an election in which no other major party participated.

The standards committee doesn't make decisions based on what they think is best. They make decisions based on the rules.

What is your service and what data are you collecting?
You are clearly incapable of putting yourself in the shoes of someone who is being told they cannot pursue their vocation for half a decade.
Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s on Sunday June 14, 2026 @12:15PM (#48528918)
This is a story about non-compliance. One hopes the Aus government is going to take some sort of enforcement action. If _that_ fails, then you could claim limited success or failure.

Presumably you wouldn't call laws against murder a failure because there are murders.

So Jack Clark can't use Fable or Mythos anymore?
Re:Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language on Thursday June 04, 2026 @06:58PM (#48405804)
Right, I meant the libraries. I haven't used Gleam for a couple years at least though, so my opinions might be very outdated on this.
Re:Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @04:28PM (#48389525)
You're taking my comment way too literally. I'm basically just making a syntax comparison. Obviously Rust is not at all like Gleam in many ways either. It's just statically typed and has a similar syntax.
Re:Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @04:16PM (#48389378)
Do you like Rust or do you like Erlang? Writing Gleam is like writing Rust, writing Elixir is like writing Erlang.

I don't know the current state of Gleam OTP, but last I checked it wasn't great.

If you don't care about either of those things and only about types, use Gleam. But then why not just use Rust?

> > The parent there may be making the same assumption I am, that large enterprise _never_ pays sticker price.

> I shared that assumption until yesterday, when I found out that it wasn't holding for LLM pricing from OpenAI and Anthropic.

This reads like GP saying "enterprise never pays sticker price" and you responding "I thought so too until I saw the sticker price".

Is there some info you have that you can't/didn't share? Your article doesn't offer anything beyond the above.

Are you serious? This is so ignorant it's unbelievable. There are gazillions of marches that have ended without incident.
Re:I hate soldering existentially on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @12:34PM (#48110615)
"Well ventilated" on its own is completely insufficient. If you are soldering without any fan or extraction, you _will_ inhale fumes because you have to look right over your work when you solder, which is exactly where the fumes are.

In general, the danger with soldering fumes is not the average concentration in the room in which you're working over the duration of a session, it's inhaling the very high concentration of fumes right as the soldering happens.

We could debate how much damage this is going to do and whether it's worth worrying about, but there isn't really room to debate that ventilation alone is going to do absolutely nothing.

Well ventilated area + fan is probably okay, but you need the fan right next to your soldering iron or it needs to be a gigantic fan otherwise, again, you are just going to inhale most of those fumes.

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