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But then I thought about everyone else and offered the translation, then edited after I realized you covered it later.
It's an overall interesting blog post but just a minor quibble from me all else considered. Keep up the good writing.
For those who want to get to the translation quicker. IMO, its a bit unfair to hold the meaning of the title and the thesis of the whole blogpost as late as the 7th paragraph.
If Citizens United gone the other way, would Elon Musk be contributing $350 million in 2024 and $400 million in 2026?
Super-billionares / Trillionares are now favored by our political class because of Citizens United. Donald Trump, if he won, would have been off the backs of working class people and the whole Elon Musk / DOGE thing, as well as the whole Ukrainian Starlink disruption thing, probably would have never happened.
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The person on the throne matters far less than the system that surrounds the throne. Yes the person matters a little bit, but the system forces people into a specific shape. And will continue to force our leaders into that shape as long as we continue this system.
Furthermore, we can look at other democracies (Briton, Australia, Canada, France, Germany) and see how their campaign finance laws work in contrast to ours, as well as the level of debate / manipulation that occurs in those countries. Most are in agreement that SuperPACs would be considered full scale corruption in other countries.
Musk largely dumped the money into the election to prove to everyone he can keep dumping money perpetually into every election. Its a pain to deal with $400 Million this year, but can you imagine 2028, 2030 or 2032? Its going to be a constant onslaught until we figure out a way to mitigate Citizens United vs FEC
Even if Democrats win, Musk has proven that his money is now part of our political system moving forward.
This Adam Smith?
Adam Smith was against Joint Stock Companies (aka: the predecessor to the modern company). Specifically, he believed that shareholders will never watch over the money with the same care as a merchant who watches his own money.
The number of valid permutations of 10 things is 10!. Reviewing all 10! Things is clearly exponential or even worse than exponential.
We can get the count of 10! pretty easily, far easier than trying all combinations manually.
It's well acknowledged that modern designers and users benefit from large vs small, and other varying styles of organization.
Menus only had top menus vs submenu vs sub-sub-menu (and so forth). Yes a good menu is useful but...
A ribbon offers many more tradeoffs. It's harder to design a good ribbon, but the best ribbons are always better than even the best menu. The important features will be physically larger with more text and space. The less important or niche features might just be an icon with tooltip, possibly hidden behind a subcategory of the ribbon.
In theory, you can use the modern Ribbon to make old school menus. But why bother? If you made the switch to that XML design language, you might as well take all the benefits of the Ribbon
Or hell, if you like old school menus, you can still make them today. Those .RC editors still work in modern Windows 11. But give it a shot and you'll see how restrictive and bulky old school menus are in practice.
Ribbon is absolutely an improvement for users but is more work for the XML layout and learning how to organize it.
I'm rather convinced that Ribbon is still the best way to organize quick actions, show their shortcuts (Alt to see keyboard shortcuts), and also have enough text to describe all the buttons. But it'd be nice if it were easier to make good Ribbons.
Menu was braindead easy, albeit through ancient process of .rc files and whatnot
So the idea that the wealth is going to workers (and using Mark Zuckerberg as an example) is extremely contrary to the facts on the ground and the cited reality.
KiCAD cant do this. So it's cool to see a project trying to tackle this problem.
I had exactly the same concerns as you. My brain was very confused by this name and I was wondering if I got something wrong.
Turns out it's just an American making fake-German. Huh. So this is what it feels like....
It's a better job than a lot of fake German words by Americans. But it's still not quite right to me.
I still enjoy writing code by hand, but it's incredibly lonely here. No one at work talks about code details anymore. I'm basically by myself now.
I'm a bit of a holdout, but I can tell you that what used to be lively discussions about architecture are now just "ask Claude" responses. No one else wants to think through their code anymore.
There is value in doing things no one else likes to do. But only if this path delivers results in the long term. It's not certain that my path does that but if this field is truly collapsing I'd rather give it a shot with my brain intact rather than doing nothing.
Computer parts are unaffordable this year.
You realize that they don't want that, correct?
Meanwhile, the AI labs are doing that for just marketing.
In many ways, the teleporting machine that teleports to the solution is against the point of the questions. No one wants the solution to be "Run $10,000,000 worth of tokens to cover all possible Lean formulations of the problem".
I think for Mathematicians, I'd say that the human level formulation is still possible and with a new perspective. We as a society (and outside of Mathematics) need to also understand that this AI teleport to the answer thing has less value than we all expected. The value is in the journey.
The open question is if people will still want to take the journey if the teleport machine exists. Or if the existence of the teleport machine halts exploration.
Do we even have one bankruptcy yet?
I'm keeping an eye on Coreweave and Oracle. But they haven't collapsed yet, not as of today anyway.
If it's anything like 2007, it's going to be the one we aren't watching that collapses first. Those in the open about their debts and situation are often more honest and solid than other unknown players. The ones who are lying the most are the ones with the worst accounting and worst books.
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So yeah, chances are that Coreweave is just this week's topic. We really don't know how close we are to a collapse until someone out there actually starts to collapse.
When the debt in 2007 sucked, it crashed the economy. But when the price was good in 2006, everyone celebrated.
Note: prices are getting worse for bonds today but nothing panic worthy yet.
I know people who bought Ask Jeeves at the height of the bubble.
Home prices themselves aren't really used, because they're based off of interest rates, land values, and many other attributes that don't really apply to CPI. Rental costs for all of their faults, are a better measurement of month-to-month or year-to-year inflation.
So you're right. They don't really include "house" prices. But they absolutely include "housing" prices.
And crane, despite being bigger, more powerful and more awesome (they lift skyscrapers and do things nothing else can do), the Forklift is actually more useful to more people.
I think the argument carries solid weight. Making bigger and better things doesn't necessarily lead to bigger and better businesses.
But in any case, Britannica is a good source so I stand corrected on this subject.