No, it's not bad to hope that your industry and source of income isn't about to be gutted by corporations
Sounds more like “I’m hoping it doesn’t eat my lunch”, but everyone else be damned.
Readit NewsI don't buy the dollar being dead.
His main arguments are the politics are messy and there's a lot of debt. Such things have been true in the past over its 200 year plus history and yet it goes on. The US remains the world superpower and the center for its most valuable companies and the leader in new tech like AI. Things will go on.
The British Pound has existed since about the year 600, we had 250% debt to GDP after WW2 and all sorts of chaos over the years but the currency continues. Such things don't die easily.
Except this time you have Americans and insiders who wilfully want to kill it.
There are different flavors of stablecoins though. There's the ponzi scheme flavor that is propped up based on hand waving alchemy, and there's the boring (and now regulated) flavor that's actually backed by real money.
And who is the authority to prove which stablecoins are ponzis and which are 'backed by real money'?
But stablecoins are backed by real dollars.
People hold dollar-backed stablecoins because they believe the US dollar to be the most durable unit of account on the planet.
All the proof you really need for that is that most crypto users outside the US still consider the value of their crypto tokens in terms of how many US dollars it’s worth.
The author of this article talks about this being a “parasite” to the US monetary system, but it’s hard to think of a better thing that could’ve happened for the US. Not only has it reinforced that dominance… it’s also driven hundreds of billions of dollars of US treasury bills purchases from providers like Tether and USDC.
Please tell me you're not linking to one of the biggest frauds of all time as evidence of doing the right thing and being backed by real dollars?
Tangential: Is there a similar service we can use in the cli, a replacement for CC? I like Cursor, I pay both for Cursor and CC, but. I live in the terminal (tmux, nvim, claude code, lazygit, yazi), and I prefer to have an agentic coding experience in the terminal. But CC has deteriorated so much in the past weeks that I constantly use repomix to compress whole projects and ask o3 for help because CC just can’t solve tasks that it previously would solve in a single shot.
use a proxy and use Claude Code with other models.
> Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but it seems like Anthropic has quietly 4x'd the real cost of the Pro plan. There are 168 hours in a week, and if I'm able to (safely) bet on 40 hours of use, realistically, I just lost 75% of the value of the plan.
I think you're just confused about what the Pro plan was, it never included being used for 168 hours/week, and was extremely clear that it was limited.
> What are the reasonable local alternatives? 128 GB of ram, reasonably-newish-proc, 12 GB of vram? I'm okay waitign for my machine to burn away on LLM experiments I'm running, but I don't want to simply stop my work and wake up at 3 AM to start working again..
a $10k mac mini with 192GB of vram with any model you can download still isn't close to Claude Sonnet.
not really true per https://artificialanalysis.ai/?intelligence-tab=coding
lavezzi commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian
What kind of photo ID does the UK have? I didn't think there was any kind of national ID if you didn't drive?
provisional license, passport, etc.
lavezzi commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian
Paris and Seoul are much denser than London. A better measure is the cameras/habitant or the % of coverage. London has 100% coverage for instance.
> London has 100% coverage for instance.
What?
> Large parts if London are just forests
What?
lavezzi commented on Trump to Open $9T Retirement Market to Cryptocurrencies ainvest.com/news/trump-op... · Posted by u/ColinWright
Between this and the GENIUS Act, the impending catastrophe will make the 2008 financial crisis seem like a golden age.
Im spec’ing out a Mac Studio with 512GB ram because I can window shop and wish but I think the trend for local LLMs is getting really good.
Do we know WHY openAI even released them?
Enterprises can now deploy them on AWS and GCP.