Readit Newssavanaly commented on The new geography of stolen goods economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/tlb
Why bother tracking down thieves when you can just keep jacking up premiums? It's not like customers have a choice.
> Why bother tracking down thieves when you can just keep jacking up premiums? It's not like customers have a choice.
Insurance companies compete viciously with each other on price. Have you not seen their ads? If one could offer significantly cheaper insurance through some mechanism like that they definitely would.
savanaly commented on Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why stayathomemacro.substack.... · Posted by u/paulpauper
IDK.
My wife used the $20 claude.ai and Claude Code (the latter at my prompting) to vibe-code an educational game to help our five-year-old with phonics and basic math.
She noticed that she was constantly hitting token limits and that tweaking or adding new functionality was difficult. She realized that everything was in index.html, and she scrolled through it, and it was clear to her that there was a bunch of duplicated functionality.
So she embarked on a quest to refactor the application, move stuff from code to config, standardize where the code looks for assets, etc. She did all this successfully - she's not hitting token limits anymore and adding new features seems to go more smoothly - without ever knowing a lick of JS.
She's a UX consultant so she has lots of coding-adjacent skills, and talks to developers enough that she understands the code / content division well.
What would you call what she's doing (she still calls it vibe coding)?
I mean this out of genuine curiosity, not as criticism: did she consider telling claude code to look for any duplicate functionality and remove it? Or even edit CLAUDE.md to tell it to check for duplicates after major refactors and remove them? I use CC every day at the moment and I would expect these sorts of instructions to work extremely well, especially in what appears to be relatively small codebase.
This is a great article; not the first time Asterisk has published an article that has important implications for the growth of poorer countries, the other one I recall being the provocatively titled "Want Growth? Kill Small Businesses" [0]. I think this topic of what approaches will let Africa grow quickly over the next century is among the most important for world prosperity and peace we can be discussing.
[0] https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/want-growth-kill-small-bus...
savanaly commented on Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/andsoitis
Unsurprisingly, the title is sensationalist and not representative of the study. The study compares energy expenditure across different economic groups i.e. western people sitting in offices versus hunter-gatherers in Africa, and found that difference in energy expenditure does not account for differences in obesity, so points to consumption as the likely reason.
The sample dataset explicitly excluded 'athletes', so would exclude people that _are_ outrunning a bad diet. We know that a little weekly jog around the park doesn't mean you can eat a cheesecake every day, but anyone who has done extensive 'athletic' physical activity knows that if you don't up your calorie intake that you will lose weight. The study does not conclude, at all, that you cannot outrun a bad diet. Instead, it suggests "that dietary intake plays a far greater role than reduced energy expenditure in obesity related to economic development."
Edit: My point is specifically not about running. I am merely pointing out that if you read the study you will find that it is more of a study on economic development, and not really useful for personal or localised health advice. It observes that economically developed population groups may be more sedentary, but do not expend significantly more energy - so a hunter-gatherer picking berries all day does not burn significantly more energy than an office worker (at least not enough to explain why the office worker is obese). Therefore, the link between economic development and obesity is likely related to food (dietary intake) than daily activity.
Counterpoint: that the kind of exercise most people engage in with a goal of weight loss isn't going to work, but the kind of dieting would do might work, is perfectly reasonably expressed with the phrase "You can't outrun a bad diet". I'm aware a more pedantic and literal reading gives lie to the phrase, but that is true of almost every single English true statement ever written.
The whole tailwind thing feels like an emperor has no clothes thing
I built apps for a long, long time without Tailwind, just using CSS, sometimes Sass. And I still do at work because our build system doesn't support Tailwind compiler. But for all my side projects, of which there's a few, I use Tailwind. It's just so much easier. I don't see how this experience is compatible with a Emperor's no clothes situation.
Doesn't this miss the point with Tailwind and why we have Tailwind in the first place?
>Doesn't this miss the point with Tailwind and why we have Tailwind in the first place?
Not for me. Say I have a new app and I want it to have a left nav. I could write my own styles with tailwind or...I could just put a .menu on there and gets all the sensible defaults for padding, spacing, font size, background colors, etc.
But having done that, I'll still want to edit the specific padding, spacing, fonts, and background color of the menu to suit my needs. Plus there's...the whole rest of the site, not all of which is made up of DaisyUI components. So I will be wanting Tailwind for all that for the regular reasons one wants Tailwind.
This is explicitly not the conclusion Pascal drew with the wager, as described in the next section of the Wikipedia article: "Pascal's intent was not to provide an argument to convince atheists to believe, but (a) to show the fallacy of attempting to use logical reasoning to prove or disprove God..."
Did he say Pascal drew that conclusion and remove it with an edit or something? As it's written now it seems like you're correcting him for something he didn't post.
Most opinions of this man exists in a vacuum space isolated from the real world software industry. Building an OS from scratch is one of those examples.
It’s never seems like there’s a significant reason behind them other than………”I made dat :P”