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fearmerchant··on People are worried about America's solvency
You can't get elected being the party that pulls away the punch bowl.
fearmerchant··on The Median Voter Is a Maoist
They do, what makes you think they don't?
fearmerchant··on Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data
What right are you referring to? We don't have a right to privacy on a public roadway. My Tesla is filming you.
fearmerchant··on Gerrymandering won. It's time to change the rules
That's true, good point. It's probably much more effective.
fearmerchant··on Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead
Man I wish I was asking this question. Imagine how blissful life would be not to have wasted precious synaptic energy learning this topic.
fearmerchant··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
If the margins are there it will get sorted.
fearmerchant··on Gerrymandering won. It's time to change the rules
It's strange to see articles like this when we've had Gerrymandering for as long as the word has existed. SCOTUS simply left it alone.
fearmerchant··on Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data
For an Amber Alert that could be really helpful.
fearmerchant··on The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life
He was a writer, he should have stayed in his lane.
fearmerchant··on To recruit teachers, school districts are building homes
The only way that works is to build more housing. Austin has shown the way.
fearmerchant··on Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
Everything is load-bearing with 3 measured blockers.
fearmerchant··on Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you
If true, I suspect Anthropic will begin suspending accounts that use it.
fearmerchant··on Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
Agreed. The issue is that when working 1:1 you get a feel for how many tokens are being burned but the subagent spawn could be 3 or in one cases it spawned 171 to verify something. The latter was unexpected and burned through my token budget.
fearmerchant··on We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12
For coding Opus 4.8 with ultracode is near perfect and doesn't grind away as many tokens. Fable is advertised as 2x the tokens but in my experience it is closer to 5x what I burn with Opus 4.8.
fearmerchant··on The revenge of the philosophy majors
Ok, you got me. It took me a minute.
fearmerchant··on Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability
For coding I'm finding the same thing. It does appear better when I'm doing research. But 4.8 with ultracode is very competent at 99% of tasks I throw at it.
fearmerchant··on California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business
All those terrible republicans against this common sense bill.
fearmerchant··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
I must be unlucky because I'm in that .73% way more than .73% of the time.
fearmerchant··on U.S. science is in chaos
The US is still dominant for research spending and high impact scientific publications and medicine. I too would be interested in where they think it would be better. Israel and South Korea are the only two that might provide more opportunities depending on the area of interest.
fearmerchant··on OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B
It's more like once you figure out how to make a really good lamp then producing lots of lamps will be profitable. But the lamps are currently suboptimal so we'll be in the red until that time.
fearmerchant··on US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
The USA is not a suicide pact. We do need to consider national interests from time to time.
fearmerchant··on Fired 60 Minutes Scott Pelley: CBS told to inject 'falsehoods' into reporting
Without examples of the lies it's hard to take his word for it as a disgruntled employee.
fearmerchant··on A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
Elite human capital isn't normally distributed.
fearmerchant··on Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined
This comment reads as if it were dropped into a generic "genetics of lifespan" thread,. The Dynomight article is already making a much more sophisticated version of some of these same points. The article's central argument is precisely that heritability is a contingent observational statistic, not a Platonic form. This particular article isn't conflating heritability with genetic mechanism at all. It's interrogating a simulation model and its assumptions. The warning about "unqualified instruments" and "retrospective observational data" feels off as this paper isn't a straightforward observational study. it's a parametric simulation fitted to twin registry data.

This comment might be very useful in a Reddit thread full of people saying "50% of lifespan is in your DNA," but it's a bit off-target as a response to this particular article.

fearmerchant··on Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house
And really it's just a few.
fearmerchant··on It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs
That and we can observe how certain policies play out. I used to be a big decriminalize drugs guy but watching it play out in a few states has had me rethink that idea. I haven't done a 180 or anything but it is something I'd be more cautious about implementing.
fearmerchant··on I've sold out
And yet somehow it works...
fearmerchant··on The American Healthcare Conundrum
I pay cash for a medication because the insurance won't pay for the 90 day supply and it's a hassle to deal with it every month. It's $70 for me to pay for 90 days out of pocket versus paying a $20 deductible each month. I'm only paying $10 extra to avoid the hassle. Worth it.
fearmerchant··on Tesla publishes analyst forecasts suggesting sales set to fall
It appears you're using a Vanguard total market fund. Nothing wrong with that, it's clearly broader than the SP500, but I suspect more folks are familiar with the latter. In that spirit folks might be interested to know it's not much different. If Tesla disappeared tomorrow with would be 2.4% of the SP500.
fearmerchant··on Factor 0.101 now available
https://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Concatenative%20language
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