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Why is that?

> In states that allowed online betting, the study reported a 10% increase in the likelihood of bankruptcy and an 8% increase in debt collection amounts — outcomes that tended to appear about two years after the practice was legalized.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/04/nx-s1-5773354/legal-sports-be...

A lot less than those born from the economic prosperity brought from open and protected sea lanes

I look forward to a website that tells me who to vote for based on my occupation, socioeconomic status, and who will be the most benefit to me

That will be the true death knell of democracy

How do you use Claude to admin it? Does Claude SSH into the server and do everything or just write bash scripts?

> It doesn't perform on par with Anthropic's models in my experience.

Why do you think that is the case? Is Anthropic's models just better or do they train the models to somehow work better with the harness?

How does Cursor compare to Claude Code or Codex?

Many of the people who had the pagers were doctors, lawyers, bureaucrats...

Maybe I'm wrong, but, I think Hezb0-lla-h is pretty much the "government", especially in southern Lebanon

> Having seized the vessel, the navy said it could not be towed back to shore due to poor weather and its fragile construction, and it later sank in the open sea.

Well, they did sink the submarine

It's probably very expensive patrolling waters 1000 nautical miles from your shores.

What incentive does Portuguese authorities have to do this, especially considering the cocaine would've likely just been shipped off to buyers in other parts of the EU and not affect Portugal as much

> Also, the largest theft in human history surely has to be the East India Company extracting something like 50 trillion from India over 200 years, right?

I never understood these sorts of statements. I feel historical events maybe after the Victorian age can claim to be theft, otherwise it's just empires and conquest.

Adjusted for inflation, wouldn't Alexander the Great's plundering of Persia, which at the time comprised 40% of the world's population, be the greatest theft in human history, using your logic?

What are the economics of stealing historical jewelry?

Their size is probably big enough that any collector could distinguish them from any random jewels.

Who is there to sell to? The best bet is to store it away then let your great grandkids sell it to some Asian billionaire in the future when Europe and Europol no longer have any power and influence.

NATO lost its credibility when they didn't back Turkey after a Russian fighter jet violated Turkish airspace and was subsequently shot down.

Or when they pulled out of Afghanistan and the world saw 20 years of occupation unravel within a couple weeks.

Or when they went ahead and destroyed multiple countries without much thought.

At this point, NATO is just a bully with a big stick, whacking people then scurrying back across the pond. As well as a marketplace to force allies to buy and get locked in to the American arms industry.

Does any normal person think "AGI" is real?

I thought that was just the marketing strategy execs employed to get regulatory capture and convince all the AGI pilled researchers to work for them

The Europeans invented the car and Ford mass produced it.

Yet, we see Ford as extremely innovative and revolutionary. I think we can draw lots of parallels between a 19th and early 20th century industrializing US and current China.

All articles published by the Economist are reviewed by its editorial team.

Also, the Economist publishes all articles anonymously so the individual author isn't known. As far as I know, they do this so we take all articles and opinions as the perspective of the Economist publication itself.

Most Youtube viewers watch on mobile or smart TVs, so adblockers aren't an issue there.

I'd assume most adblock users on web would disable it to continue watching. I doubt their crackdown on adblock users would affect view counts that much, but I'm just speaking from anecdotal evidence and a few Google searches

The real question is how does a startup that offers a terminal as its product command a $280 million valuation and need close to 100 employees?

Do we have a democracy though? If so many politicians are bought by special interests, does our system of governance allow for any path for self-correction?

> That's surely an interesting take when their demographics are absolutely imploding, and their economy is rife with state sponsored excess funded by debt.

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

I don't believe any of the stats coming out of China. I think it is best to approach data coming out of adversarial countries with lots of paranoia.

I don't know if that is necessarily the case. I'm from eastern Turkey and my DNA results showed mostly Iranian and Armenian ethnicity. I'd assume, a place that was constantly trampled would have a little more variety, especially considering the last time the Persian or Armenian empires controlled the city I'm from (Malatya) was thousands of years ago.

It's valuable real estate but not so easy to conquer. Probably because of the mountains. When the Arab's were on a role, they couldn't get too far into Turkey, same with Tamerlane, as well as many other invaders throughout history.

> Yes, I know GDP is a flawed measure, but as long as its flaws are consistent over the years it is useful for scaling.

I don't think they can be considered consistent over the years. 20% of our GDP is healthcare and that's only going to grow as the population ages. I don't know what percent of the GDP is financial services but that'll probably also grow until we get something akin to 2008 again.

Including healthcare and financial services in GDP figures feels out of place and unproductive but I'm not an economist so I don't know what I'm talking about.

Then you have the services sector which makes you reconsider what the point of calculating a country's GDP is to begin with?

Students stay in dorms "for the experience".

I don't think any middle aged person is looking for any communal living type experience.

Also, what do you mean by "short term"? Usually it only makes economic sense to buy a house if you plan on staying there for 5+ years otherwise closing costs and realtor fees eat away any savings you made from not renting. The period of our life where we are the most mobile and willing to change cities due to job changes (20-40yrs) is also the period in our life when people start families and have children.

I think most people prefer houses

Who owns them probably has an effect on whether new housing will be built. A city of mostly renters will vote to have rent controls. Your property taxes are a percentage of the assessed value of your house, usually 1-2%.

If your houses value is increasing but rent is capped, the landlord business isn't going to look very rosy. No new rentals will be built. Of course, I could be wrong.

Interested in counter arguments

Why is Minnesota(14%) so low compared to other states? Our property taxes aren't that high.

Maybe stable white color employing businesses mixed with a constant out migration of younger people, more likely to be renters, to the coasts?

I don't think questioning the prevailing narrative is a new thing.

Reminds me of a quote attributed to Napoleon, "History is a set of lies agreed upon".