the optimal solution to job advertising/search is people putting a damn ad in the paper. All technology applied to the problem has made it worse, for everyone
If the king managed to build their palace in the clouds? Yes. That’s a pretty awesome achievement. Not the kings’s achievement, but the achievement stands.
Give it to entrepeneurs/researchers doing intrinsicly cool things like cancer research, without knowing how you will get any of it back right at the start. The problem is NOT lack of productive investments, its that Uber rich people think its not fair if they ever lose.
its not specifically military spending, just good government. If they pivoted after the cold war back into the space race or something, we would still have a high tech sector and it need not necessarily be military focussed
The US spends twice what we spent in 1970 on education per student, in constant dollars. I don't know how to make the schools better, but money sure didn't do it.
And we're going broke paying for health care. I don't know how much more we spend, but it's multiples.
you're a decade too early. Compare it to 1980 and you see how it flattens out very quickly. Compare it to 1990 and you see the cost per student has basically flatlined. Spending diverted from government funding of schools to student loans, so even that's misleading.
>And we're going broke paying for health care.
Signing a bill giving trillions to billionaires certainly does make it hard to fund healthcare. Especially when the wealth concentration these days has the top 10% making 50% of the money. I wonder how we solve that...
A decade too early for what? Sure, it flattens out, but the fact remains we're spending a whole lot more money on schools than we did when the students were objectively learning more.
And what bill was it that gave trillions to billionaires?
We have an enormous K-12 administration level partly because we have so many local school districts, each of which typically needs to separately buy textbooks, serve food, apply for state and federal funding and handle compliance, run HR and physical plant operations and janitorial and IT, manage transportation, respond to inquiries from the public, etc.
It’s very hard politically to merge school districts because even beyond labor considerations, people have a sense that their district is superior to the one next door and think a merger will create immediate chaos and long term harm to their kids’ educations and their property values.
Spending isn't the problem, when you ignore how the spending is composed.
We flattened out decades ago, and that's because we went from subsidizing schools to funding loans. The money makeup per studnet won't look different... until the student graduates and can't pay it off.
So our solution was obvious: make it so they can't bankrupt and stay in debt forever. Great way to build an educated citizenship.
Cursor certainly isnt the default ! No idea where you're getting that? If anything I would say Claude Code is the default but realistically all the tools are converging to be much of a muchness
It would behoove as to no longer rely on metrics like comment count from anonymous users going forward! This used to be a reasonable proxy, but I do not believe it is meaningful now.
Small grocery stores are going bankrupt, larger chains now all are becoming food conglomerates who also own the point of sale - so called "private label" is noted as a huge threat in the shareholder reports of traditionally large food companies - go to a whole foods, aside from a few high profile products like CocaCola its all in-house brand products
They set the pricing how is this even wrong - I will run my claude subscription non stop until they cut me off, I paid for it they should honor what they sold. And yes Im a max subscriber who still frequently hits limits
I respectfully consider this analogy void, but welcome an explanation of why I'm wrong.
I haven't yet seen anyone doing anything remarkable with their extensive use of Claude. Without frequent human intervention, all of it looks like rapid regression to the mean, or worse.
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