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by toss1 | 2025-05-01 15:28:21+00:00
>>Which in context of the conversation, means nothing.

Umm, it's the central point —» Which population is more prepared and willing to endure deprivation to win a trade war? Those multi-generational experience of safety, stability, and MTV prosperity mean everything in terms of being unprepared to endure deprivation for a greater good. A nation of spoiled brats is not Sparta.

We certainly agree the outcome of this is inevitably bad, is already decades-long in terms of trust broken across the globe, and the regime is definitely trying to kill free&fair elections to remain in power.
by Multiplayer | 2025-05-01 15:28:22+00:00
Here's a heretical thought: Remote hiring is a massive achilles heel.

I've been duped simply by hiring a great engineering candidate who then farmed out the actual work to remote workers in Pakistan and India. We caught on fairly quickly thanks to one of them forgetting to login to one of our backend systems via vpn a few times. No idea how many companies he was "working for" but I'd bet we were one of many.

Remote work has amazing upsides and tremendous security implications.
by kristopolous | 2025-05-01 15:28:26+00:00
I mean if the courts break it up and the funding goes away.

Then in a couple years after proper funding and less crazy austerity elsewhere, such as in China, there will be these nail-biting articles about how evil wicked China is getting ahead in the browser and we need good American USA browsers without ever reflecting on our own stupid yeehaw foot shooting behavior that created the situation.

Absolute psychotic madness
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-05-01 15:28:28+00:00
I think people who consider Open API to be a “competitor” to MCP haven’t really played with MCP.

MCP is a tool calling protocol. Models are trained on it as a way to do stuff outside their sandbox. OpenAPI isn’t a tool calling protocol but more of a schema to describe interfaces.

You could write an MCP that exposes an OpenAPI compatible set of interfaces, but you couldn’t write an OpenAPI thing to call… well… anything. OpenAPI doesn’t cover the actual tool calling.

In addition, even if OpenAPI would work it’s massive and contains a ton of extra “stuff” that would overwhelm the models precious context window. Unless the OpenAPI schema was explicitly intended for LLM consumption, the results will be a mixed bag as the LLM will have to spend half its time making sense of the schema. A well designed MCP might take an OpenAPI endpoint suite and wrap it in thoughtful tool calls so the LLM doesn’t have to parse a giant schema doc (also… the LLM actually needs to make the HTTP call and guess how it will do that? Why though MCP of course!)

By contrast, MCP tools expose a slender LLM optimized interface that requires little “thought” to call.

Honestly though, comparing OpenAPI to MCP is a bit like comparing an xml schema to curl. They are completely different. MCP is for tool calling. It’s how you expose… well… anything from calling into your shell to looking something up in your database. The only similarity is that MCP exposes a schema to the model to tell it what kinds of tool calls the model can make. And did you read the spec I’d imagine said schema looks a wee bit like OpenAPI (wouldn’t know as I haven’t looked though).

Seriously. Go write an MCP for something you think would be cool. Like go write an MCP for Claude that connects to your logging and lets Claude search the logs in a more structured way. Make something like “find_request(request_id)” and then let your code do all the searching and have it return the relevant logs. Watch as the model doesn’t have to spend a billion tokens figuring out your database schema, how to grep, etc… good MCP’s do all the grunt work so the LLM can focus on your task and not spend tons of time bootstrapping. The entire exercise won’t even take a half day and you’ll have yourself a cool new tool that saves you time.

In short, MCP and OpenAPI are two entirely different concepts.
by verisimi | 2025-05-01 15:28:28+00:00
I'm not privy to the plan, but what was right at one stage (funding a company to gain a monopoly position on search) need not be right at a later stage. Perhaps now a different strategy is unfolding. Perhaps it is obvious that government and corporations work in tandem, and the optics require that it appears that government acts against monopolists to regain confidence.
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by UncleOxidant | 2025-05-01 15:28:48+00:00
And companies getting onto an index seems potentially fraught with corruption when so much money is at stake. Is there a publicized algorithm that determines which companies get into an index or are palms greased?

That said, I mostly invest in indexes even though I have concerns. I've just done much better over the years with index investing than investing in single stocks. Diversification is maximized in index investing.
by nitin_j11 | 2025-05-01 15:28:48+00:00
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by bombcar | 2025-05-01 15:28:48+00:00
This is really good advice - the "your home is an investment" is realtor talk to get you to overspend.

A house is a depreciating thing you can live in, and is expensive! Once you correctly account for ALL the expenses (not just mortgage, insurance, and property tax!) you discover that renting may be advantageous.

But they do often go up in value over time (ignoring maintenance keeping them together) and sometimes beat inflation (especially when leveraged).
by crazygringo | 2025-05-01 15:29:07+00:00
> On the other it’s accumulating more and more with a few firms giving them exceptional power.

Which firms are you referring to? Firms like Vanguard or firms like Apple?

I don't really see how Vanguard gets "power" here. They have no choices. They can't deviate from the index, so the money they control doesn't give them "power" to affect anything.

Or if you mean firms at the top of the index like Apple, they owe their power to their competitiveness and profit-making ability. I don't really see how inclusion in indexes inflates their power, except in an arguably slightly higher stock price. But it's not allowing them to engage in "powerful" behaviors they wouldn't otherwise. Apple isn't buying up companies it wouldn't if it weren't in index funds, for example.
by toss1 | 2025-05-01 15:29:14+00:00
>>When you grow up in those conditions, it’s like you’re the kid of a rich person who made all the money, and you now feel entitled to it without any of the work it took to get here, and without experiencing the pain without it or the lessons learned along the way. Instead you start to complain that you can’t do XYZ (buy a home, have a family, pay for healthcare), but because you didn’t create these conditions or experience life before, you just blame others without any of the tools to correct it for yourself.

THIS!

A nation of (predominantly) spoiled brats is not Sparta.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-05-01 15:29:14+00:00
I mean, eventually we also hope some other places develop something like a functioning democracy, or whatever is better in the future, and we hope it will be a matter of time until they at some point do.

The problem with the US is though, that they have the most powerful military on the planet, and the US ending up in smoking ruins probably means lots of other places going down with it, when the US looks outside for reasons of its failure. It is quite dangerous.
by lenerdenator | 2025-05-01 15:29:17+00:00
> Fascism = a nationalist movement trying to dissolve all class and other distinctions into the nation. So putting the nation above all else. The role of the state may look effectually similar in the practices of both, but the reason and practice for doing so is entirely different.

At least in Marxism-Leninism, you have a party vanguard implementing a dictatorship of the proletariat that could be somewhat analogous to the bureaucracy of the fascist state, so I'd say that the practices are fairly similar in at least some situations. The major difference would be that Marxism-Leninism advances the idea of that bureaucracy also using some sort of democratic process to operate and make decisions, but as we know, that can be easily undermined with a cult of personality.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-05-01 15:29:25+00:00
>what happens in a theoretical market where 100% of investors were in an index funds?

That would never happen, because the more a market tilts towards index investing, the larger the incentive and opportunity that active management has to exploit misspriced assets. The trick is that the very act of exploiting that opportunity updates the price and eliminates it long term, and the harder it becomes for active investors to find misspriced assets.

TLDR: Active managment effectively performs a service to the market, and gets rewarded for it, but the reward is small and fleeting
by dowager_dan99 | 2025-05-01 15:29:32+00:00
Real Estate in Canada is interesting. We invest way more of our wealth in it than Americans, yet many can't afford to get started with their first purchase. Somehow the government needs to get more people into houses without destroying the nominal value (i.e. triggering big price decreases). I suspect they'll focus on supply and programs to help people pay the high list prices, but not try and control what a home costs directly. Inflation can then solve some of the real volume problem, but with a lot of knock-on impacts and also push it down the road. Tough scenario to try and address...
by mapt | 2025-05-01 15:29:44+00:00
It would be gauche to attack Tulsi Gabbard, because you would have to start with her connections to Russia's Assadist interests and to RT & the Russian web brigades, and we have established (we voted on it) that any connection to Russia is Old News and Not A Big Deal and Hillary's Dirty Tricks. But Hegseth? Hegseth leaked something to The Atlantic. A far greater threat than Russia.
by hannasanarion | 2025-05-01 15:29:58+00:00
In this scenario, you would have had to go through an extensive amount of specialist effort to intentionally get the recipe generator to produce something poisonous when it never would have done so otherwise.

Product warranties generally don't cover unintended usage, and liability for producers generally dosen't extend to transformative unintended uses that are achieved by circumventing safeguards.

If you take a firefighter-grade angle grinder to your balcony rail and remove it, you don't then get to sue the building owner for unsafe construction.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-05-01 15:30:43+00:00
How would you convince people that they aren't gambling when investing in stocks? It's easy to say that this fear will keep them poor, but how would you alleviate their fears? There certainly do seem to be features of the current market that seem quite akin to gambling. Are current price/earnings ratios warranted? What about market manipulation by tweets that we see from the current administration? It seems that insiders that are privy to certain information will do much better than your average investor. At some point, people don't want to be suckers and decide to no longer participate.
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-01 15:30:46+00:00
The amendments already exist! More than that, the core articles already exist! The Constitutional powers delegate taxation and tariffs solely to Congress. Doing it through Executive Order is Constitutionally absurd and if Congress wasn't asleep at the wheel and criminally "Do Nothing" (especially, nothing without a Lobbyist lining your tailored suit's insides with cash like filthy lingerie) and the Judicial Branch wasn't suborned into party politics mentalities and a lot of people in both Congress and Justice weren't being hugely negligent on their sworn oaths to Protect the Constitution, there should be a lot more Checks and Balances happening right now.

This isn't about which tools should have been used at the end of the cold war. This is about which tools should have been used before the Great Depression in a country under a political party that has spent decades dismantling the tools that helped it end the Great Depression.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-05-01 15:30:48+00:00
If people are hiring this sort of applicant I'm of the opinion they kind of deserve to be "pwned". The most basic of process should have weeded this dude out instantly at any modern company.

I'm sure this wasn't a case of the most advanced/sophisticated attempt from North Korea and other bad actors, and probably just a case of them casting a wide net. But regardless based off of this writeup and the video shown dude should have never been given the time of day.
by swatcoder | 2025-05-01 15:31:12+00:00
Market/fund investment for us normal folk is so passive and disempowered that it really does amount to gambling. You put some share of your hard-earned wages in and hope for the best.

It's been shown to be a mostly rewarding strategy over the last century of so, averaged out at least, and so of course it's not really a foolish bet for most folks, but it's not the only way to secure one's financial health and isn't the ideal one for everybody.

Scrappy hustlers, skilled trade workers, and (SMB-scale) entrepreneurs in particular can often see a better return by investing in themselves and in ventures in their own community, where things are not so passive. Likewise, people with modest dreams and a preference for stability often might prefer securing a paid off house, car, etc before throwing too much money into the casino -- even on good bets. And others with strong and healthy family bonds benefit most by prioritizing enrichment and opportunity for family members who can be trusted to return the favor in less flush/capable times. etc

Many young people have only really been exposed to the idea of market investment as a retirement strategy, and its a good one for many, but there are a lot of roads to staying financially healthy through late life.
by solatic | 2025-05-01 15:31:15+00:00
Historically, these kinds of questions were kept relatively simple, like how many bases are there, how many strikes, how many balls, how many innings, what's the name of the referee (answer: umpire), etc. They're also a product of a different time when baseball was much more popular in the US among US youth, with a much stronger youth monoculture, where the only way you didn't play baseball as a kid would be if you were a loner or in a wheelchair, neither of which were consistent with becoming an officer 80-90 years ago.
by schnable | 2025-05-01 15:31:26+00:00
In some circles, there is social capital to being part of some marginalized identity. The autism spectrum is so wide that it's pretty easy for many highly functional people to slot themselves onto it somehow. Then many of these people make this a core part of their identity and feel a need to "advocate" for other autistic people and autism in general. Once your identity is wrapped up in something, this isn't so different than advocating for gay rights or against racism or something. Of course advocating for what is a debilitating disease for many makes no sense and can actually be cruel.
by pessimizer | 2025-05-01 15:31:39+00:00
> Something that groups of people rarely seem to realize: you don't have to accept a binary. You don't have to put all hierarchical structure to an end. You don't have to do ONLY one thing or ONLY another.

I do not understand your framing. You don't "have to" do anything. These are people talking about what they wish to do.

> Life is about balance.

Pseudo-Buddhist bullshit.

You are lost in abstraction. These arguments are actually about material conditions, they're not just personality conflicts. Middle-class people lose contact with this fact, because they have no material worries; or rather their material conditions are simply tied to whether their employer believes they are profitable to employ. Of course middle-class people have to "compromise." Or rather they have to paint their total and continuous submission as a compromise, complain about the inflexibility of their bosses, and dream of one day having the leverage to order people around themselves.

Arguing that the best solution is in the middle is just the moderation fallacy. It's not profound, it's the law of averages. It's the kind of thing you can say regardless of subject, an invariant, that will always make people who believe in the law of averages believe you said something profound.
by GuardianCaveman | 2025-05-01 15:31:43+00:00
Emerson may or may not have said “ I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

I have a four year as well and we go on grand adventures in the mountains and all over really. I think about this quote and decide that I’m shaping my kids spirit, their courage, their confidence regardless of if they’ll remember it. Beyond that in the present we experience joy and curiosity and laughter and life! It’s silly to lament childhood amnesia because I dont aim to catalog things and check things off a list but experience a fun and interesting life with my family.
by treis | 2025-05-01 15:31:44+00:00
I'm the opposite. I feel like the core essence of me has mostly stayed the same. I've picked up more skills and learned a lot from life experiences. But it's more like getting new clues to a mystery than a change. In other words, the core processing stayed the same but new facts arose.

For the first time in my life I have actual regrets. Which is strange and new. But again it's not like what I wanted to have happened changed.
by qzw | 2025-05-01 15:32:19+00:00
Baseball was called the national pastime for a reason. Back in the day it was the sport in America. It had a degree of cultural ubiquity that’s hard to understand for us today. Also I assume the questions weren’t about the basic rules of the game but more along the lines of what was going on in the season at the time. The American soldiers would have had up to date news while the Germans would presumably not.
by dowager_dan99 | 2025-05-01 15:32:53+00:00
My theory: your primary residence should not be viewed as an investment, because you've got to live somewhere; if you sell it and cash out you need to turn around and find housing in what is a hot market, or move into a van down by the river. However, Millions of older, reliable voters own their home and it's the primary store of much of their wealth. Any government that impacts this will be out on the street asap. So your house is likely a good investment, but you can't think of it like other shorter-term, liquid investments.
by Tmkly | 2025-05-01 15:33:03+00:00
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by jnwatson | 2025-05-01 15:33:11+00:00
> it's the OS. It's the OS that requires apps to get permission before accessing my location, it's the OS that isolates apps from each other, it's the OS that provides an easy way to install/uninstall packages.

Sorry, you're just wrong. Only by analyzing the apps can Apple enforce several policies that many folks think contribute to users' security.

The prohibition against dynamic code, lying about the reason that an app needs a certain permission, and all the trust and safety policies are all stuff an OS can't do.
by marcuskane2 | 2025-05-01 15:33:12+00:00
Almost any of them?

Asking a candidate about how fat someone is definitely does sound like something that would get an interviewer in trouble.

Many people are deeply insecure about their weight, many women feel very uncomfortable when men make any comment about anyone's weight, body or appearance. The candidate might post on Glassdoor or LinkedIn about the hostile (and possibly sexist or "bro-y" or noninclusive or discriminatory) environment.

Even aside from the HR type concerns, it could legitimately negatively impact the candidate's performance. Imagine an overweight applicant being asked that question, feeling flustered and embarrassed while answering "... about as fat as me?" and then trying to reverse a linked list or whatever as their next question.
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