For sure. The site was quite poorly designed for its stated goals.

> but we are yet to see the long term consequences of the capabilities which were created with the value extracted there.

I cannot see fit to blame people for the actions of others they enabled, even deliberately let alone inadvertently.

I'm really hoping they will add face id next gen. I choose the installment purchase just to get the next phone after 11 months offer.

In true drinking the kool-aid style, I've attempted to solve this problem with an LLM!

I have a skill which aggregates what I've been working on over the last day (from slack, calendar, mail etc. MCP) and writes a notion journal entry for me. It runs in the evening when I've finished and is ready the next morning when I start. It helps with the context switching - reminding me of deadlines or what I was in the middle of before I left.

They were incorrect to take the approach that they did.

Last year, my friend's cat died. Imagine if he had gone to Wikipedia to edit the page for Cat, inserting his question in the page text, seeking veterinary advice. I hope you would agree that this would be an abuse of the system which should certainly not be rewarded.

Similarly, on a Q&A site like Stack Overflow when you ask a question, it is simply expected that you think about other people, and what their needs will be.

Specifically: a question and answer are added primarily so that, indefinitely into the future, other people can find them with a search engine, read the question and confirm that it matches what they're trying to find out, and go to the answers. Think about what those users would want the question and answer to look like. Think about whether they would ever be able to find the question with reasonable search terms, and whether an answer to you could possibly also answer them. Think about whether they would expect Stack Overflow to house that question. This is, really, at the root of all the reasons for closing a question.

It's one of the reasons I'm planning on moving stuff over to Pico.

Or now, I guess, just writing some CSS from scratch, which I hate.

Of course a fiscal crisis is a crisis but that might not be so bad in the long run? If we, as EZ, can't balance a budget and balance a current account, lowering the value of the currency will surely help with that, if it's possible at all.

> (hurting importers)... (hurting exporters)

But that's also called a diverse economy and you have to balance that in any big economy anyway.

> However, pegging Gambia's currency to USD only works in short terms.

How short? Ecuador is not even pegged to USD, it completely abolished its own currency back in 2000, while both Kosovo and Montenegro have done the same with euro. There are other economies whose currencies are far from freely floated. Of course this does not apply to big EZ economies. But it doesn't have to, because they can actually influence the monetary policy.

> Having checked it's Germany.

It's Slovakia.

> I don't quite see the convergence this is supposed to show.

Well you should see it now.

> This is nutshell what France was doing (on a less apparent scale). It was pegging its weaker currency to EUR (because it's a large importer).

And as was the case with Greece and in a lesser way with the rest of PIGS, there will come a painful payback time for France too (or it's already here). They are still a subject of the bond market.

But a broader point can I think be clearly seen here: if France (and others) can't run huge deficits and then simply devalue their own currency anymore, then that is surely convergence too?

I thought that was quite an interesting pull for a kid in 1960s USSR.

But then I have to repeat this lecture to so many people it’s wearing me down. I’ve mostly resorted to just not reading it and simply ignoring any AI text sent to me.

Yeah. Quitting before this shit eats me alive. I'm in an EE degree program now. Better three years of study while everyone else gets to deal with the bananaware and the bullshit, and let's see then once the seas have calmed.

Until then, I actively try to avoid engaging with Slop Generator regurgitations and call it out whenever I see someone not disclosing they used a Slop Generator.

Is this true? If yes it makes a lot of sense. Time and time again, when I try some newly released open weights model I am disappointed. Even some older Claude models are beating them on quality of answers, even though they score less on intelligence in benchmarks.

It is politically impossible to go back on KYC/AML measures in the traditional financial system, even if some of them were perhaps a bit too ill-advised. It's much easier to say "this is shiny new tech, very different from that old tech over there; we support innovation so we won't impose KYC requirements on it", even if there's no logical reason to do that.

As it stands, stablecoins let you make a keypair in the privacy of your own home (or your own agent sandbox, as it were) and immediately start transacting. They're allowed-by-default instead of blocked-by-default, with the US government still able to block you if they have a specific reason. No traditional bank I know of, in any country, works like this. This is a valuable capability to have, technologically, even if there's no technical reason why a Postgres database and a REST API couldn't provide the same service, but faster and more easily.