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American Wealth, Sliced Up

amai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:09:39 +0000

Article URL: https://kottke.org/26/05/american-wealth-sliced-up

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402371

Points: 43

# Comments: 75

Yarle – The ultimate converter of Evernote notes to Markdown

amai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:00:54 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/akosbalasko/yarle

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398793

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by amai in "The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century"

amai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:03:28 +0000

New name: Stark Industries?

New comment by amai in "A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf]"

amai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:54:03 +0000

See an excerpt here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/file/feeds/PDF/9780674284388_sam...

New comment by amai in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

amai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:14:27 +0000

New comment by amai in "Why China got rich and India didn't"

amai — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:26:16 +0000

tldr; China has more educated slaves.

New comment by amai in "Why China got rich and India didn't"

amai — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:19:12 +0000

A benevolent dictatorship is probably more effective. However most dictatorships are not benevolent. And once you have voted for a benevolent dictator you can't get rid of him anymore if he stops being benevolent. So a dictatorship is always a trap in the long term.

New comment by amai in "Missing worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory found dead in remote forest"

amai — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:57:51 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/threebodyproblem/comments/1squlrh/m...

New comment by amai in "I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth"

amai — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:44:03 +0000

Why does Las Vegas have no real subway?

New comment by amai in "Now AI agents need what RSS does"

amai — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:31:03 +0000

The issue with RSS is that it doesn't allow to show ads. That is why the RSS reader was killed by Google.

Nowadays AI agents also don't read ads. Let's see how that is going, but the ad industry isn't amused about that.

New comment by amai in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

amai — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:23:07 +0000

Americans shouldn't fight data centers or AI, but billionaires. No kings!

New comment by amai in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

amai — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:37:57 +0000

Like in China or Russia?

New comment by amai in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

amai — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:37:26 +0000

And in Russia

New comment by amai in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

amai — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:30:31 +0000

Let's record Larry Ellison then. He is not showing his best behavior lately. Does anyone already track his private jet or private yacht?

Emergence World: A Laboratory for Evaluating Long-Horizon Agent Autonomy

amai — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:35:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.emergence.ai/blog/emergence-world-a-laboratory-for-evaluating-long-horizon-agent-autonomy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360029

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by amai in "Thiel's move signals billionaires seeking a 'plan B' abroad"

amai — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:14:44 +0000

Argentina? The place all the Nazis went to hide? How fitting.

New comment by amai in "Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot' (2025)"

amai — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:05:18 +0000

He is just a rich guy with an opinion. What do studys say?

A four-day working week improves mental and physical health: https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/how-we-are-doing/research-ou...

Work time reduction via a 4-day workweek finds improvements in workers’ well-being https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02259-6

So to not feel starved for time, aim for a 7.6 hour workday. That would equate to a 38-hour workweek. https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/this-is-how-many...

New Study Finds the 'Optimal' Length of a Workweek and found that the "optimal" workweek is 37 hours. https://money.com/optimal-workweek-length-hours/

New comment by amai in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

amai — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:50:36 +0000

How comes people in the gym don’t seem to profit from that?

Maybe the reason is that you also need to train your brain, when you are taking creatine. Otherwise it is just wasted.

It is the same if you just take creatine, but don’t do any sports. It will have no effect.

New comment by amai in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

amai — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:44:21 +0000

Creatine increased my weight and made me a slower runner. I believe for long distance running creatine does not give any benefits. For sprints it might be different. But be aware that if you suddenly increase your training load with the help of creatine, you might easily injure yourself, because your joints are not ready for it.

New comment by amai in "Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care"

amai — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:11:58 +0000

Fake kids incoming in three, two, one ...