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You exist in a bubble if you think a meaningful population of the target audience of this app have any meaningful amount of treasuries in their portfolio, or any portfolio at all.

I don’t think the website is lacking in describing things that we get from the government.


Uh... do you have cash in a money market account? What do you think the "money market" is, exactly?

In the nicest way possible no absolutely not that would way underperform just about everything

Not over the last few months, obviously. But in general I've never known a serious trader who didn't maintain a cash balance at some non-trivial level, if only to maintain liquidity for low-latency bets.

But regardless, the point was that all the "cash" you see in your investment accounts (even if you, personally, don't carry any) is predominantly treasuries and other short term high-confidence debt. Everyone owns treasuries, it's only true that very few people "buy" treasury notes.


No, my point was that not everyone has an investment account, period.

Well, your statement was that a "meaningful population of the target audience" did not "have any meaningful amount of treasuries in their portfolio". And that's wrong. Basically everyone holds treasuries. Some people don't. Most people do.

Look it up. Half of Americans don’t own stock or investment. By any definition that is considered a “meaningful population”.

It's 62%: https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...

At what point does that tip to "meaningful population" for you?


You're goalpost-moving to the converse of your point, though. You weren't claiming that there was merely a meaningful population who wouldn't benefit, you were stating that there was NO meaningful population that would. Go check. And again, that's wrong.

lmao, I love the irony of this "how much could one banana cost" reply

I repeat: almost everyone has some kind of money market instrument, the cash balance of which is stored primarily in US treasuries (along with other short term debt). Almost everyone benefits, to the extent they have that asset, by interest payments from the US government.

If you want to make a point about wealth distribution, then make a point about wealth distribution. This was a subthread about government finance policy.


TSMC would never allow all of their output to only one customer. You have an over simplified view of this.

I know Twitter has been talking up Hermes Agent by Nous Research a lot or id recommend building your own agent off of Pi.

Thanks for this suggestion, I installed it yesterday after seeing this comment and this surely is a breath of fresh air! It appears that everything is designed reasonably well from the ground up. It’s more limited, but what’s there works well.

I don't think they have the infra to support the demand. Anthropic can't keep up with the demand from OpenClaw users, they won't be able to keep up with public demand for something like Mythos.

I would argue the opposite. It’s gotten us to a point were we can recreate human intelligence from electricity and a bunch of math!

Are you a bot?

No of course not

I think CC is popular because they are catering to the common denominator programmer and are going to continue to do that, not because CC is particularly turn-key.

Any model besides Claude. AFAIK anthropics the only corp to say no to other harnesses.

Some people have a gut reaction to take any bad news about America as slander or manipulated science; choosing to reject the truth as their dear leader tells them to.

A novel way of measuring poverty is something you should be really skeptical of!

>But an adult is and should be allowed to develop a nicotine addiction.

Says who? Addiction is never rational, that's what makes it addiction. Ffs.


I've never maintained software long-term so i could be wrong, but I interpret "code is cheap" to mean that you can have coding agents refactor or rewrite the project from scratch around the design correction. I don't think 'code is cheap' ever should be interpreted to mean ship hacky code.

I think using agents to prototype code and design will be a big thing. Have the agent write out what you want, come back with what works and what doesn't, write a new spec, toss out the old code and and have a fresh agent start again. Spec-driven development is the new hotness, but we know that the best spec is code, have the agent write the spec in code, rewrite the spec in natural language, then iterate.


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