David Brown @davidwbrw

Joined September 2017

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David Brown @davidwbrw

4 days ago

This graph is really incredible. The french social model has destroyed the incentive to work hard and the capacity to build wealth. x.com/Antonin_FR_/st…

Antonin Ferreira Roche @Antonin_FR_

4 days ago

This graph is really incredible. The french social model has destroyed the incentive to work hard and the capacity to build wealth. x.com/Antonin_FR_/st…

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Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet

4 days ago

This is probably the most scary chart you will see today, let me translate it for you. Only one third of the French have a job in the private sector. How are they supposed to feed the remaining two thirds with their taxes? It starts to feel like a failed state. #NicolasQuiPaie

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David Brown @davidwbrw

2 weeks ago

Funny to watch the french government bend over backwards to figure out how to save €40B/yr while spending nearly half that on the RSA (a form of UBI).

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David Brown @davidwbrw

a month ago

The best "cold plunge" is into a frigid river after a long hike.

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David Brown @davidwbrw

2 months ago

@MichaelAArouet As Sowell said, the real minimum wage is zero, and always will be. A better policy would be a minimum profit sharing... but the free-market principle is probably best.

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David Brown @davidwbrw

3 months ago

@JohnStossel Eminent domain should have been codified to offer double the fair market value.

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David Brown @davidwbrw

3 months ago

Those bunker busters are mind boggling. Hard to believe an air dropped bomb, accelerating by gravity alone, can penetrate 60 meters of rocky earth, but at over 13 tons and going Mach 1+, evidently they can…

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David Brown @davidwbrw

3 months ago

AI dev tools are most helpful when you already know what you're doing and how to do it. Otherwise, it's a trial-and-error nightmare. This was always the case with coding, AI tools just accentuate it. First gain a deep understanding of the of the problem, and then the coding is…

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David Brown @davidwbrw

3 months ago

The funny thing about AI replacing white collar work is realizing that 80% of it was useless overhead anyway.

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David Brown @davidwbrw

3 months ago

The future of tech will be less about software and more about robotics, biology, and energy. Software is about automating the transfer and manipulation of information which was, and still is, vitally important, but at this point, we have more software than you can shake a stick…

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David Brown @davidwbrw

3 months ago

One of my favorite things about coding with LLMs is the ability to repeatedly ask it clarifying questions about whatever specific code or problem I’m working on. Before, you had to type the question in google and search for the right information, often unsuccessfully. I do less…

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Tom Hyde @tomhyde_

3 months ago

If localised losses really were worse than democratised gains; if wage insecurities really did negate economies of scale; then progress really would be impossible. Every day other people lose their jobs to this or that efficiency and you, the consumer, reap the rewards. You have…

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David Brown @davidwbrw

4 months ago

A key advantage of machine over biological intelligence is that it can be easily copied. So what one robot experiences and learns can be shared by any other suitable robot or computer system. This paves the way for rapid proliferation of AI capabilities, as centralized learning…

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David Brown @davidwbrw

4 months ago

I just tried vibe coding with Cursor to convert a small create-react-app to next.js. It almost got there, but several things were messed up, which it was unable to fix. It also did some very weird things in the code that an intelligent developer would never do because it adds…