Same. I think an AI would have an easier time than me.

US oil producers will win yes, because the prices are going up and they can provide. But the US consumers will feel it badly.

They become a serious partner for many countries disillusioned by the US.

Well no. This will be the same as in the other countries : when you're poor and sufficiently brainwashed you go to war to "defend" your country, no question asked.

I think we now have the mathematical tools to compute that correctly, given some vehicle parameters. This is not rocket science !

Cynicism is very cooler-than-thou, but it's not because we don't know better.

It's because we do know how the system fails, and holding power accountable to those high aspirations is the only thing that pushes back the equilibrium.

well, to be fair, there are a higher-than-average number of business owners on here, so they really might work for them

Only insofar as those business interests align with the government's interests.

The police get paid by and do the bidding of the government. They work for the government.

While you can screech about the degree of overlap between government interests and big business interests, and it absolutely is something worth screeching about, acting as though they are one in the same is counterproductive to understanding either.

yes.

It is also worth noting that in some cases, government and business owners have diametrically opposed interests - namely governments can nationalize companies (and if I'm not mistaken, some governments, like the Nazis, did, or would use the threat of nationalization to make business owners do their bidding with no regard for the interest of the business owner)

It's logistically a fact. Their paycheck comes from taxpayers. If you believe they're doing a bad job it's unrelated.

er... if you'll excuse me confirming the "HN is the 'well actually capital of the internet' stereotype"...

If you look throughout history, you'll see that before the advent of what we'd call 'modern states', most people who got their paycheck from 'taxpayers' did not see themselves as working for said 'taxpayers'.

Example: Pharaonic Egypt. Alexander's Empire, Bourbon France, Tsarist Russia, or more generally any kingdom, empire or any sort of duchy/earldom/county/etc where you have someone (the King, Tsar, Emperor, Duke, etc), whose job it is to lord over the peasants and take a cut of their work, not because they are an elected public servant doing the will of The People, but because they believe God Almighty has decreed that living off the wealth of others, and occasionally wasting large amounts of that wealth on building palaces or waging costly wars is what they were born to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings

as such, if you view the modern state as "basically an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy", then the police are not in fact working for 'Joe Taxpayer', but are just playing the same role that medival knights played for the Kings of France - they are the armed force of the extractive state, whose job it is to keep the peasants in line via violence so that they can continue to live off the fruits of peasant labor.

I understand what you're saying, but I was speaking in the ideal or purpose, rather than the defacto/pragmatic.

> Company will return-to-the-office mandates will soon disappear or adapt as they will lose their competitive advantage, x1.7 is too big of an effect to ignore

Lol the market magic hand. At that point it's more of a religious belief than a scientific fact.

Maybe you're too young to remember but it was the exact same thing for the war in Irak.

No, the Bush administration provided false intelligence to congress that time.

Powell had the decency to go in front of the UN and lie to the whole world. Trump doesn't even have that much class.

lie about what?

is it so inconceivable that non-elected people in pentagon circles etc, are honestly trying to keep the USA safe, and well, have the embarrassing job to provide the orange man with a menu card of options? if Trump or Clinton or any politician class clown then selects one of those options, i'm glad they didn't come up with it themselves.

An AI is more likely than me to take the time to send you an email for requesting access - I'm too lazy.

I think a better approach would be to have a login form and just say "the password is 1234" or whatever.

Virtually no scraper has logic to handle that sort of situation, but it's trivial for humans. Way easier than an LLM

Not true, even Windows Defender is capable of extracting "the password is 1234" from context like emails or webpages.

I would have made a "claude2asciinema", for geek points. Also an opencode version.

Ha, I like the claude2asciinema name! I did think about asciinema-style output, but I wanted the player to expose the structured steps rather than just replay the terminal output. Supporting other agent CLIs could definitely be interesting.

I just added a Claude alias that calls Claude with flags wrapped in asciinema. Only annoying thing is that people have wanted video or gifs and the conversion has been annoying a few times. Will fix it later.