Italy is the clearest example of how a rich country can slowly destroy itself through decades of bad management.
Since the late 1990s, Italy has had almost zero productivity growth.
Real wages have stagnated. And public debt is now around 137% of GDP, projected to move toward 139% overtaking Greece as the highest in the eurozone.
It is the result of 25 years of
1. Low innovation and very low adoption of new technologies
2. Family and insider succession in many companies, weakening meritocracy
3. Underdeveloped VC industry, startup ecosystem and R&D base
4. Political capture by lobbies and organised crime
5. Extreme administrative, judicial and business bureaucracy
6. Political fragmentation
7. Demographic collapse
No country can remain rich forever if productivity does not grow, debt keeps rising and politics only manages decline instead of reversing it.
We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.
This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.
I think of this tweet every day.
I can't stop myself.
Every time I see anything YC related now, it immediately comes to mind.
I hope to be free of this tweet someday.
The BBC put Elon's image first, despite the fact that he has never visited the Epstein island, but conveniently omit King's brother Andrew in the headline.
Andrew is all over the files, having visited the Epstein island a number of times, with some really scary photographs in the files.
Or Peter Mandelson, who visited the Epstein Island AND leaked government documents to Epstein, and is under police investigation.
Note: X, owned by Elon, is the main rival to the BBC News business.
@thdxr Hey Dax, are you still planning to migrate OpenCode sessions to SQLite? I'm asking because I’m thinking about writing a utility (maybe an OpenCode plugin) to show/navigate sessions, so wanted to know if that’s still the direction.
adding another free model - arcee trinity large
this is the first american open-source model we're offering
it's a solid base model so we're expecting future iterations to be quite competitive
been a week and i still see people dunking on the game engine post
don't get why they don't just say "we didn't know what we were doing and now we have a mess that we're doing our best to deal with"
instead of being like "let me teach you something about programming"
They executed him on his knees in the street. I cannot believe what is happening to my country. I say this not as a Democrat, or a Republican, but as an American. They are boiling us like frogs, trying to acclimate us to the destruction of our nation.
Adding mouse pointer shapes to Textual.
On supported terminals, you can set the mouse cursor shape to show when the cursor is over a given widget.
All the cool kids are doing this these days.