Ben

blanket statements are always correct.

[Ben @tort995]

@rah_66_comanche you must not have followed $TSLA ticker the last couple years 🤣

[Average Database CEO @AvgDatabaseCEO]

Peter Thiel tasting menu

[Ben @tort995]

@ibuildthecloud i spent a week burning tokens like crazy because i set up a skill that just keeps creating these subagents recursively until they stopped giving issues. Worked surprisingly well. But very expensive

[Ben @tort995]

@wuweiweiwu we made a fatal mistake when we gave web devs components

[Ben @benkoppe9]

i always have trouble wading through the million nix options, so I made nixsearch to solve the problem. it’s crazy how fast datastar can make the web!

[Ben @tort995]

@ibuildthecloud totally agree except for visual UI. I keep giving the same prompt to gpt and claude and the difference is always staggering, claude is just so much better at frontend that isn’t completely ugly. For everything else, it’s the opposite experience

[Ben @tort995]

@adastroworld @ShadowyZephyr I also don’t like the choice of “Fascination”, but how was his prediction not correct that there would be a stark difference between how people protested / approached the issue now versus then? I mean people are literally still going to Kamala speeches to protest for gaza 😭

[Ben @tort995]

@adastroworld @ShadowyZephyr can we really argue that people by and large understood what they were protesting for when so many couldn’t discern a difference between how Trump and Harris would handle the issue?

[Ben @tort995]

@malcolmisinhell @LadyNimby have you lived many places in your life? dry 110 in desert phoenix is 10x easier than a humid 90 😭

[Ben @tort995]

@ShadowyZephyr @adastroworld For sure, it’s the only reason i can stand his takes on my feed. He’s remarkably true to himself

[Ben @tort995]

@ShadowyZephyr @adastroworld the utter mishandling of gaza by the left will need to be thoroughly studied. it feels like a perfect storm in many ways.

re-reading his tweets, I agree with your perspective on Yglesias. But you really have to be generous to him to get there

[Ben @tort995]

@adastroworld @ShadowyZephyr I also can’t help but feel that Darfur, being a civil war with no western backing, is a particularly strange example

[Ben @tort995]

@ShadowyZephyr @adastroworld is gaza getting more media attention really surprising? the US directly arms and funds Israel

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@ShadowyZephyr it’s so bizarre. if i gave off short energy i’d need to know ASAP

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@adastroworld @AnniesLute @ShadowyZephyr Did the other OP hide their posts? I was really hoping for a real response to the criticism of the Moody data

[Ben @tort995]

@adastroworld @tenobrus reminds me of reading sam kriss lol. can’t stand it

[Ben @tort995]

@adastroworld @AnniesLute @ShadowyZephyr fair enough, i feel similarly. but it’d be helpful to have numbers that back up this feeling. i’m not sure if this divide in consumption has meaningfully changed recently

[Ben @tort995]

@whatisevenn @adastroworld Not to mention that it doesn’t really explain anything since the ratio has barely shifted since the 2010s

[Ben @tort995]

@AnniesLute @adastroworld @ShadowyZephyr I think you might be focusing too hard on the headline here. Moody’s analysis hinged on income for both the “top 10%” distinction and the target statistic calculation itself.

[Antoine Levy @LevyAntoine]

Using a national personal savings rate (from the Financial Accounts) of about 7%, this can be rearranged as:
Z=(Y/0.93-X*0.07/0.93)

But this is completely wrong (and by construction not a measure that can be released every quarter...).

[Ben @tort995]

@AnniesLute @adastroworld @ShadowyZephyr Am I confused? He’s saying that the numbers can’t be correct because the top 10% of households don’t even have 50% of the disposable income