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Not sure why claude code doesn't do this by default, but simple UserPromptSubmit hook, gives it the time at every turn, so it knows how much time has passed instead of constantly thinking time has stood still:
Is there truly no bank competent enough to give us a credit card statement that coincides with an actual calendar month?
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The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?).
This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.
To gain knowledge add something new every day, to gain wisdom, remove something new every day - Lao Tzu
This is undoubtedly true and the only way we’ll have to deal with it is to cede judgement to another entity or AI. Scary is an understatement. Well need to trust in things who’s incentives are not aligned with ours.
Music venues should stop harassing people for taking pictures, and instead the rule should be to throw out anyone in the first ten rows able to stand who sit through the bands big hits, I don't care how much you paid, concerts are for fans.
As virtually anyone who’s spent time sourcing products in both the US and China can tell you, rebuilding competitive US manufacturing is a long term project. In most sectors we need to build an ecosystem almost from scratch, I applaud the folks doing it. @mHUBChicago
Everyone says they’d pay more for “Made in the USA.”
I tested it.
We make a $129 filtered showerhead manufactured in China. With tariffs surging to 170%, we explored reshoring. We found a U.S. supplier. Our costs nearly tripled.
I ran a clean A/B test:
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It’s an interesting metaphor. Now if he had a trade deficit with everyone he’d be in trouble, and there are times you should be doing things yourself, but this does make a good point. If you tax everything to the point there’s no commerce…
I have a 100% trade deficit with the lady that irons my suits.
She offers something way more efficiently and at a much better price than I can do myself.
And in exchange, I spend the time I would otherwise be wasting on pressing my suits offering financial services at 1,000x the hourly GDP rate as I paid her to afford me this time.
Am I getting ripped off by her?
Should I start steaming my own suits instead of offering financial services?
Would that make me better off?
Would I be richer because of it?
Joe Born retweeted
Ok I resisted weighing in to the H-1B visa debate but I can't help myself because the current framing IS SO DUMB and I NEED TO CORRECT THINGS.
People are debating whether we should allow highly skilled workers into the U.S. or prioritize hiring American workers only. But this misses a critical point (which is very obvious to anyone who runs a business): if American companies can’t bring the talent they need into the country, they’ll simply hire or contract that talent offshore. In an increasingly global economy, restricting visas doesn’t protect American jobs—it just pushes innovation and opportunities outside our borders.
So duh, of course we should allow highly skilled, pro-American values folks to come into the country if companies want to sponsor them. This is exactly how we create more value inside the country and ultimately *more* American jobs.
One of the things I find frustrating in all the discussion of the impact of the end of affirmative action in higher ed is the almost complete lack of discussion of increasing enrollment. We pretend this game of musical chairs is some immutable force of nature.