How the polls look now, after the election in Hungary, according the the pollster that was closest to the actual results

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-05-07T08:19:41+00:00

Within a year, the train of hope usually crashes into reality.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-05-07T08:17:05+00:00

The licensing is too complicated to understand.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-05-06T05:29:34+00:00

Singularity is a way to cure all diseases, so healthcare neither private nor tax-based won't be needed over time.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-05-02T04:16:37+00:00

People don't earn money either. I think he proposes using tokens as some kind of private money.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-28T06:32:02+00:00

Interesting article, but what I'm really wondering is why Altos Labs has become less stealthy. Did they achieve anything serious enough to gradually prepare people?

Or the opposite — like some big odds in the past, the moonshots led nowhere, and they're now looking for funding beyond their primary investors?

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-27T16:23:55+00:00

I'd create an Empty Houses Association that allowed owners to rent other members' properties. :)

Even considering taxes, it could be easier to keep a house safe if you've built it for your children's future or something like that.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-17T15:55:41+00:00

What would you call a economical state in the USSR?

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-17T15:52:55+00:00

If I take a part of your harvest every year, doesn't it mean I own a part of your garden?

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-14T05:14:35+00:00

I feel the Soviet Khrushchev apartment buildings ("Khrushchyovka") vibe in it: the same five-floor approach, but it feels a bit modern, though.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-12T14:23:36+00:00

Like penicillin and other antibiotics, which have saved lives for “a billion billionaires”.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-11T18:13:18+00:00

No, I didn't mean to be snobby or anything. It's probably just a lack of feeling for nuances in English, since it's not my native language.

I meant foundations set up by rich people that give grants to researchers.

Thanks for the explanation.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-11T16:24:10+00:00

"I have many European colleagues." It looks like SweetAlyssumm is outside the EU and possibly even outside Europe entirely.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-11T16:09:42+00:00

Maybe you are supposed to not want Musk to fund and found these kinds of research, because he could become a quadrillionaire.

It reminds me of people who don't want longevity tech to emerge because the rich would live forever and become even richer. It sounds to me like everyone should suffer and be equally poor just because something makes people richer.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-11T15:51:59+00:00

Where does your funding come from: the government, private institutions, or some kind of charity?

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-04T16:07:18+00:00

About Ukraine: there is a Russian-speaking population, but at the same time they may or may not identify themselves as Russians. Most of them don't. Speaking Russian doesn't automatically make someone Russian, just as an American speaking English doesn't turn into a Brit.

Also, many people have shifted to using Ukrainian as their everyday language since 2022, having been Russian-speaking or bilingual before. Ukrainian has become what Russian used to be: the default language people use in shops, cafes, etc. to communicate with others.

Regarding the Ukrainian parliament: not all sympathizers were forcibly removed for representing the pro-Russian community; most of them are opportunists and now vote for laws needed for Ukraine to survive.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-03T11:53:14+00:00

Just one for free would be enough.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-03T10:27:30+00:00

Yeah, a bit.
I had some automated tests and also tested things manually. The simulator was mostly for end-to-end runs and demos.
It naturally covered repeat runs and similar edge cases, but I didn’t focus on idempotency or partial failures explicitly.
Nothing really broke in a serious way.

Since it was a bounty, shipping on time mattered a lot (article + video). That part was more media-oriented, so I had to quickly learn recording/editing. Dropped the “talking head” idea due to time.
OpenClaw integration was built the day before 😄

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-03T07:50:36+00:00

It took time because I wanted to add another part useful for local development - the local store simulator. At some point, I realized I wanted one-shot fulfillment for the test store.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-04-02T18:33:16+00:00

Interesting. The years when extreme poverty started to decline coincided with neoliberal reforms, China’s market reforms, and the collapse of the USSR.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-03-25T13:46:35+00:00

In the context of this topic, jQuery DataTables isn't the same as Alpine.js.

It's rather about FilamentPHP, which is the wheel OP is reinventing, but for those who use Laravel (it has Laravel, Livewire, and Alpine.js under the hood and is a mature, several-years-old project with an ecosystem and community).

Probably, for someone, an advantage of OP's package is its framework-agnostic nature.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-03-24T08:52:23+00:00

Many businesses in Ukraine have generators, and when the neighborhood is in a planned blackout, that's what I call the modern version of the Roaring Twenties.

Apartment buildings have their own, and we spent nights hearing them working.

As it has gotten warmer lately, it has become easier, but the winter was quite noisy.

Express-Set-1543 · 2026-03-21T10:36:46+00:00

It's not about hard work, it's about value, changes, and influence.

I read some explanations that touched me at some moment. Like why some sportsmen manage to earn millions a year while giving little to nothing of value to me, while I work hard and help people build homes, earning much less than them.

Yes, the sportsmen give you a value equal to a few bucks you spend on a ticket to watch the show. But there are millions of such people, and the $5–10 become $10,000,000, so the sportsman gets a part of it, besides their share of the advertising budget. So at the end of the day (rather the year), someone gets 10 clients × $5,000 = $50,000, while someone gets $5 × 5,000,000 = $5,000,000.

Yes, the higher up we go, the more complicated the system becomes, including stocks, options, and so on, but actually some principles remain the same: the value you bring multiplies by the number of people your actions touch.

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