There’s a semi-common meme on Twitter where people share their most X opinion, where X is a group the poster doesn’t identify with; or sometimes my least X opinion, where X is a group they do identify with. In that spirit, my least libertarian opinion is that exclusivity deals with sufficiently entrenched companies* are bad and should be illegal.
When you’re subject to capital gains taxation, the government shares in some of the upside, but when you have capital losses, the government shares in the downside too. Because of this, the actual risk (and reward) of any given portfolio is lower than it seems. To counteract this, you should consider shifting your allocation toward riskier assets.
Elizabeth Warren recently proposed a wealth tax as part of her plan to partially pay for single-payer healthcare. I think this is significantly worse than other methods of raising the same amount of revenue from the same group of people, so this article describes the problems with wealth taxes plus an alternative if we want to raise tax rates on the rich (spoiler: just raise the income tax rate).
Running Claude Code locally is annoying since you have to deal with permissions and agents interfering with each other (and you have to be at your computer), but running Claude Code on the web is annoying because the cloud environment is so limited.
What if we could run Claude Code for the web but on our machines? Through the magic of Claude Code writing Claude Code code, I made a local app for this.
Announcing Clawed Abode: A web app you can run on your own home computer which runs Claude Code without permission prompts in ephemeral containers, and with the ability to install packages, run containers, use caches, and access the GPU.
I was thinking about an approval-style voting system that could end with a large number of ties, and ran into the problem of how to break ties in a provably-fair way that doesn’t depend on candidates trusting each other and won’t make voters’ eyes glaze over.
I think I found a solution which is provably-fair, but it might still cross over into eye-glazing territory. I don’t know if this is practical (or novel), but I’m writing it up in case anyone else finds it interesting.
