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How America Saved the Yen (for now)

The US Treasury intervened in the foreign currency market on Friday to support Japan's yen, days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called it 'very undervalued' and 'very cheap' [00:00], and the video reports this was the first US-Japan joint currency int…

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Confirmed: [00:00] US Treasury intervened in the foreign currency market Friday to support the yen, days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calle…
Confirmed: [00:52] the yen traded around 110 to the dollar in the late 2010s, slipped to about 150 in 2022, then hovered near 160 for a couple of yea…
Confirmed: [01:17] after months of downward pressure and costly but futile interventions, the yen slipped past 160, hitting a low of about 164 last w…

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GOENKA: The Man Who Removed BUDDHISM from BUDDHISM?

27 min source · Buddha's Wisdom · 2026-08-04

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The video's central question, posed by its narrator, is whether Goenka taught the Buddha's original Vipassana technique or a method of his own, centered on two comp…
The narrator states that every year hundreds of thousands of people sit 10 days of silent Vipassana, almost all taught via a recording of S.N. Goenka, who died in 2…
The video states that in every hall across more than 90 countries, Goenka's recorded voice tells participants on day four that the instruction comes not from him bu…

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i used claude ai to make $7900/week selling boring pdfs

15 min source · Alex · 2026-08-03

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Goal: build and sell a PDF product using an AI-driven workflow, without the seller showing their face, and automate delivery of the PDF to buyers
Trigger/Cadence: not stated (the presenter calls it 'the workflow he personally uses' but gives no stated schedule or recurrence)
Tools/Surfaces: Niche Trend Hunter, Google Trends, Claude, Base44, Higgsfield AI, Supercomputer (AI agent platform), Edits (video stitching app), Instagram, ManyCha…

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Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work

49 min source · Y Combinator · 2026-08-03

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[02:27] Waymo serves about 500K trips and drives over 4 million fully autonomous miles per week across 15 US cities
[02:42] Dolgov says 4 million autonomous miles per week equals over 300 years of an average American driver's annual mileage
[03:50] Physical AI faces four gaps versus digital AI: cost-of-error, data, latency, and validation

cited · Y Combinator · every claim timestamped

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