Dwarkesh Patel

So I started looking for a way to detect bought-out submissions, and I ended up using Sardine.

Sardine was built to assess customer risk for banking and retail, but it's also useful for spotting fraudulent job apps.

Implementation was hilarious and straightforward.

It took my general manager, Max, less than an hour to vibecoat Sardine's SDK into our hiring flow.

Now, Sardine is assigning every single application we get a risk score based on a ton of different rules and signals.

Did the candidate use a throwaway email?

Is the device they're on already associated with another application?

Is the candidate's IP address matching the country that they said they're from?

The list goes on.

I'm just using a basic web form, but you can integrate Sardine into any application.

So if you need help with risk, whether that's for hiring or any other type of fraud prevention, go to sardine.ai slash thwartcash and ask your ATS if they're using Sardine.

All right, back to Sarah.

Sarah, thank you so much for doing this.

There's an interesting question of why the Soviet Union collapsed when it did.

I think the even more interesting question is why a system that was so centrally planned, monstrously inefficient, brutal, a colonial land empire, how such a country could survive for so long into the 20th century.

So I feel like that's the thing that actually needs explanation.

How did this regime last for 74 years?

So dictatorships can certainly sustain themselves for a long time, but the Soviet Union was special in that by the 60s and 70s, they have a GNP that's 60% of America.

It's this incredibly dynamic economy.

In the 40s and 50s, they have much higher growth rates, so much so that prominent economists like Paul Samuelson are saying that by the 90s, based on what they're seeing at the time, the Soviet Union will have a bigger economy than America.