Gordon Shephard

this is literally cheating wtf

This might be a hot take but I know someone at meta who makes $400k a year and is quite literally capped at that number for life - likely will never get a promotion strong enough to change that. 9-5 until they’re what, 50? This is not living. No matter the salary.

Fixer upper gets listed for $250k. I offer $180k with 3% commission — I’m a licensed agent and my company is the buyer. Plan is to wholesale it for $190k. Needs $75k in work and will be worth $320k after repairs. Listing agent says too low. 4 weeks later our CRM notifies me the list price dropped to $225k. I follow up. Agent still says $180k is too low. Another month goes by. CRM notifies me again — price drops to $210k. I follow up. Agent says they think it’ll work. I draft the offer, send it over, and it gets accepted. We price the deal at $190k and sell it — signed contract and EMD in hand. While we’re still in DD, I tell the agent my buyer needs a $20k price reduction to move forward, but they’re ready to wire EM and waive the rest of DD. Seller meets us halfway. Price drops to $170k. We make $25k. That’s the exact play we run wholesaling MLS properties.

Humanity is building machines that will be smarter than we are at things we care about, things in which take individual and collective pride, domains of thought we originally invented and discovered. This will enable incredible things, but no honest person can deny that this will be a kind of grand humbling for humanity. No honest person can deny that there is at least some melancholy in contemplating it all, some change to the centrality we have ascribed to our own minds in the order of the world. My primary disappointment in the encyclical is that it fundamentally denies that grand humbling. It sidesteps the humbling altogether, saying that AI cannot “really” this and that. Instead, it puts the Church into the awkward role of the European technocratic regulatory advocate, which, love those regulations or hate them, is probably not what the world really needs from the Catholic Church at this moment. That is a shame, because this humbling—which will trigger a crisis in mass psychology and in our institutions when it dawns on people—is precisely the sort of thing I’d look to the Church for leadership on. What is the genuine and unique source of human meaning? What is the human touch in the era of thinking machines? These are the hard questions that the encyclical dodges.

Proud to unveil the Luce Migliore A Ferrari electric vehicle designed by me and ChatGPT in 8 seconds at a cost of $0.10

That's a very slow moving vulnerable target. But only dedicated AD or aircraft will be able to intercept ballons at that altitude. And those will often be more expensive to use than the balloon/drone combination.

Today we’re releasing DeepSWE, a new standard for agentic coding benchmarks. On public leaderboards, top models often look relatively close in capability. DeepSWE shows where they actually diverge, reflecting the realistic experience of developers in their day-to-day work.

The golden years of AirBNB were a temporary arbitrage on depreciation. There was a universe of beautiful well-maintained properties and hosts that had not been worn down by short term guests. And the AirBNB hosts didn’t properly estimate the cost of depreciation to maintain that standard, so costs were irrationally low That era fundamentally cant return, it was a temporary arbitrage opportunity There was once a supply of fairly pristine unused space and now there’s not If a space does manage to hit the 2014 standard, it must charge a lot more to fight depreciation And at that point a hotel is generally better