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@adencle I agree

@MegaBasedChad NY is both!

There are normal cities, full of established families, diverse employment, a permanent sense of place and history, and there are industrial port cities. Port cities are full of transients, hustlers, geniuses and people with bipolar disorder. San Francisco is a port city.

@stanfordNYC You're right, but the low evidentiary standards are a feature not an error of his work. The left will gin up a moral hysteria about indigenous graves and invent a blood libel, we're not going to get anywhere by checking ourselves like this. It's directionally correct.

There could well be fraud occurring here, but Shirley's evidentiary standards are appalling. His whole case here is that a dataset show about 8,000 patients when the facility is much smaller than that - but we have no idea if that number is actually de-duplicated! For example, if this annual dataset aggregates monthly totals without de-duplicating, and some patients get multiple kinds of services, the actual number of individual patients could be fraction of the size, just a few hundred over the course of a year. If only a fraction of that amount attend on any given day, then 150 seniors present doesn't necessarily contradict the annual patients figure at all. Shirley shows no evidence of actually understanding the figure, but accepts (and stakes ~his entire argument on, for this clip) the assumption that it represents a claim that thousands of patients attend the facility daily. He also considers "evidence" a confused response to a question by an older woman with clearly limited English. On this basis, he simply declares there to be fraud. More broadly, Shirley tends to conflate two concepts: 1) poorly designed programs that allow public funds to flow to low-value activities 2) actual fraud, i.e., lying to the government It may well be that these adult daycare programs produce little value for the public and should be terminated - but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're engaged in fraud itself. They could simply be complying with a poorly-thought-through program, or even one deliberately designed to be a giveaway. Yet it could even be the case, potentially, that adult daycares on average free up enough working-age labor in the same households that they *do* have a strong public return, even if the program is functionally a giveaway. None of this is contemplated. So while he does put a spotlight on a fraught area of spending, the lack of care about detail and accuracy, or any deep level of understanding, remain quite frustrating. For someone getting such a spotlight, one would hope for more.

@paularambles this is actually very lucky!

girl dinner, interrupted

@hollowearthterf I know this isn’t your heart please give me a call

@NY_LBSS Well he was only 71 and speaking coherently the day before. Still strange. Also, is there any good evidence he's an alcoholic?

@MegaBasedChad There’s no way this overweight guy in his 70s who likes to drink could die the same way his father did at the same age.

@impossible_eng You are being so gay, megablocked

@MegaBasedChad You seem to though.

This is the first I'm learning of Phia's product, which is just another discount code extension. There are already 100s of these. Disregarding the fraud, I'm surprised she managed to raise money on a product that can be replicated by a smart 18 year old.

@impossible_eng I've literally managed growth programs for venture funded companies before I don't need a cunty jab about how marketing is important lmao

@MegaBasedChad I dont think you do actually.

@peeyuzz oh shoot I totally misread, apologies

@MegaBasedChad i meant he's one of the goats of deal making like steve jobs was goat of marketing not sama being goat in marketing 😅

Actually Sam Altman is great at playing the meta game of business (fundraising) and mediocre at the object level concern of staying on top of the market

@peeyuzz He is absolutely not Steve Jobs level at marketing; OpenAI has net negative favorability in the US! Apple was nearly universally loved during the iPod days

@MegaBasedChad sam is a generational deal maker equivalent to elon at engineering and steve jobs at marketing

@peeyuzz $41m of funding and 50k installs. If they’ve only spent $2.5m on marketing, they’re at $50/install, which is a dog shit CAC

@MegaBasedChad yeah but they cracked reach and distribution which for consumer tech is more imp than the tech itself

@impossible_eng I know this and I know it doesn't take $41m of funding to spread the word about a Chrome extension

@MegaBasedChad Engineers don't know this but building an app and getting people to use it are completely different things.

I was actually recruited for Anthropic. They offered like 15 mil, 10 mil something like that. But I turned it down. Just to grind for the Twitter

@growing_daniel Well, it was a bit of a scheme

@jachiam0 And they are right

The Nixon resurgence has got to be one of the strangest political phenomena in the modern era. The schizo-poasters see him as one of them, a shy nerdy steely-eyed defiant wounded hero, a fantasy where an "I was right all along" armchair analyst managed to win big.

@AdamLiwinski tragically, yes

Having a job is so fucking bad for your tweeting career

@wtchyrlanguage Holy cow I haven't seen a gimmick account like this in years

@MegaBasedChad Having a job is so flipping bad for your tweeting career