@maiab I’m on San Juan which I call remote even though it’s serviced pretty well but at least I’m on the border of Canada
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Anthony Atlas
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Anthony Atlas
@anthonyatlast
Proud husband of someone who casually gets 10K+ likes on her Reddit & TikTok comments. Investing in the revenge of the nerds. Raising three kids on an island.
San Juan Island Katılım Aralık 2008
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I clicked through on this video of guys who say they’re moving from NYC to a “remote island”
it’s Vashon (which is 9 miles from downtown Seattle) lmao
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@kimmaicutler @markasaurus People are too comfortable if they can extoll the virtues of a parking lot and strip mall with a straight face
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You know how reporters are supposed to be objective?
I feel like given the quotations and structure of this paragraph, this reporter had some opinions.
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@MikeIsaac @alex Today’s updates are so so good. Well done.
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Brockman quits, consults his wife– 5 of them start planning to start a new company
Satya Nadella -- who was fully caught off guard -- calls brockman and asks what happened and if there’s something terrible that happened. Greg says no.
wild shit!
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good morning from a rain-soaked downtown oakland, where i will again be attending the musk vs openai trial
no liveblog today, just my wonderful tweets
lunch is a normal banana, a mutant orange, black coffee, and some pocket sausages, for travelers
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@rhensing I have three young kids is that enough to justify purchasing the semi?
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@anatolycorp The real work is in deciding what not to put on the slides, ja? Because if not cluttered I feel like applying a design theme is easy enough. It’s the thought (and math) behind the key supporting points that makes a pitch like this come to life.
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Great design but takes so much attention - some ppl dont' invest because they have decs like this
Steve Lauda@stevelauda_
Pitch deck that helping the client raised $1m pre-seed.
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Claude Co-work is like having an especially smart employee who gets a lobotomy every morning.
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@RakeshSFNYC And they already lose like $50M+ per year on those hot dogs right
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CA tax fun: if you take a cold food item from restaurant to go that is cold, it is not subject to sales tax. Soda is taxed regardless.
If you’re in SF, you are subject to the sugary beverages tax. (Doesn’t apply to diet drinks.) This is why SF Costco doesn’t serve coke. Sugary beverage tax would blow up the economics of $1.50 hot dog and soda deal.
If it is hot and you take it to go, sales tax applies. Except coffee.
It applies regardless if eat in.
Not sure if toasted bagel counts, but it should. My bagel place treats it the same (not taxed) regardless.
There are a bunch of other restrictions and thresholds.
I’m guessing perfect compliance <10%. Doubt most mPOS support this level of complexity.
@bgedelman
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@jhong @RakeshSFNYC This would be a great service, I’d like to tee up some support calls to my wife, first two closes done but “talk to me when it’s done” is the refrain I get
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I am smart enough, but not even close to top tier smart. I would argue maybe one step above average. But I am curious and lucky to have lots of extremely smart friends that teach me all sorts of things, IRL and here on X. It's probably the best outcome I could have hoped for. Thank you friends!
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@sudbalaji @DissidentClint It’d be great if there was a way for companies to buy some sort of insurance to backstop this so more could offer lifetime guarantees if they desired
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@DissidentClint makes sense, though I'd be very very suspect of any lifetime warranty from a company that has not been around very long
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This is incredible. $2500 to never fold laundry again! WUT
Many people are creeped out by humanoid robots. The aesthetics of this are a game changer.
Aaron Tan@aaronistan
We are hosting the largest showing of Lume in Palo Alto Bring your own laundry Details below
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@BrentBeshore @SahilBloom A lot of people make this mistake. The real opportunity is drinking beer during the day. And with sports. That’s where n/a shines.
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What is the single best health investment you’ve ever made?
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looking to book the sisu swim sauna in vancouver for a small group of founders + vcs
anyone down?
Andrew Yeung@andruyeung
This is the most incredible sauna experience I’ve ever been to. Bota Bota in Montreal. I still think about it to this day. It’s a floating spa on a converted ferry. With multiple levels with several saunas, steam baths, whirlpools, cold plunges, lounges, cafe. Strong silence policy thought (you can't talk) Views of the Montreal skyline and the hot tubs are amazing during the winter It’s only $55 for a session. Worth making the trip to Canada just for this.
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@minty_hawk Hasn’t every state that tried this experiment in wishful thinking ultimately seen tax revenue decrease? Unless a truly insightful justification provided for why those cases unlike present I don’t see why anyone should expect anything different.
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@StewartalsopIII I used both for a long time, then in Q1 found myself using CC more and my workflow orienting towards it. Now I’m wondering how to get myself to agnostic state so I’m able to use whatever.
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trust broken (anthropic) is much worse than trust never had (openai)
switched back to codex this morning and now i have a deep disgust for the way anthropic does business
they signalled value alignement then broke it rather than no signalling
M@MissMi1973
What Anthropic has done in the past month: • Nerfed Opus 4.6 • Blocked third-party agentic tools from running through Pro/Max subscriptions • Forced users onto API billing • Released their worst model ever Opus 4.7 with adaptive thinking • Stripped Claude Code access from Pro users • Lied about it when caught Meanwhile, OpenAI's Codex team is relentlessly mocking them on the timeline. This is undoubtedly Anthropic's Super Bowl ad moment, only this time they're the target. A company that betrayed transparency and user trust deserves exactly what's coming.
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@ManuCarrionR @TannerBuilds No way this is true if kids in the house. My wife wants a second dishwasher.
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The main reason I think, it’s all the space will occupy on the kitchen.
That can be the space for the pantry, or double oven cabinet.
Honestly it’s a good idea for whoever uses that a lot.
I have never used my dishwasher,
Also, the controls for the DW are on top, not in the front,
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Why don’t we raise dishwashers so loading and unloading isn’t such a pain?
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@pitdesi Shameless plug but ours probably fits the bill sciencefairfund.com (nerd community focused)
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There are some really niche VC funds out there...
Thinking about how when I started raising a fintech fund in 2016 I got no's from LP's who thought fintech was too small a category...
What are some other niche VC funds?
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@pitdesi @sajithpai I like the autism fund that was apparently the first check into Cursor (heard it from another GP this week)
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@sajithpai There are multiple funds in the US dedicated towards oral health, sleep health, identity, visual health too
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Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi
There are some really niche VC funds out there... Thinking about how when I started raising a fintech fund in 2016 I got no's from LP's who thought fintech was too small a category... What are some other niche VC funds?
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TIL that there is a US-based VC fund that invests exclusively in wildfire tech (preventing forest fires). Exclusively that.
US TAM is something else:)
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@geoffreywoo I won zoology cat. in ‘04 with “Exploring the role of protein tailoring in muscle adhesion”, you won in ‘06 but we’re missing the project info for that batch. What was yours?
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@geoffreywoo Built this for science fair alumni (sciencefairfund.com). 50K profiles, ML scoring, the whole stack—IDs future unicorn founders at 2x base rate, even before incorporation. We’re hosting alumni dinners in NYC/SF/Boston if you want to join us.
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the venture capital bloodbath is coming and most vcs have zero idea
agents will replace 90% of what associates and principals actually do:
• deal sourcing through network analysis
• due diligence via automated data mining
• portfolio monitoring with real-time metrics
• pattern matching across 10,000x more deals
what exactly are you getting paid for when an agent can analyze every startup in your sector in 3 minutes?
the entire industry is built on information asymmetry that ai just eliminated
most funds will become algorithmic within 24 months
the only vcs who survive are the ones who can actually build companies, not just write checks and send intros
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@MillionInt We applied our weights by hand in the SymSys core
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@StewartalsopIII The island is in shallow bay surrounded by enemies. It’s closest to oil fields so cheapest option to set up deep water ports. Logistically and defensively major single point of failure for getting oil out. But they can still mess up everyone else’s operations too b/c of strait.
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@anthonyatlast Thank you for sharing
Is the island itself the only choke point? My understanding is that there are many choke points with the new drone war fare architecture
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I finally got a cogent rationale from a friend who supports Trump still on why this war makes sense at least at the great game level of Real Politik instead of what I've got so far which is of the "shut up you idiot/traitor/retard" variety, to this day not very convincing even though it is reached for so commonly
This rationale was:
1. Its now or never, certain geopolitical sails are leading towards US having less power over time, so this needs to be done to show China who is boss
2. Trump is pumping drones into Taiwan (still verifiying but it seems Trump is actually sending less drones to Taiwan because they are going to Iran)
3. Even though we are headed for the worst oil shock EVER, its OK because US can put a total ban on US exports of oil, which Americans will support because at least it helps us lower the prices
While more cogent, it does not convince me
I still think none of these things lead to more national security and it was a war without a casus belli, no real identifiable strategic goals
I know many of you support him silently, can you make it less silent in the comments? I won't get personal, I'm purely trying to understand the other point of view here
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