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Telling the truth: O(N * D). Telling a lie: O(1).

@EllenYChang @Waymo I haven't tried it yet. San Francisco is too challenging. I'll try the Grab one in Singapore. How was it?

I got in! I'm going to take my first @Waymo ride this weekend.

@MikeLevin Reminds me of early PayPal when the Mafia wanted a cut. PayPal ultimately said no and its alumni wield more influence than any and all organized crime.

This is totally insane. A war correspondent just received death threats from online gamblers who wanted him to change his reporting on an Iranian missile strike so they could collect a payout. One bettor had $900,000 riding on the outcome. He told the journalist he knew where he lived and who his family members were.  This is what prediction markets on life and death actually look like in practice. This is exactly why I introduced the DEATH BETS Act with Senator @AdamSchiff. The DEATH BETS Act would ban contracts on assassinations, deaths of world leaders, and acts of war on platforms like Polymarket. This story shows exactly why that matters.  When you let people place million-dollar bets on whether a missile kills someone, you create a financial incentive to threaten journalists, manipulate information, and profit from human suffering. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Another 2 million barrels of Iranian crude just departed.

Taiwan reports large-scale Chinese military aircraft presence near island, per POLITICO

Oxford University's Bodleian Library has a book made of CHEESE youtube.com/shorts/HDrhAeh… via @YouTube

Who else is on reddit?

stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free:

I wonder what other support bots are just free, thin wrappers around paid Claude.

73.7% of all US wealth is held by those over 55, up from 56.2% in 2000, per US Fed.

Amazon just confirmed 16,000 layoffs but sources inside are telling me the real story is so much worse Word from three different VPs: the 16K number is just "Phase One" - internal docs show another 14,000 cuts planned for Q2 A director in AWS walked me through their new "efficiency matrix" - entire teams being replaced by 2-3 senior engineers running Claude Sonnet workflows The Alexa division got completely hollowed out. 847 engineers two months ago. 23 remaining after this week. All hardware development moved to a Bangalore team of 31 contractors with Cursor access Here's the sick part: they're making the outgoing engineers document their entire decision-making process into "knowledge transfer sessions" that are being recorded and fed directly into training datasets One L7 told me he spent his final two weeks creating detailed prompt libraries and workflow documentation. Thought he was being helpful for the transition Turns out he was literally training the AI agent that replaced his entire org The contractors offshore are using his exact prompts and shipping features 40% faster than his old team of 12 Americans ever did Internal Slack shows leadership celebrating "operational excellence" while badges get deactivated in real-time They're calling it "right-sizing for the AI era" in the all-hands But the P&L sheets I'm seeing show $280M in salary savings this quarter alone The knowledge extraction is complete If you're still at Amazon and haven't started job hunting, you're already dead

BREAKING: Amazon reportedly holds mandatory meeting after “vibe coded” changes trigger major outages.

TIL: Silver is just a high beta version of Gold.

#New: Bay Area rent (median 1BR): San Francisco: $3,630* Palo Alto: $3,450** Mtn View: $3,220 Sunnyvale: $3,030 Santa Clara: $2,870 Redwood City: $2,760 San Jose: $2,510 Berkeley: $2,200 Oakland: $1,980 *up 15.6% in one year **up 16.2% in one year Source: @Zumper

i watched a flight go from $483 to $547 in 24 hours WITHOUT a single seat selling searched london to new york on a tuesday $483 checked again 2 hours later $512 next morning: $547 panicked and booked it the guy sitting next to me paid $391 same seat, date + airline $156 less he searched once i searched 3 times the algorithm saw me come back and charged me until i broke the seat doesnt have a price you have a price and it goes up EVERY time you show interest couldnt stop thinking about it so i tracked down someone who actually built pricing algorithms for a european carrier asked him what happened to me "you got profiled. the system assigned you an intent score after your second search and raised your ceiling every time you came back" asked how to beat it "most people think a VPN fixes it. thats 2015 advice. the algorithm fingerprints more than your IP now. it reads your device your browser your screen resolution your timezone. VPN to bucharest but your clock says london and your language is english? the algo knows youre faking and sometimes charges you more for trying" "so what actually works?" "you have to poison the entire profile. not just the location. the identity" the protocol he gave me: VPN AND match your timezone and language to the spoofed location. mismatched signals flag you and can trigger a price increase use a fully clean browser. no history no saved passwords no google account. the algorithm fingerprints your session not just your cookies one search one booking. the intent score activates on the second search. there is no safe way to look twice book tuesday or wednesday 1-5am. lowest traffic means the least demand data for the algorithm to inflate against if the price already spiked go dark for 72 hours minimum. not 24. the intent score on most carriers decays on a 3 day cycle. come back on a different device from a different network "we spent $4 billion building these systems. theyre not going to lose to someone who opened an incognito tab" $900 billion industry the gap between what you pay and what the person next to you pays is not a bug its the entire business model stop letting an algorithm charge you for being predictable

Is the housing bubble about to pop? In other news, it's magic how linen cloth gets stronger after each washing.

"The job market is hell," per the Atlantic.

S&P 500 Absolute Return Dispersion soars to highest level since the Global Financial Crisis 🚨🤯👀 Probably Fine

Note to self: cancelled my Medium membership. I couldn't tell what was AI slop or not anymore.

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45% of employers post fake listings, per Forbes.