@staticvect0r @pmtiegs it's great to be able to thrash someone's sports car for a couple hundred bucks under age 25 tho
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@cosineloss
monomania is a prerequisite to success (not investment advice. thoughts are my own)
New York, NY Katılım Mart 2019
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@humrashid @seyitaylor apple gave us the vision pro lol, it's a cool VR headset they've effectively abandoned
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@seyitaylor Only Apple can save us from this nonstop virgin slop.
All the R&D budget in the world and they still produce this hot garbage?
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I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of new smart glasses until we can figure out what's going on.
Nathie@NathieVR
Meta's next mixed reality headset codenamed "Phoenix" appears to have been leaked in Qualcomm's latest video about its new Snapdragon XR chip.
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@maxwellfinn happened to me in January this year due to a copyright strike in 2022
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Seeing a massive spike in Meta suspending personal profiles of advertisers. Multiple Unicorn Marketers have been hit this week for seemingly no reason.
Anyone else seeing this?
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@aglax4 @theppcdude yeah I've gotten cheaper leads at a much lower overall CAC from FB + visual platforms than google for B2B, but I've noticed most higher-ticket B2B software tends to like, require that their ads suck and are as boring as possible
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@theppcdude If done right, they can outperform Google. It depends if you’re using a boring stock image or a quality video ad.
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"I get cheaper leads with Meta Ads though"
The leads:
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@ashvinmelwani @oliverbrocato I know folks that run 8x that can’t make it work because of the scale
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POV: u launch ur ecom brand
6mos in, u start to notice:
1/ U bleed cash.
ROAS is 2.5. Thats sh*t.
CAC is through the roof.
Nothing makes sense.
2/ U find out copycats & counterfeits are stealing 10-15% of ur rev
And destroying your brand reputation while they're at it 💀
But it's a good thing u planned ahead and:
3/ Installed Bustem early
U skip both nightmares. Biz takes off 📈
Most founders find out abt both problems the hard way.
U don't have to.
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@LeviPopp @MinisterofDOOM agreed, I still think it's cool in performance cars for your passenger to see the speedo + tach, but makes no sense in a truck outside of like, offroading telemetry
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@MinisterofDOOM Yep. Do not understand this trend at all. Total miss by leadership across the industry. Everyone already has a faster, easier, more personal mobile device for viewing.
Only place it makes sense are on the track cars (Porsche, BMW, etc.) for telemetry and whatnot.
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Once again I am asking WHY DOES A PASSENGER NEED A DEDICATED SCREEN?
Who asked for this? What need does it address? What use does it have?
(The answer to these is: none)
hotwheelsjack97@hotwheelsjack
“It makes the others look old” and it’s just screenslop
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@DeepDishEnjoyer doesn't spacex reserve the orbits from the FAA though? there's still lots of LEO orbits open they haven't reserved. FAA requires co's use or lose their orbits
it's like saying cell carriers prevent others from using their bands when they were pre-reserved and sold off by FCC
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and they broke a lot of regulations to do it it, and have crowded out other people from being able to use certain orbits :/
Christian Keil@pronounced_kyle
They did it. SpaceX has now launched more satellites than the rest of humanity, combined, all time.
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@SkorpaWH @SumElseThing1 @MorlockP so a low-tier state school professor who never practiced counts, but a guy who runs a multi-million $ law firm that isn't white shoe doesn't?
what a joke of a study
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@SumElseThing1 @MorlockP To be fair, the dataset only includes partners at major law firms, judges, and law profs. The guy with an ad on a bus bench doesn't count, nor the community college prof.
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> only 12.3% reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors…Fortune 500 execx … judges, lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning writers.” This means 88% never did.
GPT says this is 0.4% of adults
So gifted 'only' achieve it at 31x the base rate.
New York Magazine@NYMag
Gifted and Talented, or G&T, programs have long been a perennial subject of debate, particularly in New York City, where it has bedeviled mayors for years. Some parents have already washed their hands of the whole G&T business, refusing to participate in what they view as a corrupt system of segregation. But countless others still place significant stock in the G&T designation and what it offers and are comfortable relying on cognitive testing, should it be required, to determine whether a child qualifies. “When your intelligence is the foundation of your self-perception, failing to achieve feels like soul death,” writes Katie Arnold-Ratliff. But if the limited amount of information we have about gifted kids long-term is any indication, most lead, at best, ordinary lives of modest accomplishment. A 35-year study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors … Fortune 500 executives … judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers.” This means 88 percent never did. Arnold-Ratliff digs into the myth of the gifted child, and how our notions of intelligence may be inherently flawed: nymag.visitlink.me/9mc2Wh
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@nme_chadster @money_cruncher prime rates are higher than when you got 0% APR
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The first car my wife and I financed was nearly 30%. My credit was shot and hers was limited. 11 years later, our next car was 0% because our credit was almost perfect. Now our newest was at 6% and both of our credit scores are perfect. It makes no sense that I can't still get zero, because my government's credit is shot now.
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When my wife and I bought our car recently, I asked the finance guy at the dealership about some of the highest APRs he has approved people for.
He said 30%. That's like credit card debt for a car...
This is why financial literacy needs to be taught in schools.
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@constans Don’t know about motorbikes but plates are now scanned so no need for the cop to check.
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It used to be pretty normal for police to be positioned at certain key points in the city just as the weather got warmer to flag down motorcyclists and check their license, registration, and inspection to make sure it wasn’t an illegal motorbike. Is that not happening anymore?
Shakti Arunachalam@shaktivail
This morning I was struck from behind by an illegal motorbike while running on the pedestrian path of the Williamsburg Bridge. The rider crashed into me, looked right at me, got back on, and fled. I'll recover. The next person might not. I looked for police for 30 minutes, then called 911 at 8:34am. NYPD arrived 76 minutes later and said they couldn't file a report because the bridge "wasn't their precinct." Then they left. Two weeks ago, two people were killed almost exactly this way on the Queensboro Bridge - an illegal high-speed scooter on a path never built for motor vehicles. Every rush hour, thousands of us walk and run these bridges assuming we're safe from motorbikes. We're not, and no one will own the problem. It's fixable: regular bridge enforcement, dedicated patrols, and automated camera enforcement. @ZohranKMamdani @NYC_DOT @NYPDnews - will your administration act before someone doesn't get to walk away? @StreetsblogNYC @TransAlt @Gothamist
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@sapitonmix @tekbog was the contraction in ad revenue more caused by a lack of UGC moderation, or elon's divisive politics?
I recall a lot of companies pulling out before the site changed much.
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@tekbog This site also used to earn much more before the handover, and have actual decent advertisers. It stays afloat now through a very different structure. They are lots of redundant people around, but X is hardly a good indicator imo.
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remember when elon fired like 80% of the people and this site stayed up?
imagine what’s happening everywhere
VEO@vrexec
I'm 38. At this point of my life/career, I have so many friends working corporate W2 jobs making $200-400K/year (mostly in NYC/NJ/PA corridor) who just don't actually work that much. One friend makes $250K as a manager at a biotech... all he does is send pictures of his chicken coop or other DIY projects all day during the week.. no idea what value he actually provides his company. Then there's my "jiggler" friend who you might recall... guy makes $250-300K and just plugs a "mouse jiggler" into his laptop and just goes to the gym, homeschools his kids, tans, does yard work... all day. I ask him what he does and he can't even articulate it... Another friend makes $150K at a remote startup and just travels around the world all the time... don't ask don't tell situation on where people are at any given time... but does seemingly little actual work.. maybe 1 hour a day. This is truly what's going on out there... BS W2 jobs all over the place. And AI is a bubble? Really?
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jon retweetledi
It applies elsewhere but especially in nyc. They don’t cost you anything to use (they get a cut of your stay) and get preferential rates, specific upgrades depending on the property (better room, food/drink credit etc) you typically get a more attentive experience since a human was involved. The virgin hotel is good for soundproofing, the MADE hotel is horrible. I like using a travel advisor because they’ve had more ppl stay at more places and give feedback than I ever could amass on my own. If it’s a lower end booking it often doesn’t work in nyc but $400+ I’ve found super useful.
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My biggest complaint about NYC is easily the hotels.
Every year I go, they are more expensive.
The walls are thin at half of them.
Service doesn’t remember your name if you’re a regular at the super high end ones.
And Airbnb is basically dead/mid.
I don’t have an experience this bad with accommodations at any other major city in the world.
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@guyakimoto do you have a copy of that bjork aurora edit you made a long while back
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@ctlatenighter @US_Stormwatch any of their widebodies, when I've flown this route (on other airlines) it's been 787, 777, or A350
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@US_Stormwatch What type of aircraft does Delta use for this route?🤔
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The longest flight in the United States.
New York to Honolulu, nearly 5,000 miles and over 11 hours of flying.
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@PerryALPHA @nypost Probably not this chick yeah she’s an LA 4 but there’s definitely a few out there who are
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Escorts are charging as much as $6k per hour thanks to Silicon Valley's AI boom trib.al/EY38Nuz
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@TheCZghost @chrisbward @encrypted_past ok, but honestly, if you're using JS in Tor, you shouldn't expect anonymity
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@cosineloss @chrisbward @encrypted_past Won't be able to use the page then. If you don't enable JavaScript, most websites nowadays show a blank white page or Cloudflare landing page to analyse your traffic that never starts. To be honest, every React powered website is just nonexistent without JavaScript.
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