@coldhealing I live in Brooklyn and would kill for one night drinking natural wine in Brooklyn (I have an infant)
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Vadim Graboys (deap state bot)
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Vadim Graboys (deap state bot)
@deapthoughts
NYC Katılım Nisan 2009
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@QiaochuYuan just because something's unlikely doesn't mean it's impossible
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@DKThomp So does this mean that Xai gets to distill their new models from claude mythos?
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Wow.
The AI supply crunch is real. Frontier labs are desperate for compute. Musk has compute capacity but a meh model, and Anthropic has a fantastic model with weak capacity.
Now I wonder if Elon continues to refer to his new business partner as “woke AI,” “Misanthropic,” etc.
Claude@claudeai
We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.
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@PedanticKilljoy @xwanyex Kids these days aren't fucking as much as they used to, too
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The line "do you know how much you have to abuse an animal to make it not want to have children" is dumb as shit.
Animals have babies because when they fuck, it makes a baby.
Humans can choose not to have babies because we have tech that makes having babies a lifestyle choice instead of the inevitable biological consequence of our primal urges.
All child-free discourse is a fascinating intellectual exercise, much like theodicy, where the speaker is putting in an astounding amount of work to avoid making the obvious 1-to-1 connection that is sitting right in front of their face because they don't like the implications of that obvious 1-to-1 connection.
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@can Isn't all of Williamsburg just the new soho (soho for people under 60)
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@TheAnnaGat Let's be real, very few people in SF are making a (positive) difference
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Go to Europe to find a girl. Come back to SF to make a difference.
ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ@hamptonism
this could have been you europe-maxxing this summer but instead you chose to share a 1bdr with four other dudes in sf to walk around the city with your laptop slightly open so your agents won’t stop running.
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Most people reading this are centimillionaires
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@stanfordNYC Yea but that's because it's a thin strip of park surrounded by 6 lanes of traffic. No one wants to hang out in that! Whereas THIS park will be an even thinner strip surrounded by only FOUR lanes of traffic. Much better!
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Boston already has this and it basically sucks. It sits cold and empty for a whole half of the year, and even in fair weather is among the worst-utilized land in downtown. A swathe of prime land not used for living, working, commerce, transportation or infrastructure.
NYC DOT@NYC_DOT
What if Park Avenue felt more like a park? New renderings showcase options to transform E 46 St to E 57 St with wider medians, greenery, seating, pedestrian enhancements, and more. Get involved and help shape the future at a public workshop. ⬇️
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Vadim Graboys (deap state bot) retweetledi
Your daily reminder that:
- The correct inclusionary zoning percentage is 0
- The correct amount of impact fees $0
- The correct utility hookup fee is $0
- The correct transfer tax rate is 0%
Boom, I've just shaved 20% or more off development costs with the stroke of a pen.
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@DerekPederson3 The sidewalk, because in most circumstances in the US there are no pedestrians anyway. Would be nice if there were protected bike lanes
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In most circumstances, do you think bikes should go on…
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@_KennyUong_ @constans it's good but it's too far out for a lot of people. If you live in already gentrified brooklyn it does nothing for you.
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We just need a few quickly fixes
nazzo@nazzobetweeting
i love having to go through manhattan to go from brooklyn to brooklyn
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@blackopsposter @2024dion No it wouldn't, it would keep rents the same. Even if it did make it cheaper somehow and it wasn't ruled unconstitutional, it wouldn't give people dishwashers or in-unit washer/dryers.
Only way for most people have "luxuries" like a dishwasher is to build lots of luxury housing
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@deapthoughts @2024dion Everyone’s rent would be cheaper if the universal rent control I want would pass.
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Vadim Graboys (deap state bot) retweetledi
New York is the greatest wealth generation engine ever created by man and yet New York housing stock is so low quality that they’re doing ‘which basic household appliances are REALLY necessary’ discourse
𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque
YOU 🫵 must pick one of four studio apartments to live in with the following sets of amenities. (Each has a sink, and if no bathroom, six units share one on the floor) 1. Oven, Fridge, Bathroom 2. Fridge, Bathroom, W/D 3. Oven, Fridge, Dishwasher 4. Fridge, Dishwasher, Bathroom
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@blackopsposter @2024dion you know you could have all these things too, and it'd still be NYC, and your rent would be a lot cheaper, maybe even as cheap as his. You just need to support different policies
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@deapthoughts @2024dion He could have a gold plated bidet that gives him a hand job while washing his ass and he’d still be in Kansas City.
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@blackopsposter @2024dion Yea he probably has a oven, fridge, dishwasher, washer/dryer, and bathroom in his place, which he pays less for than a microstudio with none of these things in NYC
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@This_Liss this is absolutely incredible. I'm still laughing minutes later
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Had a Jane Street phone interview in 2016. "Price a 6-month forward on carrots."
There's no carrot futures market, so I build one from scratch: seasonal harvest cycles, USDA demand elasticity, cold storage decay rates.
One trader stops me. "Your storage cost function– you're modeling the carrot as dead inventory. Like grain in a silo." He asks me the metabolic respiration rate of a post-harvest carrot at 2°C. I estimate.
"Your forward is overpriced by exactly that shrinkage. The underlying is consuming its own sugars. It's alive." Good correction. I adjust the model. I think I've recovered.
Rejection email comes the next morning. Subject: "Ethical Review." My framework, they write, "relied on the severance of the root organism from its growth medium." The question about respiration was a test. The carrot was still alive and I'd built an entire derivatives structure on top of its death without questioning whether harvest was an acceptable act.
I pull up the recruiter's original email. It doesn't say Jane Street. It says Jain Street– a non-violent quantitative commodities fund.
The carrot was never supposed to be priced. It was supposed to be refused. I later learn the only candidate who passed that round was a former monk from Gujarat who sat in silence for eleven minutes and said, "I cannot put a price on life." He's now a partner.
Deedy@deedydas
Jane Street made ~$40B in 2025 with 3,500 employees, a ~2x from the year before. At ~65-70% profit margin, that's $8M profit / employee, the highest for a 1000+ ppl company. High-frequency trading continues to be the most efficient money making engine. I want to share an old story about my Jane Street interview in 2014. Jane Street was known for hiring a lot of math, physics and CS olympiad winners from top universities and putting them through many rounds - including, for trading roles, a gauntlet of mental math. It was my 6th interview and my final round and I recall being asked "What is the next day after today in DD/MM/YYYY where all the digits are unique?" They'd toy with you and say "You can use a pencil and paper, if you want" but you knew that was an instant no. Painstakingly and as quickly as I could, I came to an answer. "How confident are you that this is correct on a 0-1 probability scale?" the interviewer said. "0.95", I blurted out, not fully knowing how to answer that. "Are you sure?" After thinking harder for a few more seconds, I realized I could've flipped the digits around to get a closer date. I gave the interviewer my answer. It was correct. "0.95 huh?" he chuckled. That's when I knew I failed. Note: fwiw, other companies that come close in efficiency are - Tether ($90M+ profit/emp) - Hyperliquid ($80M+ profit/emp) and on revenue: - Valve ($50M/emp) - OnlyFans ($37M/emp) - Craigslist ($14M/emp) - Anthropic ($12M/emp, run rate) - OpenAI ($8M/emp, run rate) For comparison, Nvidia is very efficient at scale and is $4.4M/emp.
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Developer profits are merely capitalism's expression of how much future residents want to live somewhere.
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Future residents aren't going to show up to counterprotest NIMBYs, and it wouldn't be a good system to have competing protests. We already have the voice of future residents: developers. Just let land owners redevelop their land, with protection/compensation for existing tenants!
Bryan Caplan@bryan_caplan
Ironically, the real-world version of the "democratic version" is private property rights without voting or public discussion.
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