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Now I understand why they don’t use toilet paper in India

@omoelerinjare1 Tim has really fallen since stepping down as Apple’s CEO

Los Angeles, 15-year-old Clara Daly from California, was travelling with her mom. A flight attendant asked if anyone knew sign language. Clara, who had studied ASL for about a year, volunteered. The passenger was 64-year-old Tim Cook, who is deaf and blind, flying alone. Clara knelt in the aisle and fingerspelled into his hand to communicate. She helped him order water, check the time, and speak with the crew. For the rest of the long flight, she stayed with him, chatting until landing and bringing comfort to his journey.

@arpitrage @Jesse_Livermore You missed one of the funnest parts. After meeting Demis Elon asked if they should kill him now. Lol.

A history of AI firms: • Demis Hassabis convinces Peter Thiel to invest in DeepMind by talking chess • Thiel shows the company to Elon Musk, who shows their AI solving Pong to Larry Page on a private jet • Larry Page buys DeepMind; Hassabis takes them over Zuck's higher bid (and despite Elon's last minute effort) because Zuck was equally excited about 3D printing as AI at dinner • Larry Page and Elon Musk fight over AGI; Page calls Musk a "speciesist" for favoring humans > machines • Sam Altman convinces Elon to start a new AI firm to get back at Google; they have dinner with top people at Google and recruit Ilya Sutskever; Dario Amodei joins later • Musk gives Altman an ultimatum: I take full control or you lose my funding • Reid Hoffman (introduced to AI by Thiel; served as backstop for DeepMind seeking governance guarantees) convinces Satya to backstop OpenAI • OpenAI goes its own way, Dario leaves over safety concerns, and Elon starts over with xAI/Grok

How is it Joe Biden brought in 87,000 IRS agent and not one of them ever found the Somalia fraud in Minnesota? Anyone?

@stevenmarkryan Fastest way to acheive those pay plan milestones.

Will Tesla and SpaceX merge (at some point)?

You are driving along the coast of Iran near the strait in your pickup truck. You have a shoulder fired rocket launcher in the back. You intend to shoot at something. You see multiple US navy and coast guard ships on the horizon - which means they can see you. 3 SH 60 helicopters just flew along the coast above you. A few minutes later, and F-18 flies by. Do you shoot? And even if you’re suicidal is the next guy going to shoot with that kind of presence? It is not hard with air superiority

@is_caffeinated @tedcruz You dont need a navy to shoot at things passing along your coastline 🤣

I am deeply concerned about what we are hearing about an Iran “deal,” being pushed by some voices in the administration. President Trump’s decision to strike Iran was the most consequential decision of his second term. He was right to do so, and we achieved extraordinary military results—including destroying all of their missiles & drones and sinking their entire navy. If the result of all that is to be an Iranian regime—still run by Islamists who chant “death to America”—now receiving billions of dollars, being able to enrich uranium & develop nuclear weapons, and having effective control over the Strait of Hormuz, then that outcome would be a disastrous mistake. The details are still coming out—and I pray the early reports are wrong—but the fact that Biden’s Rob Malley is praising the deal is not encouraging. President Trump believes in peace through strength, and his strong leadership has already made America much safer. He should continue to hold the line, defend America & enforce the red lines he has repeatedly drawn.

@Lixard_Persumn @tedcruz Its a warzone. Either US 5th Fleet is operating under bad rules of engagement or we need a new Admiral in charge.

I think you’re right. Shooting scoot with a missile from a pick up truck, drone etc.. But this could be completely locked down with combat air, patrols, and helicopters in the area. We allegedly have air superiority. Plus, as soon as they start radioing the cargo ship with demands, we should know the source.

@Rumbeaux @tedcruz I do

@is_caffeinated @tedcruz That’s right. And when was the last time anyone stopped a torpedo from hitting its target? Maybe you know some technology that I don’t?

@jethrotsquirrel @tedcruz What is the over/under for how much longer the Admiral in charge of 5th Fleet keeps his job?

@is_caffeinated @tedcruz For some reason, small FAST boats and drone boats are not considered naval assets. Still scratching my head over that one.

@Whippet1956 @crunkops @tedcruz I dont know is my point. I suspect the Admiral in charge of 5th fleet will be stepping down soon.

@crunkops @is_caffeinated @tedcruz Then tell us what they have to block it.

@Lixard_Persumn @tedcruz I hear you, but my understanding is the straight is completely locked down. If the speedboat left the Iranian coast, we would know about it.

@is_caffeinated @tedcruz That’s not remotely the point. Unless you think the indiscriminate destruction of any small vessel would be okay. Don’t be so obtuse.

@Lixard_Persumn @tedcruz We don’t have combat air patrols over an area that small?

@is_caffeinated @tedcruz You as an individual could theoretically blockade the strait. You drive a speedboat out, come back, say you dropped some mines somewhere. Now insurance costs become untenable for any shipping. No one is willing to take the risk that their boat is the one that gets hit.

@Rumbeaux @tedcruz If you fart underwater in the strait we can hear it

@is_caffeinated @tedcruz Don’t forget underwater drones. If they sink just ONE ship global oil markets explode.

@crunkops @tedcruz Who radios the cargo ship demanding a toll? How do they exist?

@is_caffeinated @tedcruz The strait is 20 miles wide. They don’t have to have a navy to block it.

@Puncheezee @tedcruz We dont have 24 hour aerial sureliance we dont have fighter jets in the area on alert? Who radios the cargo ship demanding a toll? Why not triangulate its source and bomb it?

@is_caffeinated @tedcruz Because you don’t need an armada to close a 2 mile wide area. A few speed boats, some drones, and missiles easily do the trick

@anishmoonka He should’ve just entered into a pooled exchange fund. It would’ve cost him nothing.

Mark Cuban sold his company to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999. Overnight, he was a billionaire. There was just one problem: Yahoo paid him in its own stock, he was banned from selling it for six months, and that stock was sitting on a bubble that was about to pop. So he was a billionaire who couldn't actually reach his money. He owned 14.6 million shares of Yahoo, worth around $1.4 billion, and he couldn't turn a single one into cash. Even after the six months ran out, selling them was its own trap. Nobody buys 14.6 million shares at once. The second he started dumping that much stock, the price would slide before he finished, dragging his fortune down with it. Here is what he did instead. He bought insurance on his own stock. You can buy a contract that locks in a guaranteed price someone has to pay you for your shares later. Cuban locked his in at $85 each. From then on, no matter how far Yahoo fell, he could still sell at $85 and walk away with more than a billion dollars. The problem is that this kind of protection costs money, and insuring $1.4 billion is expensive. He covered the cost in a strange way. He sold off his claim to Yahoo's biggest gains. He signed a second contract that said if the stock ever climbed past $205, someone else could buy his shares at that price and keep anything above it. He was betting it would never get there, and the money from that bet paid for his insurance almost exactly. The whole setup cost him nothing. For a while, he looked like a fool. Yahoo kept climbing, blew past $205, and ran all the way to about $237. He had locked himself out of a fortune in gains, right at the top. Then the bubble burst. Yahoo went into freefall and crashed to roughly $13. Almost everyone holding it got wiped out. Cuban's $85 floor held the entire way down, and he walked off with his money still in his pocket. The company that set all of this in motion never made it. Yahoo killed Broadcast .com in 2002, three years after paying $5.7 billion for it. Yahoo itself was sold off in 2017 for about $4.5 billion, less than it once paid for Cuban's company alone. Selling made him a billionaire on paper. The insurance trade is the only reason he kept it.

@Jason The other 99.9%?

Please recruit the top .1% to come to America and start companies and create even more high-paying jobs, Marco!

@realTateBrown Imagine all the American CS grads that could actually find jobs

“Indians would have to wait decades”