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Max Sklar

@maxsklar

Engineer/Founder Hopscotch Labs, CS Instructor NYU, Host of The Local Maximum Podcast

Stamford, CT Katılım Mart 2009
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Shai Goldman
Shai Goldman@shaig·
NYC gems are funded by millionaires, billionaires & large corporations (very little from city hall): • Central Park – Central Park Conservancy raises ~80%+ of operating budget via donations 
• High Line – Friends of the High Line funds nearly 100% of operations privately 
• Prospect Park – Prospect Park Alliance covers majority of costs through donations 
• Madison Square Park – Fully funded by Madison Square Park Conservancy donations • The Met – Heavily reliant on endowments, memberships & private gifts 
• The Frick Collection – Primarily donation & endowment funded 
• MoMA, Whitney, Guggenheim, Riverside, Washington Square, etc.
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Josiah Lippincott
Josiah Lippincott@jlippincott·
The tech bros don't understand economics. That's why they keep talking about mass unemployment as a result of AI. It is a mixture of marketing, ignorance, and ego at work. In reality, if AI is a success it will lower the price of goods and services by solving problems for business, inventors, researchers, etc. Those lower prices mean more savings for consumers. Those savings will get turned into either more investment or more consumption. Technology only gets adopted by human beings if it improves their lives. If AI isn't productive or useful, people won't use it and it won't matter. AI is not a "replacement" for human beings. AI does not have a will. LLMs do not long for happiness. They do not have desires. AI is a tool. Human beings use tools because we find them useful. They help us create little pieces of happiness for ourselves. Take the example of cancer. If AI manages to help researchers find cures for cancer then America's oncologists (~14,000) will be unemployed. That is a good thing. We would get to live in a cancer-free world AND redirect the current expenditures on cancer treatment (~$200 billion per annum) into new lines of production, solving new problems. That is a much better world, even if it means America's oncologists need to find new lines of work. And there will be more work to be done because we are finite, mortal beings who long to have the good and have it forever.
FischerKing@FischerKing64

In the Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels promise a future paradise following a rough period of proletarian dictatorship. They never explain how you go from the rough period to the paradise. Reminds me a little of tech optimism. There will be a rough patch where everyone loses his job, along with it his sense of purpose and meaning. But down the line we're all going to be kicking back, being served by robots, living it up. No one explains how we go from the rough spot to the paradise because no one knows - and that makes me a little nervous.

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Max Sklar
Max Sklar@maxsklar·
@MurrayHillGuy1 The funny part about this list is that most of these I “almost” fell into but didn’t quite go that far
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Murray Hill Guy
Murray Hill Guy@MurrayHillGuy1·
If you're a millennial it's time to pick your midlife crisis: 1. Quitting alcohol 2. Running 10 miles before work 3. Divorce 4. Panic baby at 35 with wife you hate 5. Pickleball 6. ADHD diagnosis 7. Dressing like you did in 2004 8. Blacking out every weekend like you’re 21 9. Weekly hinge dates 10. Ice baths and saunas 11. Board games and craft beer in the suburbs 12. Getting into tattoos 13. Quitting your job to explore your “passions” 14. Plants and the environment 15. Traveling
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Max Sklar
Max Sklar@maxsklar·
I see it as traders trying to get ahead of the cycle. Last cycle we dumped to near bottom in June 2022 (ofc the ftx low in October but that was short lived). If traders tried to get ahead of that for “this cycle” (2026) then the bottom was in in February. The 2018 bottom was November, and before that January 2015
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James@JamesEastonUK·
You may want to reevaluate your 4 year cycle thesis.
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GenericPilot@GenericPilot·
@atlanticesque Its worth noting that this same article has Trump I rated as the worst presidency in American history by all “studies”
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𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯
𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque·
Obama (especially in his first term) was an alright president but #7 all time? Are we serious?
Carl@HistoryBoomer

Obama is ranked #7 by the American Political Science Association and the Presidential History Network. That's pretty good! I liked Obama, but I don't think he belongs above Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, FDR, or Teddy R.

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Bill Maher
Bill Maher@billmaher·
People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. But there is this one thing:
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Basil🧡
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine·
> the NYU swastika flag is definitely supposed to be a protest by calling Israel similar to Nazis > you are absolutely braindead if you fly a swastika flag in the middle of Manhattan and deserve to be known as the guy who flies a swastika flag
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Resko★
Resko★@Bloke_Baz·
25–30 is such a wild age,You have to level up professionally, plan a future,secure a partner,stay healthy and save money.
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Adams
Adams@Adams_Tech_AI·
Elon musk shares a lesson he learnt at PayPal:How to spot a toxic employee before it’s too late.
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Michelle Tandler
Michelle Tandler@michelletandler·
This week in NYC: + Park East preschoolers had to depart early for safety due to an anti-Israel protest + Swastikas found on synagogues, parks, and subways + NYC gov deleted its website showcasing the NYC/Israel connection Rough time to be a NY Jew.
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Max Sklar
Max Sklar@maxsklar·
@rand_longevity We won’t see people actually living until 130 in ten years because no one is 120 today! Maybe 25 years if this pans out
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Rand@rand_longevity·
you are gonna have a great chance of living past 130
MTS@MTSlive

We asked @maxmarchione how long he thinks lifespans will go to. "I think in the next 10 years we might be able to move the needle on lifespan to around maybe 130 reliably." "What we might see is it's very hard to break the biological cap of 140." "Of 60 billion people to live on Earth, we don't have a single documented case of someone living to 140, which is actually pretty crazy." "So we might see there's actually a cap and it's very hard to get beyond it, or we might see the opposite, which is, we're gonna create super intelligence, and super intelligence is gonna find ways to extend human lifespan to very large numbers." "Like, we're talking into the 100s, maybe even towards the 1,000s."

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Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone@Mottel·
The Shabbat table at Chabad
Murray Hill Guy@MurrayHillGuy1

Updated places in NYC to meet your future wife that aren’t dating apps or bars: • Matcha shops in the East Village • West Side Highway Saturday mornings • NYRR races (look up her bib number after) • Sweet-green (steal her order and look up after apologizing) • CVS pharmacy if they’re getting birth control • Blank Street • Run clubs that aren’t for dating • Dog park with no dog • JFK terminal 4 • Pretend to be sick at NYU on 34th Street and flirt with the nurse (you’ll know) • Pilates classes • The subway

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Max Sklar
Max Sklar@maxsklar·
@mitchec01 @TheBTCTherapist @grok Another scenario is that we're shifting earlier. We had an early ATH in the last cycle, which occurred before the halving as traders are competing to front-run the cycle. In that case, we could've seen the lowest already, or it could happen, say this summer instead of October.
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Clayton Mitchell
Clayton Mitchell@mitchec01·
@TheBTCTherapist @grok If we are still on the 4 year cycle (more likely than not), tbe pattern is cycle low around 1 year after ATH, which would be October. And then a 3 year bull market from there. If true, I think it unlikely that new ATH happens by year end, but it would be headed that direction.
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The ₿itcoin Therapist
The ₿itcoin Therapist@TheBTCTherapist·
Hey @Grok, be honest and respond with a “Yes” or “No” only — Will Bitcoin break the $126,000 all time high by the end of 2026?
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