newthrash
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When I sign up to a dating app, i make sure I block all my exes on there before I create my profile. As a 40-smth this step alone takes 5 to 6 hours
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@RunningBear571 @jbarro @LizMair just look on amazon for a mill. tens of thousands in a country of 260 million adults is not huge chief. the most niche hobby you can think of has thousands of members.
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What a false economy. Figure out what your value is in the market on an hourly basis. If the amount of bread you could make in an hour at home comes in at or below that rate, then it’s cheaper to buy it. This will be true for basically everyone except maybe 13 year olds in states with the lowest minimum wage in the country.
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@EconomPic @GestaltU is it truly his opinion though? everything he says about elon coincidentally helps pump valuations and retains his access to future deals. Would be hard to find any criticisms coming from his mouth or twitter account
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@newthrash @GestaltU It’s his opinion. Not sure what else he’s supposed to do.
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Good counter to my starting belief that SpaceX valuation makes no sense in this interview…
Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag
This is my sixth conversation with @GavinSBaker. As always with Gavin, the conversation covers a lot of ground, but we spend the most time on watts and wafers. We discuss: - Why the wafer shortage may prevent an AI bubble - Data centers in space (reframed) - Elon's Terafab and the new chip companies challenging Nvidia - Usage-based pricing - The disaggregation of GPUs - DRAM, frontier tokens, and open source Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 7:55 Anthropic and OpenAI Valuations 12:58 Watts, Wafers, and Infrastructure 14:39 Orbital Compute and Data Centers in Space 22:49 Avoiding the AI Bubble 28:26 Terafab and the Future of US Manufacturing 32:16 Returns to the Frontier 37:23 Continual Learning 42:03 New Chip Companies 48:52 Extending GPU Lifespans and Private Credit 51:22 The Application Layer 57:32 The Token Path and Open-Source Dynamics 1:01:37 Cybersecurity 1:05:46 Diversity Breakdown 1:11:59 Assessing the Big Tech Players in AI 1:19:02 Geopolitics, Personal Safety, and the AI Horizon
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@EconomPic @GestaltU he gives you enough to connect the dots his way. he’s really good at it
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@modestproposal1 @ballmatthew holy shit! maybe they will make sense for once!
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What’s the audience for this? Do we have a shortage of trinket shops and casual dining restaurants?
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren
How private equity gutted local malls: Joann Fabrics, Red Lobster, Claire's, and more.
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@eggofghost @firstadopter @DKThomp when it works, it’s usually with the right mix of carrots, sticks, shiny objects, misdirection, and public outrage. this is america.
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Jeff Bezos: "Any corporate or Amazon CFO could find 3% (to cut) in Federal budget on a Tuesday afternoon" to fund zero taxes for bottom half/poor. "This is a skills issue" calling out administration and management incompetence in Federal government and local NYC city school system (He is also calling for higher wages for teachers while cutting outlandish admin budget)
tae kim@firstadopter
Holy crap. This interview. Too much logic and common sense. Jeff Bezos talking too much sense about housing supply/demand policy to fix high rents, zero taxes for poor. Bezos for President! Competence Party!
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@firstadopter @DKThomp in the next volume, the Passage of Power, you can see that in action. It’s a political fight intra-cabinet, intra-party, and intra-coalition. It’s not free, everything is leverage, ie you pull on one thing and you lose support for something else.
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@newthrash @DKThomp At end of day, doesn't President/House leader/Senate leader control what's in the budget bill? If leader can do Bill Clinton triangulation and get the centrist middle and bully the porky pigs, couldn't a strong willed President get this done?
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@firstadopter @DKThomp basically every dollar (especially the pocketed ones) has a constituent who rabidly defends it, and therefore all legislation, no matter how small, is a bargaining chip. It takes power and understanding how to use it, something an MBA at Amazon knows nothing about.
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@newthrash @DKThomp i have it. haven't finished it. it's very long.
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@firstadopter @DKThomp you wrote a good biography about jensen. suggest you read the best biography of all time (IMO) Master of the Senate by Caro to get a sense of how ridiculous and unserious Bezos’ claims are.
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@SamStrongTalks @mvidia84853 @ID_AA_Carmack it’s speculative fiction with a non-traditional structure. Not everything has to be standard issue. the novel as a form (and storytelling itself) benefits from rules and the breaking of rules. I thought it worked well, and it was extra wonderful after PHM
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@newthrash @mvidia84853 @ID_AA_Carmack Anytime you ditch the entire cast of characters 2/3rds of the way through a book, you lose me. If that last 1/3 was a stand alone story that established characters, etc, my opinion might be different as I admit the setting/world-building was interesting.
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I loved the Project Hail Mary movie (and the book).
Science, technology, competence, and openness – this is my culture.
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@mvidia84853 @ID_AA_Carmack Heck no. Seveneves is terrible.
About 2/3rds of it is a decent book and then it goes completely off the rails.
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@mvidia84853 @ID_AA_Carmack seveneves is worlds better than PHM. good rec.
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@ID_AA_Carmack If you liked Project Hail Mary then should also try
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
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@besmartaboutit @ID_AA_Carmack dialogue in weir books is atrocious, but plotting and science is pretty good.
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@ID_AA_Carmack Why did the alien rock bug talk like a try hard comedian? People and AI dont sound like that, just lost me.
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@BrianSozzi He’s clueless. Chipotle is getting eaten alive by their competitors. The scary part is that management doesn’t even understand how or why it’s happening.
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Caught up with Chipotle's CEO Scott Boatwright inside a NYC Chipotle. We had some chips and guac.
Asked him what he would tell people who complain their once large burrito bowls are getting smaller:
"You should ask for a little more. It has always been our brand ethos and it is still to this day, we serve big beautiful bowls and burritos. Full stop, no questions asked. If you want more, just ask the team member. I promise you there's never a team member on that line that's going to say no,” he says.
Makes sense.
(V/Power Players podcast on @YahooFinance)
📈Yahoo Finance: finance.yahoo.com/video/chipotle…
🎙️Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/28uyss…
🎧Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how…
🎵Amazon: music.amazon.com/podcasts/7b6dd…
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@RampCapitalLLC @netflixsports why does the grown ass anon comment on random bullshit?
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This dad at the Red Sox game went into full dad mode — managing it from both sides after little bro threw away the foul ball 😂
Big bro was sick 😭
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@energybants Great news! Righting bad decisions of the past will be the best way this new nuclear renaissance lasts. Congrats!
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Breaking: Brookfield and The Nuclear Company teaming up to deliver GW-scale nuclear
Proud to announcing a joint venture between The Nuclear Company and Brookfield to deliver Westinghouse reactors, including to manage the completion of AP1000s in South Carolina.
From the day I discovered nuclear energy my goal has been to build as much of it as possible for the world. Today, with my team at @thenuclearco, we're taking a huge step towards that. It's been an honor to work as Chief of Staff for proven builder-CEO @JonathanWebbKY alongside our legendary Chief Nuclear Officer @TheNuclearJoe as we build the team and technology that can finally fix the nuclear plant deployment problem in the West.
I've been an advocate for nuclear energy long enough to see the revolution in public appreciation for this wondrous technology, but just being popular isn't enough. We have to be able to build on-time, on-budget, with proven designs that are repeated over and over with an experienced and disciplined project management team using the best emerging tech.
That is precisely what we're doing at The Nuclear Company. I'll be sharing more going forward as we deliver on the awesome potential unlocked by today's announcement.
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@MrMSpencer @rocketalignment it’s in a legal filing! not a leak jfc
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@rocketalignment Does this look like OpenAI side leaking ahead of them in spotlight?
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