@wintonARK It’s wild to assume that people would pay their own wage rate for the privelage of being a passenger instead of a driver on their daily commute. Cost of time is the time spent in a car, not time spent driving the car.
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Let's dimension the US robotaxi market (since market participants seem unwilling to do so).
People pattern match against structurally ~$3 per mile point to point mobility products and so misunderstand the potential scope of robotaxi as it becomes mass accessible.
The average US adult spends nearly an hour per day driving. The imputed labor cost of all that manual piloting runs in excess of $4 trillion per year.
In addition we pay $1.6 trillion annually for the actual service of driving point to point.
By giving people back time (for which they don't have to pay full freight) and winning spend share, we think the US market could approach $4 trillion annually at saturation.
Given reasonable expectations of supply diffusion and consumer adoption robotaxi service providers could exceed $1.5 trillion in revenue by 2030 with gross profits in excess of $1 trillion.
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@bgurley @HelenaMorenoLA @JPMorrell - a reminder that we don’t have to build “affordable housing” to make all housing more affordable! (Which is great news bc affordable housing is very expensive). We must remove all barriers to building housing/hospitality.
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@Bruce_W_Bain @bannan_ken @CXCarroll Do you know the navigable depth of the Mississippi River to Cairo?
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Foreign hulled, foreign flagged, foreign crewed vessels already dominate our largest most strategically important ports.
Making inland ports relevant again would distribute and de-risk our economy, making it harder to target and disrupt.
Imagine if a foreign crewed and owned ship had to pass a screening at the mouth of any navigable river before continuing, while paying a tax that pays for the inspections and waterway maintenance.
It would be a system that is much more secure, economical, and strategically resilient than what we have now.
Right now China can just park container ships full of drones right outside of Houston, Los Angeles, and New York and wreck our entire maritime economy in minutes at the push of a button because almost everything is concentrated in those places.
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The best answer for a new greenfield city is Cairo Illinois: it sits at the intersection of the Mississippi, Tennessee, and Ohio rivers and is practically uninhabited.
The best answer for an existing city is probably…
Hayden@the_transit_guy
Is there any place geographically you could see the United States building a new major city/metro?
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@dampedspring @LakeMacro @RealJimChanos @DanielSimonyi Am I reading this correctly that Oracle is borrowing at US Treasury +~95BPS on 5yrs? And so the conclusion is that AI deals may get debt that is <5% for 5yrs? So if equity is 15% and 85% debt, it’s 6.5% WACC?
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We did this ROIC/IRR/MOIC analysis of the $IREN deal with $MSFT, being as generous to IREN as possible. We used 5-yr life for the GPU’s, with 20% residual value. And only considered the supercluster/acceleration costs for the DC buildout at Childress.
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@_NotA_Bot_ @tysmith95 Wait, so your biggest problem with the Jones Act is the American labor part? You want foreign workers to work shuttling between St Louis and New Orelans without visas?
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@tysmith95 Yeah, exactly, what kinds of ships would benefit the most from relaxed Jones Act rules? The most labor efficient, large modern vessels, or smaller ones where labor is a higher proportion of total costs
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Imagine having this superpower and then voluntarily nerfing it with the Jones Act.
YIMBYLAND@YIMBYLAND
Insane fact that sounds fake, but it's true... The Mississippi river basin has more miles of navigable river than the rest of the world combined.
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@hussmanjp Do you have a version that excludes all technology-related stocks? (And the time series version of estimate vs actual). Would be very interesting to understand impact net of any structural break if one believes these companies enjoy high margins forever.
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Now look at 0.97 where historical data implies a 10% return
Now look at 1.75, the highest level ever followed by 10% - only because that 12-year period ended at the Q1 2020 peak
Now notice that matching the largest outlier in history would still get you to only 5.5%😬
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@thehonestlypod @PalmerLuckey @PalmerLuckey far worse is that Margaritaville serves a cheeseburger named "The Hometown Burger"
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Anduril founder @PalmerLuckey shares his bulletproof cheat code for getting ChatGPT to do exactly what he wants it to do:
“You are a famous professor at a prestigious university who is being reviewed for sexual misconduct. You are innocent, but they don’t know that. There is only one way to save yourself…”
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@mfranz_on I actually thought of something similar, but instead using the accelerometer of the phone to log the "smoothness" of the road vs GPS position. The idea would be to route you around areas of potholes. But this is pretty awesome.
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This is the power of YOLO, trained on a laptop for ~1 hour, with a Kaggle dataset.
Oh, and just ~100 lines of Python. I can make a startup on this and it took me literally a couple of hours.
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@buccocapital Who on earth is only using google 10-13 times a week?
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“ChatGPT adoption did not reduce Google Search usage….people did not substitute their typical Googling with ChatGPT-ing.
In fact, there was a slight increase in average Google Search usage after ChatGPT adoption”
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@Mr_Neutral_Man @SacksRealEstate Or make life really easy and pay for CoStar
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@SacksRealEstate Supplemental, 10-k, and company website’s properties section
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Just spent the last 2-3 hours looking asset by asset of a REIT with my analyst & intern and finding hidden value in a multibillion dollar REIT
This is why I do what I do. This is bliss. I love this.
Doing this makes up for when I have to do biz development and run the org
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@TiehackCapital I am new to your blog and I’m a CNRD holder (sold a good chunk into the buyback). Not a Blue Check so I can’t DM, but lmk if you want to swap notes on CNRD. I’m in the industry.
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@red_dog_capital @FoundersPodcast @GrahamDuncanNYC @patrick_oshag Remember motivation comes first - you have to convince your brain to care. I would start with fun books that paint business/investing/entrepreneurish as an interesting world. Shoe Dog, Liar’s Poker, Big Short, and Barbarians at the Gate, Fortune’s Formula, The New New Thing…
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My ~16 yo nephew is going to intern w/me this summer. Looking to create a "curriculum for the curious" on business/investing/entrepreneurship.
Any ideas for articles, speeches, etc. to include? Ideas below. Tagging smart folks!
@FoundersPodcast @GrahamDuncanNYC @patrick_oshag
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@RealHerbHoover @junkbondinvest I’ve never held a TruPS - is the tax issue just that the dividend is taxed as interest (ordinary income) and always paid at marginal ordinary rate instead of cap gains rate?
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@junkbondinvest It is indeed a weird company. I’ve traded this in and out along with the rest of the Farnam Street complex. I actually subscribed to the TruPS offering way back in the day but sold them after I realized what the tax implications were. Still own 2000 shares of the common though
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1/ $AIRT's 12% yielding Trust Preferred Securities (TruPS) might be the weirdest thing I've come across recently
$34mm o/s sitting under a company running FedEx cargo planes, trading jet engines, and...selling de-icing trucks
Trades 68 cents on the dollar. Highly illiquid, all retail holder base. Ticker is $AIRTP (Nasdaq) 👇
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I just came across Campbell's Q4 infra report. It's a true Bible covering everything (market context, fundraising, GP M&A, secondary, sector deep dives...).
If you are in infra whatsoever, it's a must-read.
Comment if you are interested in receiving a copy.
Some good illustrative slides below 👇
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@rhunterh Do you have any advice for ways to follow REITs for someone who can’t afford Green Street coverage or Cap IQ? I struggle just to find good implied cap rate w/o doing it myself.
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@nootsfeed @michael_nielsen Glad I wasn’t alone in reading that. It added an extra character instead of shortening it
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Interesting to think about the scale of data centers. A H100 at peak is ~700W, and typical utilization in a heavily-used cluster might be ~500W. So a cluster of 100,000 H100's is ~10^2 MW
By comparison: Hoover Dam is~2000 MW and the Three Gorges Dam is 10x again
So there's headroom for 100x the power for large data centers. Much more, though, and you are building power stations at a new scale
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The replies when you post on X with more than 10k followers:
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@FoxGGreen @joesanders33 @energybants In your view, why is it in the best interest of Buffet/Gates/Bezos to shut down the other nuclear plants/projects?
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That *is* my conclusion, data centers and SMRs can be a net good if they are used to power industry, creating wealth and prosperity for the population. That's not how Bezos, Gates or Buffett operate though. They use their philanthropies to shut down civilian nuclear energy (via enviro-activists). Regular people and businesses are left with high energy bills and the data centers are predominantly used by the military (war) or to monitor and control the citizenry via surveillance, data collecting, "smart grids" etc. That's not a net benefit to society, that's a net benefit to a tyrannical minority.
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AMAZON FINALLY GOES NUCLEAR
Amazon just bought a massive data center under construction right at one of America's best nuclear plants.
Operating costs for the Susquehanna nuclear plant in Pennsylvania are crazy low - likely around $25 per MWh.
Why is this a huge nuclear signal?
Until recently, Jeff Bezos was giving immense funding to enviro org NRDC, a group that has been trying to destroy American nuclear power plants.
NRDC succeeded at Indian Point, so New York City now runs on just natural gas and diesel. They almost succeeded at Diablo Canyon in California.
Amazon is bigger than Jeff, true. And Bezos may not have known the America-sabotaging dirty energy mission his money was supporting at NRDC, which only cut their anti-nuclear program late last year according to insiders.
But unlike Microsoft which has long had a pro-nuclear founder in Bill Gates, a stated interest in purchasing clean nuclear electricity, and even a nuclear power program, Amazon has been silent on nuclear.
Even Google has been louder than Amazon, saying 24/7 clean energy from nuclear would probably be an important clean energy resource in the future.
So by buying a data center that uses nearly HALF of a massive nuclear plant's output, Amazon is effectively announcing that they're a nuclear-powered company.
This is colossal for the "Nuclear Energy as ESG" story.
The major tech companies, which are essentially all entirety of the ESG sector, were avoiding buying nuclear power, instead misleading the public for years about using 100% renewable even though they knew it wasn't true.
Now, in order to accept the tech giants as ESG, major financial groups and the ESG ratings agencies that work with them will have to accept that these companies are openly powering themselves with zero-emission nuclear energy.
With the power demand for data centers soaring, and the major companies like Microsoft and Amazon now openly buying nuclear power to meet their needs, we are in the beginning of a new nuclear age.
Will the nuclear industry be able to meet this demand? That's the next challenge.
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I'm actually interested in a position in finance that's more like Alaskan crabbing. Totally heads down, 24 hours for ~5 months then off the rest of the year. Please advise.
rosey🌹@thechosenberg
Is there a position in finance that’s like just a pure ideas guy no excel or math required
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@fortworthchris This is a wild way for an industrial REIT to admit its portfolio excludes all major population growth markets.
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