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@kdaigle Bwahhahaa 🤣

Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.) GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week. So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub’s core features. And as a fine purveyor of hand-crafted shit code for many years, I'm not gonna weigh in on that. 🤣

@jaynitx @MasculineEgo_ Wonderful! How did he develop the patience

Jeff Bezos reveals the moment an early Amazon executive told him he had enough ideas to destroy Amazon: "Early in Amazon's history, Jeff Wilke came to me one day and said, Jeff, you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon. You have enough ideas per minute, per day, per week to destroy Amazon." "I was like, what do you mean?" "He said, you have to release the work at the right rate that the organization can accept it." "Every time I released an idea, I was creating a backlog, a queue, work in process. It was just stacking up, it was adding no value. In fact, it was creating distraction." "So I started prioritizing the ideas better, keeping lists of them, keeping them to myself until the organization was ready for the ideas."

@tavleen_singh Even if they are , they won’t be able to do anything, Only Indira or to some extent Rajiv could have dismantled archaic bureaucracy, the rot starts from tehsildaar and goes up to principal secretary

From the Economist: ‘Despite recent pro-business reforms by the Narendra Modi government, India’s shabby infrastructure and a bureaucracy that puts Byzantium to shame puts off new arrivals’. Is anyone in Delhi listening?

@dwarkesh_sp He is saying he doesn’t know except for South America and Europe

David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread. "It wasn't peaceful, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't nice. Some of our archaeologist co-authors were just really distressed."

@dhume 🤣

I guess Tenzing Norgay is now the world’s second most famous Nepali.

@sandeep_PT @d_s_thakur Because that is norm world over,

Why? Top Dhandhos are flush with billions in profits. Why is my tax being given to them, when they have always refused to spend on R&D?

@hxxntrr I don’t get it, why government is funding luxury vehicles for rich?

Buying a G-Wagon for your LLC is the smartest tax move in America Section 179 of the IRS tax code lets you deduct 100% of the purchase price of a vehicle in the year you buy it, as long as the vehicle weighs over 6,000 pounds (gross vehicle weight rating) The G-Wagon is 6,945 lbs. So is the Cadillac Escalade. So is the Range Rover, the Tesla Model X, the BMW X7, the Lexus LX, the Ford F-250, and basically any heavy SUV or truck. All Section 179 eligible The math on a $90,000 G-Wagon purchased through your LLC: Purchase price: $90,000 Section 179 deduction year 1: $90,000 (100% of purchase) Tax savings if you're in a 37% federal bracket: $33,300 Tax savings on state income tax (avg 5%): $4,500 Total first-year tax savings: $37,800 Effectively the IRS subsidizes 42% of the purchase price. A $90K G-Wagon costs your business $52,200 after the deduction lands How the rules actually work: The vehicle has to be used 50%+ for business purposes. You document this with a mileage log showing business trips vs personal. Most operators easily hit 50%+ if they use the vehicle for client meetings, vendor visits, or any commute to a business location The deduction limit for a passenger SUV under 6,000 lbs is roughly $12,400 in year 1 (much smaller). Over 6,000 lbs the limit jumps to the full purchase price. The 6,000 lb threshold is the entire reason every successful operator drives a heavy SUV Bonus depreciation: if Section 179 doesn't fully cover the purchase (rare for vehicles), bonus depreciation kicks in for whatever's left. As of 2026 bonus depreciation is at 60% but congress changes this regularly How you fund the purchase: Stack 0% business credit cards. $90K of vehicle purchase routed through a dealer that accepts cards (or via Plastiq for the dealer that doesn't) sits on a 12-15 month 0% APR card. You drive the G-Wagon today. You get the $37,800 tax deduction at year-end. The credit card is at 0% for 12+ months while you pay it down from business cash flow Net first-year cost of the vehicle: $52,200 (post-deduction price), spread interest-free over 12 months. Effective monthly cost: $4,350 Or take a $50K-$90K equipment loan from a bank like SoFi or Bank of America Business at 7-9% APR. The deduction still applies. The loan is structured around the asset A client we worked with last quarter bought a 2024 Range Rover for his marketing LLC. Total cost $108K. Routed through Plastiq onto Chase Ink Business Cash and Amex Business Gold. Section 179 deduction in tax year 2024: $108K. He was in a 37% federal + 9% California state bracket. Total tax savings: $49,680 Effective net cost: $58,320 for an asset that was already going to be a personal car and is now a business asset with full deductibility. Plus he kept the credit cards at 0% while business cash paid them down through the year The IRS wrote Section 179 into the code to incentivize small businesses to buy equipment. Vehicles count as equipment if they meet the weight threshold. Almost every wealthy business owner uses this. Almost every small business owner has no idea it exists (we get 700+ score business owners $100K-$250K in 0% business funding and structure the Section 179 vehicle play alongside it. link in bio)

@neeleshmisra Well, try explaining it to liver doc and he will tell you that you are not a trained doctor 🤣

@elonmusk I think there’s too much inflation here, all high net worth should be in space and play god from there

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@CNN And it is almost free in India

The moringa tree, known as the “miracle tree”, is one of the most nutrient-dense plants on the planet and is prized for its healing qualities. It also has another huge benefit, according to new research: it’s excellent at removing microplastics from water. cnn.it/4tL6KDG

@bryan_johnson Thank you, I will turn off internet now

Just gave Kate oral sex. Goodnight everyone.

@aakashgupta Maybe look at Muni bonds

The 4.5% in your high-yield savings account is a guaranteed losing trade. After inflation. After tax. Every year. Ron Baron, the billionaire investor whose $380 million Tesla bet is now worth $5.4 billion, just laid out the math on CNBC. Real inflation runs 4 to 5%. The economy grows 2% real. That's a 7% bar your wealth has to clear annually just to stand still. The Rule of 72 makes it concrete. Divide 72 by 7. Your purchasing power halves every 10 years if you do nothing. The headline math actually undersells the trap because of the tax layer underneath. Park $100,000 in a 4.5% money market fund. You earn $4,500 in nominal yield. At a 35% combined federal and state rate, you pay $1,575 in tax on that yield. Net: $2,925, or 2.9%. Real inflation per Baron: 4 to 5%. Your "safe" account loses 1.5 to 2% in real terms every single year. The IRS taxes you on nominal returns. Inflation eats your real value. The government collects on the illusion of a gain while your actual purchasing power compounds backward. This is why $7.6 trillion currently sits in money market funds at record levels. The yield looks attractive on the screen. The after-tax real return is structurally negative for anyone in a meaningful tax bracket. Investors run the first-order math and stop. Baron's portfolio shows the other side of the trade. Baron Funds has now ridden Tesla to $5.4 billion at 14.5% of holdings. SpaceX runs 32% of the Baron Partners Fund, started at a $20 billion valuation in 2017. Public and private bets on owning productive capacity instead of yielding paper. The 1970s ran this exact playbook. Treasuries paid 7%. Inflation ran 11%. Anyone holding "safe" bonds lost half their real wealth in eight years. Stocks, real estate, and commodities were the only assets that kept pace. The mechanism is mechanical and it doesn't pause for politics or business cycles. Either you own assets that compound faster than the headwind, or you watch your purchasing power get cut in half on a roughly fixed schedule. Holding cash is paying a tax to the system. Most people never see the line item.

@chutneylife Well, one has to be mindful of ticks and syringes

There’s a guy in my neighborhood who is always walking with his kids, bare feet. I have heard of grounding, but never tried it myself. I’m curious if it is that good.

@RajivMessage @hvgoenka Well they have created more value than 10-20 Goenkas put together, I wonder what’s stopping Mr Goenka from creating a world class org holding precious IPs

I glad @hvgoenka is joining this critique. I can’t go on alone because that has brought me persona attacks. The fact is that India’s combined IT sector has market cap of about 1% of global IT industry. This includes TCS, Infosys, Mahindra, and everyone else considered big deal in India. The cyber-coolie strategy built fortunes for a few billionaires. But China & USA own the key IP India must license/beg.

@Grady_Booch And then they give you option to choose between local and general

A story. I had surgery today - nothing life-threatening, don’t fret - and I do so celebrate the advances of modern medicine that made it and a rapid recovery possible. But that’s not the story. In consultation with my anesthesiologist before he put me under, we had a most engaging discussion regarding the role of anesthesia in severing the thalamus-cortex connection. Telling him of my work in AI, I asked him how his profession defined consciousness. His reply: we really have no clear idea how to define it; we know what anesthesia does but we don’t fully under the mechanism of how it does. I found his observation strangely comforting. And that is the rest of the story.

@Ananth_IRAS 😢

Worth a read! 😍 My mom wanted to send me homemade pickles. But I said ‘no’. I was 27, living in New York, working on Wall Street. I didn't need pickles shipped across the world. The shipping would cost more than buying them here. Three years later, I read the psychologist take on what I'd actually done. When you reject someone's offer to help, you're not just declining assistance. You're declining their need to matter to you! Benjamin Franklin figured this out in 1736. He had a rival in the Pennsylvania legislature who hated him. Instead of trying to win him over with favors, Franklin asked the rival to lend him a rare book. The rival agreed. They became lifelong friends. It's called the Ben Franklin effect.When people do something for you, they convince themselves they must like you. Otherwise, why would they help? My mom didn't want to send pickles because I needed them. She wanted to send them because SHE needed to feel useful to me. To feel like despite the ocean between us, she still had a role in my life. Every time I said "I'll manage," I was taking that away from her. Here's what I learned after a decade of living away from home: → Accepting small favors isn't about you needing help. It's about letting people you love feel needed. Your dad wants to transfer ₹5000 even though you earn well? Let him. Your friend wants to pick you up from the airport even though Uber exists? Say yes. Your partner wants to make you tea even though you can make it yourself? Accept it. The people who love you don't want to solve your big problems. They want to matter in your small moments. Let them. #lifelesson

@theCTO @sama Much needed

hey @sama can we normalize models just saying "i dont know" ? eliminates 99% of hallucinations

@sama Too late

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@elonmusk Bro

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