NickC25

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by NickC25 5mo ago
Ready Player One was completely misread and misunderstood by people who thought they could make a lot of money with VR. It wasn't a homage to 70s/80s/90s nerd culture and a hopeful glimpse of what VR tech could be. It was a w
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by NickC25 5mo ago
Greater returns for whom, and what would we gain geopolitically? I don't disagree that money should be spent here. But instead of billions spent on military contractors, using some of that money in developing countries through USAID g
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by NickC25 5mo ago
And not only accrues goodwill, it keeps American farmers growing crops that are otherwise unprofitable . US Farmers are too stubborn to keep up with the times, insist on growing crops that there's no domestic demand for (and are heav
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by NickC25 5mo ago
It's what happens in China with Tiktok. The Party said Tiktok needed to have educational content instead of stupid content. Tiktok complied. The CCP may be many bad things, but they don't fuck around when it comes to education a
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by NickC25 5mo ago
US Aid has probably been the biggest ace the US ever had in its hand. US farmers growing otherwise unprofitable crops with no buyer? Check. US exporters being able to export crops? Check. US Aid workers being able to give food to starving
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by NickC25 5mo ago
Correct. Iran also has no nuclear weapons.
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by NickC25 5mo ago
Just do what China does, how fucking hard is it? They have 4x, almost 5x the population of the US. STEM or verifiable educational content only. Have a review team and an AI that moderates content. No politics, no stupid dances, no moneti
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by NickC25 5mo ago
You can stop watching big budget productions, but you shouldn't skip out on your local independent cinema scene. If you're in or around a large metro area, there will be local(ish) folks out there making interesting stuff. Might
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by NickC25 5mo ago
>So you can go hog wild on exploiting labor and amassing wealth as long as you don't oppose the overall goals of the government Or get TOO big. You can get a few billion here and there, but don't think that you're bigger
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by NickC25 5mo ago
>It's a bit of a trope to say that billionaires are hoarding wealth via financial shenanigans when all of their wealth is tied up in job and value creation. Value for whom?
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by NickC25 5mo ago
They do. Because Elon is proving himself to be quite an idiot. China was more than happy to welcome him in, and have him teach them how to build an EV. They simply copied what they could and improved on it. "The communists will happi
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by NickC25 5mo ago
Sad. I think companies that have a near or quasi monopoly over regulated utilities should be banned from hiring cheap labor from developing countries. Canada, USA, doesn't matter - if our taxes subsidize a market or entrench a player
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by NickC25 5mo ago
I love this. I'm also building a simple game using Claude, so this is quite inspirational. Keep going!
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by NickC25 5mo ago
> and also in how the Republican party turned around and broke portions of that law for months until Trump could ensure the assets were handed to his major donor buddy--and fixing none of the original PRC influence issues. [1] Are you e
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by NickC25 5mo ago
Just ask for a spot when you see someone available. You humble yourself, you grow as a person by practicing communication, and you get to try to lift a little heavier as you know someone is there to help you when you eventually fail a rep (
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by NickC25 5mo ago
Fellow Greenwich native here....though you're a bit older than me. My dad works with a number of hedge funds particularly those in the NYC area and the Miami area as a recruiter. Mind if I pass him your CV?
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by NickC25 5mo ago
>, including Islam, are all influences on and in line with, traditional American values My brother, in Sunni Islam practicing countries, they can kill you for drawing a stick figure. Traditional American values include freedom of speech.
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by NickC25 5mo ago
>(Saudi sovereign fund: you think we will only censor Kimmel and Colbert because they're making jokes about Trump. Sure, go ahead and think that...) May 20th can't come fast enough....
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by NickC25 6mo ago
The desire for financial hyper-optimization has been killing the economy for a very long time, not just recently due to AI. That said, AI isn't helping.
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by NickC25 6mo ago
>Meta is fundamentally a media company You were soooooo close. Meta is fundamentally a targeted advertising company, not a media company.
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by NickC25 6mo ago
But chess is a turn-based game where there's no deception (in the sense that both players can see all legal moves for both themselves and their opposition at all times), whereas in table tennis, it's in real time, it's fast a
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by NickC25 6mo ago
This. People don't understand that defense contractors are extremely wasteful in their spending, and the contractor's job is not to produce the latest and greatest. They have a dual mandate. 1. To keep supply chains active so we
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by NickC25 6mo ago
>Now if only the NSA would vet key people in our government They probably did that for a while. Sadly, they as an agency were un-vettable to the general public, and abused that position to create tons of blatantly unconstitutional progra
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by NickC25 6mo ago
>I think it's grossly unethical and negligent that our DOJ/FTC allowed them to acquire film studios, subsidize them with outside business unit profit, put ads across their own properties, then give it all away for "free&qu
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by NickC25 6mo ago
> but the corollary to that is "this is the most aligned the incentives between model providers and customers will ever be" because we're all just burning VC money for now. Please say this louder for everyone to hear. We
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by NickC25 6mo ago
Yeah, especially that same offender who was let off easy with 12 unindicted co-conspirators because he "belonged to intelligence" and had deep ties to Mossad. Yeah, I'd totally let that guy manage my billions after all that
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by NickC25 6mo ago
Lex's entire net worth was managed by Epstein, both before and after the conviction.
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by NickC25 6mo ago
This. Sam's got 3 billion net worth. Jensen's got 165 billion to his name. They are giddy about taking jobs away, and both are engaged in "tax reduction strategies" and suck up to Donald Trump. You wonder why people are
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by NickC25 6mo ago
> Israel were to cross that line, it would be impossible for any government to continue to support Israel. The same could be said for running a massive pedophile and human trafficking ring, but that line has been crossed and it seems tha
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by NickC25 6mo ago
Some of those that you'd call grifters are actually seen as leaders by those who claim to be in the movement. That's the problem. If they admit it or not, that's besides the point - if young men look to the likes of Andrew

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