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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Meta at least has a theory that it will transform their ad business. No guarantees but it seems like a pretty decent theory, with direct connections to revenue.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Looking at cash burn is looking at the wrong end of the horse. Some companies, like Meta, have burned huge piles of cash in pursuit of, for example, the Metaverse and they've got nothing to show for it, not even a slight increment in a
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Time to dig up the spreadsheet models of what dark fiber is worth.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
The most exciting thing about a historically accurate version will be all the butt sex.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Technically NATO is much harder to undo, and yet there we go.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
It's interesting to see a competitive landscape shift out from under the early adopters. Anthropic appears to have anticipated this, but everyone else is going to get caught out by the major platform providers' multitude of distri
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
I've been using 3.5 flash in Android Studio on a Dart/Flutter project, some of it pretty complex and using brand new API's and native code for agentic tool calling in the app. It used to be that you could find the edges of th
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Short interest in TSLA is under 3%. Evidently the shorts think SPCX can't be defended as easily by the cult of Elon. It will be interesting to see when and how perceptions change.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
2023 called...
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
More people should be doing that instead of funding cryptofascist authoritarian dunderheads to undermine democracy.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Expect the same results as in EVs: everybody else gets the good stuff at good prices.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Interviewed there early in my career. The vibe was very much off. Ran into the same vibe many years later when a company that acquired a company I founded got bought by Computer Associates. Places where doing good work and making good thing
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
He will for sure try. Congressional Republicans seem to be more comfortable going off the rez, tho, even before the year-end deadline for shenanigans.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
You didn't bother to do the search and find out how many industrialized nations are also higher emitters per capita.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Actually, if you Google the rankings, China is 27th per capita, behind, of all places, Iceland.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Land as a finite resource only affects first tier real estate market markets. You can see this vividly in China where there's a housing glut on aggregate, but not in first tier cities.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Making the concept a little more abstract can help: if you have personal access to capital because you've got collateral, that has numerous beneficial effects, as some of the other commenters here have pointed out. This effect might be
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Oh man the Earth is not flat enough to prevent "intelligent design" from leaking all over the place. This is the "diversity of thought" Russell Vought is bringing to our universities.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Technically lead is a chemical.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
It was easy to imagine Amazon scaling to Walmart scale. Whether you believed they could execute or not is another matter. Do you actually believe in orbital data centers, or that 15 starship launches to refuel one starship will ever happen?
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Upvoted for an interesting observation. But it might be giving too much credit to a White House that is about as intentional as a kid button mashing a game controller.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
When Intel was on top of the world I was fortunate enough to work at one of the partner companies on a project that was a pet project of Andy Grove. I would nominate him and his whole C suite as a beacon of ethics and fair dealing.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
I grew up in Oak Park and I've been in the home and studio several times. It's a remarkably homey home, in contrast with Wright's reputation for art over practicality. It's also what you'd expect from a tech nerd&#x
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Fair enough, but I'd point out that, unlike Second Life, Meta didn't buy pants. If you want a chronicle of wasted spending regarding Microsoft and mobile devices, Google "Tomi Ahonen."
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Everybody wants a platform but nobody wants to spend what it takes to make a platform. That includes things like Windows Phone, Fire Phone, all the glasses, Humane, etc. As much as everybody hates on OpenAI for chaotic management, they did
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
One of my first gigs as a consultant was to write a project management system for a company that didn't really need a custom project management system. The CEO pulled me aside and told me the only important feature of the project manag
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Over in the past three months I've posted two polls on HN asking if one or both of the OpenAI and SpaceX IPO's would fail, with the definition of failure being dropping below IPO price by the end of the year, or the IPO failing al
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Microsoft IIRC sank a small server farm into the ocean and found that it worked pretty well. Surely there is fiber alongside the electrical cable from offshore windmills, so that's not a totally crazy idea, but it's never going to
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Space data centers are so absurd they are the most Elizabeth Holmes Theranos part of SpaceX. IOW this is the part of the story where everyone with a jot of sense can't be fooled, and all your left with are the willingly hornswoggled.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Just say it with a South African eurotrash accent and it will all makes sense.

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