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by matwood 5mo ago
Anthropic has raised $130B. It's a bit more than selling a share to your mate for $1.
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by matwood 5mo ago
They can certainly say they no longer track the 500 leading large-cap companies on the US exchanges. The S&P 500® is widely regarded as the best single gauge of large-cap U.S. equities. The index includes 500 leading companies and cove
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by matwood 5mo ago
It also used to require 15 railroads, but the market moved on. They held tight on the profitability requirement with TSLA and missed a huge part of the growth. They may continue to hold the line on that going forward. But, if the AI compani
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by matwood 5mo ago
> Why should SpaceX get exemptions from entry requirements to the S&P when every other company before it didn't? The rules have never been set in stone and changed a number of times since the S&P 500 was created. The current
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by matwood 5mo ago
BTW, Enron was in the S&P 500 when it went bankrupt. Other fun fact is that it was replaced with NVDA.
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by matwood 5mo ago
> The rules are in place for a reason, why does it matter what the percentage is? They're not profitable. When they prove they're worth the dollars, they can be included, per the rules. I'm sure you know this, but the rule
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by matwood 5mo ago
> but the S&P 500 also has never allowed entry of companies that may never become profitable I suspect this will be revisited if all these companies are still 1T+ market cap 12 months from now. At some point the S&P will have to
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by matwood 5mo ago
> the same passive strategy they always have You'll be shocked to know they have changed the inclusion rules a number of times. I suspect if in 12 months these megacaps are still megacaps, they will revisit the profitability rules.
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by matwood 5mo ago
Market pricing will be interesting. People have been complaining about TLSA being over priced for years and now it's 2%+ of the S&P. Are people selling VOO and VTI because of the TSLA allocation? Nope, in fact TSLA has made them al
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by matwood 5mo ago
Matt Levine, who probably knows more about finance than anyone on this site, has said the same thing. He’s also talked about all the hate mail he gets. Large market etfs like VTI or VOO are supposed to track the market. It would be weird if
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by matwood 5mo ago
It didn't just suddenly materialize. From the current article In addition to overreliance on AI, Garcia also pointed out that many students are underprepared mathematically, a concern echoed by campus associate teaching professor Gire
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by matwood 5mo ago
It takes time to work through the system and it has been steadily getting worse. It was already discussed on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309233
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by matwood 5mo ago
> Most people definitely can't meditate for 30 minutes, so if you can do this, it's very impressive. Maybe not traditional meditation, but I have no problem taking a 30 minute plus walk with nothing but my thoughts. It’s actual
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by matwood 5mo ago
> The whole point of original rule was to have market discover price over time before adding a company. IPOs and indexes were not really built to handle companies that stay private as long as we are now seeing. SpaceX is trading at crazy
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by matwood 5mo ago
Also given how the S&P weights, it'll have about as much sway as DoorDash. Annoying they pushed it into the indexes, but like you said, we've also never had a company come out in the 1T range or even the x00B range. These inde
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by matwood 5mo ago
https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500 At .1% they'll have the same weight as something like DoorDash.
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by matwood 5mo ago
You shouldn't be downvoted because your point is completely valid. Matt Levine made the same point in the last Money Stuff podcast. These indexes are supposed to contain the largest, most significant, and in some cases all companies so
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by matwood 5mo ago
> One set of ramps ($40), or jack stands ($30) Given the number of SUVs and trucks, many people don't even need these.
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by matwood 5mo ago
> Years of experience don’t correlate to output in all careers. YoE only gives potential, but are not necessarily sufficient in any career. I've interviewed engineers who learned the narrow job they were doing in 6 months, and then
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by matwood 5mo ago
Another thing I tell people is if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted. Many people do a job well and make themselves too critical in a certain position thinking it will make their job more secure. First, the way layoffs t
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by matwood 5mo ago
I wouldn't say hardly noticeable especially for experienced lifters. After training for a few years those extra reps and slightly more weight have compounding effects over time.
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by matwood 5mo ago
> Read enough of that slop and your brain hopefully will start detecting AI patterns. Like those people last week who ripped on an actual Monet thinking it was AI generated? No, the human brain only thinks it can pick up what's AI.
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by matwood 5mo ago
Also note, that if someone is going to start taking creatine they need to up their hydration - likely a lot.
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> based on an online entrepreneur Creatine is one of the most studied supplements over the last 30+ years. First, it is proven to work for athletic performance and second, it's relatively safe. The AI overview of your Google link ev
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by matwood 5mo ago
Creatine isn't water soluble. I just take a 5g scoop daily and wash it down with water. I could do 6 scoops in a row without problem, but not sure what the point would be. The latest research fits with the 5g/day no need to load.
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Did you up your water intake along with the creatine? Since you say you're a cyclist you may have just been getting dehydrated.
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For almost all math at the HS level, teaching to the test is exactly what you want.
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> Sure, but is that the case now? Pretty much and has been for awhile. https://nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/100-NYU-... In early 2023, within the span of two months, the United States
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by matwood 5mo ago
Thank you for saying this. Continuing to point at SVB as a bailout is annoying. They were not bailed out. Anyone with deposits in an accredited bank should be made whole - always. Without trusted banking we have no economy.
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> My worst interview was at Uber (their security team). Worst? It sounds like a great interview where you set a boundary before going into a situation you would not have liked. People forget that part of the interview process is also for

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