rchaud

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by rchaud 3mo ago
Even if you don't use FB, pictures of you tagged by your friends are fair game.
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by rchaud 3mo ago
How can it be an elder dude fantasy when it was written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck when they were in college? Robin Williams' character isn't pwning anyone. He's a therapist trying to get through to a patient who's co
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by rchaud 3mo ago
Because a studio that spends $2 billion on a game is also spending several million to track online sentiment about their games.
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by rchaud 3mo ago
Piracy is only doable on PC. GTA6 is specifically excluding PC from the initial launch because it was so widely pirated and modded.
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by rchaud 3mo ago
I think there will definitely be a point where code generators require a payment method to be registered before they can be used, and then generate code for paid products that it automatically subscribes you to. WordPress and WooCommerce? N
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by rchaud 3mo ago
There are only so many ad dollars to go around. ChatGPT getting traffic doesn't mean they can convince ad buyers that their dollar goes further than at established players like Google and Meta. AI search is a commodity at this point, e
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by rchaud 3mo ago
You're proving my point. It's no longer at the same price.
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by rchaud 3mo ago
Apple soaked up all the good press about the PC-killer Macbook Neo's price point, waited until those articles seeded search results, influencer videos and AI queries, then jacked up the price by 17%.
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by rchaud 3mo ago
Instead of listening to the critiques of actual Windows users? Jobs was an evangelist who couldn't see past his Nintendo-esque ecosystem zealotry, didn't use Windows and thereby couldn't understand why Windows won the enterpr
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by rchaud 3mo ago
This is going to be the GenX equivalent to the boomer meme about not spending money on avocado toast and save for a house instead. If you kids could stop wasting money on Spotify and Xbox Live, you could pay $200/mo for ChatGPT Pro to
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by rchaud 3mo ago
Facebook hired a bunch of people from Google's search ads division to basically replicate their real-time bidding system. Their innovation isn't in ads, it's in creating a sticky app experience that downranks posts with exter
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by rchaud 3mo ago
Those companies aren't considered "tech" so their share prices observe the laws of gravity. A single tweet about xAI-powered nuclear drones launched from the moon or whatever would probably cause the stock to go up 50%. And p
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by rchaud 3mo ago
Pentagon contracts.
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by rchaud 3mo ago
Both of those companies were essentially expendable in terms of keeping the economy running. AOL didn't own any cell towers and Yahoo didn't have any Pentagon contracts.
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by rchaud 3mo ago
We shouldn't be needing native apps at all to do things like banking. If it works in the browser on a laptop, why shouldn't it do so on a phone?
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by rchaud 3mo ago
Iran is already under decades-long sanctions and have shown that their ability to wait out the US+Israel was massively underestimated. After Vietnam and Afghanistan, has the US not learned that countries at war are willing to incur costs we
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by rchaud 3mo ago
Why would any country trust the current US regime to follow through on its commitments? They weren't even able to maintain a ceasefire during the agreed-upon ceasefire period? Beyond that, what would prevent the next administration fro
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by rchaud 3mo ago
It says right there in the article that he donates to military veterans' charities and animal rescue charities. I don't see him as a big arts benefactor considering that the main motive the ultra-rich have for making lavish donati
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by rchaud 3mo ago
> to grow CL the way other unicorney companies grew By hiring McKinsey to tell them they need to start selling and and acquire their competitors? That is the only way the unicorns established their position.
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by rchaud 3mo ago
They're not using their money, they're borrowing it and using Special Purpose Vehicles to book the debt so it doesn't hit their own balance sheet.
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by rchaud 3mo ago
Guess Musk figured out that paying all cash to acquire something was a bad idea.
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by rchaud 3mo ago
The UK far right got what they wanted with Brexit, yet they are still complaining. There's no evidence indicating that capitulating to their extreme policies will somehow lead to them becoming friendlier to the political establishment.
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by rchaud 4mo ago
School of Americas-trained death squads on one hand and hoity-toity arts and culture on the other. Soft power certainly casts a wide net.
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by rchaud 4mo ago
Good. Indexes are supposed to be slow-moving, precisely due to their entry requirement of sustained profitability that skews towards mature companies. All that an inclusion of these new companies would accomplish is a bailout of their sto
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by rchaud 4mo ago
I don't know about a population decline, but it's well known that its real estate is almost as expensive as it in major population centres. It's also very hard to find a family physician taking new patients.
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by rchaud 4mo ago
Graham died back when stocks were traded by guys shouting orders from a pit. High frequency trading was decades away, as was Wall Street's push for: - creative accounting (Enron, Worldcom) - zero-interest rate policy - SPAC IPOs - exot
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by rchaud 4mo ago
Microsoft and Apple had decades of profitable years before hitting a trillion. AI companies are seeking trillion dollar IPOs without profits, selling a service well below its actual cost.
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by rchaud 4mo ago
Hedge funds won't try to short the stock; the holders are almost all institutional investors and insiders who are long on the stock and have no reason to lend them to HFs betting on a price decline. What they might do is trade bespoke
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by rchaud 4mo ago
There is no moral argument anymore. Every ad peddler online has broken every TOS imaginable to feed its AI training models, at a scale a human couldn't accomplish in a million years.
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by rchaud 4mo ago
With this governance structure, you won't actually own anything. Ownership implies that you have a say as a shareholder.

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