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by rchaud 4mo ago
It's not basic math when the numbers are this big. There's not going to be $50 billion coming in Year 3 if there's a market correction and lenders scale back financing. Borrowed money is how companies are paying for AI, and t
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by rchaud 4mo ago
Waiving profitability requirements to join the S&P 500 and trigger auto-buys from index funds is DEI for corporations.
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by rchaud 4mo ago
Directors talk to actors. There is no actor here. At best, this is the equivalent of sending multiple 3000 word emails to a casting agency and letting them figure out what to tell their actors.
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by rchaud 4mo ago
Reminds me of a story a friend told me where she was on a date with a man who said he went to Harvard. After looking him up on LinkedIn she discovered he just took some courses at Harvard Extension school where there aren't any admissi
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by rchaud 4mo ago
And the punishment for securities fraud is a slap on the wrist, as Tesla proved with its "going private at $420/share, funding secured" tweet. Who cares about a $40m fine from an increasingly toothless regulator when your inv
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by rchaud 4mo ago
If the investors are VCs, they can sell their holdings to a syndicate of underwriter banks in advance of the IPO, and let the banks shoulder the risk of finding a bigger fool in the secondary markets.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
I never saw the point of subscribing. The home page will show you videos from channels you've watched whether or not you've subscribed.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
> intellectual freedom is a cornerstone of democracy and freedom. Indeed. And what better way to prove it than by mandating six credit hours worth of tuition fees on the topic?
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Yeah and private health insurance can be useful if it is designed to pool risk across a population, help make healthcare costs transparent and pay for treatments that people need. But that's not where the money is.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Plenty of iPhone users are on Brave Browser because it blocks ads on Youtube. When you type in a search query in the address bar, it defaults to Brave Search. Don't underestimate the power of defaults. There is a boiling point for user
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by rchaud 5mo ago
The music industry got rid of all that years ago when the big labels swallowed the small indies and imposed their corporate culture everywhere. There are no A&R men skulking through dive bars using drugs and girls to sign bands. The ban
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Touring costs a fortune for bands. They don't even keep most of the money, the record label takes a big cut and there's Ticketmaster after that, and now Spotify I guess. Selling paper-thin T-shirts, vinyl and lapel pins for absurd
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Less than 10 years ago I could stroll into a local record store in my city and buy paper tickets to concerts directly from them, zero markup, zero "processing fees". And the ticket itself would be a souvenir because it often had a
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by rchaud 5mo ago
it's in their interest for them to show you more things that they don't need to pay record labels royalties for.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
xAI "acquired" Twitter, so rolling it into SpaceX is a way to hide a badly distressed asset inside a potential moneymaker and hope nobody notices. Like mortgage backed securities.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
The efficient market hypothesis has taken a real beating in the age of tech industry anti-gravity valuations.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
This is a country where people are fine with more of their taxes going into police budgets every year. Adding a line item to their property tax bill showing how much is paid into settling lawsuits will not make people think that they should
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Newsletters have a webview fallback with a public URL that makes them just as susceptible to scraping. If that ever gets fixed, Google will just scrape the full-text content in Gmail instead. Newsletters have been around forever and never t
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Search Engine Result Page (SERP) ads shown on Google itself are far more valuable than display ads that get shown on random websites. Google has been slashing payouts to those sites for over a decade. More recentlt, they've been slashi
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by rchaud 5mo ago
And as time goes on, it becomes more and more like Ebay with a liberal returns policy.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Democracies aren't automatically immune to voting in illiberal leaders. Russia and the west have both been heavy handed in their efforts to swing Ukrainian elections in their favour.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Not trying to defend Russia in the least, but isn't their fear more about Ukrainian accession into NATO rather than the possibility of joining the EU? EU membership isn't the golden ticket it used to be. Russia basically had an in
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by rchaud 5mo ago
I ran into this issue last week but it's gone back to letting me access the site normally on a mobile browser. This may have been an A/B test measuring app conversions pre and post mobile browser blocking.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
The EU is probably footing the bill for most of it. Part of the funding Malta receives goes towards "digital projects" along with green tech and SME support.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
> everyone, especially fresh grads, should be thinking actively about, Everybody is already thinking about AI. Hearing another 'business leader' yapping about it at commencement is the equivalent of working at the guitar store
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Dating apps were fine before the Silicon Valley DAU-maxxing, microtransaction-to-IPO pipeline obssessed twerps entered the picture. Before swipes, before "buy Premium to un-hide these people who like you" paywalls, dating apps let
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Same way it always has for empires throughout history - expropriating land and resources from the weak and giving it to the strong. And of course, borrowing money to finance more looting and pillaging.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
> but at the same time they aggressively fight against any kind of tax policy that would allow UBI to function. Because that isn't the UBI they're thinking of. Altman runs an eyeball-scanning crypto startup and Musk wants to re
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by rchaud 5mo ago
That's the economic model of Saudi Arabia. Just because the world wants to pay for oil and apparently ad inventory today doesn't mean that it'll do so forever.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Isn't that what the Framework laptop does?

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