rchaud

8 ms·

151.
by rchaud 7mo ago
1. If ICE isn't getting paid, how likely is it that you, as an illegal alien, would be? And who says you wouldn't simply be detained anyway when you go to claim your check/prepaid gift card? That's what happened to peopl
152.
by rchaud 7mo ago
Microsoft was in the middle of the biggest antitrust case in history (both in the US and the EU) and successfully launched the Xbox in that time. They had Halo and local multiplayer up to 8 players across 2 connected consoles requiring no i
153.
by rchaud 7mo ago
Basically to get the attention of others and distinguish oneself from the stiff formality of previous generations. It's a very common trope in the titles of self-help books written by millennials: https://www.reddit.com&#x2F
154.
by rchaud 7mo ago
The manifesto of "have a fucking website" or "I'm a fucking webmaster"[0] or "The People's Web"[1] is something that in the modern age, ends up as a commercialized newsletter or as an e-tip jar or blo
155.
by rchaud 7mo ago
If they mention it at all, it'll be in the context of the C-suite envy about the money being made with Fortnite skins and "virtual assets", resulting in galaxy brain ideas like "buy land in the metaverse" or "o
156.
by rchaud 7mo ago
Step 0: acquire the company through a leveraged buyout by the CEO's own private equity firm [0] Step 1: speed-run into the ground while loading it up with the debt of the purchase price and paying yourself management fees. Step 2: clos
157.
by rchaud 7mo ago
I think a human would have split the "it's not this, it's that" type of sentence into two separate sentences that could be more descriptive. This is a blog post, not a tweet, so there's no length constraint. If they
158.
by rchaud 7mo ago
Old forums still exist and work just fine without any CEOs pontificating about "community". I'm on plenty of niche interest boards built on PHPbb, Xenforo and Discourse. Chronologically ordered discussions, RSS support, no al
159.
by rchaud 7mo ago
I was a big user of Pocket between 2015-19, which also curated interesting long-form articles. The problem with that model was that paywalls were coming up everywhere, so the free articles that remained came from low-quality sites (Forbes,
160.
by rchaud 7mo ago
It's long been taken over by Telegram, which among its other advantages (more like a message board than 'town square'), doesn't have hordes of people commenting "@grok explain this to me" under every post.
161.
by rchaud 7mo ago
In other words, using flash-in-the-pan data to build an advertising goldmine.
162.
by rchaud 7mo ago
Who gets to define what "neutral" is? According to the US, the International Criminal Court is not fit for this purpose. It certainly can't be a nation-state that's in a military alliance with the US. Human Rights Watch
163.
by rchaud 7mo ago
Washington Mutual had $307 billion in assets, and one credit downgrade and a bank run of $16 billion in September 2008 was enough to get them shut down. These private credit numbers are estimates provided by Moody's, who were famously
164.
by rchaud 7mo ago
It is a systemic risk because its size and credit risk is opaque, like mortgage-backed securities were in 2008. Banks needs to disclose the % of non-performing home, auto, business loans to rating agencies and regulatory bodies so their cre
165.
by rchaud 7mo ago
The smart glasses industry is working hard to change that.
166.
by rchaud 7mo ago
I have a decent-enough filter for AI-written nonsense: - banner blindness to blue check accounts (instantly scroll past, the blue check is extremely prominent visually) - a very long Ublock Origin text filter regex for emojis (green check m
167.
by rchaud 7mo ago
The US can't even confirm how many detainees have died in custody in immigration detention around the country, yet they have precise numbers on how many people the Iranian regime has killed? Give me a break.
168.
by rchaud 7mo ago
Americans don't need any encouragement from foreign powers to do that. Congress has seen fit to keep letting it happen by pointing to ancient scripture about the right to develop one's own organized militia....
169.
by rchaud 7mo ago
AI reduces the need for expensive labor, payroll taxes and health insurance premiums, yet the cost of the company's service keeps going up. How does that happen?
170.
by rchaud 7mo ago
The hedge is the Russia '98 play, which is already in various stages of progress. 1. Default on ruble-denominated debt (replace with dollar-denominated), and trigger a recession and currency crisis. 2. Military attack on a border state
171.
by rchaud 7mo ago
The missile math is not the issue, the accounting math is. 1.5 weeks of retaliation missile attacks from a single third-world military and these trillion-dollar bases are out of interceptors? How much is the taxpayer going to be on the hook
172.
by rchaud 7mo ago
"values-driven" is the TedTalk-ified equivalent of MBA-speak like "synergy". Meaningless and unmeasurable, but sounds good in a pitch deck.
173.
by rchaud 8mo ago
You don't have to be religious to figure out that theological indoctrination is a great way to de-legitimize courts, laws and norms of civil society in your favor.
174.
by rchaud 8mo ago
Venture capital funds the content, on the hope that people watch ads in the future. Online ads now are a very different beast compared to what AdWords was from 2002-2007 - not dependent on full-spectrum surveillance through their own browse
175.
by rchaud 8mo ago
Companies have ad budgets that must be spent to the last dollar lest that dollar be deducted from next year's budget.
176.
by rchaud 8mo ago
That would apply to robotics automation in factories and warehouses would it not? From what I can tell, all the doomerism has been focused on white collar jobs because they're not unionized and it's easier to simulate the ability
177.
by rchaud 8mo ago
Expanded military recruitment will be the new welfare state.
178.
by rchaud 8mo ago
Software stopped being a good when it no longer came in a box with finite inventory, that you had to pay for only once. It's part of the services economy, same as insurance or car rental services, regardless of how the Fed classifies i
179.
by rchaud 8mo ago
It's not unforeseeable that the US demarcates Special Economic Zones without environmental oversight or labor regulations to speed up the construction.
180.
by rchaud 8mo ago
Companies will save billions on those pesky health insurance premiums and payroll taxes...by paying for OAI tokens instead. Then when the labor market is nice and hollowed out, the tokens will go up in price several-fold.

More ›