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Can't help but think this is on purpose. Elon straight up said they can't sell mostly base models right now and survive, they need premium configs to stay afloat.

I once ordered 8 items, including Tide detergent, and they were all packaged in a single large box, not individually packaged in any way. Multiple items were smashed, the detergent was punctured, and everything was covered in small amounts of detergent.

I got a $100+ refund for all 8 items and they didn't want any of the items back.

Probably counts against my account tally.

He's thinking of it in investing terms, underlying asset value, cash flows, etc. Because the media asks him "Should we buy bitcoin?" every damn day of the year.

I'd be more interested to hear what he thinks makes for a good currency, inflation vs. deflation, freedom of transfer, protection against forfeiture, etc.

Does he also think that the US Dollar is rat poison because it's not a productive asset? He holds like $80b cash.

"But bitcoin has high fees" well yeah, there are 1,000 newer cryptos with lower fees. (and plenty of scams)

"But local stores don't use it" well yeah, nobody used credit cards in the 40s either. (and now cash is dead)

"But it's not user friendly" well yeah, neither was the internet until ~2000. (i've seen nearly zero progress in crypto here, btw)

You can short Bitcoin, and he won't.

Hospital corporations and insurance corporations are not your friend.

You shouldn't have to do this in a first world country, but:

* Go to the ER without ID

* (optional) Ask how much it will cost

* (optional) They do not give prices, as a matter of policy

* They must treat you by law

* Afterwards, offer a cash payment you deem reasonable

* They will accept or decline it

Transaction complete.

For non-emergency care and prescriptions, get cash quotes up front, pay in cash, and order discount online prescriptions from canada, a first world country.

For chronic medical conditions, leave the US and immigrate to a first world country.

Misleading headline?

> Signal plans to make its traffic look like traffic from another site, (popularly known as “domain fronting”) by using a domain owned by Amazon -- Souq.com

Public tweets. You know, the ones everyone can see, all the time. Big difference.

yeah, man, and because the universe is deterministic, like, nothing really matters, dude

(struggles in handcuffs as police arrest him)

The biggest challenge yet unconquered is getting your "average" business ($1-100m revenue, zero AI knowledge) using ML to help with literally anything they do.

I'd wager less than 1% of businesses outside of SV even have a clue where to begin, or what to use it for, my employer included. "Do we hire some AI guys?"

We'll need to crack the 1%-using-it mark for me to consider the revolution "begun"...

People are making fun of facebook/google for expanding beyond core competency, but this is a market (AI training / inference) where Nvidia has a very real monopoly that facebook and google must rely on for core competency products, so it's critically important that one or both of them break the monopoly by becoming a fabless chip designer and partnering with TSMC (or whoever) to make training and inference chips. It's absolutely the right decision today, and if there was one viable alternative to Nvidia (which AMD and Intel are not), it wouldn't be necessary.

did you invite her to come see the open house by texting her "hey, wanna come see an open house"?

a 90x increase in stock value, but only a 2x increase in revenue 2010-2018. that's just about what the average company did. that's compared to 10-100x increases in revenue at these startups it's being compared to.

the only reason for the 90x increase is because the stock was basically worthless, assumed eventual bankruptcy, liquidation of assets style valuation.

then they successfully turned it around and doubled revenue in a reliable and sustainable fashion, which made it actually worth something (90x more than almost-zero)

dominos is definitely not growing like a startup

I think this was inevitable given the insane YoY performance increase we've seen from A-series chips.

Anyone want to chime in on why Intel can't get more than 5% YoY while Apple has been getting 30-40%?

Hopefully none of these 600+ companies ever get hacked.

that's why you bury some treasure and keep the location locked away in your brain!

They're both on the 10nm node, but Apple/TSMC is moving to 7nm for this year's iphones (supposedly).

Won't Apple/TSMC's lead just get significantly larger this fall? How is Samsung/Qualcomm letting this happen?

thankfully, absolutely nothing else changed for this population in 20 years, so we know this is a legit controlled study

Next up: FBI buys VPN service, promises everything is chill

the root of all of these kinds of scams is the same:

your "identity" is nothing more than your SSN/TIN, which is already on a thousand lists for sale on the dark web, and forever will be

there is literally no way to secure your identity if you've ever used a service requiring your SSN

Comments in this thread are all discussing the wrong topic. It wouldn't matter if 100% of corporate board members were women and minorities due to how boards are constructed over time through shareholder "elections".

Corporate boards are not a free market of ideas, they do not support or represent shareholders, society, or employees, they are monopolized self-serving power structures representing an extension of incumbent management.

Introducing diversity into a situation with already-disfunctional power dynamics (which drastically favor incumbent management because all votes not cast are cast in favor of incumbents) obviously have no impact. Corporate governance laws and proxy voting processes changing is a prerequisite for marginal board members to ever have any real power.

what is a tech company, really?

it's like saying something is a "concrete company" because that's what the corporate buildings are made of, or a "people company" because they only employ humans

(terms that actually make sense: SaaS product (Salesforce, Dropbox), advertising marketplace (Google, Facebook)... and so on. Not "tech")

My favorite reason to delete facebook: the massive amount of information on you being bought and sold by facebook and hundreds of other companies is regularly leaked and used for fraudulent activity (gaining access to banks, brokerages, credit lines, cryptocurrency, email accounts, phone port scams, etc.) even if you're totally unaware of it. Identity information yields criminal activity simply by existing in too many places.

It's not about a shitty news feed to me, it's about OpSec.

How does this compare to Nvidia GPUs on AWS price/perf-wise?

The article makes it sound like this is a new thing...

If you compare something like Netflix or Tesla, whose valuations are based on the proposition of 10x-ing profits sometime in the future, to something like Apple or GM, whose profits are here and now and may not even increase, would that mean Apple/GM (as an example) might fare better while the market adjusts to rising rates? So far, everything is dropping kind of evenly, it seems, but wouldn't companies with near term cash flows be worth more in a rising rates environment?

50% drops in crypto happen 3-6 times a year. That's every 8 weeks. Get used to regular crashes, or get out of the investment.

More Money != Faster Development

Classic case of a superstar at X (video, editing) trying a new sport Y (startup management), and failing spectacularly.

Casey Neistat is a talented daily lifestyle vlogger, and apparently not a talented venture startup video platform CEO.

Glad they've finally started to recognize app duplication as a problem for consumers.

How many messaging apps does Google have again? I can't keep track.

what's with all these analysts predicting mega mergers today?

> "Citi analysts see 40% chance Apple will buy Netflix"

Yeah, right. It's baseless cable news headline-bait garbage.

I assume all my passwords will be leaked/known and don't store anything sensitive without 2FA, ideally not SMS 2FA.

A password alone is never secure.