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Can’t wait to see the memes it generates.

I was about 10 years old when I first started using the Internet (Netscape) in the mid 90s.

Around 97-98 was really when I went deep into it mostly because of Starcraft. That led to battle.net which led to IRC and the rest is history.

Curious if you consumed alcohol or any other substance before and if you still do after?

There’s a big difference between psychological addiction and physical dependency.

At some point during addiction your body depends on these substances to operate and stopping becomes much more difficult. Alcoholics need to taper or take benzodiazepines to quit otherwise they may seize or die when going through withdrawals.

I would say anyone who begins drinking to numb the feeling of withdrawals (morning or middle of the night) is beginning the journey of serious alcoholism. That’s not really a craving it’s more of a need at that point.

What’s wrong with their website? Seems fast and gives me the information I need.

What’s mildly annoying to me is their domain only returns an A record.

Nor was China when the US began offshoring.

Late 30s, not sure if you’re a drinker but cutting out alcohol helped me.

> As previously mentioned, there were hackers and programmers developing awesome tools that helped the scene, but also there were map makers which were essential in keeping the game balanced.

Starcraft came out when I was a kid, the online community of Battle.net is really what got me into programming and development.

Went through a similar situation nearly a decade ago when a startup I worked for was acquired. My manager pretty much told me there was nothing to do and to enjoy it since it might be a rare opportunity.

I spent all my free time basically prepping for interviews knowing I didn’t want to work for the company acquiring us.

Got a higher paying job afterwards, made enough money to buy a house in the Bay, and quit working for startups after this.

I can’t even imagine approaching a problem without some visual representation.

I see functions I wrote hours ago, maybe not every line of code but pseudocode at least. There’s been plenty of times where I’ve solved bugs just visualizing code before falling asleep.

As I said either advance or die. Reducing energy consumption isn’t an option, it will continue to grow unbound.

> Note at offer time candidates do not know how many PPUs they will be receiving or how many exist in total. This is important because it’s not clear to candidates if they are receiving 1% or 0.001% of profits for instance. Even when giving options, some startups are often unclear or simply do not share the total number of outstanding shares. That said, this is generally considered bad practice and unfavorable for employees. Additionally, tender offers are not guaranteed to happen and the cadence may also not be known.

> PPUs also are restricted by a 2-year lock, meaning that if there’s a liquidation event, a new hire can’t sell their units within their first 2 years. Another key difference is that the growth is currently capped at 10x. Similar to their overall company structure, the PPUs are capped at a growth of 10 times the original value. So in the offer example above, the candidate received $2M worth of PPUs, which means that their capped amount they could sell them for would be $20M

> The most recent liquidation event we’re aware of happened during a tender offer earlier this year. It was during this event that some early employees were able to sell their profit participation units. It’s difficult to know how often these events happen and who is allowed to sell, though, as it’s on company discretion.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html

Edit:

I’m realizing we had the exact same conversation a month ago. It sounds like you have more insider information.

You mean PPUs or smoke and mirrors compensation. RSUs are actually worth something.

The only solution is technological advancement.

If humanity doesn’t rise to the challenge (degrowth) this could happen.

Fortunately there are smart people all over the world solving problems everyday and that is likely to continue.

The idea of inheriting a ChatGPT code base no one understands now makes it worse.

This is what a dying company does.

> Note at offer time candidates do not know how many PPUs they will be receiving or how many exist in total. This is important because it’s not clear to candidates if they are receiving 1% or 0.001% of profits for instance. Even when giving options, some startups are often unclear or simply do not share the total number of outstanding shares. That said, this is generally considered bad practice and unfavorable for employees. Additionally, tender offers are not guaranteed to happen and the cadence may also not be known.

> PPUs also are restricted by a 2-year lock, meaning that if there’s a liquidation event, a new hire can’t sell their units within their first 2 years. Another key difference is that the growth is currently capped at 10x. Similar to their overall company structure, the PPUs are capped at a growth of 10 times the original value. So in the offer example above, the candidate received $2M worth of PPUs, which means that their capped amount they could sell them for would be $20M

> The most recent liquidation event we’re aware of happened during a tender offer earlier this year. It was during this event that some early employees were able to sell their profit participation units. It’s difficult to know how often these events happen and who is allowed to sell, though, as it’s on company discretion.

This NDA wrinkle is another negative. Honestly I think the entire OpenAI compensation model is smoke and mirrors which is normal for startups and obviously inferior to RSUs.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html

Billionaire problems. The beach is south of Half Moon Bay.

Spillover transmission risk is high for farm workers, the CDC released new guidance last week.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/h5/worker-protection-ppe.ht...

By that definition any car with cruise control is “full self driving”.

Well you can also die from withdrawals when your BAC is zero.

Good payout but ~40% going to taxes. A nice down payment for a house in the Bay Area.

> We use Fly.io in production and are satisfied with it.

2x faster than Cloudflare Worker cold starts.

I don’t hate my co-workers, however, commute time means less time for friends, family, and hobbies. When you have young kids time is very limited.

If I were single and younger I’d likely want to be in office.

Ha, nice. Might as well rattle can the whole thing with some Rustoleum Flat Black. Keep it on hand for scratches.

I do this for the rock sliders on my Tacoma.

> In the past, Tan has not been receptive to jokes about him: When commenting on San Francisco community organizer Julian La Rosa, who had said that “millionaires and landlords should be guillotined,” Tan seemed to take the jest deadly seriously.

> “This is not a joke,” he posted. “This guy wants to guillotine people.”

Downvoted for stating the obvious? Did anyone read the article?

> On Saturday morning, Tan apologized about the death wish in a subsequent post, saying he was simply referencing a lyric in Tupac’s “Hit ‘Em Up,” but that it “wasn’t a good call” regardless. The notorious diss track famously added fuel to the fire of East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry, leading to Tupac’s murder in a drive-by shooting just three months after its release.

I think the reference is to Office Space the movie not a television show?

> On Saturday morning, Tan apologized about the death wish in a subsequent post, saying he was simply referencing a lyric in Tupac’s “Hit ‘Em Up,” but that it “wasn’t a good call” regardless. The notorious diss track famously added fuel to the fire of East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry, leading to Tupac’s murder in a drive-by shooting just three months after its release.