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What drove them to profitability?

> it can be more valuable to make it free if it increases profits elsewhere.

That's a big "if" for Claude Code, et al.

Sounds like SAP donated $250k to fund it.

https://www.pressebox.de/pressemitteilung/sap-ag-walldorf/co...

I have a feeling the thing triggering this guy is the responsibility of "the security of all our computers depends on maintainers".

A lot of people don't want to be responsible for that. It's not fun to carry that weight.

can you share a TLDL for the sake of the AMA?

Source

I encourage you to look into Little Snitch.

> ride maybe 6 with your eyes closed

That’s like telling a skydiver to go ride the Drop Tower (or whatever the ride is that drops you straight down).

Not only is the experience different, but you aren’t in control. You aren’t controlling what’s happening.

For me a big part of the enjoyment comes from being in control of the bike.

Personally I would get zero enjoyment riding as a passenger on a bike. The thrill comes from riding and maneuvering the bike, not just going fast.

If big tech ends up seeing a 40-50% draw down in the next 2-3 years, what ETF is best equipped to limit the blast radius?

What exactly is SpaceX's core business?

I was a workaholic from 18-26. 12+ hour days for months/years on end. It absolutely was not healthy. Toxic is not an inaccurate label.

But I don't regret it. Those years are the foundation of the career I have in my 30's.

Back in those days, when I wasn't at a computer, I was listening to non-fiction audiobooks on business and software. I don't know how I had such motivation bvack then, but I'm glad I capitalized on it while I had it.

In other words, to people reading questioning if they're working too much: it's okay to work hard as long as you're doing it for the right reasons. (I'll purposely leave "right reasons" undefined, that's on you to evaluate)

I'm just generally not a fan of people putting other people down for wanting to be productive. It's okay to work hard, and it's okay if your identity is your work at least for a short time in your life.

> I know far more about muscle building and retention than you

I am a competitive bodybuilder…

> I train just as hard to maintain them as I did to get them there.

Are you enhanced? Were you enhanced when you built the 20” arms? If so, yes I agree.

Edit: With 20" arms, there's nearly 0% chance you're natural. You can't compare your enhanced experience to naturals.

Building muscle is much harder than maintaining muscle.

And if you went 3 years without exercising, you'll be able to get your muscles back much quicker than had you never had the muscle before.

It's pretty comparable to skills. You don't need to practice as hard to maintain a skill than you do to build it. And if you let the skill atrophy, it's much easier to recover the skill compared to building it from scratch.

This comment was dead. I vouched for it to un-dead it...

As an outsider with zero context, I'm having a hard time understanding what's going on with this whole thing.

The tone of the conversation is giving me flashbacks to the Matt Mullenweg debacle.

People use the dollar in business becaUse its a stable currency.

If the US does something to destabilize the dollar, will economists be running around saying “the dollar was never intended to be used for that purpose!”? No.

It doesn’t really matter if the index “wasn’t supposed” to be something it became. The problem is the same. The only difference is who you blame.

> The fundamental reason S&P 500 exists is to let people buy the entire market

And why do people want to buy the entire market in the first place? They want to diversify and insulate themselves from a single company crashing their portfolio value.

What are people afraid of right now? They're afraid of a single company crashing their portfolio value.

Why are people afraid of their portfolio value crashing? Because these 3 companies will fundamentally increase the overall risk and volatility of the index.

Do you see the problem?

Yes... there's a media query in the codepen disabling animation for people with reduced motion enabled.

Indeed.

They IPO'd in 1980, yet their stock price was below the IPO price for the majority of 1980-1987.

It also fell to its IPO price for an extended period of time between 1996-1998.

You hypothetically could have waited 20 years after the IPO before investing without giving up theoretical gains.

Really? Every business owner I know outside of HN wants to be discoverable by LLMs.

If your intention is to take creatine long term, skip the loading phase.

It might take longer to see full effects, but who cares if you’re intending to take it indefinitely.

Direct link to the study: https://jpbs.hapres.com/htmls/JPBS_1766_Detail.html

I wanted to check the dosages they used. Looks like the review includes studies ranging from 5g/day to 20-25g/day.

(Typical dosage you'll see for daily use is 5 grams)

Replace "war crimes" with "hardware" and it's an equally good reason not to invest.

They're valued like software companies, but they have terrible margins compared to software. Investors haven't figured out how to value these companies.

> ChatGPT is a word now.

Many people I know have started simply calling it "Chat".

"I had Chat help me write this" (I didn't, I promise)

They own "chat.com", I think OpenAI should pull the trigger and move to the shorter domain and finish the rebrand.

This is what scares me about people raising insanely large $10 million seed rounds. It's too much runway. Takes too long to fail.

It took me 4 years of working on 3 different startups, with 2 different set of cofounders, before I landed on the idea/business that finally became successful.

Two of those failed companies were part of YC. Thank god every investor turned us down. It allowed us to shut down and move on to the next idea way faster.

Edit: If you're a founder sitting on a giant bank account with a startup that you're losing faith in... remember you aren't obligated to spend all that money. Investors will respect you for returning the money and admitting it's time to try something else.

Until it gets stuck on a far away AP because it was the first AP to come online the last time the network rebooted.

Not sure if roaming is actually the fix for this problem. For whatever reason my Ring cameras just love connecting to the worst and most far away AP in my house.

You're right.

I was thinking of Lp(a), ApoB, A1c, cystatin c, GGT, and HS CRP.

I personally like getting those tested at least twice a year in addition to CBC/CMP/hormones/lipids.

I'm honestly surprised more doctors aren't ordering more advanced cardiac panels (specifically LP(a) and ApoB). Even though you can't do much about Lp(a), knowing you're genetically at risk can be a motivator to reduce other risk factors.

The parent edited their comment, wasn’t there when I replied. But if you believe your organs don’t die when you die, then don’t donate your organs?

> Coding agents really did change everything. These are tools which burn vastly more tokens

The assumption here is that this is a positive thing.

But this very well could end up being a major negative long term by increasing the cost per user, reducing margins.

More usage = more cost = less profit.

It's not obvious that more usage is good. It's only good if revenue per user increases more than cost does. I'm skeptical about that.

> half-alive state

The brain can't be "half-alive" after you've died.