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Congrats on the launch!

I just about fell out of my chair laughing at your cloud hosted tier with the tagline "We have to eat somehow™" aka "please pay us"

I signed up for the paid tier and I'm hopeful this can help us integrate legacy CRM's with our company's unified communication sales tool.

Either way good luck!

I wonder if many of the stars in the sky are from groups that almost nailed containment and stability on their Tokamak.

Grok has an advantage in its access to Twitter data.

I imagine soon you'll be able to ask it what the world is talking about today and get some interesting responses.

“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime” -Honoré de Balzac

My company does AI Sales Lead Follow-up, and doing this ethically and effectively is a much more complicated problem than they suggest here.

Examples... What time zone should we be following up in or offering times in What salesperson should be assigned (aka whose calendar are we using) Does the prospect ask a question in the form, do you trust an AI to answer that question? Do you need to place a phone call? Do you need to send a text (B2C) How are you gonna do risk management (aka removing people who don't want more contact) How does this interface with the existing systems Are you going to let users change the prompts, how, what happens when they make a mistake

Many of these are messy sequential problems where solving each one reveals two more, and trial and error is the only way to get it right.

Which brings up the ultimate question, do you want someone to train their AI system on your sales leads?

I tried to email you and got 550 5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.

Put $10,000 in an account, put your tool to the test, and post the results in real-time.

Sure, that may be true and is a good analogy, but what I find interesting here is that they have restrictions on increasing their capacity. So if this increased demand endures, what then?

The stock market is overvalued historically, but Deepseek's pause of new user registrations seems to validate the bull case for Nvidia.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/27/ai-startup-deepseek-pauses...

I don't believe it was a cyber attack; I think it's just usage overload. If I'm right, the next steps will be for them to throttle usage by price increase or some other method. Or they will have to find another order of magnitude of efficiency, and then that will be gobbled up and maxed out days after they introduce it.

The theme here is the demand for AI is nearly limitless and the supply (for now) is constrained by Nvidia.

They published about Carvana 13 days ago and now are disbanding... https://hindenburgresearch.com/carvana/

If the FBI is going to police crypto, we need to tax it. Otherwise, let their community figure it out.

Counterpoint:

Taiwan and other nations are smart, ambitious, and not interested in being enslaved by China.

If China tries to enslave these other nations with a mechanized war, I think you can expect their opponents to play a different game.

For example, by crafting a virus that targets their opponent's families.

The concept that a war with China would just be about manufacturing capacity does not appropriately consider the creativity and viciousness of their potential opponents.

The gun used in the United Healthcare CEO killing was not a Welrod but instead a poorly set up semi-automatic pistol.

To get suppressors to approach the kind of quiet operation you see in the movies in real life, the shooter needs to use subsonic ammunition. That's because suppression of the firing noise isn't beneficial if the bullet immediately breaks the speed of sound, making a loud crack.

9MM rounds (the caliber used in the United Healthcare CEO Killing) are supersonic by default. Subsonic ammunition can be purchased or made for 9MM guns, but the way to make the round subsonic is to use less gunpowder on a heavier round.

A downside of this is that using these rounds in a standard unmodified semi-automatic pistol will often result in the gun not cycling. That is to say, the kinetic energy of these lower gunpowder bullets leaving the weapon is not enough to cause the gun to eject the spent round and load the next round.

So, the round will fire, but to eject the spent casing and load the next round, the shooter needs to manually cycle the firearm, as seen in the surveillance video in the recent incident.

Welrods are bolt action, they intentionally don't attempt to cycle automatically after each firing. The weapon in the video shows gas escaping the chamber, something a bolt action weapon would not do.

Someone with serious firearms training and expertise would have modified the weapon to cycle with subsonic ammo or used a .45 caliber weapon that is subsonic by default.

I don't think Israel is innocent by any means, their hands are dirty here obviously.

I'm just trying to think out loud about a different way forward, and I tried to highlight my bias.

I haven't seen a serious plan put forward for peace, and maybe the problem is not solvable.

Helpful, thank you for sharing.

It sounds like you are badly burned out. I've experienced this, and it's miserable. I hope you can take a long break and heal. I wish you well!

This says to me these people are working on projects that are not challenging/interesting enough with people who don't respect their intellect. That's a solvable problem.

Anecdote... I function as a product manager, and I have a lot of fun with the developers I work with (and have a lot of respect for), and they enjoy working with me. I come to them with complex, interesting problems and my framework for potential solutions, and we talk through whether they think it's the right direction and, if so, what I've missed... or they propose alternatives. It's like a chess game where we can both win.

I hope the OP and anyone feeling this way tries working with other projects and people.

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A key problem with rent pricing is that a form of price fixing is imposed by fair housing law in a way that educated folks know how to circumvent, but many do not.

When a lease is advertised at X price, it is not legal to offer one monthly price to one tenant and a different one to another, so no negotiating can occur. This also allows smart landlords to price fix without software because all rates are known since the posted rate is the rate. This inhibits true price discovery.

The cheat code is to ask for free months and spread that discount over the lease term. However, this creates a situation where, at the end of the lease, the landlord has you set at the regular month price (or higher), and you have little leverage. Also your good deal is unknown to others who will continue to overpay.

Attacking a software is an easy out, attacking the system that artificially increases rents in the whole system by outlawing more aggressive tenant negotiation is the hard problem.

I totally agree. It's like we're having all these little pearl harbors over and over again and doing nothing. If we're going to spend all this money on muscle, let's use it to do some useful things and hurt some people who deserve it.

I hear that, and yes, it's funny, but as you point out not entirely wrong. These attacks harm businesses and the families that depend on them. The tens of millions of dollars paid in ransom go somewhere, that money would be less valuable if it came with the real chance the military would hunt you down and kill you.

Yes, correctly identifying the perpetrators would be very challenging.

I get that it's easy to suggest solutions but hard to implement them. I just don't see how the security situation gets better without escalating the response. Does anyone else? How does this get better?

Counterpoint: How about the government subsidize Boeing on the same level as the EU does with Airbus?

The original sin of the Max disasters was rushing to make the 50+ year-old 737 something it wasn't meant to be to counter Airbus's success in the narrow body segment.

Former pro DJ here. This is a big step in the right direction, but twitch probably won't be the beneficiary.

Music is sold and consumed in single-song increments, and that's silly. That's what the industry wants, not all consumers. It's like if you could only eat one kind of food ingredient at a time. There are absolutely amazing artists taking these ingredients and, like a chef, chopping and mixing them together in wildly creative ways. However, accessing this entertainment is very challenging because there is no legitimate online business model for it. This leaves DJ's with a big incentive to only perform their best material live where they can monetize it. Once there is an online business model where they can get paid decently for this material, music consumption will change dramatically in this catagory.

Imagine being able to tune into or stream different Vegas club mixes for your party at home, or at a bar, or at the gym? Imagine a netflix of all the best DJ sets of all time?

Twitch is doing some of the "icebreaking" here, but music streaming is a huge business, and Spotify/apple, and all the others will follow, and there will likely be one or more services that specialize in this.

I think the key is to figure out who is going to win and work for them, invest in them, or at least stay out of their way. I know easier said than done.

LLM capability scales with money, so deep pockets will win, that simplifies things a great deal.

Microsoft looks like a better place to work these days strategically. They were an early Facebook investor and, as evidenced by the Sam Altman incident, essentially own OpenAI. They have now shown a pattern of being early to see disruption and get their money and influence in. They are diversified and don't make big money on search, which seems like the obvious area of disruption for AI. I think the rise of LLM helps them more than any other company, but we'll see?

What are they going to do to harm us, and how are they going to do it? I'm seriously asking.

We're in the Alta Vista / Ask Jeeves stage of the next boom cycle. Everyone sees an opportunity, and lots of smart people are chasing it. Who will win is unknown.

This is a huge opportunity for shareholders to get paid $56B to fire Musk and turn around the company.

Huge swaths of ideal Tesla buyers are turned off by his behavior. He has polarized the brand.

I can't deny his genius or all he has achieved. I own a Tesla I bought after the X purchase. It's the best car I've ever owned by a wide margin, and notably, the Model Y is the best-selling car on earth.

That said, I am the CEO of a company, and I have no personal social media presence; I am a registered independent, and I work to be the reason clients choose us, or at least not be the reason they don't. That's why so many CEOs are bland.

When you run any company the goal is to let the products and the people behind it shine. This is fundamentally opposed to Musk's rockstar me me me approach. Granted, his approach was great initially, but to cross the chasm, Tesla needs to appeal to everyone.

School choice, as defined by Florida, is too helpful to upper-middle-class and rich children. Of course, if presented with the option to take your child's funding and add more $$ for a better experience and outcomes, any parent who had the means would. This is already the system for universities.

These schools are then predominately attended by upper middle class and rich children, and that cohort has enduring benefits socially and economically.

School choice should require that every dollar spent to advantage your child over others is taxed at 2 dollars and that money offers opportunities to underprivileged children.

I don't think any serious person can deny that public schools aren't performing at high standards internationally, but let's not have the solution be yet another system that advantages the rich.

The companies should just have paid premium support.