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If interest rates are 5%; entrepeneurs must shoot for 20% annual returns to compensate for risk and get funding. If interest rates are 0% the bar is far lower.

CNBC did a better job than this low-density article.

Why Hertz’s Bet On Tesla Isn’t Paying Off In The U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfbkvUXTV_I

"pricing troubles, skyrocketing repair costs and low resale value"... They turn their fleet over every 2-years or so, so resale value is important, and with prices of new EVs coming down, the resale value will be significantly lower than a new model.

Fixing meetup, or making something that works is a fun mental-challenge.

Something like geo-specific chatrooms that unlock IRL functionality once you get enough members, and remove it if nobody shows up might be worth a try.

Or maybe most people in the US live in low-density suburbs and won't go to anything because parking/driving is a hassle, idk.

World gold supply inflates at 2% per year due to mining. That's an key point of the Stock2Flow model.

Save approx. 1% on fees annually is the point.

That is one nice looking website. Chris Dixon is fun to listen to on the podcasts, if you're not familiar with him.

Tether is the most profitable business per employee in the world making $4 Billion a year with just 50 employees.

Many Ethereum Layer2's are profitable.

Do people still meet in physical places? I thought "relationships-started-online" was (sadly) trending toward 100%.

Andrej Karpathy: Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out. We build a Generatively Pretrained Transformer (GPT), following the paper "Attention is All You Need" and OpenAI's GPT-2 / GPT-3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

I think you just have to wait until everybody starves and the radiation from the nukes is not so bad. Not sure what you do after that. Hunt deer? Fly to South America? Hawaii is a uniquely terrible bug-out spot because its a highly valuable naval asset right between the warring superpowers, hard to get to and hard to leave. My billionaire bug out location would be Patagonia.

They still sell them at my local Barnes & Noble

Mostly been drowned out by pharma, streaming-service and insurance ads. You can't market cigars on TV anymore and gen-Z doesn't drink that much. Once and a while you'll see a classy car commerical, but that's about it.

Cordova for phone, Electron for desktop.

Who created your frame-of-reference?

Imagine there was a person of relevant credentials who said the climate or covid wasn't all that bad -- he wouldn't be censored by the mods; the article would be flag-killed by those who find it beyond the realm of possibility and/or acceptable discourse.

hn even has its tech blind spots: crypto and LLMs among others, route around them as institutional reform is not possible.

Some sites are banned here, but you can visit them in another tab.

I think that's why everything is on tiktok or discord now, gen-Z aren't trying to reform facebook, they are just routing around established tech, from what I understand tech discord groups routinely mock hn, but I'm not invited to those spaces so this is secondhand.

Your text-container width could be a little wider, but your main problem is that your colors are terrible.

Day-mode background could be anything from off-white to financial-times color (ft.com). Text color should be a dark grey.

If you want a nightmode, fire up Visual Studio Code and take notes.

vitalik has a pretty decent day and nightmode. https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/12/28/cypherpunk.html

sam altman demonstrates how nice grey text is. https://blog.samaltman.com/

One thing frequently complained about by Nerdrotic and company, is that the main female characters have no character-arc and no love interest. They start out awesome and they continue to be awesome.

The Problematic 'Strong Female Character' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G3VSkZ4H7o

Hollywood can't write male characters anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL6H8CuCdjk

"This is nuclear winter for everybody who doubted ethereum," Thielen wrote... blah blah blah... shorts getting squeezed.

I saw a YouTube video that said rent in Tokyo is 1/3 of NYC. This means you might be able to work a little and follow your passions -- maybe its calligraphy -- and then the city might end up with weird little calligraphy shop. It's the opposite logic of gentrification, where gentrification pushes all the indie shops out and you only end up with a Chipotle and Cowboy Jacks.

Most people don't have the discipline to learn advanaced math without a university setting. But if you really want to try, you can look up university curriculum, see their course progression and see what books they use for each course.

They're worried about pressure from the Jewish lobby.

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/07/upenn-antisemitism-magill-1...

I was pumping gas and the gas pump decided it should advertise at me and clue me in on the latest celebrity gossip. We really have no concept that we shouldn't degrade the public realm.

American workers barely get any vacation and they probably don't want to burn what little they have on flight time. Mexico is a very popular and that's a different culture and language.

Device fingerprinting

The Irish aren't allowed to protest dispossession of their ancestral lands because they're "too white". Sad situation.

Tactical High power Operational Responder (THOR)

THOR Defeats Swarm With Microwave Weapon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q959a82NQo

I pay Disney to make movies not to conspire with others to police global speech.

People cheat at lichess of all things, they're going to cheat at this.

BTC has had a futures market for years. You're very brave to short BTC during the BlackRock ETF approval window.

Midjourney will give you a webdesign mockup. https://yon.fun/midjourney-website-design-prompts/

More likely they will track down the cause of the issue and implement a patch, rather than do something blockchain-centric. I'm all for multiple payment options; hopefully a bitcoin layer2 payment solution can co-exist alongside the legacy systems.