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Clearly there is a preferred age group amongst the electorate, so the open market solved this problem

He's clearly trying to follow the photopea playbook and make money through ads

They were ex-Ivy league and friends from college. They fit into the current investor meta perfectly

The high Healthcare costs in the US are caused mostly by high physician salaries though, and that's probably highly correlated with why they are able to make all these breakthroughs

That and acquisition of a direct competitor who has beat a larger company. If you lose a competition, you should fall behind. Losing a competition and then forking out cash to make the leader switch teams before he crosses the finish line is a complete perversion of the game

Are we also going to go ban Fortnite and Unreal Engine for producing mindless entertainment from China?

Asset seizure over data that mainly contains mindless entertainment? This is a new low for the US as a business environment in my opinion.

For browser bundling, Chrome has beaten Edge out handily, so there's no case there. For Office bundling, they charge separately for it, so there's no real case their either

Google has a huge incentive to compete because Apple has 50% of the US market, which is the most consequential market in the world

Takes like this miss the forest for the trees. The overall point is that automated programming is now a target, just like automating assembly lines became a target back in the day. There will be kinks in the beginning, but once the target is set, there will be a huge incentive to work out the kinks to the point of near full automation

As someone who had also grown to automatically ignore .tk domains, perhaps we've lost a reliable spam signal and honeypot

The way I see it, LLMs have taken one mode of thinking, which is educated guessing, and ramped it up to superhuman levels. Same way Deep Blue took rote memorization and ramped it up to superhuman levels. I think the true AI would come from digitizing all the different modes of thinking, then somehow bringing them all together into one superintelligence

If you bend over and pay in such circumstances, you are part of the problem. Twilio tried to pull this crap on me and I simply created another account with an email forwarder and left them holding the bag on the previous account

Bold-ish prediction: by 2040 it will only be individual influencers producing news. Most newsroom outlets are zombies at this point, being kept alive by something outside of their ad revenue

Once YouTube started monetizing videos that weren't in the partner program it was always going to be downhill from there. The supply of ad-eligible videos probably doubled overnight

Publishers were squeezed out not by ZIRP but by ad networks, iframes in apps and influencers replacing them as the power users of social media

In the last few days I've been asking myself what would drive the next big leap in advertising efficiency after big data and conversion pixels. I think I have my answer now. This is going to disrupt the ad agency side of the business big time.

Sometimes you arrive at your intended solution in a roundabout way

You say this because you are not familiar with Wave (formerly known as Sendwave). It's one of the biggest startups in Africa. Working there is a big deal

What's insane to me is that from my experience, most legal immigrants had to either game the system, or depend on the pure luck of lottery systems. Then once they are citizens, they turn around and say that everyone must go through that same process, instead of advocating for a fairer process

It takes a super special set of conditions to be able to bootstrap a >10 billion dollar company like Valve. Most >10b companies need immense capital injections to work

For me the issue is that in a perfect scenario, you would be able to adjust your pricing to 30% more and see whether the market could bear it. But Apple ties developers to fixed pricing tiers which doesn't allow this. Maybe the battle should be for removal of these fixed tiers

Japan has way less inflation though, so if the whole culture is on the same page then I guess it's fine

Maybe you're joking but if you're not, investors could sue you for lack of fiduciary duty

You sound like an older guy. Surely by now you must know that your disposition is a niche one and that most people prefer convenience?

"Fun to hang out with" takes you further than you think. If the person is also attractive then he has a giant halo effect going for him

I'd say the modern obsession with dating your equal is having the unintended consequence of creating an academic elite

On the other hand Munger said that diversification is for those who don't know what they're doing. So maybe Gates wanted to stock pick and Buffet talked him into diversifying safely

Is creating real money multiplayer versions of all these not a giant untapped opportunity? Cards and wagering are often a potent mix, yet only hold'em and rummy have gone in this direction for some reason

smacking AI on anything is probably an easy promotion for the next couple years