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Space is raising $75B at an expected valuation of $750B so the Twitter value is just 5% of SpaceX’s IPO valuation and if it goes up then the fraction gets smaller.

Is 5% a footnote, maybe.

I’m guessing the valuation is just youtube bs/hype.

10-15x earnings seems pretty massive. But perhaps there is more money in the used lego market than I thought.

How is this company, BAM Franchising Inc, valued at $400M?

They aren’t publicly traded so it’s hard to find out.

It seems like there’s almost no employees and they collect a franchising fee and 6% royalty on the 200+ franchises that BAM claims makes $570k average annual revenue [0].

.06 x 570k x 200 = 6,840,00

So not sure how a $400M valuation comes from $7M/year in revenue.

And this is revenue, who knows what the profit is.

Still, I was surprised there’s 200 franchisees.

[0] https://franchise.bricksandminifigs.com/the-financials/

There’s a cost, certainly. I expect Anthropic knows. But we don’t know what that is.

Lets say McDonalds charges $2000 for a BigMac. If they offer a deal and sell it to you for $200, did you save $1800?

Maybe if you spend $2000 on a BigMac. But it’s unlikely you would buy such a burger.

What is a hamburger worth? Don’t look to McDonalds to set the value.

I find icloud best as long as everything is apple.

I think important things for me (durable file storage) seems more and more niche for the general population.

I think it’s a real need that people are overlooking.

I’ve been working to teach my kids how important it is to store important records like taxes, ids, home records, etc in a durable store and just get shrugs and “why would I ever need last year’s taxes?”

I think dropbox’s problem is just and prefer it over having to but storage in microsoft, apple, and google’s walled gardens.

Really, because I’ve been working to move off gmail for 5 years and it’s slim pickings.

I’ve tried fastmail, protonmail, outlook and they all suck. Gmail is probably the only google account I still use.

> $2,180.16 worth of tokens for $200

“Tokens” don’t have an intrisic cost or value. Saying that I used $2,180.16 worth of tokens is like relying on the salesperson to convince me I’m getting a billion dollars worth of pots and pans for $19.99.

I think it’s funny how we are throwing critical thinking out the window when it comes to evaluating biased sources of info.

The value just isn’t there for $12. This is just developers being greedy as their cost is nowhere near $12.

Compare this to other things and the value yielded is nowhere as near as better purchases.

The most amazing thing about my travels in Africa, specifically Uganda, is that things I would never expect to work, work. The people are so innovative and resourceful that I think things that would be scams (handing a laptop to a stranger to hold) are pretty common and work.

Also makes me grateful to live in a developed nation where we can take shipping for granted.

I mind ads and don’t think sites would go away. They’d just be less profitable.

I mind ads because they crowd out less profitable margins and result in worse products. Imagine how nice and useful Google could be if they optimized for search instead of ads.

I’ve met people who enjoy lots of gross things. That doesn’t make the things gross to me, or the vast majority of humanity.

My guy take is that they are mindrotted by ads into thinking they are good for them. Digital Stockholm Syndrome. Or maybe a Myth of Sisyphus type situation.

Wisprflow is not $12/month better than ios.

I’d much rather have “cheap, dependable, and good enough” over oligarch pricing for what used to be a one time software purchase any day.

I turned off my iphone’s autocorrect because it made too many stealth errors. Now I notice all my mistypes.

I have a friend named Zi in my contacts. For some reason ios kept autocorrecting “I” to “Zi” and would do it too far back for me to notice.

What’s weird is how this is such a dumb bug that Apple usually irons out.

Even without tactile elements it was two keys to use function keys.

I would have been fine with the touchbar if it just default displayed function keys. Hitting fn+f5 to quicksave is annoying.

In this case the judge determined that it did require a trial and refused to dismiss based on statute of limitations.

Sexual practices don’t need to be degenerate to transmit ebola.

Ebola is detectable in semen for a year or longer. [0]

So, first, have sex with people you know well enough to know whether they recently recovered from Ebola (pretty rare), and use condoms. Second, I would expect people’s typical “safe sex” practices will keep them ebola-free.

[0] 10% of subjects in this study had ebola in their semen one year after treatment discharge, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7875361/

This is neat, but I need a non-server-side program for this. I want everything local and running for the next 20+ years.

You can recycle the parts in an phone for prolly at least 20-100.

Plus apple watch, airpods, etc.

I’m think the average pedestrian carries more cash equivalents than at any time in history.

“This thing thats easy to measure agrees with me.”

Shows lack of critical thinking and rigor.

I think its better to lodge displeasure by placing sticky notes instead of destroying. It decreases camera usefulness and I’m not quite sure it’s a crime.

I wouldnt call property crime violence.

It’s poorly written and untrustworthy. I’d rather it not exist.

Say potato

Shatters screens and lost iphones don’t affect your apple account. Sign in to your new device with your apple id and your stuff is there.

Moreso, there’s no google store to go to for help if your google account gets locked.

Of course you can store data on a thumb drive (or hetzner cloud) and use that without a google id. Good luck with that. And it’s not scaleable for billions of users.

Again, apple provides support, google does not. I don’t want my livelihood dependent on a google id.

Apple could be profitable with the App Store covering everything.

But they make more profit with high hardware margins AND the app store.

I’m pretty sure they could give phones away for free and cover it from AppStore purchases.

What’s cool is that we’ll see.

I didn’t say it was 100% true and there are exceptions.

I don’t know the true distribution, but I’d wager the vast majority of the US is served by either a corporation or some non-government organization.

Now I know and it’s 1/7 or about 15% of Americans have government or community owned power. [0]

[0] https://www.publicpower.org/public-power

There’s a pretty big difference as Apple can’t access the data stored in iDrive. Only you can locally.

Big difference from google and microsoft where everything you type and do is being tracked and fed into ads.