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I don't get this take. No matter how good you are at managing people, you cannot manage clowns into making wise decisions, especially if they are plotting in secret (which obviously was the case here since everyone except for the clowns were caught completely off-guard).

Didn't OpenAI close new ChatGPT Plus signups just 2 days ago? Strange coincidence in timing... Maybe the board just learned that costs were wildly over what Sam told them? I guess we'll find out...

OP means mentally/intellectually hard, not physically hard.

Here's the background story to this: https://www.carscoops.com/2023/03/elon-musk-overruled-tesla-...

It makes perfect sense for people who are willing to accept that ChatGPT/GPT-4 is a revolutionary technology that will upend lots of jobs/people/companies, just as horse coaches / coachmen in the early 1900's got pay raises just before being out of a job. For people who are in denial, it will make no sense. https://blogs.microsoft.com/today-in-tech/day-horse-lost-job...

Studying human athletic performance was also done by some eugenics movements, so by your logic we should stop all studies of human athletic performance?

DropBox had a paid tier from the beginning, Stability AI doesn't.

Right but by that definition every thing in the universe is and will always be basic. The word becomes meaningless.

That sounds similar to companies in the 1960's refusing to use "soulless" computing machines aka computers. Not sure it worked out well for them...

I think by "smartest people" the article is referring to the top 1-3 percent smartest people, not the actual 1-3 smartest people in the world...

|Amazing, but very basic.

After playing around with ChatGPT for a few hours I have a hard time seeing how someone could objectively call it "basic".

Isn't rental income treated as income tax? It is in the U.S. Since tax is on the profit only, the tax would be on that 40%, so 32% of 40% so ~10%. You are still walking away with 68% of 40%, so 30% of your rental income is profit.

right but I'm guessing a huge percentage is baby boomers or Gen X'ers who bought a house 10 or more years ago. I'm curious to see a graph of home ownership rate history for people between 25 and 39 years old, I'm guessing it is lower now than 30 years ago.

Source for this? All evidence show that their failure at least started with them owning a lot of "safe" bonds, whose value declined with increasing fed rates.

Exactly. They are very bitter at the thought of depositors (people who entrusted the U.S. banking system) getting bailed out.

That's just basic logic that anyone would follow to survive. VC's had nothing to do with SVB's bad money management.

I have a feeling a lot of these people are Bitcoin maximalist. They want depositors to suffer so that they feel vindicated for their faith in the almighty Bitcoin even as its value has dropped by over half.

I don't understand this comment. 1) SVB was not managed by VC's. 2) SVB went under because they bought US Treasuries, not because they took risky bets on startups.

and because of the takeoff/landing and time to get up to it's probably closer to 2*11h, so yea assuming 3 hour layover that turned into 25 hours

The fact that SVB just went under disproved your point. Without a moat a company is relegated to ways of making money that at some point in time become unsustainable (i.e. when interest rates change) and then go under. As opposed to companies with strong moats that defend their free cash flow (i.e. Apple).

I don't understand, is it because they do not want to change its monetization to ads and IAP's? How is having this game in the App Store making them lose money?

how is using generative AI tools immoral?

Apple did not way over-hire during the pandemic like all the other big Tech co's.

Might want to specify https://www.workatastartup.com/ - if OP hasn't heard of it, your comment might be interpreted as just "working at a startup" in the general sense.

thanks for the laugh

I would go see a doctor but that's what worked for me: - Elimination diet. It took me years to realize every time I eat eggs or food with wheat flour I get brain fog/mild depression for the following 2-3 days, that disappears completely if I abstain from them. - Make sure I get cardio on most days, if you can't run then walk at least 10k steps a day. - 1 cup of good quality coffee in the morning

I don't remember any CEO of BMW, Audi, etc. ridiculing a group of people on a daily basis because of who they voted for... The idea of spending 50-70k on a product that will make the richest man (ok 2nd richest now) in the world richer, who is essentially ridiculing/trolling you on a daily basis for your voting decision is just a no-go for a lot of people.

1) I never said the U.S. is "leading the way". Just using it as and example. China and Russia also had their own civil wars/struggles and are now more united than thousands of years ago. 2) I don't get where you got the statement "they are bad" since I never said that. "They are bad" is a statement that always oversimplifies the situation when applied to a whole country. The problem is the very small percentage of people in position of power in China/Russia that are hoarding the power/money and there is no mechanism (i.e. popular elections) for the populace to remove them from power.

I don't see how it's so negative...there is still definitely change happening and we are not static. Thousands of years ago when we were hunter gatherers, humans would speak different languages living just 10 miles away, and tribes would battle/murder each other just a few miles away. Papa New Guinea, still mostly consisting of hunter gatherers, has 832 distinct languages, each with their own culture and beliefs, and some still going to war with a tribe a few miles way over their perceived "differences". Even as fractured as the U.S. is, we are still in the long run progressing towards are more united humanity (i.e. millions are not battling in a civil war over "differences" like in the 1860's).

| There isn't such a vast history to pull from there, how can you justify an analogous nationalistic identity/moral character for it without such a big story?

Well, exactly - that explains a lot of the current political/cultural fragmentation of the U.S. population. Although you can definitely argue that though it is a "short" story in comparison, the founding of the U.S. as a revolution to gain independence from the British Crown to found a state by the people, for the people, with its own constitution and Bill of Rights is a "big" story nonetheless.

As to your other questions - good questions - one could write a whole book (or several) addressing them.