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Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Thursday February 19, 2026 @06:28PM (#47081297)
I was burning $10-$20 per hour, $1.50 - $3.00 per prompt with Gemini 3 in Openclaw... it was insanely inefficient.
Re:Brex Layoffs on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @02:26PM (#39108367)
Company was burning $17m per month with less than $300m in revenue... while growing at a slower rate than ramp.com . simply unsustainable.
An overview of the studies and data regarding the repurposed type-2 diabetes drugs that are now being used for weight loss by Elon Musk and other celebs.

Curious to hear others experience with Wegovy, Ozempic, and similar..

The writing was on the wall for quite a while here... the company is literally run by convicted felons.

Check out the short seller report -- https://www.sprucepointcap.com/carvana-co-update/

Re:A Crypto Community 'Cancels' One of Its Own on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @05:50PM (#30279785)
One ENS founder is already in jail for helping North Korea - just Google Virgil Griffith + ENS. He's been scrubbed from their site already.

Now this...

This project is rotten to the core.

That anybody chooses to use .eth in their Twitter handle is shocking to me.

Sandy's background (the Amazon exec quoted at the top of the article) is very impressive! https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandyacarter/
Re:Discord Launches Threads on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:42PM (#27977360)
I'm glad so many smart people are getting paid $200,000+ per year to bring such new and innovative products to the market.
Re:Web3: How We Got Here on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @06:00PM (#27912750)
Ahh Geocities, brings back memories.
Step #1, forget everything you learned on wall street bets
Re:Brave Browser Adds Support for Blockchain Domain Names on Thursday May 13, 2021 @12:55PM (#27144440)
They got beat out by Opera who got there first, but Brave is a much better browser.
Re:Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:24PM (#26997321)
There are only so many viable combinations of 4-letter domain names... $2400 seems pretty fair compared to what .com's of the same length are going for (50K-$1m+ for random 4 letter combinations)
Re:Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:26PM (#26986273)
Honeypot is much smaller.

Any centralized source of data is very attractive and worth spending a lot of time & effort on and inevitable gets hacked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches

Re:Opera adds native support for blockchain domain names on Thursday April 29, 2021 @03:05PM (#26985161)
Not sure about others, but I've paid thousands of dollars for ICANN renewal fees over the last decade... love the idea of "owning" real estate on the internet vs. merely renting it (and having prices go up every few years).
Re:Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:42AM (#26074286)
Same as Dogecoin
Anybody wanting to understand inflation vs. the CPI index should familiarize themselves with the concept of "hedonic adjustment" -

The Chapwood index offers a good alternative view as to the actual cost of living - https://chapwoodindex.com

Re:Tesla set to join S&P 500 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:29PM (#25126571)
What claims are absurd?

Tens of millions of people will own significant Tesla stock via the index despite obvious evidence of fraud and financial engineering at the company.

Even if everything was above board (i.e. the company had a general counsel or was able to obtain a D&O policy from someone other than Elon Musk himself)... this is probably the most overpriced car company on the planet by any metric, and it's revenue has flat-lined the last 8 quarters (no, it's not a growth stock).

Re:Tesla set to join S&P 500 on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:31PM (#25117911)
This is the PayPal model.

Starts slowly, then add in dark patterns for FX currency conversion, withdrawals, etc. etc.

Negative externalities born by the public, but profits go to shareholders.
Foist... i see what you did there ;)
Re:Let employees sell their equity on Saturday September 12, 2020 @01:27PM (#24453958)
You forgot venture debt, warrants, & management carve-outs during M&A.
Re:Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver on Thursday September 03, 2020 @09:44PM (#24370956)
The big missed opportunity was to build a bounty-based marketplace to serve the SMBs... charge for results vs. the product.
Re:Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver on Thursday September 03, 2020 @09:41PM (#24370949)
The pricing consultant they brought in was Simon Kutcher...
Re:Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:28PM (#24367121)
Another proof point that once the founder-CEO is replaced by a professional CEO, it's game over more often than not. This happened in 2017 at Optimizely.

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