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I don't think it's just a "market" thing at this point. Reality is if you're not a Tier 1 VC, which CRV really isn't, then you cannot get into good deals that would make any sense.

I'm wondering how we haven't solved "securely leaving packages" at this point.

Having to coordinate with delivery drivers is difficult if you're not home, which is often the case unless you're WFH.

Seems like every front door should be designed in some way to securely leave packages by now.

do they not?

little island in NYC was funded by Barry Diller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Island_at_Pier_55

It's not missing the point. The point is that a lot of people live with chronic inflammation caused by poor lifestyle choices and that results in many diseases later in life, including Alzheimer's.

The point is that chronic inflammation is bad. The comment I'm replying to isn't recognizing that it's just saying "oh inflammation is fine because it's a response to injury" which is very much missing the point.

There is a huge difference between inflammation in response to injury and chronic inflammation caused by lifestyle choices like poor diet.

Uh not really.

The unique part here is that in order to even have the chance to buy a bag you need to develop a relationship with a sales rep and buy a bunch of other stuff. The more other stuff you buy the higher on whatever list they'll put you and when they get a bag in stock they'll give the chance to buy to whoever they have a positive relationship with and who has spent a lot of money.

I think you're missing a key point here and that is you have no chance of buying a Hermes bag unless you have a relationship with a specific sales associate and buy a lot of other stuff there. Very few other categories of goods can get away with something like this.

In some ways Rolex is like this but Rolex is relatively high production volume and there are many situations where you can get lucky and buy one relatively easily, especially now that the hype has died down a bit from 2021-2022.

You don't have to believe social media creates mental health issues or exacerbates bullying or whatever.

The biggest problem is that it's a massive distraction from learning and also enables cheating, especially now with AI tools.

I literally said a room in a shared house. no one is spending $4k on a room in SF.

You're not renting an entire apartment for $1200 anywhere livable in a large metro in WA or NV.

What's expensive about living in SF these days?

You can fairly easily find a room in a shared house for pretty cheap, and you don't need a car.

I don't really see how moving out of state somewhere where you might rent a place for slightly less but then tack on a car means you save money in any meaningful way.

This is silly because it doesn't take into consideration all the health issues that are alleviated when people stop overeating and get down to a normal weight

so you think if they came out and said we have created AGI there would be no changes in stock prices to any stock that has anything to do with AI even if they are already "huge"?

people said NVDA and FAANG was huge 5 years ago.

Hard to imagine. But if you actually believe that there's probably a bunch of ways to make millions in public markets betting on that outcome.

Tell me you don't understand optics and politics without telling me. There's a tiny handful of VCs who have the guts to fund someone who organized a coup against OpenAI.

Am I taking crazy pills or something? Because he was the one who tried to oust Sam like 6 months ago? Did we just all forget that or what?

Again, why would any VC give Ilya money if that in any way signals that they are supporting someone who tried to oust the CEO of OpenAI from within? They wouldn't.

Well, no.

No VC who wants anything to do with OpenAI would invest in Ilya.

Ilya represents the anti-OpenAI ethos. So it would only be a VC who would be comfortable publicly being an anti-OpenAI VC, which is not that many.

Considering the stock pumped following the presentation the market doesn't seem particularly with what OpenAI released at all.

You intentionally picked fast casual places that are akin to a Chipotle. I'm talking about a sit down place with service.

I'm in San Francisco. Not sure if you've been to a sit down place recently but trying to argue a sit down meal is $25pp inclusive of tax and tip is ridiculous.

my point wasn't that a Big Mac meal in Switzerland hasn't risen since 2007 or wahtever. My point was at that time an American in Switzerland would have thought it was relatively much more expensive than a Big Mac meal here. Now it's similar.

in what world is 60-70 francs for dinner eg under $80 or $40pp eye-popping for dinner especially when you add tax and tip to any menu price in the US?

and you can't compare in-n-out to a sit down place.

an average casual ramen place is like $22 a bowl now here. add an egg (yes, they don't include it anymore) and it's $25. then add one drink or something and you're at $30. Then tax is $33 and tip is another $6-7. That's $40 for a ramen and a drink.

From my experience it's become relatively more expensive than other countries even if every country has experienced inflation to a small or large extent.

The joke used to be how expensive Switzerland was...now I am looking at prices in Zurich for food, drinks, hotels and it's no different than what you'd pay in a big city in the US, maybe less.

uh what? what's your evidence Australia is more expensive than the US, especially large metros like LA/SF/NYC/Miami?

why would western europe lead when salaries are notoriously low even for corporate white collar work?

I'm in Vegas right now, and while I've been here a bunch of times just realizing how protected pedestrians are on the Strip...every sidewalk is basically lined with thick concrete blocks with no spacing and bollards everywhere.

Which makes sense...you have thousands of drunk pedestrians and lots of cars on a busy/giant two way street with potential drunk drivers as well.

You should look at Chipotle's stock.

How many years do you have to go back to find 1 company that is on par with a dropbox or airbnb

i feel like if you went back 5 years it would be hard to even find more than 1-2 companies that has achieved a moderate level of mainstream success in the same way