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llama-2-70b-chat (courtesy of llama.cpp on m2) says:

  Pretend to be a commenter on hackernews. Respond to the comment below:

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  what is your response?
  "Wow, that's great to hear! It sounds like you had a really positive experience with the 34B last night. I'm also excited to see what's in store for Phind and its potential applications. Have you tried using the 34B for any specific tasks or projects yet? And do you think the text completion feature would be useful for your use case if it were improved further?"

The suckers aren’t just investors, but also employees who work at companies that hinted/promised liquidity via one of these transactions. I didn’t work at a company that failed to ipo via spac, but I almost did and although every technical interviewer felt earnest, something felt off about their lack of detail around business and the equity part of the comp.

Too much of it felt like hot air and I went elsewhere. This was two years ago, and indeed some BS press release from a year ago says their “deal” fell apart. Seemingly reputable investors too, wtf.

Keep your BS detectors on at all times.

Ideally transactions denominated in Western coin align with western values (Good Things).

Some people say that the common folk now have cheap mass produced gadgets that were previously only available to the wealthy, and some rant about the enshitification (great term whose origin I need to learn more about of) of our society.

I nod along to this piece and yet I don’t want to be so cynical.

I am not a finance professional but…

Say you make $1 of profit, does that translate into $1 your company can control for its benefit? If kept as profit part of that dollar flows out of the company, to other companies and possibly to the government as taxes (god forbid).

If the company reinvests then it fully benefits from its would be $1 as opposed to someone spending it elsewhere.

IMO Accounting is the only reason many companies don’t turn an external “profit”

Perhaps a silly question: If there were previously no profits does that mean they had previously paid no taxes and now will?

Agreed, this tornado thing sounds like a made up excuse.

These companies, which are granted legal monopolies, have not safeguarded US interests.

Are there any chemical precursors these drugs all have in common that could have been exhausted by something else that is more important to manufacture?

Alternatively is supply being commandeered somehow?

So much weird stuff is happening with supply chains that it feels like the US is purposefully being squeezed.

So… what’s going to happen now with all the behavioral science people and their fabulous data

When I was looking for an apartment to rent in Palo Alto I found a great deal on rent because I visited a place listed on Craigslist that had awful photos.

It turns out the owner was just an older man who wasn’t good with tech, the place was pretty great in person and I ended up living there for a couple of years.

Normal untouched photos are more honest. I also dislike when photos make it ambiguous which unit in a duplex is for sale, or don’t make clear/hide that it’s only part of a lot or something like that.

One of the Montessori schools in SF (across the street from blue bird hq) was bought by some Miami PE fund… that and some other data points informed our decision to pass on it.

Which hotel?