fisherjeff

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Comment · 4 days ago
Would you expect to be detained and deported from those other countries while trying to attend a court hearing to resolve your immigration status?
Comment · 1 month ago
Some quality comments on there as well

“I asked someone how the stock market works, and they sent me this link. I should feel duped or trolled, but I think I actually learned something.”

Comment · 5 months ago
Well green hydrogen is also a necessity if you want to make carbon-neutral synthetic hydrocarbon fuels.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
YMMV, I guess - we were surprised when our first grader said math was her favorite part of school this year, and she recently asked if she can get i-Ready on her iPad.
Comment · 8 months ago
Haggling with DoD over contract terms and losing out is utterly routine. Ending up labeled a supply chain risk as a result is not.
Comment · 8 months ago
Honestly, this makes me almost feel better about the whole situation.

I had been finding it super unsettling: Like, why would DoD go nuclear over wanting to build fully autonomous weapons… with Claude?

But no, it’s just run-of-the-mill Trump administration corruption. Phew!

Comment · 9 months ago
As much as it pains me to say it, this is a plausible answer in 2026
Comment · 10 months ago
Lack of pull-through charging stations is a very big hurdle too.
Comment · 10 months ago
It's insane to me that this even needs to be written – showing you care is just not that hard! And it absolutely doesn't have to come at the expense of business goals.

I've had some amount of success running a startup, and honestly the only thing that reliably paid off was hiring great (i.e., smart, thoughtful, kind) people and treating them like family.

Comment · 1 year ago
Now this is the future I’ve been waiting for
Comment · 1 year ago
I think it helps to remember that those posts are basically sales pitches, and that if they don’t resonate for you, then you are probably not their target audience.

But another thing is that most tech people really undervalue good marketing and end up doing either the bare minimum (e.g., LLM puke) or narrowly targeting themselves as an audience. Either way, they often fail to get their message out to their market.

Comment · 1 year ago
Sure, but even assuming OpenAI gets to a tamer 20% net margin, 25x earnings wouldn’t be surprising so they’re raising on a projected $60B/yr revenue which might not be where they end up, but doesn’t seem like an unreasonable bet to make.
Comment · 1 year ago
Just picking a semi-related stock, NVDA trades at ~30x gross revenue, so a $300B "only" translates into ~$10B in revenue. And OpenAI can ask for a better multiplier because I'm sure they're forecasting a ton of growth and a ton of cost savings.

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