gricardo99

If McDonald’s restaurants were profitable, they wouldn’t sell franchises. Except it’s been an incredibly successful way to raise capital and expand, for both franchisees and McDonalds.

If company about to IPO were a great investment, they wouldn’t IPO. Except the stock market has been an incredible mechanism for company and capital growth.

Comment · 2 months ago

Incredible. I was curious to see what I could find for one of the business card:

Dr. Ronald Moskowitz, FerroFluidics (cool name).

Took me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Turns out the guy was a bit of a fraudster and was sentenced to 8 years in prison for securities fraud[1]

1 - https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releas...

Comment · 2 months ago

It was such a joy to read something clearly written by a human, for humans, by someone who takes pride and spends effort in their writing.

Reading this article felt like a breath of fresh air, like a vice had been released from my head. Not just the broader point about our increasingly slop-filled world resonated with me, but the writing itself felt like it just flows effortlessly.

I guess I’ve been suffering for too long, pouring over claude code jargon-filled responses and going in circles trying to understand its convoluted sentence construction and terminology. I think I’m burnt out on working with agents all day long…

Comment · 5 months ago

it’s open source now so presumably it’s harder to outright lie about how their system works.

Comment · 5 months ago

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Comment · 5 months ago

An incredible, lucid, and beautiful depiction of the burgeoning, inchoate world of cyberspace at the time — voicing an anxiety that echoes even louder today:

   We humans would be liberated into an Elysian condition of permanent leisure. We’d have nothing to do but hang out in our indestructible miracle-fiber jumpsuits and talk philosophy.
  Only it didn’t happen quite like that. The machines did get many of our physical jobs alright, but no one could quite figure out how to pay us   for all that hanging out.

What would John make of what’s unfolded since? Much as he envisioned and embraced, humanity poured its imagination, creativity, toil, and love into cyberspace — only for the machines to feed on it all and usher in a new, all-encompassing level of human obsolescence.

Comment · 5 months ago

there’s a move now towards 24/7 trading. I guess we’ll see how the rigors of the trading environment mesh with zero down time. I’m sure the rollout will be slow and steady.

Comment · 8 months ago

  bad at identifying business trends

I think you’re being unduly harsh on yourself. At least by the Shopify/COVID example. COVID was a black swan event, which may very well have completely changed the fortunes of companies like Shopify when online commerce surged and became vital to the economy. Shortcomings, mismanagement and bad culture can be completely papered over by growth and revenue.

Right place, right time. It’s too bad you missed out on some good fortune, but it’s a helpful reminder of how much of our paths are governed by luck. Thanks for sharing, and wishing you luck in the future.

Comment · 9 months ago

not to mention that radiation hardening of chips has a big impact on cost and performance

Comment · 9 months ago

That’s what I thought and did this for years. However, the major carriers do offer promotions and incentives that make the phones cheaper, sometimes significantly. e.g. of recent deal from major US carriers: iPhone 16 deal for $16/month for 36 months ($576 total) versus Apple store $699.

Comment · 11 months ago

iOS safari same issue. can’t get passed the terms

Comment · 1 year ago