koolba

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CXO at a Fortune 500 company.

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Comment · 7 hours ago
The article has some good information, but the (somewhat) interactive circular financing UI halfway through is what's really interesting.

The spending commitment numbers are staggering. Deals in the 100s of billions of dollars all over the place. Sometimes the same place!

Comment · 1 day ago
I could imagine some people getting motion sickness from watching.

Could also be the Stars of David (1m46s) and swastikas (2m24s) that end up drawn by the repeating patterns.

Comment · 1 day ago
Not updating air gapped systems is a security feature, not a bug.
Comment · 1 day ago
Living anonymously is about more than just shit posting. Not publicizing your wealth is a highly effective strategy.
Comment · 1 day ago
You mean FTX?
Comment · 3 days ago
From the article:

> The Peltola campaign has repeatedly denied any involvement in his candidacy. But The Times has found, based on interviews and text messages, along with documents prepared for a potential lawsuit against the campaign, that not only did Ms. Peltola’s team work with people trying to recruit Mr. Sullivan to run for Senate, but the effort was much broader. The group worked to coax other would-be spoilers into the race, to dilute the incumbent’s support and help catapult the Democrat to victory.

If this is not election interference, get ready for some interesting future elections.

Imagine having multiple Donald Trumps or Hillary Clintons on the ballot with no reasonable way for an ordinary voter to differentiate between them.

Comment · 3 days ago
The smart man makes his own luck.

In some way ways, that’s what smart working does. Being at the right place, at the right time, because you were smart enough to realize you should hang around that place.

Comment · 4 days ago
So that people with off the books defi assets can diversify their holdings as if they bought into the non-defi world, without any of those pesky taxes or KYC requirements.
Comment · 4 days ago
> A meeting between all the stakeholders to agree on requirements easily runs $1,000/hour. Taking your $4 functional PoC into that meeting is going to save so much time..

It is though! Because previously your have the meeting last 4x as long to end up with a list of notes that you already knew.

Now you can generate the PoC, showcase it during the meeting and leave with actionable changes in project direction.

Comment · 5 days ago
The interface being arbitrary text makes the moat even looser. The cost of experimentation with alternatives is getting lower and lower.

It’s going to be hard for companies to justify paying $1000s per month to frontier providers when they see what’s doable with open versions.

Comment · 6 days ago
These AI generated docs would make more sense if you instruct it to not include numbers unless they form a complete example.

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