pfd1986

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Comment · 8 months ago

What's the math here if they go public in 2027, with next to 1T in valuation? How much more growth can the company have for regular investors? Surely they won't have the capital of multiple FAANG companies...

Comment · 10 months ago

The convo with Noam Chomsky is interesting. Deepak Chopra one talking about Trump being 'loco' is quiet funny.

Neat data visualization solution!

Comment · 11 months ago

Fascinating study.

The stats warrant some caution, though. The main finding is based on figure 4 [1] and I wouldn't be surprised if the number and location of these 'eras' varied a lot if the authors use 40,000 people instead of 4,000.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65974-8/figures/4

Comment · 11 months ago

Thanks for the book recommendation. Adding the link here so it shows in the monthly book suggestion:

https://a.co/d/iR7sxnU

Comment · 1 year ago

I lived in Palo Alto for years around 2018 before realizing o was a block away from Tim Cook. From the outside, his house looked pretty normal-looking and I also run into him at the whole foods down the block. He and his house looked pretty down to earth.

Comment · 1 year ago

The foundation cocktail place in SF has some art on the wall that changes every minute. I can't remember if by John Cage or someone else..

Comment · 1 year ago

Very nice. The story sounds very familiar to me, maybe the movie was part of Banff film festival?

Comment · 1 year ago

Fair enough. I was not familiar with the source and couldn't check all the references since some were to a private blog, but what's open check out: https://youtu.be/ZluMysK2B1E?si=_RWmR8mzGcKrmp9Z

Comment · 1 year ago

The plan seems to be to (1) "RAGE: Retire All Government Employees (...), take over the United States government and gut the federal bureaucracy. Then, replace civil servants with political loyalists"

So in essence, they think these short term problems can be reversed once the pawns are replaced.

(1) https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-d...

Comment · 1 year ago

Just did a quick check and it translates to $30K in Brazil as well

Comment · 1 year ago

Wouldn't rise up lead to a coup? Isn't this exactly what Trump is waiting / routing for?

Comment · 2 years ago

Thanks for the perspective. The courage to "face society" and write for the public is one of the reasons I've always loved (trying) to read Daniel Dennets work. He seemed to be writing for scientists and less to other philosophers. Not sure if you agree

Comment · 2 years ago

OT but what's the best way to find incentives and rebates given a zip code? Google just suggests 1,000 ads...

Comment · 2 years ago

Looks cool. Near $800 tag price is sharp but a welcome competition to kindle, remarkable, and the like.

https://daylightcomputer.com/

Comment · 2 years ago

Replace AI with car, airplane, medic devices in the sentence above... Why is AI any different from other human creations? Why shouldn't we try building it responsibly?

I don't get the all or nothing attitude.