purple_ferret
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Comment · 2 days ago
Wow yeah, Shakespeare...so weird and different lol
Comment · 2 days ago
Most people focus on his television/movie stuff but I always found his Shakespeare most endearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwRj8B1dXfk
He really was able to translate the literature to acting relevance for me (as a lit person)
Comment · 8 months ago
We live in a world of Trump-esque "truths" where if you claim something once, nothing subsequent matters.
Not surprised to see a guy like Altman adopt the strategy
Comment · 8 months ago
Braintree had $1.53 trillion TPV in 2023[0], and it's just a subsidiary of Paypal which has tanked to $40 billion market cap despite revenue and profit that are probably lightyears ahead of Stripe.
Honestly, I wouldn't touch Stripe with a ten foot poll at this valuation. Fintech is an industry that just disappoints in the end.
Comment · 10 months ago
A lot of these places already have massive government contracts with their own management structures.
So the plan is to also make some of them federal employees, ostensibly helping to oversee those contracts? Seems like a conflict of interest...
Comment · 11 months ago
maybe 'creator' in the youtuber sense
But most creative people I know aren't really that interested in trying to co-opt someone else's work
Comment · 1 year ago
Curious how this is affecting jewelers. Was blown away at how expensive gold earrings have gotten.
Comment · 1 year ago
Sort of conflicts with the other points though, which basically sum up to "Be a 10X developer or die trying"
Comment · 1 year ago
No chance any commercially available milk is getting hand milked.
Comment · 1 year ago
Proof you don't need to own the .com domain name to make it big?:
Comment · 1 year ago
Here's the tweet that prompted Elon's 'deleted' tweet:
>18F, the far left government wide computer office that was recently taken over by allies of @elonmusk, is also the same agency that built Elizabeth Warren's "Direct File" tax program.
>Direct File puts the government in charge of preparing peoples tax returns for them.
https://nitter.poast.org/alx/status/1886415751528972515?
Clearly, they think there is something malicious in having the federal government manage this service despite the fact that the result gets submitted....to the federal government anyway