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Good. Twitter is a top heavy company that could have its staff halved and still be good.

Elon would do a great job firing the staff and right sizing the company.

There was a chap who was involved in their AI department. Despite the initial question of why is there an AI department, the follow up is why is it doing so badly?
And liberated the Kuwaiti people from scud missiles, invasion, and occupation from a brutal Saddam regime? That's a pretty important benefit to miss, but maybe you're just limiting it to benefits for a US citizen. (of which selfless ones would consider it a benefit)
And if there's anything Elon Musk is known for, it's being completely transparent and unbiased! /s
Assuming the school's good (the majority of private schools aren't, really) that is absolutely one of the main perks. Free or reduced tuition can end up, effectively, being most of your compensation, especially if you have more than one kid going.
> and they’re not using raw human waste to fertilize the plants.

Nope... industrial waste.

‘Forever chemicals’ upended a Maine farm — and point to larger problem -- https://wapo.st/3OeHPEf
The water used on fields in my area is non-potable. As far as human waste goes, I don't think it's regulations preventing that, but rather efficiency. Other animal waste is used as fertilizer, because it works better.
"Busted" videos like this are low quality armchair analysis aimed at giving giving the viewer a sense of intellectual superiority. Saying "this solution breaks the laws of physics" can be valid if analysis is done correctly, saying "this problem is hard, and they haven't already solved every single piece of it so their whole business is stupid" is not valid.
This is not directly related to the content of the post but is about Ethereum. I have been putting this hypothesis out there on twitter for a while now, looking for someone to refute me, but no one has yet. This seems like a place where I might be able to find someone who understand Ethereum enough tell my grasp of the protocol is wrong (or right):

Ethereum is going deflationary. Not disinflationary like Bitcoin, but actually deflationary, with token burn. Whether you think deflationary money is bad or good is not germane to the problem I'm about to explain, as I see it.

Ethereum makes a claim at decentralization. However, by moving to a Proof of Stake system, they have set a fixed amount to be staked (32 ETH in this case, though the number itself does not matter). With the token going deflationary, that means that the opportunity cost to stake will always be increasing, mathematically, in ETH terms. The staking requirement does not adjust to changing token supply.

For argument's sake, if there are 100 ETH on the network, and you stake 1 ETH, you effectively need to lock away 1/100 of all wealth on the network. However, if 10 tokens get burned, now you lock away 1/90 wealth on the network. Staking that 1 ETH just got 10% more expensive because the opportunity cost of staking that ETH increased relative to spending it.

Economically, this means that the system is going to drive out marginal stakers, by design. The only response I have gotten from ETH holders is about staking pools, but staking pools don't fix the underlying economic incentive brought about by deflation: increasingly holders will find it less worthwhile to stake their ETH.

It seems to me that ETH is headed right for some kind of centralization death spiral, as only increasingly wealthier holders will be able to justify staking.
Because we both have career ambitions. Also, we have financial goals that we’d like to make regarding our home and future schooling for our children.
I amend my statement a little: They actually IPOed on the Hong Kong stock exchange in late 2007 before delisting in 2012. They IPOed at $10bn. They traded as high as $25bn the first day. But I have no other data.

https://www.reuters.com/article/tech-alibabacom-ipo-dc/aliba...
In general, people on HN doesn't get crypto and put minuses on my comments.

History rhymes. Everything takes long time to play out. Internet took 40 - 50 years, crypto is just 10 years old and they say it has to bust, soon.
human bodies might only be a fraction of the mass footprint but they happen to be the most squishy part
Which war did you fight in?
Why would you lobby someone who doesn’t rule?

I’m still waiting for examples of how Musk has exercised his sovereign power.
Kids are 1 and 4. That is tough, but they won't be that young forever. Can she scale back to working as an occasional sub for a few years, and then go back into full time teaching down the road when the kids are much older? Sounds like she loves teaching. Even in a high COL area that should be doable for a few years possibly? Unless you are in the bay area.
> There's no reason to assume Twitter shares can't reach the same levels ever again

If there was a strong reason to think that Twitter shares would soon be worth $70 again, wouldn't they already be trading at that price?
No. I don't feel like this is respectful of autonomy, so I don't engage in it. If someone asks for help or asks questions, I will give them truthful answers at a level they can understand. The only rules I enforce are for devices on my own network, which I filter and control extensively but only at a network level. I don't control any of the devices on the network except those which are purchased by me for my own purposes. I explicitly taught my spouse and children that you should never share passwords with anyone for any reason, including with me. Most of the devices are protected simply by connecting to the network, but mobile devices also have data plans. Almost everyone uses a password manager by choice and on my recommendation, but everybody uses different ones based on what they're most comfortable with.

In this way, people in my family get to choose their own pathway online. They're informed, and they get to make informed choices about what data they care about protecting vs sharing. You can do whatever you want on your own devices, but not on my network, that's mine and I get to set the rules there. For the most part, folks choose my network for protection and performance rather than the wider freedoms of mobile data. I also provide everyone with a VPN account for their mobile devices for when they're out of the house, and most of us use it, but it's entirely optional.
All models are wrong. Some are useful.

That said, I agree with at least some of the points. Competitive Strategy would seem like a very incomplete work today that (as far as I know, it's been years) probably doesn't pay a lot of attention to coopetition--which may not even have been coined at the time--and things like ecosystems.

That said, we do still talk about competitive moats for businesses and VCs are certainly willing to pay a lot of money to help build those moats.
Individually modeling any single actor in a market (whether a monopolist or not) accurately is tough, because they can make decisions for reasons other than profit maximization. As your source mentions:

http://www.sanandres.esc.edu.ar/secondary/economics%20packs/...

Economic models are more descriptive of behavior than they are prescriptive of behavior. It is possible that a factor in a model is not considered by the participants. Vanishingly few, if any, companies are going to be drawing profit maximization curves to make pricing decisions. Most of them don't have the information to draw it even if they wanted to. For most companies that do follow that model, it's by an accident of the invisible hand, not because they made a decision that way.
If they believed this, they wouldn't be selling at the current spot, sellers would all be putting their asks ~46% above spot (discounting time value of money), and the market would move.

That risk and upside is already priced in if you believe in market efficiency.
This should be pinned.
You wouldn't have to install them. They would be toggled on in the app by default with a modal or some notification ensuring you know what you're being protected from.

If you are okay with the default protections, closing that modal is one [x] away.

If for some reason you want spam, then toggle it back on.
> Isn't this up the ukranians themselves? I mean really.

Nope. The world needs Ukraine to be a buffer state. Sorry. Greatest good for the greatest number and whatnot.
Maybe not early, but saying that we are in the "late stages of adoption" is laughable.
There's "no point" in organized war atrocities, and yet they happen anyway.

Which is to say there actually is a point: terror, demotivation, channeling the anger and frustration of your troops into a "soft" target, etc.
Well, then this is also true of crypto - there are regulations about how the electricity used for PoW is generated, transmitted, distributed, regulations about how these transactions should be reported for tax purposes, etc.

But that's not what he's talking about.
I'm surprised they still support video dislike via API, but have removed it from the user interface... I understand they are likely worried about backwards compatibility with the abundance of client-devices, and not inadvertently breaking some app somewhere, but why not just make it a noop...

Unrelated: My treadmill has the absolute worst YT client I've ever used.
People learn when they have motivation.

If you always do everything for them, tell them it's complicated or easy to mess up.. well then yeah, they aren't going to learn.

Tech knowledge is not special compared to any other kind of knowledge. You don't have to be "tech savvy" to be a self sufficient user.
I cannot think that Elon Musk owning/controlling Twitter will go even half the way he expects. He clearly only sees it as a potential platform for disseminating his opinions, which have regularly been wrong when it came to things like the pandemic. He's a potentially dangerous egomaniac and if he is allowed to own Twitter the best case scenario is that Twitter experiences a mass user exodus, worst case it turns into a social media platform for crazy nonsense like Newsmax and OAN. Sure, it could just turn into a Fox News equivalent, but that's barely better.
The demos have Node.JS examples. If that's the case, it doesn't seem possible to block.

If it's running in a browser, Google can simply disallow those domains to make API calls.

Also, at least Apple will block apps that make unauthorized API calls to third parties.
Record-breaking simulation hints at how climate shaped human migration
This has literally never been true. Reddit was designed from the ground up to rotate heliocentrically around the whims of moderators.
What does that even mean in this case? There is no regulation against front-running. Take the stock market for example. Everyone knows that high frequency traders moved all of their infrastructure to be as close as possible to Wall Street to get sub-second advantages on trades. No one batted an eye. Of course, could you stop it if you tried? Information is asymmetrically distributed someone will always find and exploit an advantage somewhere and it's impossible to be fair.

Everyone knows that Wall Street got bailed out in 2008 by the very same regulators you say are for our own good. Everyone knows Wall Street and Black Rock got the biggest squeeze from the Covid stimulus. In return we got $1400, 10% inflation, and a drop in real income. And front-running still happens. Hell the whole business model for Robinhood, the app, which charges zero trading fees, is to package up their retail users trades and sell the orders to high frequency traders who will squeeze out profits from front running or sandwiching the orders.

Also, everyone knows that Congress does insider trading and the speaker of the House is the worst offender. Everyone knows that the revolving door that moves between regulators and the financial sector is incestuous.

The regulations you praise are written by the lobbyists and companies who benefit the most. And I'm not in that club. Maybe you are and that's why you defend it. But it ain't me.
"virtual worlds needs virtual content created at virtually zero cost, fully customizable to the individual"

That seems like the polar opposite of the NFT metaverse vision, where artificial scarcity encourages people to pay for speculative assets.
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What I Learned Building (and Selling?) a Company in 30 days: Days 1–15
See article I linked from FT for the rationale.

You can have all 100% of the shares, and there are still things the law can punish you for, like running a company to the ground. You can't say: I owned 100% of the shares, so ordered the board to set fire to it as I though the flames would be beautiful and would give me a calming ego trip.

Shareholders can't order any type of action from directors, just because they might have votes to elect them.

Look at Facebook, and the CEO special shares. Do you think you are an owner of Facebook or a passenger along for the ride?
I mean it is japan. If we go with the cliché, it would be hard to find any japanese writer who would choose social emberassment over actually doing the job. Especially if they chose to buy into this thing themselves.
But Facebook bought Instagram before Vine was a thing, the causality is backward if you're interested in why FB/Insta was approved!
> The advent of edge GPT-3

I am nowhere near the industry, so may be a dumb question, but are the new analog in-memory compute modules[0] likely to help with this in reality? How far away is that reality?

[0]

https://mythic.ai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67LXWocO9HI
My faith has kept me from thinking like this, despite being very prone to it (as discovered at the times in my life when I really wrestled with my faith).
You need psychedelics, my friend.
even worse, it's "artificial scarcity" of some of the worst art out there
> that's why it's called a "hostile takeover"

No, this is not a hostile takeover. A hostile takeover is if Elon bought up more than 50% of the shares. Which he can do much more cheaply than buying outright at a 38% premium.

If they decline his offer plan B may be to buy up the cheap shares until he has 51%.
He can't manipulate it into a 22% profit, for exactly the reason you articulated. His buying pushed the price up - his selling will push the price down. He might might make a small profit from the increase his buying news generated if he were to sell now, but his VWAP would be well below 22%.
You might have missed it, the cafe is at the back of a sumo arena.
I’m well aware of the predecessor colonial governments pre-Federation. My point is that those were symbols and apparatus of British imposed rule, and it is relatively recent that the notion of an “Australian government”, as its own national sovereignty, came about. Specifically since the change in national identity had a direct impact on the government no longer being looked at as “the ruling class”.
I think the issue he is pointing out is that China has plenty of laws that, as written, guarantee the exact opposite of what the state actually does. For instance, article 35 of the PRC's constitution guarantees "freedom of speech, the press, assembly, association, procession and demonstration.", yet that is obviously not the case in practice.
People certainly pass on specific kinds of insulin when their price increases.

Note that the "old" kind of insulin is available for 25 $/vial. It sucks in a lot of ways (requires more frequent dosage, and has a smaller margin of error), but it is dramatically cheaper than the newer and better kinds.

So financially strapped diabetics do have a trade off available to them.
Staking pays all stakers out proportional to their stake, which is as fair as is possible, and more fair than PoW. Distributed staking pools lower the barrier to entry to 0.01 ETH.

Ethereum will still be printing ETH in perpetuity; it only becomes deflationary whenever more is burned than printed.
> You probably won't like this answer, but most people are lost in one way or another

The alternative is having lots of problems and being in an objectively bad situation. If you're just feeling lost, it means you have solved most of your problems - congrats! I find it never really gets much easier, or much harder.
These posts are like horse sheppards talking how cars suck without ever seeing one.
I get a higher quality at a lower price - works out great.

Are you sure? A lot of these are "the hippies ripping off the yuppies".

In my area, they often sell the same stuff as the grocery stores --- just priced differently. A little basket of 4 tomatoes (usually about 2 lbs) is $5. The grocery store price is $1.49/lb (or less if you shop at Lidl or Aldi).

The price isn't regulated but there are lots of other regulations involved along with legal liability if they poison customers.
Every competitor has failed because it prioritized free speech above user experience. Almost all have had terrible UI's, terrible performance, lots of bugs.

BigTech owns the mindshare of how to build these platforms. Musk would actually have the resources to pay for the level of expertise and competence to build such a platform. However, it would be years in the making which might all become irrelevant with web3.

Or Musk could throw support behind web3 tech as ultimately free speech will only exist when controlled by no one including free speech advocates such as Musk.
Not really. The OP in this thread is very overblown. The business judgement rule is a cornerstone of corporate law in most western jurisdictions - Delaware's framework, if anything, enhances the value of the scope and level of deference offered by the rule.

https://corplaw.delaware.gov/delaware-way-business-judgment/...
IANAL but I've worked with some of them and I'd guess that isn't sufficient.

My advice to avoid any negative attention from YT/Google (but again IANAL) would be to do two things:

1. Move the "this is an unofficial" disclaimer at the top and bold and/or italic it so it's totally unmissable. I would use the same approach as MarshallOfSound: https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop...

2. Praise Youtube/Google for having such a great API that empowers and enables their users to get the most out of their subscription. Make sure to point out the (true) benefits that YT gets from having a library like this that is available but they don't have to maintain and promise nothing to.
He isn’t smart. Just like trump isn’t smart. How could such guys be so successful if they aren’t smart?? Well, they are just the right amount of stupid, careless and bold to succeed in today’s world of mindless masses.
Spacecraft are one thing, Mars another. By the evidence, he is satisfied with where SpaceX and Tesla have got to. And, renewable energy generation and storage development and deployment.

Or maybe he wants to turn Twitter into a bully pulpit, and drive government spending where he thinks it should go... That's the 4D chess argument.
FB Purity seems to be keeping up. But it is not a general purpose adblocker.
And https://practical-scheme.net/gauche/index.html
Well done, he won't be on the Supervisory Board - so bought the shares for useless. Now complete takeover announced - rejected - share price rises - shares sold again, good money made
This one is ugly, but I've seen nice ones:

https://www.amazon.com/JFF-Cockpit-Ergonomic-Massage-Footres...
> "It is obvious. It's also obvious that Elon could draw an initial set of users that was more than big enough to have sufficient network effects on day 1."

This would be "obvious" about Trump, too, no?

Perhaps your claim is that Musk would have a better chance of making something that scales and can accept all those users from day 1, but then that's also a much more expensive bet for Musk to make with higher up-front pre-launch cost.
Does she just cold apply or does she do some networking first then does an apply w/referral?
Why not just say U.S. instead of North America?
At least it should be easy to understand why though. If you've never seen it used for good in your own eyes, then it's easy to stick with that take.
Having worked at a gas station, most of the money comes from snack and drink sales indoors. Gas itself netted <$0.05 per gallon, I think.
So basically simulating the environment of sitting in a university library all day until you have to submit a piece of work at midnight, while 100 other people all sit and do the same around you.

Very good idea. Works like a charm.
funny example, bellevue is the atherton of seattle. they caused such a stink during planning of the line 2 extension microsoft, boeing and t-mobile sent the city council a letter telling them to shut the hell up
There is several standards in the professional space, Dante being the biggest for "audio over ethernet". It's packet switched, so buffering is required.

AES50 works over cat5 cables, but doesn't use ethernet; it uses a synchronous clock to transmit PCM audio. A lot of the Midas/X32 product lineup uses this to great effect.

Dante allows normal IP equipment to function as audio distribution devices, but has noticeable latency for close-quarters stuff (sound travels ~ .9ms / foot +-10%).

AES50 has extraordinarily low latency, pretty much as good as analog, but only allows point-to-point links.

On the consumer side, RAOP existed for awhile before silicon valley elitism infected Apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Audio_Output_Protocol

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I had in my head the RAOP was an open standard, it's not.
Making a Bluetooth alternative, I think apple is the only company that can pull it off.
But they will absolutely do it such that only their headphones will work with Apple devices. And then they will license other manufacturers to be able to use their tech to connect to apple devices.

Otherwise, I see a huge opportunity for a consortium to develop a new hardware and software stack for high quality low latency audio and being them as a package to their products. I would love a completely wireless Dolby Atmos like setup with no central receiver, your mobile device itself being the av receiver. New speakers from any manufacturer and form factor could be added wherever you want as you buy them. Calibration according to your speaker placement would be wireless and automatic.
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100%. This dude has hit the endgame and has the freedom of financial independence. Time to open the alpaca farm, or the breakfast cafe.
100% true, it is exactly what I've meant with my comment.

Well, there is a lot of people that die everyday having wasted all their lives working and hating themselves because they've never made time for themselves, even if they could afford to.

As hacker news has a bunch of hustle culture bros, such argument doesn't resonate much here, it is sad to say, but even though this community motivate a lot of individuals to take charge of their lives and get into entrepreneurship, innovation and great contributions to society, at the same time, some people also end up getting trapped by money/compensation and pointless work, doing stupid shit they dislike or doesn't like as much and many divorces and sad stories, which are very rarely shared here.

OP has mentioned that he is basically done with his obligations in life and is sad, and then this cryptobro comes here to talk shit that those hustlers do.

If you want to waste your life doing amateur climbing, bowling or doing art and living off tips and being homeless, AND YOU ENJOY IT, this is what you should be doing. There will be always the Elon Musk's that will have 10 kids, 15 wives, 7 girlfriends and a couple hundred billions, you don't need to become another one.

It is the humanities, arts etc that make us humans and gives meaning to our existence in the universe. It isn't shooting fucking rockets to space.