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What is MS board doing? How did Xbox spend 70 Billion without C-Suite approval?

There seems to be no consequences for top management.

I bought a base iPad 2 qeeks ago.

At least with the cheaper models, you get deals at Best Buy and Amazon.

I wonder whether this will also inflate the used market. I could have gotten more for my trade-in.

The 300 Billion pay out is huge.

For context, Israel gets 38 Billion over 10 years to buy US Arms.

And Iran's GDP is 475.2 billion as of 2024.

We have to remember that for the vast majority of human history, keeping people alive and healthy was not a concern. Most medical interventions discovered during post-Industrial Revolutions did not require special technology.

It is only when human labor was needed at a large scale when we started caring about people living long healthy lives.

Well because you are not paying for ads.

You are paying rent. Alphabet and Meta own all the real estate of the web, and you have to pay them rent to survive.

This is a good podcast on the old regime: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/696337392

Summary of the old regime: Mergers that lead to 5+% market share were blocked.

Then the "consumer harm in terms of prices" was adopted. Which swung the pendulum the other way. That is the fundamental economic policy now. Which has lead to abhorrent results.

I wrote a comment on previous post that was about how consumer harm standards have warped the discussion on tariffs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096236

The Capex and Opex requirements to do anything in the US are THE barriers to entry.

Nobody has that kinda cash lying around, banks can't justify such high liabilities, and VCs are not interested in "stable", businesses.

The pre 1980s standards were ridiculous though. However, even if the US moves to some 3 quarters of the way towards now would be a huge improvement.

The "consumer harm" standard is idiotic.

I wrote about this just over 5 years ago: https://chapra.blog/search-is-dead-352/

Google had already transformed the open web to the point of uselessness anyway.

Do you think in the world of the Military Industrial Complex and the zero-sum game that is Great Power geopolitics, we will have any guardrails?

I find the discussion around tariffs in the US pretty weird. The people making the case for them right now sound like complete idiots at points and downright dishonest at other points, and the people making the case against them sound weirdly racist and classist.

It is partly because of polarization, but mostly because the US economic and policy discourse is centered around nebulous "Consume Harm", as measured in price.

The "for" camp claims:

1. Tariffs will bring manufacturing home overnight, 2. Everything import should be taxed, 3. And tariffs are being paid by the foreign exporter, so American consumers will be shielded from price increases.

All of these claims are lies. American business' biggest input cost is labor. By a long margin. Tariffs need to be much higher for manufacturing to be a feasible investment in most industries. Which means more pain for the consumer.

The 'against' camps argument all hinge on the fact these are filthy jobs for filthy foreigners and poors. There is no need for them in the US. Even if they are not focusing on that issue, they are talking about how taxing imports cause "Consumer harm" and therefore it is bad.

That is the crux of this post as well. The tariffs did cause price increases for consumer.

But if the goal is to increase manufacturing base in the US, then this harm would be irrelevant in the long term.

This obsession with "Consumer Harm" has poisoned all trade and economic policy in the US. It is the reason Anti-trust is toothless in the US, why every industry is an oligopoly, and why the rust belt exists.

Of course, protectionism is not the only ingredient needed to promote any given industry. China, Vietnam, Korea and India did it via robust industrial policy. Some might say US did so as well, during World War 2. But that is cOmMuNiSm now.

This is funny because it is an unfounded claim replying to the request for proof.

I can show you my git tree where GLM4.5 deleted my whole test suite and my session docs where it invented new github cli commands. Are you willing to show us where you saw me taking money from any US tech company?

I don't know why this was downvoted. It is a genuine counterargument, even if it misses some of the context.

The problem isn't that there are alternatives. The problem is that this sort of vapid human zoo has flourished and spread globally.

The only major culture that seems to have avoided it is China. And that's because they got addicted to even more vapid mobile livestreams.

z.ai will use quantized models in off hours. Buyer beware

My blog is a vanity project that nobody reads, and it seems to not be part of the training corpus. Claude in incognito could not recognize me.

IIRC, it was $2B annualized. Which means nothing. Also, their expenses will be way north of that.

I thought the goal of the FBI was to entrap mentally ill pelople

But the suggestion a bunch of Lawyers are better traders than average also stretches creduility.

Somehow, Congress beating the market simply on savvy is huge ask to believe.

Freedom of speech is the freedom from State retailiation.

What the hell are you on about?

The danger of LLMs is not that they will take over.

The danger is two-fold.

* Powerful people using them as the ultimate sycophants. * Also them looking to offload responsibility and liability.

What are you talking about? The feds cant even prosecute arson against minority religions https://revealnews.org/podcast/trial-and-terror-rebroadcast/

I have yet to see any real world difference between sonnet 4.5 and opus 4.6. All I can tell is the version number went up for both series.

I don't know if they are a even an improvement over previous models. I never used them.

What evidence do we have that it is true?

A shopify app to sync witg Google Sheets. https://shopsheets.co

Late to the party but first verse of Stan by Eminem:

Subject: Reaching out to a thought leader in the space

Hi Slim,

I’ve been trying to sync up with you regarding some potential synergies, but it seems we haven't connected yet. I’ve left my multi-channel contact info (mobile, pager, and landline) below for your convenience.

I initiated a couple of touchpoints back in Q3, but they might have been lost in the shuffle or hit a delivery bottleneck. I’ll admit my manual data entry can be a bit unoptimized at times when I'm moving fast.

Anyway, let's pivot—how are things on your end? Hope the family is doing well! On a personal note, I’m currently scaling my own family and expecting a new addition soon. If it’s a girl, I’m already locked in on the branding: Bonnie.

Also, I wanted to express my condolences regarding the situation with your Uncle Ronnie. It’s a tough market out there; I actually lost a close contact recently due to some personal relationship ROI issues.

I know you get high-volume engagement daily, but I consider myself a top-tier advocate of your brand. I’ve been following your journey since the early-stage "underground" days with Skam. My home office is essentially a dedicated showroom for your portfolio. Your collaboration with Rawkus was a total game-changer—truly best-in-class content.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to a potential deep dive whenever you have the bandwidth. Let’s grab a virtual coffee and chat.

Best regards,

Your #1 Brand Ambassador Stan

How much of this is due to school phone bans?

I know kids are switching to mp3 players because of that.

Can you charge the ohone while listening on the phone?

Still above the fed's 2% target.

And it will go higher now. And given the President's hatered for high interest rates and the next fed chairman being a garden-variety lick-spittle, things are not looking up.

US pulling out of the JCPOA was the biggest travesty of the 21st century. No nation state will ever feel safe without a nuke now.

But Israel wanted to destroy Iran as competition. And they got it.

As other comments pointed out, the department is very much spread out. It can be confirmed via a simple google search.

Why is such an egregious comment at the top?