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Sucked not the ideal pejorative for a vacuum

Sucking is a good state for a vacuum. If Roomba sucked well enough, it wouldn't have gone bankrupt.

Growing up, local morning radio shows were no longer allowed to say "that sucked" so they all switched to "that vacuumed". The ridiculousness of being offended by idioms like this amuses me

"We have not yet begun to truly suck."

Do they have proof Chauncey conspired in and profited from the rigging? Seems like he got appearance fees in under ground games? Interesting if the prosecution can tie him to the fraud itself. Announcing it in connection with actual game rigging interesting for a case that has nothing really to do with basketball.


"One indictment in the case lists 32 defendants, including the former N.B.A. player and coach Damon Jones and the Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, who are both charged with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy, according to the docket sheet in the case. Many of the other defendants also face those charges, along with counts accusing them of operating an illegal gambling enterprise and conspiracies to commit extortion and robbery."

They don't necessarily have or need evidence that Billups was aware of the rigging, just the regular financial crimes of taking payments from the Mafia that will presumably get him to cooperate.



- a company with 800m weekly actives is not going bankrupt

- existing models are profitable if cutoff future training and focused on inference

- debt is senior to equity

- if my life depended on one company not going bankrupt over the next decade I’d pick OAI over Citibank

- banks use revolving credit as a break even or loss leader for higher fee business

- high fixed cost businesses use debt and equity to scale

- lead investors would very rarely pay down the debt of an investment, that’s not the backstop

- unlikely for revolving credit, but a convertible structure could mitigate any perceived asymmetric downside


when your credit card is telling people where and when you work it is time to reconsider your credit card


I don't think there's a credit card company that can't (or won't) do this. Or even debit cards for the matter. Or any app that has location enabled.


>when your credit card is telling people where and when you work

This article's domain (Ramp) is a SaaS company that tracks employee expenses for other companies.

Tracking employee credit-cards and reimbursements is part of their service that companies use:

https://ramp.com/expense-management

https://ramp.com/corporate-cards


every single credit card company does this.

you can literally buy purchase data from Mastercard, AMEX, and Discover and use this data for retargeting and advanced targeting w ads and run them on Facebook and other platforms.

A dog food purchase? Owner likely has pets, serve em a pet ad, etc.


Im not aware of card networks selling data like this, but there are other players like Yodlee. I used this data for equity trading.


Can I buy such data? How anonymised is it? Source?


why would nvidia not create their own foundational model?


Why didn't the people selling shovels to gold miners dig for gold themselves?

Because Nvidia is making actual profit selling hardware to those who do, not hoping for a big payout sometime in the future. Different risk/reward model, different goals.


They are printing money right now, and their customers are taking all the risk. Just keep delivering and enjoy success.


They have a bunch of Nemotron models. They can make more money from five(?) competing frontier labs than from trying to monopolize the frontier themselves.


I'm pretty sure Nemotron models are their internal teams dogfooding to learn more about the latest AI advancements in software.


Why doesn't Apple make their own iPhones instead of contracting them to Foxconn?


Comparative advantage.


Does this maintain state if navigate away ?


Yes, the site seems to save the checked cocktails into Local Storage (you can click some, and in your browser's inspection tools you can check. Eg. in Firefox > Inspect > Storage > Local Storage, there's a key with "cocktail-tracker").

I've checked and closing/reopening works (of course locally only, no incognito tabs, etc...)


Seems like perfect scope for vibe coding. Was that done?


why? just why even ask that? i don't quite get the ubiquity of the LLM hype here, and at this point it's starting to feel artificial


People are understandably fascinated by it, and trying to learn to figure out what’s being created by AI and what’s not. The commenter is right about this example, you could certainly vibe code an app like this.


some ai coding tools were used but that's just the development process nowadays


A single chart can be found to support just about any conclusion


Reminds me of one of my favorite Simpsons lines: "Aw, you can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that"


I’m partial to Homer’s “Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!”


“They say sixty-five percent of all statistics Are made up right there on the spot”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUK6zjtUj00


Also, the chart doesn't take into account that the biggest companies have more power, are bigger right now, and it's not inherent to them using AI. If not AI, it would be something else. Shares and revenue are growing, and people are getting fired. They will not collapse.


The conclusion I drew was "The level of value inequality in the S&P 500 is higher than before".

From that, any number of conclusions are possible, including perhaps:

* The level of innovation at those companies is high. Certainly the 90s tech booms were actually very innovative and profitable.


In the beginning the main advantage of Airbnb was

1) much cheaper due to none of the tax and fee apparatus local govts attach to hotel stays

2) the ability to “stay like a local” in neighborhoods where residents live instead of hotel neighborhoods like Times Square , fisherman’s wharf, soma etc

1 is completely gone and has maybe gotten worse than hotels. 2 still holds to an extent but you mostly find professional spaces


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