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ConnorCallahan

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ConnorCallahan··on AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point
Wait, isn’t 1550/50000 = 0.031 ?
ConnorCallahan··on Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030
3 presidents born within 70 days of each other is a great stat to show how boomers refused to give up power.
ConnorCallahan··on California could ban Clear, which lets travelers skip TSA lines
I agree, except I don't think it is a "weak value-add". It only takes one missed flight for it to be worthwhile for me.
ConnorCallahan··on This is a teenager
“ The world we've built has shaped his life.

So he is our collective responsibility. They all are.”

I don’t understand how it’s our responsibility that he is “sometimes depressed”. I didn’t make him not study.

ConnorCallahan··on Why do we call it “boilerplate code?”
Why is twitter in a downward spiral?
ConnorCallahan··on The bottom is dropping out of Netflix
> question whether, now that they have moved so solidly into content production, Netflix is actually a scalable / viable company any more

Netflix is a scalable company precisely because they produce content, when they are share other people's content any other platform can do that. But when they create their own content suddenly they operate based on a fixed cost rather than paying for other people's content.

ConnorCallahan··on Masterclass on mathematical thinking
I just watched the first 8 out of 12 episodes and I was disappointed. There were certainly a couple good nuggets but I'm afraid that Masterclass puts too much emphasis on making things simple such that he spends most of the time talking about really simple ideas.