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DoesntMatter22··on Storm clouds gather over America's financial supremacy
There is always credit through printing money which all the world is soon going to have a reckoning over
DoesntMatter22··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Yes because you don’t have health insurance until you have a heart attack right? You never pick that before hand do you?
DoesntMatter22··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Can you name some?
DoesntMatter22··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Again, if people are doing it cheaper, how could a 13k per ride company stay in business? 911 services would have to be steering them to an insanely bloated expensive company. That wouldn't happen. Competition brings better service and much cheaper prices, always does, without exception.
DoesntMatter22··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
I live not to far from NYC and I think it’s fantastic. Comcast was charging me 75 a month and Starlink charges me 40 for the same service which is generally excellent
DoesntMatter22··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
You would do it before hand of course
DoesntMatter22··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Wont matter because nobody is going to be paying 12k for a ambulance ride if there are people doing it significantly cheaper.
DoesntMatter22··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
You don’t have to. You do what you want. I’d prefer to hire a company where the workers make more money. Right now they make a pittance.
DoesntMatter22··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
I think the answer is very simple. Regulation. If there was no regulation or very little then anyone could open up an ambulance service and the cheapest costs and the best service would win.

Unfortunately that’s not the case. It’s like day care. Day care is expensive because the government mandates it to be expensive. Otherwise you’d have grandmas down your street would gladly watch your kid but it’s generally not allowed for more than a couple kids.

Same thing with houses. I have half an acre. Could easily put 2 affordable tiny homes on it. Good income for me, cheap rent for someone else, but, unfortunately it’s legally blocked

DoesntMatter22··on Rewriting Bun in Rust
Small apps in college are much different than huge apps in the real world
DoesntMatter22··on Grok 4.5
Weird I use it 8 or so hours a day and I haven’t had that issue
DoesntMatter22··on Grok 4.5
I currently just use a Mac Mini M4 with cursor. I had 30 years programming before this (in my mid 40s now) so I am not a great person to give vibe coding advice because I have so much actual coding m. I’m pretty sure I couldn’t have done it without knowing how to code because there were some times even the best models would get stuck and I’d have to figure it out myself.

If I had to give advice I’d say to just do it. Work on some project that interests you and go for it

DoesntMatter22··on Grok 4.5
It’s a fantastic signal processing / engineering app. There are 5 major players and this app isn’t quite as good but it’s in the ballpark. I’d day when I release early next nonth this will be the biggest fully featured vibe coded app I’m aware of.
DoesntMatter22··on Grok 4.5
The latest Bloomberg reports before the xai merger/acquisition showed a dramatic turn around in their financial situation.

In the beginning it wasn’t good but they would have been fine after that. There are no credible reports to the contrary

DoesntMatter22··on Grok 4.5
Don't think it was going to zero anyway. They only had to worry about servicing their debt, they were doing well other than that. And even then they were probably fine.
DoesntMatter22··on Grok 4.5
Composer 2.5 is so underrated IMO. I built a really feature rich application, insanely complicated, close to 200k LOC since it came out and for the most part it ran like a champ. Only used CLaude a couple times to get it unstuck. 8 hours a day and I'm paying about 30 a month.
DoesntMatter22··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
Yes, so it’s a camera aimed at your face. Of course it’s a receiver, I’m not sure how that is relevant
DoesntMatter22··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
I don't think it's misleading at all. Is it a camera that's aimed at your face? It seems like it.
DoesntMatter22··on Africans Are Turning to Starlink
Doesn’t work for me
DoesntMatter22··on Africans Are Turning to Starlink
No short cuts but it’s an amazing service that’s benefiting millions of people already and will likely start to benefit millions more in africa
DoesntMatter22··on CursorBench 3.1
So like every other ai then. I love ai but this is no different than what most have done
DoesntMatter22··on Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'
Musk is winning on all fronts if you hadn’t noticed. Tesla is profitable with 40 billion in cash. Space x just had the biggest IPO of all time and just raised another 25 billion in debt financing.

Getting 15 billion a year in payments for their cluster is hardly “another rent a gpu” operation. It seems mostly your post is motivated by hatred rather than any sort of reality

DoesntMatter22··on SpaceX sheds $400B in market value as debut rally hits reverse
Spacex just had the biggest IPO is the history of the world. Nearly 3x larger than the next closest one. So any view toward Elon hasn’t mattered much.

Tesla itself still has the best selling car so I don’t think their potential was hurt much. People who hated him irrationally before hate him irrationally now

DoesntMatter22··on Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'
XAI is very relevant. They have one of the best video models, they own cursor which has a good percent of the coding market. Anthropic runs thier ai on xai’s data centers.

Saying they aren’t relevant is comical

DoesntMatter22··on SpaceX sheds $400B in market value as debut rally hits reverse
I don't get the complaint about Tesla. It's profitable, has little debt and 40 billion in the bank. What sort of "Power over the behavior of the market" do they exert? Like they can force people to buy their cars.

Space X has the most sophisticated vehicle ever created by man. Dicks does not. If you are only looking at revenue then sure, but that would be silly, you have to look at what the potential in a company is not it's current revenue, if not then looking at Blockbuster in 2008 would seem like a great investment compared to Netflix which didn't have much revenue.

DoesntMatter22··on SpaceX sheds $400B in market value as debut rally hits reverse
It signals to me that they like money and people are willing to give it to them at unprecedented levels, and probably still have plenty of capacity for themselves afterwards. Why would you not accept billions of dollars per month?
DoesntMatter22··on Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn
Musk best move IMO was going public before anyone else and gobbling up those 85 billion. I'm sure anthropic will do the same, leaving OpenAI maybe holding the bag. We'll see.
DoesntMatter22··on Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
I tried doing my side projects in Go and one thing I miss is the rails console which is so helpful. I guess I could have it write a go console or something but it’s not quite the same
DoesntMatter22··on Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
They don’t really need to be though. They take far fewer tokens and are still faster to develop with
DoesntMatter22··on Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
Rails is still fantastic and handles massive load. 15 percent of all US commerce uses Ruby on Rails
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