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You're always going to have some sort of insider leaks, and quite frankly I don't care if they make money off of it in a betting app. This isn't like the stock market which is a vehicle for wealth for hundreds of millions. Gambling/prediction markets are 100% optional to participate in and you should go in with the expectation that you're going to lose.

I believe that the $1b is apparently not coming anymore because it was basically dependent upon Sora being an actual product that actual people can use, which isn't the case anymore.

>The new hires will largely work across product development, engineering, research and sales.

I wish the article would've been able to break down the amount of people that they wanted to hire in each area. I would think that if they're trying to break Anthropics momentum in business, they'd be hiring a lot of salespeople.

>do you fire devs or build better products?

I think that it's more along the lines of "do you fire people" instead of just "do you fire devs". Fewer devs means less of a need for PMs, so they can be let go as well, and maybe with the rise of AI assisted design tools, you don't need as many UX people, so you let some of them go as well.

As for building better products, I feel like that's a completely different topic than using AI for productivity gains, but only because at the end of the day you need buy in from upper management in order to build the features/redo existing features/both that will make the product better. I should also mention I'm viewing this from the position of someone who works at an established company and not a startup, so it may differ.

>First, he's had a real anti-corruption push that seems to be meaningful and seems to apply to senior government officials and the wealthy (eg Jack Ma).

Anti-corruption pushes in the government are 100% purges, just under a different name. As for Jack Ma, wasn't he targeted because he said something that the censors really didn't like all while pushing some finance app? My memory is hazy as to why it happened, but it certainly wasn't because he was wealthy.

Remove the EV subsidies and ICE taxes, and what would that number switch to?

>If you lost your job, before the ACA, you could not get health insurance outside of working for someone and having group insurance at any cost.

This is a flat out lie. You absolutely could buy health insurance without being at a company.

That was my thought. This is 100% a state actor.

There's still the hangover from free Covid money. I think the number one reason that it feels worse is that there's a LOT more people in the industry now than back in 2020. Much more competition than before.

Jakob Nielsen has been banging the drum that we're going all end up with custom interfaces that will be tailored to what our current task is at that time. How this will work is TBD, but if I recall correctly, he's basically agreeing with your take around agents as an interface.

>Tens of thousands of engineers and designers rebuilding slightly different drop-downs is an inefficient world that is unarguably coming to an end.

As long as branding is important, you're going to keep getting slightly different dropdowns. In fact, you could argue that in a front end world that's dominated by AI written code that pulls from standard libraries, branding and all its different dropdowns become more important than ever.

I'd love to read more about the coincidence with the Bretton Woods agreement.

Looks like an extra zero was added?

In the year that I had a Surface, I can count on 2 hands the number of times that I used the touch screen. Out of all those times that I used touch screen functionality, the majority of the times were done inadvertently when I was trying to get something off the screen. I'm willing to bet a lot of people won't/don't care about the touch screen, they just want something cheap.

Which case is that?

>"He wasn't just pretending to move to Florida."

Do people often pretend that they're going to move? Seems like a weird thing to say.

Older BMW 7 series?

Question about that, wouldn't packaging be an issue unless you really shrunk the engine size? I thought that's what makes LS swaps into planes so interesting because you get a fair amount of power in a small package.

>China also needs to change something drastic to avoid brain drain.

Why does this matter? I hear this a lot but at the same time I look at what's coming out of China, especially in the AI space, and it's clear that brain drain isn't really hampering them.

If that's the case then why haven't more places moved off of COBOL?

I agree 100%. I find it odd how many people will claim to be against the MIC and promote a drop in military spending, yet they act how Europeans spending money with European defense companies rather than American ones is a terrible thing. I suppose they think that we'll just spend less money and nothing will happen otherwise?

I find it very, very interesting how they demoed visuals in the form of the “soft SaaS” website and mentioned how it can do user research. Codex has usually lagged behind Claude and Gemini when it comes to UX, so I’m curious to see if 5.3 will take the lead in real world use. Perhaps it’ll be available in Figma Make now?

It's already present in Norway. Here's a report on how well it's working [0]

[0]: https://www.brusselsreport.eu/2024/09/11/the-failure-of-norw...

>Peter Conti-Brown, a professor of financial regulation at the University of Pennsylvania, added, “I’ll say as a legal scholar and as a historian I think that differentiation is hocus pocus.”

I'm willing to bet that the "hocus pocus" is the Court not wanting financial markets to get upended by giving the president the ability to fire Fed governors even if this is contradictory to previous decisions of theirs.

>He won Iowa by 9 doing this. To a war hero.

He won Iowa by 9 due to the fact that the war in Iraq was incredibly unpopular and the economy was imploding.

>The supposed US trade war on China has resulted in their GDP growing by a massive 5% last year.

I'd take those numbers with a grain of salt. China is known to play with the numbers to hit goals when they feel that they need to.

>The US will be plummeted into massive recession by those sudden changes, while the rest of the world merely trades with whoever are the winners.

The massive devaluation in the dollar would mean that the country would become incredibly attractive for manufacturing exports, which would prevent a massive recession.

>If, for example, China decides that it finally wants a consumer economy, and the Renminbi becomes a partial reserve currency, the consumer demand will be absolutely massive.

If you think that China is going to shut down the majority of its factories, move them to other countries, and let their currency float freely (well, freer than it is today), you're delusional.

I'm curious why he chose Minden as a starting point. I'm assuming it's because it's at the foot of the Sierras and as a result there's a lot of updrafts?

As a product designer, this looks really interesting! I'm curious if you've experimented throwing caution to the wind and asking it to make an entire design system (colors, text, components), and if so, how well it's worked.

If they can’t advertise, then how should they make a profit/hit break even?

South America to Miami and vice versa will absolutely be a market for supersonic flight. It may be slow to takeoff (hah), but as soon as the South American elite pick up on it, it'll 100% be utilized to its maximum potential, especially during events like Art Basel.