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Honestly, this seems like a win-win for humanity. We get entertainment, money's raised for a charity, and Musk & Zuck get a unique experience and maybe a reputation boost. Unless one them is killed or seriously injured, in which case that might alter the course of their companies—but it seems like the benefits outweigh the risks (for us).

C and C++ are different languages. It's subjective, but both are generally more difficult than garbage collected languages because you have to think about memory management and they don't have some of the high-level utilities other languages do (like an easy to use timer). IMO, modern C++ isn't too gnarly (it has a nice standard library that with components like smart pointers and containers), but it's still a PITA compared to garbage collected languages because it builds slowly and you do have to think about memory management like I mentioned. C is gnarlier IMO because its standard library is much more bare bones and it doesn't have the built-in smart pointers or containers that C++ has.

It will be interesting to see how Apple prices and frames this device. $3k is an enormous price tag that would limit its adoption to enterprise (which isn't a big market today) and the richest Apple fans. So either the rumored price is significantly off ($1.5k = still expensive but more within reach of gamers and prosumers) or Apple thinks its headset is so revolutionary that it will win over many businesses that don't use mixed reality yet today.

I also expect Apple to frame this as an AR device that can also do VR (rather than the other way around). In other words, if it's an AR device that is 10x better than Hololens 2 and slightly cheaper, they can capture that existing (small) enterprise AR market today and grow that market much larger.

Yeah, you're right. I didn't realize there's currently a bug where retweets aren't labeled.

Unsure if this related, but on the web, my "Following" feed is also now full of tweets from people I don't follow.

Just a heads-up: this isn't my work. I just spotted it on the Unity subreddit and thought it was interesting.

5 seconds after I posted this, I Googled it and found that I'm definitely not the first one to think of MAMAA:

https://fortune.com/2021/10/29/faang-mamaa-jim-cramer-tech-f...

This just further convinces me that it's time to deprecate FAANG in favor of MAMAA.

I used Stripe Atlas to create my Delaware C corp in 2019 and highly recommend

Best small expense: Sodastream Fizzi One Touch for making seltzer (replaced buying Topo Chico and LaCroix)

Best large expense: WhisperRoom sound booth to allow me to sing and play guitar in my apartment without my neighbors hearing.

Acquired's episode on the history of Enron:

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/enron

Interestingly, the Chicago metro area is excluded from the large swath of midwestern states at high-risk. I wonder if this is partially because Chicago gets much of its power from six nuclear reactors in the area:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50136

Thanks for your reply! I get that same crypto spam, too. I'm now getting way more spam than legitimate customer DMs, so if it keeps up, I'll probably close my DMs and link to my company contact form.

Just to clarify: this is about the maker of the stop motion film about Rudolph. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was originally created in 1939 as a book for the Chicago-based Montgomery Ward department store:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer

He mentioned wanting to be close to the sea, which might give Peoria the upper hand. But then he also mentioned valuing lower taxes, so Muncie might be the best fit after all.

There are some fun surprises in there. For example, I didn't know Rand designed the logo for Columbus, Indiana, a small town I used to live by. The C's from the logo are sprinkled in art and signs throughout downtown.

Now that I live in a city with a good train system (Chicago), a plan to alleviate traffic in large cities by boring tunnels for more cars sounds incredibly inefficient, and clearly driven by Musk's incentive to sell cars.

Like:

- Compiles to a static binary that's relatively small compared to something like .NET AOT.

- Structural typing.

- No semicolons.

Dislike:

- Lack of exceptions. I can understand wanting to avoid exceptions for safety critical software like avionics, but for most application programming, requiring manual error handling for every function call is cumbersome and unnecessary.

- Too verbose / lacking features. For example, there's not a short syntax for lambda expressions, like the => operator in C# or JavaScript.

- Public / private access modifiers at the package level rather than the class level (there are no classes).

- Language development is driven primarily by Google, who has a history of killing products.

I mostly just think it's funny that through a series of automated flukes, this is Google's top search result for "Chicago cults". The first fluke being that Yelp's SEO factory backend generated a page dedicated to the best local cults in Chicago, and the second that Google thought it was the best search result.

I just found it amusing that this is the first result on Google for "Chicago cults". https://google.com/search?q=Chicago+cults

Coinbase was part of the YC Summer '12 batch. What are the odds he's referring to Brian Armstrong? It may be a long shot, but that would at least explain why the concern from his friend is noteworthy.

Any thoughts on why SBF lied to the Vox reporter about it being a hack?

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-frie...

Maybe he just didn't want to have to explain some breaking news to her.

A six-figure income may be needed to afford a house in a large or coastal city, but there are huge swaths of the US where housing is not nearly as expensive as this article suggests. For example, the typical home value in Ohio is ~$215k:

https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-house-price...

As someone from the midwest, I push back on the assumption that paying $400k for a house is the typical US experience.

The current title is inaccurate; it should be "AngelList Talent is now Wellfound". The investing part of AngelList is still AngelList: https://angellist.com

I'm an American that sells software to clients in the EU that this legislation considers a Class I critical product (https://vuplex.com). If this law is passed, what would be the consequence of not hiring an auditor to comply with it? Depending on the cost of an auditor, compliance may cost more than the revenue generated from the EU. If that's the case, it may no longer be economical for me to sell to clients in the EU.

Something changed this post's URL, which caused the timestamp to get lost. Here's the original URL with the timestamp (33:50):

https://youtu.be/J2V4tg0QkBk?t=2030

Another highlight is SBF describing how when they were raising capital, they couldn't answer investors' questions about risk, custody, and audits.

https://youtu.be/J2V4tg0QkBk?t=1523

"I don't know, we just fucking started this company like two months ago and we're trying to scale up extremely quickly. Like, we don't have great answers to some of your questions"

We didn't know what the balance sheets of FTX and Alameda looked like, and most of us don't know enough about the space to guess this was happening. Brian Armstrong (founder of Coinbase) was on the All-In podcast yesterday and said he was curious how SBF had so much liquidity, but even he admitted he didn't see this coming in the slightest: https://youtu.be/Id7cNqwqt1I?t=2612