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it did lead to I think two GOP pickups in Texas, near Dallas iirc

They sell bedsheets, with sort of a raunchy ad campaign. I had a adblocker but wound up uninstalling it when it became more of a hassle than it was worth.

The brooklinen ads are mortifying when I'm online in public

its mostly because the global economy is dollarized so there's a number of benefits store your wealth in dollars as a hedge or point of stability. If the dollar's dominance wanes, so too will be the appetite for US treasuries.

Meta saw the grave premonitions from ai firms as a means of edging out legacy firms through regulatory capture.

tell me more? I used to live in Albuquerque and always wondered what happened.

On general magic and their 90s smartphone efforts and the constraints they worked within.

Own a significant chunk of a rapidly growing large company, or be LeBron james.

Stalin's demographic researchers kept disappearing until they came up with the numbers he wanted.

The only thing that doesn't make sense: these companies are more profitable than ever. Google stock rocketed up last year. AI spend per employee is also up, many companies with a strictly enforced minimum AI spend. Surely that cost could have gone to entry levels?

I think the designation of the US as a flawed democracy is fair. We have free elections, yet (particularly at higher levels of government) rarely see popular mandates translate to governance.

A family member at a large tech has stated that their has been an effective hiring freeze for the last three-ish years in their department. To the point that they're letting major business lines rot on the vine.

There are extractive and inclusive economic institutions. democracies tend to guarantee the latter, we are rapidly pursuing the former.

I definitely struggled with feeling hyper engaged in the classroom setting, and then the jarring transition to the next class. By the time I switched between three and four subjects that day and on to do assignments, I was completely fried.

Loved my time at Olaf.

Bloomberg is crazy expensive. They used to have citylab articles without a paywall, but looks like they've fixed that.

I think the stocks don't have a arbiter managing a discrete outcome between parties that don't have any KYC compliance.

"one word. Plastics"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCHH5D74Fs

Clare Malone era of FIVE THIRTY EIGHT was among the most serious political journalism out there.

But in exchange we get to also waste vast energy and carbon while depleting job prospects for just about any college grad.

I would think Police unions would probably gladly accept. higher pay for more accountability. It feels like accountability sheltering is a deal with the devil that cities made.

Read "why nations fail". It essentially covers this. Markets and technologies are great but ultimately bound by the systems of power they inhabit.

For expensive high growth markets, rents have dropped in most. Part of this is from a freezing of the labor market meaning nobody is really moving to town.

I think it's more contractors were responsible for providing only their deliverables. The program design as a whole is done by the DoD when they bid out their requirements.

It seems like in the last number of years, VC has been prioritizing becoming the beneficiary of the whims of the regime.

In short, I wonder if this has any implications about their confidence in startups' viability in private sectors

I hate asking people what they do, but it's hard to know ahead of time what questions will get an excited answer, so it's sort of a fall back.

I would add, that in addition to the immediate need for income, there's an identity component of just being gainfully employed, marching along in life and providing for others. Hitting the brakes on that does psychological harm.

I think what makes this a little murkier is that this Beck guy appears to be already a well known figure in crypto circles. (I don't really follow the space). It feels more like uncovering the secret director of a film to be an established film producer.

For the last point, I agree there's a sort of "who cares" aspect to the piece. There is no artistic intent to interpret. The product speaks for itself making BTC the default crypto coin instead of any of the other millions of coins. The wealth from the founder, from what I can tell, has not been instrumentalized in any significant way.

No but the airline might choose starlink. I think a gogo business install is on the hundreds of thousands and annual costs in the tens of thousand for their Eutelesat based system.

Of its still profitable to do so, considering opportunity costs for the capital, firms will continue to build. However, it's so expensive to build that these project wind up not becoming bankable very quickly. I think that's the underlying issue that needs to be addressed.