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We live in a world of Trump-esque "truths" where if you claim something once, nothing subsequent matters. Not surprised to see a guy like Altman adopt the strategy

Braintree had $1.53 trillion TPV in 2023[0], and it's just a subsidiary of Paypal which has tanked to $40 billion market cap despite revenue and profit that are probably lightyears…

A lot of these places already have massive government contracts with their own management structures. So the plan is to also make some of them federal employees, ostensibly helping…

maybe 'creator' in the youtuber sense But most creative people I know aren't really that interested in trying to co-opt someone else's work

Curious how this is affecting jewelers. Was blown away at how expensive gold earrings have gotten.

Sort of conflicts with the other points though, which basically sum up to "Be a 10X developer or die trying"

No chance any commercially available milk is getting hand milked.

Proof you don't need to own the .com domain name to make it big?: http://wiz.com/

Here's the tweet that prompted Elon's 'deleted' tweet: >18F, the far left government wide computer office that was recently taken over by allies of @elonmusk, is also the same agen…

But you don't understand. If the government helps you file your taxes, they'll use the service to collect your personal data, so the communists could use it against you at some poi…

Elon literally said they would be 'deleted' for being 'far left,' specifically for working on direct file. Yet, people still seem baffled by what's going on and refuse to accept th…

They key is to work for yourself Start your own business, hustle, and bust ass

Some of these agencies have IT infrastructure meant to accommodate thousands of people. Many have convoluted structures to protect data; webs of contractor-led programs that are ba…

>AFAIK, it has never been stated publicly that DOGE or Mr. Musk would get control of this most essential service, responsible for sourcing identity verification, etc. The man has b…

>Everybody loses. Huh? Trump singlehandedly bringing TikTok back for tens of millions of malleable voters. Sounds like a pretty huge victory for him!

We have an archiving institution for stuff like that. Relying on a private business to maintain a catalogue is nonsense.

Loom is not for teams who use Microsoft 365. It's for teams that exclusively use Slack, Notion, Miro, Vercel, Mux etc

Well, for one, categorizing the people he'd have to work with at Atlassian as "NPC Coworkers"

> the usual "crypto will upend global financial systems/crypto will change the world" hype is conspicuously missing That hype is nothing compared to the current hype, the idea that…

He's clearly implied he has some priorities vis-à-vis the government: 1. Relaxing Regulation for autonomous driving 2. Relaxing Regulation for rocket launches so he can get to Mars…

>"Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government" The irony of these two guys starting off their piece about how they plan to reshape the gove…