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messenger is an absurdly popular app that keeps users in the platform and also increases the intensity of their usage, ultimately leading to more eyeballs, ads and revenue. If you …

When it launched we all talked about the serving/inference costs being massive. In hindsight if they had a paywall, it might not have self-imploded so fast, might have stayed aspir…

Volts covers nuclear fairly often. Check the transcript history if you're genuinely interested. It's not a compelling story; solar and wind are _really_ cheap now, and our modeling…

Does this actually need to be local? Since the chat bot is open to the public and I assume the course material used for RAG all on this page ( https://canvas.illinois.edu/courses/5…

The Partner is the consultant. The 'recent grad' is just extra low-cost apprenticeship for the partner. The customer is (ridiculously over-) paying for the Partner's time and toler…

Exactly. This is an apartment complex with some so-so on-site retail situated on a light rail trunk line, just outside of a university and eventually downtown Phoenix. Reduced park…

The "hired to do nothing" Tech Company meme was almost entirely actually just recruiters: https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-tech-workers-say-they-wer...

Around these parts a lot of the affected laid off were the upper end of that equity range. Expensive long-timers or over-hires who aren't producing at the level they negotiated. I …

I just want to say, every one of your bullet points resonated with me - work hurdles, fatherhood, aging parents, societal ugliness. Let me be your clone and perhaps you can be mine…

Because the fixed rate is based on treasurys and the inflation rate is based on inflation, they're essentially locked-in at zero truly real return. Which is not a bad 'floor' posit…

No need to assume it's written there clearly: Combining the two rates To get the actual rate of interest (sometimes referred to as the composite or earnings rate) we combine the fi…

I think this is making clear how many restaurants were only making margin on the up-sells like beverages. At the high-end it's alcohol and dessert and at the low-end it's soft drin…

It brings to mind the early 2000s MTV show Diary, which always led with the tagline "You think you know... but you have no idea" There's probably some German word for it, like Scha…

For less than you might pay for a car, or a year of college, or heck, what you might put into your 401k for the year, you can offset effectively your entire life at $16,000. (80y l…

I meet a lot who are students (eg, nursing). Driving for Uber is their only job, they'll do it as many hours as they can get, approaching FT. But they need the flexibility, they mi…

Agreed. Burry seems to be getting a lot of responses but almost none of them seem to have actually listened to what he said (or even read the article). There is real risk from the …

That's why they say land is an investment and appreciates; houses depreciate. Bet the land in those remote areas is still worth the small value they paid for it while the houses ar…

In a similar vein, I've taken to traveling over the July 4th holiday every year now. For many people, it can be a very long weekend, or is easy to turn into an entire week+ trip. I…

That's not how that math works, _at all_. Besides, you have an asymmetric opportunity, since you can interview, get an offer, and decline it if you don't like the new option. You d…

Your answers read exactly like most of the people I know at Microsoft. I think to a certain extent companies with high average tenure produce cultures where people become risk-aver…