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The point of the story is to know the difference between “enough” and a compulsion to achieve that your burden keeps you from enjoying your life. I hope some day you can appreciate…

The connotation of drastic always being negative is through common usage and not strict definition. See: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drastically Using drastic in thi…

I told this joke at my father's funeral. He grew up poor but he had a different mindset and I think it speaks to his character and what he instilled in me: "A successful business m…

I don’t understand what there is to gain for anyone by making the implicit system we have today explicit?

Thanks for the insight! Really wish they had easier cheaper ways to learn.

What I’m reading is this use case is for 3-5 days a week full time dev if you stick to off hours US time. That you can save significantly if you have spiky usage 1-2 days a week by…

I've been putting off learning Claude and this article had me strongly considering jumping in. Then I looked up Anthropic pricing and its 100x more convoluted than cloud services m…

Isn’t it a running joke at this point that if you do what customers ask instead of focusing on the highest quality of service you get worse outcomes and the customer is still unhap…

“All best spots are already used”, is not even close to true for the US. We have barely begun to explore and evaluate potential sites and I see this as a huge future growth industr…

There is video out of Ukraine of Russians with shotguns shooting at drones. It’s not very effective.

hmm good question.

War is inherently amoral and in an argument about its efficacy I don’t understand what your argument is?

My takeaway was that the purpose of AI is not to do “your job” as well as you but to do the things you refuse to do in your job as a person with taste and ethics.

Courts have upheld that you have a right to break copyright protection to preserve your purchased physical media and upheld the right to make and distribute tools to pursue this. U…

CEOs: “Do something about it.” Luigi Mangione: … CEOs: “Not like that… I’m not suggesting that it’s a good response. I’m suggesting that this interpretation of what CEOs are saying…

Sounds like you've got a great idea for a proof of concept for DefCon next year...

Same! I added leaderboards to a couple titles and did minor upgrades. Bible Fight, Brak headkicker, and the Inuyasha shell game specifically.

You’ve presented a plausible and concise counter argument here. Time will tell. https://dasams.substack.com/p/the-cohen-endgame?r=af3hc&utm_...

He has a massive stake in Gamestop outside of this pay package. The loss from diluting his massive accumulated position is not worth the bonus unless he thinks the price will recov…

My take? The strategy is like a contractor fixing up houses. GameStop was the crappiest house on the block. He’s fixed it up and is using it as collateral to take out a loan and bu…

GameStop has a standing approved agreement to issue up to a billion new shares. If you read the offer you will see it is 50% financed by GameStop stock. They threw him a hardball t…

I believe it was this time last year Ryan had a sit down with the Qatari sovereign wealth fund.

The attention stunts were a strategy toward finding profitability for the core GME business model. This is significantly different, in line with a strategy that seems to have been …

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