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>You can't possibly believe Musk's fantasies after a couple decades of hilarious (and occasionally dangerous) lies. Eh, betting against Musk generally seems to be a losing proposit…

>...Tesla is not the winner in electric cars With all due respect, what in the world are you on about?

Not convinced working for government is the best use of your potential, though considering he owns 5% of all US Treasury Bills, I wouldn't say his impact is any less than being a g…

Not by Buffett, but you'll love Poor Charlie's Alamanack, by Charlie Munger, his lifelong business partner. https://www.stripe.press/poor-charlies-almanack/cover

The moral panic is social media being the reason for the suicides going up, not the fact that suicides are going up in itself.

Sharing the Hugo theme is a great move Herman. I'll be starting a Bearblog now, all thanks to this comment.

Am I the only one who sees that the entire website is AI generated? Their categories make no sense, neither does their homepage. Weird.

Yes, and Twitter isn't reacting specially in this regard. See Reddit hiking API prices by an absurd amount.

I don't think that's fair - getting back the chronological timeline itself made the purchase a good one in my eyes, alongside the For You feed, which seems to work wonderfully (for…

Cable Cowboy, I'm guessing. Great book!

From Theodore Alois Buckley's introduction to Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad : "When we have read Plato or Xenophon, we think we know something of Socrates; when we have…

25% of the Earth's population is younger than 15. Assuming 20% of them use the internet, the TAM (not including the 3 out of 4, or 75%, seems like nearly ever human, I'd say (thoug…

funding secured wasn't a lie so much as a premature declaration, if walter isaacson is to be believed.

>Google and Apple have a somewhat poor software innovation reputation. I'm assuming you mean reputation as in general opinion among developers? Because Google's probably been the m…

it's rarely wrong when it comes to concepts - it's the facts and numbers that it hallucinates.

$24k per year to get a job?

It actually does seem to be correct, in that Musk doesn't exactly spend his money on homes or cars or yachts or other material possessions - it seems all his money goes to philanth…

Feynman started with Calculus Made Easy, and only did Calculus for the Practical Man after he finished it.

It's not about just ad revenue though, is it? Many thousands, if not millions of sites rely entirely on Google Search for their revenue. You cannot simply replace all of them with …

It is quite the impactful story. Saw it under a Twitter (X) thread on IQ and orders of thinking - worth the read.