Andy Deponai

Quality. Value.

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

roger ebert on fandom

[Anime Outsiders @animeoutsiders]

I don't care what he thinks about video games, Roger Ebert had the ultimate redpill on nerd culture as a whole.

This basically describes every fandom on earth, and once you see it, you can never un-see it.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

College students use AI to do most of their writing. An increasing number of professors secretly use it for grading. In the limit case, AIs do all the work, and all the humans do is transmit what they create. A good compiler would recognize this as dead code and remove it.

[Markets & Mayhem @Mayhem4Markets]

@Crowded_Mkt_Rpt there are valuation frameworks for all variety of assets, including individual companies, real estate, resource prospects, intellectual property, etc.

what's the valuation framework that's widely agreed upon for bitcoin and what is the present fair value?

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

found while doomscrolling

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

I thought the advice below was great from Paul Graham’s mom. I still think about it from time to time, there’s a lot of depth to it because of what was unsaid.

Another thing I’d add is don’t sweat the small stuff when they get older and there’s a point of friction at school or where ever. Take the long view always! Stay calm and patient! Don’t over react even if something seems like a crisis at the time. These things almost always have a way of buffing out.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

My mother would have been 90 today. She was an interesting person and an extraordinarily good mother. The most useful bit of parenting advice I've heard is something she told me. "All you have to do is love them and show them the world."

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

@LasVegasLocally Don’t make too many specific plans.

[Vital Vegas @VitalVegas]

Prices are reasonable, you just can’t get there from here.

[セナ@ADHDを才能に変える思考法 @otonashikotoba]

『やる気を出そうとするのをやめなさい』え？やる気がないから困ってるのに、と思った。

でも続けてこう言われた。「やる気は行動の『前』じゃなく『後』に出る。ADHDの脳は、考えてから動こうとすると永遠に動けない。先に体を動かした人にだけ、やる気は後から追いつい��くる」 順番が、逆だった。

[Sidecar Investor @sidecarcap]

I used to think investing was about being contrarian.

Now I realize it’s more like riding a wave that is far larger and longer than people expect.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer»

— J. R. R. Tolkien

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

FOBs like usf had in Iraq and Afghanistan are a relic of the past now. It’s all about mobility, dispersion, scattered strong points, digging in, camouflage, overhead cover. Have to assume anywhere with stationary clusters of troops will get targeted with drones right quick as is happening in Ukraine. Extremely violent/lethal environment, no safe havens.

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

We have an all-volunteer force.
Mothers and fathers send their sons and daughters trusting they will fight just wars, waged using means that honor basic humanity.

At what point does that implied contract break if the USA goes rogue and casts aside frameworks like the Geneva Convention?
Creates duration risk to sustaining the all-volunteer force.
Also can create near term unintended consequences that increases risk to achieving a peace that follows the war that is superior to pre-conflict conditions.

For example, iwe destroy desalination plants and that creates a large scale humanitarian crisis/suffering.

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

I remember reading through the program at a game and in the notes under Brooks Taylor it said something people don’t know about him is that he had beaten Kendall Gill in an unofficial slam dunk contest. I remember thinking there’s absolutely no way that’s true!

(To Taylor’s credit he became a solid contributor in his senior year)

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

$5.30 / gal in Las Vegas today

pre-war was ~$3.50 / gal

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

“Our leaders can’t feel compelled to tell their bosses what they want to hear.”
— H.R. McMaster in 2013 interview

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

“Johnson didn’t want military advice from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. What he wanted… was tacit approval for decisions already made. And he also wanted to use their uniforms to lend credibility to his policies, even though they really hadn’t had a say in any of these decisions.”
— H.R. McMaster in a 1998 discussion of Dereliction of Duty

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

“The disaster in Vietnam was not the result of impersonal factors but a uniquely human failure, the responsibility for which was shared by President Johnson and his principal military and civilian advisers.”
— H.R. McMaster, Dereliction of Duty

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.”
— H.R. McMaster, Dereliction of Duty

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

“War is not won by the side that conquers more land, destroys more cities, or kills more people. War is won by the side that achieves its political aims.”
— Yuval Noah Harari

[Andy Deponai @AndyDeponai]

“Tell me how this ends.”
— General David Petraeus in 2003 while commanding the 101st in Iraq