@ducksays The ability to do weekly automatic payments helps to keep a lid on your balance and spending habits. Also, being able to redeem points for cash back immediately is great although it's not automatic. You can always transfer the cash from your Robinhood account to an external bank.
Ed Zitron says there is no post-dotcom-style recovery here, because outside OpenAI and Anthropic all of AI barely sells $22 billion against a trillion spent
"The post-dotcom bubble thing people say is, well, after that there was demand from the internet."
"That's very different to demand for generative AI."
"Right now the demand we have for generative AI is predominantly subsidized, and most people who experience it are not paying the real cost."
"On top of that, we already have all of the possible marketing in the world."
"We have the largest, most disingenuous marketing campaign in the history of man, pushing this up the hill."
"We have the apex predator of cloud software, Microsoft. They can only get single-digit billions from selling AI software."
"And Christ almighty, outside of OpenAI and Anthropic, we barely get $22 billion."
"And the thing is, $22 billion is a large amount to you and me. It's not a large amount of money when you spent a trillion-plus dollars."
"When you have Anthropic and OpenAI with $1.1 trillion worth of cloud commitments, and on top of that, how does this turn into a post-dotcom bubble thing?"
"A data center built today is going to be as expensive to run in 2050 as it is today unless there's some breakthrough in electricity."
In May 2016, 15-year-old Karinya “Yaya” Chen was in hospice care in Austin, Texas after years of fighting cancer. She had tickets to see Florence The Machine, but by the night of the concert, she was simply too sick to go.
So the people at Hospice Austin reached out to the band.
And Florence Welch came to her.
Florence and guitarist Rob Ackroyd walked into Karinya’s room and gave her the concert she couldn't make it to. They sang “Shake It Out” and “Dog Days Are Over,” with Karinya singing and harmonizing right alongside them.
A few months later, Karinya lost her battle with cancer at just 15 years old.
But for one afternoon, none of that seemed to matter.
There was just a young girl, one of her favorite singers, a guitar, a room full of people who loved her... and music.
Sometimes the smallest act of kindness can become one of the biggest moments of someone's life.
This is what being human is supposed to look like.🙏