João Louros

Software Dev. passionate about technology 💻 gaming 👨‍💻 and normality 💡

[Héelder Pinto @ballak1982]

Boa noite...
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[Daniel White @dwhitedesign]

Your UI is too perfect.

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[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jeff Bezos was asked whether the rich should pay more. He answered with a number for the poor.

Bezos: “A nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year pays more than $12,000 a year in taxes. Does that really make sense?”

He translated it into the unit people actually live in.

Bezos: “That’s $1,000 a month that could help with rent or groceries or anything.”

At her kitchen table a thousand a month is the emergency fund, the down payment, the year of night classes. It is the distance between building something and holding on.

In Washington the same thousand disappears without leaving a mark.

Bezos: “The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It’s only 3%. We can find 3%.”

Half the working population is taxed to produce three cents on the dollar. The revenue is symbolic and the cost is not.

She is the worst place in the country you could choose to collect from. The collection continues on schedule.

Bezos: “We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology.”

An apology is a sentiment. He followed it with a number.

Bezos: “I think it should be 0. I don’t think it should be 3%, I think it should be 0. So we would be making it more progressive that way.”

Zero has been affordable this entire time. Everyone who campaigns on fairness leads with the top instead.

The top is where the attention is. Her rent is where the relief would land.

Bezos: “We don’t have a revenue problem in this country. We already have the most progressive tax system in the world.”

Every proposal to fix fairness begins with a shortage the numbers never show.

Bezos: “The top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all the tax revenue.”

The wealth people want taxed next sits in companies nobody sold. A founder’s stake is a claim on what those companies will produce.

That claim pays for the factories, the labs, and every salary inside them. Taxing it as income means selling the factory to fund a single year of spending.

Ownership grows for everyone attached to it. Cash is gone by the next budget cycle.

One of them has an owner. The other has a department.

Bezos: “The vilification is the thing that’s just a distraction.”

The anger is a substitute for policy. It lets you feel like a participant in fairness while nothing reaches her rent.

The three percent holds up the premise. A country that let her keep it would admit it never needed her money.

Zero was always affordable. It took the man they cast as the villain to say it out loud.

[no.mind @the_no_mind]

Shopify billionaire co-founder & CEO Tobi Lütke — one of the most analytically rigorous founders alive — uses affirmations.

His exact words:

"If you tell yourself or write down something about yourself 100 times, it writes into the neurofrontal cortex at such a deep level that your brain will start reconciling you to that. It just works."

His personal example:

He was terrified of public speaking.

For one week he sat down every day for 10 minutes and wrote: "I love public speaking."

A week later the fear was gone.

"It's not like a placebo. You just actively change your neurofrontal cortex in this moment."

Your brain starts shaping your behavior around the identity you rehearse most.

[Ryanair España @Ryanair_ES]

Respuesta del CEO del Grupo Ryanair, Michael O'Leary, al ministro Puente:

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

European tech is simply unstoppable. It's over for Silicon Valley

[Premier Padel @premierpadel]

Yes, we know, ... the last one is your favourite 😏

#PremierPadel

[João Louros @Joaogala85]

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[Milan Jovanović @mjovanovictech]

holy moly this is crazy https://t.co/PdA5zQOUVa

[Hacking Articles @hackinarticles]

Pic of the Day

#infosec #cybersecurity #cybersecuritytips #pentesting #cybersecurityawareness

[Luis @Thor_luisXVII]

Jajaja jajaja, se pasan.

[João Louros @Joaogala85]

Não consigo perceber porque o futebol é a modalidade desportiva mais vista do mundo. Que seca de jogo...

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Palantir's CEO just exposed Sam Altman and Dario Amodei for robbing every Fortune 500 company.

Within two minutes, Alex Karp took the entire frontier AI industry apart on national television.

His exact words:

"Every single enterprise in this country, these people are LIVID. They are paying for tokens that create no value. These people are stealing the weights and alpha of my business."

He literally said the entire frontier AI business model is intellectual property extraction dressed up as a subscription.

Then he also destroyed the pricing model with a single question that Silicon Valley still refuses to answer:

"If it was so valuable, let's say I can make you $1 billion tomorrow. Wouldn't I say I'll make you $1 billion and I want 30 percent? Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?"

That question breaks the industry.

If OpenAI and Anthropic's models truly delivered the productivity gains the labs claim, they would take equity or a share of the profit they generate. They would not sell access by the million tokens.

Token pricing is itself the CONFESSION that the product cannot produce reliable value at scale. If it did, they would price for the value. But they price for the compute because that is what they are actually selling.

Karp went even further...

He called the entire arrangement "a wealth tax that does not help the poor. It just punishes."

American businesses are transferring the alpha of their operations, meaning the workflows, the customer data, the strategy memos, the internal models that make them competitive, directly into the training pipelines of a handful of Silicon Valley labs. Once those labs retrain, the customer's own edge becomes the next enterprise product sold back to their competitors.

And the part the AI industry does not want anyone thinking about:

Every enterprise running its confidential documents, its customer conversations, and its financial models through a frontier model is potentially teaching that model HOW to replace them.

The vendor collects the token fee AND the compounding intelligence about that customer's business. That is the mechanism. And that is why Karp used the word "stealing."

He claims this is why every executive he meets is furious in private and silent in public. Nobody wants to be the CEO who called out the labs and then discovered their next competitor was built on their own leaked workflows.

The entire AI industry has been priced for perfection on one assumption:

That frontier labs produce durable, defensible value that justifies infinite compute spend.

But Karp just told us that the customers do not believe that assumption anymore. They believe they are being taxed without benefit, watched without consent, and copied without recourse.

The moment enterprises stop believing, the whole valuation stack shakes.

[João Louros @Joaogala85]

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[Pro Padel League @propadelleague]

156 seconds of pure action from the Smash ♠️♥️

Las Vegas returns to New York City July 9-12. Tickets in bio.

[Matt Parker @MattParkerDev]

Time from Build+Debug → hitting a breakpoint, SharpIDE is 3.7x faster than Visual Studio, and 26x faster than Rider.

SharpIDE + SharpDbg: 350ms
Visual Studio: 1280ms
Rider: 9220ms

[Sergio Perera @SERGIOPERERA0]

¡Qué recopilación!

[João Louros @Joaogala85]

@davidfowl Here we go again... more vague stories about how AI is great but 0 actual proof... hype for sake of selling Copilot licenses. Show proof or it didn't happen

[João Louros @Joaogala85]

@msdev Image segmentation to detect Padel court walls, net, player positions and ball.