Ariel Deschapell (b/acc)

Co-Founder & CTO @get_hydrahost NVIDIA Cloud Partner | Miami Tech | B/ACC | Building distributed AI infrastructure & compute markets

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

Entire Hydra team is excited to support El Salvador in its Sovereign compute initiative!

Bitcoin + AI Accelerators is the new playbook.

[The Bitcoin Office @bitcoinofficesv]

🇸🇻 BREAKING: EL SALVADOR MAKES HISTORY WITH NVIDIA B300 CHIP ORDER

President Bukele just secured the WORLD'S FIRST SOVEREIGN quote for cutting-edge B300 chips following a meeting yesterday with Aaron Ginn, CEO and Co-founder of Hydra Host!

These aren't just any chips - they're the most advanced artificial intelligence processors on the planet, and they're headed straight to El Salvador's National AI Lab.

🔥 All eyes on San Salvador - the future isn't just coming, it's being BUILT right now.

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

@Clint_Davey1 That line comes from Leia as an insult. It’s not meant to be taken literally.

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

@AlexisWrem1747 @danroberts0101 Nope this is the correct move

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

Yeah doesn’t really make any sense. Lord can be excused a bit, since it’s vague enough to be a way to address the chancellor. But making it Lord Sidious explicitly doesn’t seem thought through. Why would Rex have that association with him? If he doesn’t, why would it be built into the inhibitor chip? Etc.

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

@briancocktail https://t.co/GcCIw8zyrz

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

Padme is an actual hereditary queen, which would explain her young age. Parents died in a freak accident, orchestrated by Palpatine to make sure there is a leadership vacuum during the invasion. This makes the whole set up make more sense, and sets up mirror character arcs: Palpatine rising up through a democratic system to achieve totalitarian power, while Padme inherits power but works as an enlightened ruler to attempt to maintain the Republic.

Anakin should also be a teenager, younger than Luke in ANH to show how much of a prodigy he was, but not a kid.

The separatist crises should already be a key part of the plot and mentioned explicitly as motivation for the blockade instead of just “tax disputes”. Start the clone wars set up immediately. The separatist faction are trying to increase leverage in negotiations, Naboo is a key trade system that also is very pro Republic, so a blockade is a negotiating tool. The treaty they try to get her to sign is to initiate the removal of Naboo from the republic and give them a permanent edge. Palpatine plants the seed that perhaps Padme’s parents were in fact killed by the separatists, increasing tensions and fanning the flames of war to become chancellor.

Naboo under Amidala and Gungans successfully capturing the Gunray and freeing themselves without official republic or Jedi intervention (in numbers) successfully disrupts the civil war and Palpatines plan but only delays it several years. Time jump to next movie is more like 5 years now instead of 10.

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

Padme is an actual hereditary queen, which would explain her young age. Parents died in a freak accident, orchestrated by Palpatine to make sure there is a leadership vacuum during the invasion. This makes the whole set up make more sense, and sets up mirror character arcs: Palpatine rising up through a democratic system to achieve totalitarian power, while Padme inherits power but works as an enlightened ruler to attempt to maintain the Republic.

Anakin should also be a teenager, younger than Luke in ANH to show how much of a prodigy he was, but not a kid.

The separatist crises should already be a key part of the plot and mentioned explicitly as motivation for the blockade instead of just “tax disputes”. Start the clone wars set up immediately. The separatist faction are trying to increase leverage in negotiations, Naboo is a key trade system that also is very pro Republic, so a blockade is a negotiating tool. The treaty they try to get her to sign is to initiate the removal of Naboo from the republic and give them a permanent edge. Palpatine plants the seed that perhaps Padme’s parents were in fact killed by the separatists, increasing tensions and fanning the flames of war to become chancellor.

Naboo under Amidala and Gungans successfully capturing the Gunray and freeing themselves without official republic or Jedi intervention (in numbers) successfully disrupts the civil war and Palpatines plan but only delays it several years. Time jump to next movie is more like 5 years now instead of 10.

[Star Wars Daily @StarWarsDaily_]

If you could change one thing about The Phantom Menace what would it be?

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

@bscholl DNA holds most of the worlds information and here they are organizing it. To self destruct.

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

This is sort of true, but it’s interesting to take a look at how the “rules” of war evolved over time, especially in Europe as circumstances and incentives changed.

There’s actually a good scene in the Patriot about it where Cromwell explains that not following the rules of gentlemen would lead to unnecessary collateral damage. The context that explains this is the history of almost continuous warfare between peer European powers for over a thousand years by that point.

War happened so often that total war was unimaginable. You wanted to both preserve your economic capacity and that of any territory you captured to the extent you could. That dynamic started to slowly degrade the American and French revolutions, and culminated of course with every “gentleman” getting slaughtered in the Great War.

Where at the start of another massive shift in incentives and economic calculus when it comes to war. Hopefully, optimistically, it will mean far fewer but far more targeted casualties. Eventually it’s more than possible that any human kills in kinetic disputes will be regarded as taboo.

[tom bombadil @Authw8]

i do think war crimes are generally misunderstood as a concept.

the overriding principle is that serious powers are never going to accept actual limits on their military capability. doing so would be suicidal because you can't assume your opponents will accept similar limits.

but what you can do is ban stuff that causes a lot of suffering for minimal military benefit. gas weapons are like this: gas weapons are usually less effective than high explosives, but cause a lot of pain and collateral damage. they're most popular as a terror weapon used by weak regimes that can't afford better stuff. so it's feasible to ban poison gas.

the point of war crime law is to bend stuff on the margin to he a bit more humane and a bit less destructive. but it can't fundamentally change the character of war, just tinker around the edges.

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

Saying “what is our moat” is the same thing as saying “I hope we get acquired.”

Both are hoping that some magical thing saves the day.

Oh if we only had a moat we could all just sit around blowing ourselves all day.

Oh if we get acquired the next quarter of okrs would be somebody else’s problem.

The minute you start talking about shit like that regularly you have become soft and need to go sit at the kids table while the adults figure out how to defend the gate.

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

Another thought re: giving more equity to people who are operating in Founder Mode - it's a super cheap usage of capital.

Companies routinely pay 2-5% for a CEO, even at multibillion $ public companies. They'll also pay 10-15% of their market caps to acquire (among other things) higher octane founder mode talent that can rejuvenate the business. It's also not uncommon to pay a single *new* exec 1-2% just to get them in the door in the startup and scaleup stages.

Meanwhile, imagine if you take just 1% of the company and split it across the 5 smartest + hungriest people on your team. They'll be vetted extremely well; in many cases you'll have a multi-year track record in evidence. At a modern Series B-C valuation of a $1B, that's a nominal value of $2M for each which is highly motivating to many people especially when it comes with upside. Virtually every successful company that I know would trade 1 unhired CMO, CTO for a guarantee that their 5 best people won't quit for 4 years.

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

@foliotrail @Agrippa_Inv Wow so much bad info and reasoning here it’s crazy

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

The best managers are worriers. They worry about their people. They worry about their timelines. They worry about their quality. They worry about their process.

This is maybe the number one characteristic that determines if you can manage well or not. If worrying about stuff stresses you out and you want to just put a bow on things and sleep like a baby, the job isn’t for you.

Often times people think that being personable is important first management. But I’ve found that it’s actually more correlated with bad managers. Often people’s chill vibe comes from not being a worrier, and when they become a manager they need to choose between being a little more worried or being bad at the job. And they fail.

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

@KenChessRapper @TierZoo @swimlikefish1 the broad strokes where there, we just got "somehow palpatine has returned" instead of a serious treatment.

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

It actually makes great sense and would have fit the canon. Force bonds are a thing in the EU and got pulled into the sequels. Being able to preserve life, but only by transferring it, and that requiring a preexisting force bond is something Palpatine could have suspected and tested successfully to keep Vader alive. The problem is he doesn’t have any potential for a strong enough relationship with anyone to have a force bond. So all his subsequent efforts are to find a way around that (since he obviously doesn’t care about killing people to preserve himself).

It’s honestly the one thread the sequels got right in pulling and just completely botched. Kylo giving his life to save Ren through their force bond is the reversal of what Palpatine did to Anakin, and confirms that the power does exist for the Jedi to preserve life, it’s just the ultimate sacrifice. Again, the set up was dog shit, but it should have been made slightly more explicit on ROTS and used correctly to end a version of the sequel trilogy that is actually good.

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

@Suhail Biggest example of this is compute being characterized as a commodity

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

@MaskedSpider992 @alfredjviii And the host for the clone army just happens to be the guy hired by the new and confirmed Sith Lord to kill padme? Meaning he knows full well about the army. It has to be assumed he wanted them to find it?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Evidence of exceptional ability and asking how they solved hard problems down to the brass tacks level is what matters.

Those who actually deserve credit know the details of the solution, because it was so hard it got seared into their brain. The phonies and posers who falsely claim credit will flounder at the second or third level of detail.

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

@antoniogm Let’s have a party

[Ariel Deschapell (b/acc) @NotASithLord]

@Leishman Ah yeah you’re right. Passkey on desktop is what I think is missing that would be convenient.