Tech Guy Dave

Tech. Business. Economics.

[Tech Guy Dave @TechGuyDave_]

TLA is my favorite three letter acronym.

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@vocalcry Amazing. They don't make 'em like they used to. 😔

[Tech Guy Dave @TechGuyDave_]

"Now line up the hypocrisy. The hill Anthropic chose to die on with the Pentagon was, in part, its refusal to enable mass surveillance. Good for them. Three months later, Anthropic imposed mandatory mass surveillance on every user of its own flagship model: every prompt, every output, retained and scanned for 30 days, no exceptions, with signed zero-data-retention contracts voided by fiat. So the position is this: Anthropic will not surveil for the government, on principle. It reserves the right to surveil you, for itself, on terms it can rewrite overnight. Not a privacy principle. A statement about who holds the switch."

[Tony Davis @tony_davis_x]

@DavidSacks Totally agree and wrote this article on it last night

https://t.co/sAPGIoKdJj

[Tech Guy Dave @TechGuyDave_]

@diana_dukic 😆 for reals!

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@foundersfund @micsolana 😂

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@ChefGruel This work with Ghee Butter?

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@diana_dukic Every. Time.

[Tech Guy Dave @TechGuyDave_]

@vocalcry Because you develop Stockholm Syndrome and never leave.

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@SFJET147 @Hugh__Mann 😂

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@Pauli_P0p @Celebrityhaze She's so gross

[Tech Guy Dave @TechGuyDave_]

The fact that none of my friends have held an intervention for any of my business ventures tells me I've been playing it too safe.

[Adeo Ressi @adeoressi]

I organized an intervention to stop Elon from starting SpaceX. Here is the story...

Twenty five years ago, Elon and I sat in a car on a dark stretch of Long Island highway, two neurodiverse geeks staring at the night sky and wondering what came next. We had both experienced substantial exits and felt the weight of possibility ahead of us.

When I joked about 'space' while gazing upward, neither of us imagined we were planting the seed for what would become the largest IPO in history. We spent the next two hours debating why space was so hard. In the end, rockets are fuel and metal. We also debated where to go, and it was crystal clear that Mars was the only real destination.

Upon returning to NYC, we embarked on a global tour of space, meeting space agencies and luminaries worldwide. This opened our eyes to an industry stuck in bureaucratic thinking. If things continued at that pace, it was clear that we would never explore space in our lifetime.

So, we launched Life to Mars to show the world that two ambitious young men (29 and 30 years old), could send life to Mars without any government backing or support. We planned to send and grow plants on Mars, though some were pushing us to send mice.

We had a $50 MM budget that rested on our purchase of two Russian ICBMs for $7 MM each. We assumed one ICBM would fail, and we would learn and fix everything before launching again. When Elon went back to actually buy the ICBMs, the Russians tripled the price, bringing out launch costs from a total of $14 MM to $42 MM.

Our ambitious Life to Mars plan was no longer viable.

As you might imagine, Elon was not pleased. So, he decided to start SpaceX and create his own Mars rockets. Now, this is a crazy idea, both now and at the time, so I organized a large panel of top space experts, and we ambushed him at the Georgian Hotel one morning. It was set up like an intervention for an alcoholic, but for space.

Elon looked me in the eye when leaving the room and said, "I am going to do this." The intervention failed. Elon was committed. The rest is history.

I am excited to see this IPO after 25 years of hard work. What SpaceX has done is a testament to human will and overcoming insurmountable obstacles. It's nothing short of amazing.

Congratulations, E. Amazing.

[Tech Guy Dave @TechGuyDave_]

@MartinShkreli API: We decided we don't need your money anymore. haha

[Tech Guy Dave @TechGuyDave_]

@Beau_Turner21 @profstonge @AbundantMines Great interview! I'll definitely look into this.

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@PcPhilanthropy You've def been posting less lately. haha

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@LinaSeiche Such a great point. (as always)

[Tech Guy Dave @TechGuyDave_]

@LundukeJournal Interesting date. I wonder if Chaotic Eclipse's next exploit has anything to do with the cert expiration.

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@dannkky @MattWalshBlog RIP Daniel Boone's wikipedia page after this thread.

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@diana_dukic 🔥Happy Birthday! 🔥

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@nicksortor Was that @jamesklug out there??? 👀

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Appropriate response

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Ferrari has just officially unveiled its first ever all-electric car, called the Ferrari Luce.

• Starting price: $640,000
• Interior co-designed with Apple's former head of design, Jony Ive
• Range: 280 miles (expected EPA)
• Peak charging speed: 350kW
• 122 kWh battery
• 1,050 horsepower
• 0-60mph: 2.4s
• 800v
• Four-door four-seater
• Four electric motors
• OLED screens
• Weight: 4,982 lbs
• Front motors spin to 30,000 rpm, rears hit 25,500 rpm
• Car uses an accelerometer to capture real vibrations from the electric motors & rear chassis. An algorithm filters out unpleasant frequencies and amplifies only the more “musical” sounds. This can be heard inside and outside the car.
• Paddle shifter on steering wheel changes how aggressively torque is delivered, with five different levels
• The trunk has 21.1 cubic feet of space, the largest luggage capacity the company has ever offered
• 197.6 inches long, about as long as a Tesla Model S

U.S. deliveries start in Q2 2027. More photos in the thread below: