@mattyryze No worries! I figured. On a personal level (making some well educated guesses here) I think it’s cool that she, after having made retirement level money early in her career, turned down the chance to double or quadruple that easily to do tech journalism instead.
@mattyryze The author of the story, Anna Tong, is an interesting person: I don’t know a better qualified reporter for tech. She was the first PM of Ripple (a pretty big deal) and was a VP at another company, before transitioning into journalism. She’s also, not least of all, from Harvard.
@meditationstuff@RomeoStevens76 I’ve never seen this addressed before & would Iove to know:
It seems you can relate the Platonic forms and Neoplatonism (probably better) to the five skandhas, at the top w “God” being replaced with “your own mind.” Template: Vishudhimagga.
Are talks on this by practitioners?
@TMTLongShort In an alternate universe where there was no AI, Jack still would’ve done this.
Their top company, Square, is being outcompeted by Toast & friends in the market. As for the others: Tidal, money loser;
blockchain companies, crypto winter.
They’re on NYSE: can’t afford headcount.
@ArmandDoma I also like how, if I’m filling out a paper form for someone, I know they’re going to have to type it into a computer; the QR code version saves everyone a step. It’s a nice thing I can do for them that doesn’t cost me anything.
@mattyryze It’s a nice deepfake by a TikToker called Phantom Memory fyi: one of the best I would say. If you look up kawakura on YouTube you can see the original (man only, unknown Japanese song, very dated sounding).
@ComplicitOwl@EPM106 She should’ve gone with, “We’re obviously going to get caught with all the evidence we’re leaving all over the place, so let’s flee in style.”
@PAHoyeck@cxgonzalez The argument for weed is just one of harm reduction: it takes market share away from other drugs which are harder and have a worse effect on public health (alcohol, cigarettes). It would be better if we could zero all of them out, but instead we let weed partly crowd them out.
@emmysteuer If you’re going to do a water based sport in SF surfing seems a lot easier: it’s much cheaper and easier to do- just get out to the west side, Ocean Beach. You can pack up, get out on the water, and be back home within a few hours.
@patio11 Why don’t you donate? You are quite rich. The reason you were able to go on scholarship was because someone in your position made the donation in their time. Now it’s your turn.
@terronk My guess is that the price advantage will ultimately crush all opposition: pay for $1 per portion of lab grown meat or $5 for free range meat. And in time the stigma will wear off, like it did with lab grown diamonds. We’ll get there eventually.
@chrislakin Yeah but if the people becoming uncomfortable are exclusively women, the odds shoot up to about 90% that you should stop whatever you’re doing. I speak from experience as a guy who got suckered in to support “trust me bro” saying friends, who should’ve not done what they did.