ryan

right twice a day

[ryan @pendertif]

@exploriter i like candy. when i have it in my house i eat all of it. so, i don't keep candy in my house. same principle

[vivienne ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა @sunshinevvn]

meteorologists love sharing plots which are impenetrable beyond parody then saying smth like “May God have mercy on our souls”

[ryan @pendertif]

when i was doing tons of cold outreach, every perosn who responded earnestly / in good faith had a tech connection. "lives in the bay": 10x higher response rate. for legacy industries, id get zero response EXCEPT from the one person who follows ycombinator on linkedin

[spor @sporadica]

despite how it may look from the outside, tech is probably the least cutthroat industry there is

having worked in politics, and having close friends in finance, tech is uniquely filled with people that are just happy to help you if you’re nice and not trying to take advantage

[ryan @pendertif]

@InezFeltscher but then why live in:

[ryan @pendertif]

@piercepenniless it's interesting that people blame google for the slop and not the slop producers (SEO studiers)

[ryan @pendertif]

@colin_fraser no i get it, you either see chatgpt etc as consensus-search or consensus creation, and this guy clearly thought it was consensus searching

[ryan @pendertif]

@willnitze peter thiel did the exact same thing, liquidated most of his FB share in the early 2010s (called the top). it's easy to be right in retrospect!

[ryan @pendertif]

@IsaiahLCarter it's not that simple. mamdani won white liberals, but also south asian / latino / carribean immigrants. striver immigrants + UMC

cuomo won the legacy black population and the hasids, but also the rich.

it's an interesting coalition realignment

[ryan @pendertif]

@RichardHanania but they work fine, currently, in a dense city (san francisco). they do pickups and drop offs in the tenderloin, a neighborhood full of human misbehavior

[ryan @pendertif]

@zachweinberg yeppp it's the rent at the end.

[ryan @pendertif]

@GergelyOrosz stripe's margins aren't huge, but the high interchange (2+%) means that you can't get any lower than 2.

really what somebody needs to do is build a rewards network + tech stack on top of ACH, fuck the interchange and get 1% yourself

[ryan @pendertif]

@dystopiangf it's just like 4chan lingo slowy seeping into the common speech (-maxxing, slop). so does the gay lingo

[ryan @pendertif]

@arctotherium42 reading the path to power is eye opening at how delayed hill country texas was on the technology adoption curve (not getting electricity or plumbing until WWII)!

[ryan @pendertif]

@KelseyTuoc there are lessons in this

[ryan @pendertif]

@OneFeIISwoop most US cities are intolerably hot for some months every year, and it's expected to need to control the indoor climate. it's surprising to know there are people who expect their climate to be permanently hospitable!

[ryan @pendertif]

@domme_natrix "cant afford this" this is a small living room with an amazon standing desk, basic furniture and a laptop. everybody lives like this lol

you are in disbelief because the room has good lighting

[ryan @pendertif]

@powerbottomdad1 we will see! i'm a tesla FSD skeptic, i think we'll need 10 years before you can do "turn it on anywhere" unsupervised FSD. waymo can do a lot of distribution meanwhile! that's why tesla panicked and rolled out a waymo style geo-fenced, supervised service range

[ryan @pendertif]

@raphaelsalaja ive been reading the Path to Power about lyndon b johnson- the most effective legislator in US history. what is striking about him is he is violently unprincipled. he'll be a syncophant to the harshest reactionary and progressive, if it means getting ahead

"always has been"