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@omgsidewalks That billion is the easy part to get back. The hard part is habit. Once a family tries the $2 store brand and the kids eat it anyway, nobody switches back to $6 chips just because the price drops a little.

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@a16z Five thousand H100s isn’t really a researcher allocation. It’s a small data center. At current cluster prices, that’s about $175M in hardware before salaries, power, or cooling.

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@SpaceX The Shuttle had 24k heat tiles and inspecting them by hand pushed flights to $1.5B each. Landing it is the show. The math only works if inspection takes under 100 hours instead of six months.

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@aapakari Once a week

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We think the stock trading auto tag bots are generating quicker than we can get them all un tagged and blocked

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@davidsenra @alexandr_wang The freedom isn't just nerve. Zuckerberg controls 58% of Meta's votes through its two-class stock, while a roughly 40% ad margin pays for Reality Labs. Most CEOs don't get that runway.

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@pelloiafilippo Just churning tokens

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Tesla put assembly workers in motion capture suits to train Optimus robots.
The line pushed back, so Tesla shifted the work to specialized data teams.
In 2018, Tesla spent billions automating the Model 3 line before tearing out the robots and bringing the workers back.

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Between 2024 and 2026, media web traffic dropped as platforms started answering questions with AI summaries instead of sending clicks. The publisher pays to produce the answer, but the search engine keeps the reader on its own page.

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@TrungTPhan The NFL spent $192M to discover that schools like the version of football that costs under $50 per player, not the one that needs $500+ in gear. Budgets have opinions.

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Amazon lets merchants manage Walmart, eBay, and Shopify sales from Seller Central for free.

American Airlines ran the same play in 1976, putting Sabre in travel agencies so agents could book rival flights.

Own the screen everyone works on.

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NEVER SHARE PERSONAL INFO WITH AI
NEVER SHARE PERSONAL INFO WITH AI
NEVER SHARE PERSONAL INFO WITH AI
NEVER SHARE PERSONAL INFO WITH AI
NEVER SHARE PERSONAL INFO WITH AI
NEVER SHARE PERSONAL INFO WITH AI
NEVER SHARE PERSONAL INFO WITH AI

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Ben Affleck gave a surprisingly clear and insightful masterclass on AI on the One More Question podcast.

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@mindinpanic Google play or App Store?

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@Saanvi_dhillon Leaning cloudflare but still split

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Taxes matter, but the bigger issue is the cap rate comparison itself. A 5.5% cap rate is already net of property taxes, operating expenses, and vacancy assumptions.
The 1.3% spread isn’t what’s left to cover those costs. It’s the extra yield investors get for taking on real estate risk.

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@SpaceX @Starlink The useful test isn't a coverage map. It's a packed stadium, where one beam has to share capacity across every phone. Starlink helps most where the tower is missing, not downtown.

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@SawyerMerritt @Tesla A fleet can jump from 28% to 43% by adding about five cars when the whole Texas test fleet is still under 30. That’s a small parking lot changing shape, not a fleet taking over the state.

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23% of shoppers now ask an AI what to buy.

60% of them still buy it on Amazon anyway, because the AI can pick the product but it can't hand you a saved card, a Prime box, and a free return label.

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@MediaKing The $3 click just wanted a stock symbol. The $15 lead already has a brokerage account open. Fox's median viewer skews past 65, the exact age bracket sitting on a 401k balance worth advertising to.