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Who’s the creepiest? Who’s the one we need to worry most about? Who would have the evilest way of sacking someone or bankrupting a small family company? What is your favourite colour? Do you like chillies, in Ohio? |
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My favorite colour is green. I didn’t eat chilies the one time I went to Ohio. |
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Jeff Bezos is scarier than Elon Musk but Mark Zuckerberg is more horrifying than both of them |
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only billionaire i really like is Gabe Newell who runs Valve (makers of Steam). mainly cuz he hasn't taken the company public and has a pretty laissez faire attitude elon's a bitch but I most definitely like twitter more under him than parag agrawal and vijaya gadde. |
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have never been to ohio i'm sure it's cool. |
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amazon already had free shipping 15 years ago, which is the only feature I ever cared for. all the changes since than have been for the shareholders. all the shows that come to prime have been infested with identity politics. all the games from amazon studios have had sketchy monetization. Bezos is wack |
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elon musk playground mecha suit milking machine |
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musk. by far. for every question |
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on bezos, i'll just post my earlier post, post-post. you are reading thist post post-post >=4 times now, i've seen people in completely unrelated bubbles spontaneously refer to bezos as a "soul-less robot." but i've also read about "puppy-like energy" and how he would run up and down the stairwell, fast as he could, and never take the elevator, and sorry, that's actually sort of like me. stuck in meetings all day? run up seven floors and feel better; amped when you get to the next one. have little patience for the weird looks. if they're too dumb to get it, fuck 'em -- but i can't fire people so it's this sort of engineering enthusiasm, almost, like, optimize my life. down to: fuck elevators; stairs are religion. the problem is -- he can fire people. and that not how everyone do. scale that up to a company that is about to launch thousands of satellites this year to build their own personal global comms network ...that bezos is sort of what we used to fear from google: turning reality into this obnoxious technocracy where you're penalized for spending 0.2 minutes too long on the toilet. it's cute and makes amazon money selling books, then selling computer parts, but then they lost the plot and they're just trying to optimize their optimization of optimization and... work their magic on america's health care system, and... the global comms network? yeah mentioned that elon musk, however, has hundreds of satellites, spaceships, flamethrowers, and the maturity of a 14yo hormonal boy. i'm not sure how to calculate the point at which he is a de facto nuclear power if he runs mars it'll be worse than kanye's school. it will be a slave camp |
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you can see bezos timing himself on the toilet with a stopwatch -- that, no, that won't do at all; we can do better. because if you multiply the time savings over a year... ...then amazon jobs are supposed to be a path out of the gutter, actually. i'm not sure if it's still true, but you can work your way up from delivery to... service, then eventually coding, at which point you actually have something going. their delivery pay rates aren't terrible either -- again, not sure if that's still true so, if it makes any sense -- if you put bezos himself in an amazon truck he'd work himself up through the ranks right fast, because he'll be timing himself on the toilet with a stop watch. ...and you guys want to move up in the world, right? well this is how you do it? what's the problem? ...problem is, that's not how everyone do |
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sort of like james cameron, really. asks the actors to do brutal things without a thought simply because he, himself, would do them without a thought. the legend goes someone made t-shirts saying, "you don't scare me, i work for james cameron" and i figure "your timetable isn't hard, i worked for amazon" |
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it's also worth noting that bezos != amazon now he's still on the board. i'm sure he has input. but he's off doing his charity thing and arguably not responsible for the direction of amazon anymore that is the baliwick of one "Andy Jassy" [tldr ~ free business consulting ~ jassy seems... very much a man of the times. jassy after bezos is like tim cook after steve jobs. or sundar pichai after larry 'n' sergey. and, hell... even ballmer was better than nadella. i could go on bezos sharply jumped ship while the grocery wing of amazon's empire still showed some arguable promise; got out while the numbers were good. jassy's off trying to grow the portfolio when people are starting to dump amazon because the search results are 95% spam/scam. sort of like how jony ive got out before the full blandness of cook's vision manifested] |
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nobody read all that btw |
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nobody read all that btw |
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I read it all, but mainly because I've been trying to figure out specifically why epic has such a hard on for billionaire posts and imagining what these posts cost him in time vs. time he can be spending elsewhere but his foot is broken and he can't do as much, so instead of a F-tier waste of time, it's only C-tier today |
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ok you're the exception sry. nobody read all that btw (except wolfslice)* |
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I read it all, but mainly because I've been trying to figure out specifically why epic has such a hard on for billionaire posts billionaires; whatever. tech billionaires, and we are very thoroughly in my wheelhouse. my first proper job was for a first-gen dot com; the thing where you show up one day and the doors are literally just mysteriously locked. i watched amazon survive this. i used ebay before it all blew up -- my ebay account is old enough to vote. i saw why amazon survived while pets.com went down in flames. with the chatbots, they're fucked, this is going to be worse than napster; mp3.com -- they built their bots by scraping the internet and you're using everyone else's shit and claiming (C) large corp and oh my god, i've seen this before, but not since the early 00's i know a few tech millionaires i can just call up on the phone. 1-2 i was arguably instrumental in helping them become millionaires. if i had some grand idea, i actually probably could get funding, but nothing's felt like... i want to blow my one chance with this guy or that guy on this idea i talk out of my behind all over -- psychology, music, etc -- but i know what i'm talking about here; stfu |
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do rather wish i had the machinery and the bankroll to short stocks. the classic route is to spread your money out and carefully pick a few winners, but after 20 years... it's much easier to be all... "mmm, yep, that one's going down in flames because ____" but i'm wrong sometimes. if you'd told me megaupload would still be about and useful in 2023, back in 2012, i'd have laughed you off the block |
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No need for the stfu, I will accept you as a resident expert on *tech billionaires. You will still be dead in 50 years, and what elon musk's car drive home at night doesn't mean shit to your life epic, sorry to say. I'm wasting my life playing video games I guess but at least it's not tidbits of thought about tech billionaires |
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i try to picture us as roomates. I'm pretty neat, and considerate of making too much noise, wouldn't eat your food. one night you come home late and I've got a buddy over. "yo epic, wanna play smash wit us?" "sorry. I have to go to my room to listen to the NPR podcast." I'd pass the friend a smile at your expensive, then smash him in the dick (but still lose cuz I actually suck at smash) |
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50 years? that's a bit harsh. or... truth is, i suspect how long i'll live will become a function of my net worth, or lack thereof. medical stuff very expensive, if you're rich you get better care, soon generically engineered life extension etc. and another 50 years would not even see me to 90. that, no, i've fucked around a bit, but aside from broken foot, i'm an exercise addicted and a compulsive strategist. the only way i'll be dead in 50 years is if i can't afford what it costs to live or i could get hit by a luxury SUV one day. the classic turn of phrase is "a bus" but people that drive the bus typically aren't entitled psychos. |
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I'll up it to 70 years. I think you'll outlive elon regardless, so fuck him anyway. Also I should have said "Super Smash Brothers," my last post just made it sound like I was fuckin the other dude in the butt |
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on shorting: there's still a long game in shorting amazon, but that could be 1-2 years. the chatbots; you can't disentangle that from the rest of microsoft's stock price, so no help there hmm, what's a better one nvidia ~ egotistical prick of a CPU got up on the mic and said "moore's law is over, prices will just keep going up" right as the demand for mining GPUs is crashing; pandemic over and no one wants a new PC anymore, they don't even want the new one they just bought 'cos they're outside now ~ they're next after samsung's profit collapse. along with other hardware companies that aren't as flagrantly obvs ~ even if i'm wrong about the overall market intel and amd are stepping in to fill the void of nvidia's piggish pricing and that will still hammer their bottom line soon enough |
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gfx cards will last for awhile tho. I have an RTX 2060 (now only worth about $250-$300), but it should last for 3-5 more years before gaming feels sluggish. Most worried about the V-Ram on the vidja card. |
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[then obviously once AI gets sued into the ground for the beyond-napster level IP theft it is -- sorry, admit it -- nvidia's going to sell a lot less of those A100's as well] |
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nvidia currently like "yeah our low-end card will set you back $1k" |
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they're ripping you off for sure but all I can really say is that I feel PC parts (all of them), are kinda built to last. Last few top end cards I've got have lasted 6-7 years and still going in some other PC as a hand-me down. My comp is on 24/7, lot of gaming and other stuff and have very few failures. Comparing that to my THIRD Vornado brand desk fan that has started to squeal after a year cuz the bearings are wearing out. |
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hey, did zilty get the memo on AI generated video of will smith eating spaghetti? ars can be a bit of a nob at times, but they have it right, here: this AI thing is going to implode somehow, but this is great, let's just enjoy it for a moment then they get into "you can see how the getty images watermark is kind of ghosted into the videos" and this is because -- to train an AI, you need training data. getty images has a massive library of _tagged_ images, meaning they've spent countless hours sitting there and adding keywords to all their images. and shit like this is how an AI knows what images to put to your text prompt but getty did not give permission for this shit. they're actively suing now, along with many other parties. i simply mention them because they have a fucking obvious case. that, really, this is tough to sue over. but lawyers are a clever lot, and they'll figure it eventually. once they have a template, this is going down like... pick your colorful analogy |
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or, no, it's shutterstock watermark getty is the one suing 'em though same difference. |
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