SavageBeast

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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Surplus? LOL!! If we cut a massive $1T from our nearly $2T deficit every year that would be considered a radical success. Thats how screwed up things are. Nobody is even talking about a BUDGET SURPLUS here. Sometimes I don't think peop
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
At this point I think its more of a strategic reserve of gold for non-financial purposes. In terms of our budget/debt/spending its not a significant amount. We could sell it all and make not one dent in anything.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
"I'm always surprised to see a fair amount of support for DOGE here. I'd love to understand why these people think this is OK." So consider the guy who makes $100k/year and spends $200k/year. Over the course of
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
For those stateside you can still do this in a local office apparently. Not ideal but its not as if passport issuance has been suspended. The site is under maintenance to remove modifications made for more than 2 genders according to a quic
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
This is the playbook of a company moving from "Growth" to "Maturity". Of note: In August 2024, Alphabet announced a quarterly dividend of $0.20 per share, totaling $0.80 annually, resulting in a dividend yield of approxi
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Personally I view the tariffs as a threat to get compliance. Its possible the goal is to get them to "have a brilliant idea" and invest in some American production. I don't know why but Asking Nicely never works for anything,
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Perhaps the opposite is true: Maybe Zuck found the courage to stand up for what he's come to believe in as he's matured as a person and a leader. Maybe what we're seeing now is a Zuck thats willing to say No More. Its seems r
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
@iExploder has been a consultant in a previous life - this is a more realistic plan than it sounds
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Where is the solo founder startup thats up and running today where the non-technical founder used AI to generate all code and infrastructure? You are precisely correct. However I use AI regularly to write what Ive come to call Nuisance Code
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Tell him your accounting department can only issue paper checks. Get his name and address "for the check" or course. Also your accounting department can't issue any check with out an invoice, so he needs to give you a detaile
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Billionaires keep their massive wealth invested in assets rather than cash in their checking account. We had significant inflation in '24 and with that dollars got smaller. The resulting impact is that the billionaire who was worth $10
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
This is the way.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
In reading this I come to wonder if the current advances in "AI" are going to follow the Self Driving Car model. Turns out the 80% is relatively easy to do, but the remaining 20% to get it right is REALLY hard.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Technical Cofounder here: I presume we're all living some parallel life. Forcing founders/investors/biz people to think it even 10% through was always really hard. It's like they have some kind of dopamine addiction that
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I always found the whole thing odd personally. The Venn Diagram of people who both need to run a service in the cloud AND cannot manage an EC2 instance is a seemingly small set of people. I never saw the advantage to it and its got plenty o
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
"I have had several conflicts with founders because I act outside of my scope (I.E, I do things they think is a waste of my time: like budget forecasts, headcount plans, retrospectives of milestones and previously I was doing the produ
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Well, it historically hasn't been every day ... that may be changing now
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
The Danish government is and has been well under their 2% NATO commitment. I can see a case where in the face of the requirement being moved up from 2%, Denmark may need the money. Lets not forget about the 57K people in Greenland who would
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I wonder if you're missing my point here. Whatever Trump did or didn't do, whatever he represents to you, whatever evil things he's been accused of ... 77 million American voters chose him over a willing and available alterna
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Not possible in the US. Musk isn't a born American but a naturalized citizen. He can never be president without a constitutional amendment and that isn't going to happen ever.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I agree this is the current plan from Trump adversaries. They recognize the combined power of Trump's POTUS authority and Musk's money and they're anxious to try and exploit any opening they can find no matter how small. Fran
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Alternatively, perhaps Trump has secured himself the use of a billionaires money? Personally I wonder who the puppet is in this situation.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
If you're feeling too rich you don't need to cure it by donating all your money etc. Simply buy a jet and make fancy friends. Soon you wont be rich anymore, your existential dilemma will vanish and you can get back to working.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Also, when every house rep and every senator is on their respective floor and participates in each and every vote, I'll entertain the validity of RTO. Until then its just a means of soft-firing people. If they can't be productive
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
It's worth a 20 minute rabbit hole dive to research Vivek's background a bit. Compare his accomplishments to the accolades (seemingly?) heaped on him. Love or hate Musk, his remarkable qualifications are undeniable. They are not t
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I've come to prompt in this format and its working well for me. I once had your issue on another subject and it was indeed annoying. "Claude - Im learning to program C - I wan't you to help me learn" "I'm unsur
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I've watched this before - its thought provoking and a good watch if you enjoy the documentary format. Covers a lot of ground.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
CME Group has ETH and BTC futures and you can short those easily as theres no notion of "borrowing shares" in the futures world to get short.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
"Are you only realizing who they are now?" TL;DR: It was stupid on its face but its an intractable problem too - no sane person is going to address it - maybe its worth a shot? Fair question and a well thought out ask - I suppose
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
After their combined rants over the weekend Im done with Elon and Vivek. Nevermind the fact that nobody asked their opinions on the topic they were ranting about in the first place. Tackling government waste is their charge and this is not

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