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by askafriend 17d ago
It looks like a normal 7-Eleven.
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by askafriend 1mo ago
He did not sell the fund. He sold the publicly traded portion of it. He currently still has $10B under management. What's the point of posting blatantly wrong details? It's pretty easy to look them up.
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by askafriend 1mo ago
You're so caught up in irrelevant details like a rhetorical device that you've missed that this guy's fund is up 80% for the year and his investors are having a GREAT year. Worth reflecting on.
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by askafriend 1mo ago
It's a no-signal or slightly-positive signal until paired with other signals. For example, doing it at Columbia is meaningful. Doing it at a random school, not so much.
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by askafriend 1mo ago
His fund did not fold. In fact, the returns were so astronomical that they took a $35B loss (around 67%) which means they were still UP 80% for the year in 2026. Today they have around $10B under management. As an investor, how would you fe
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by askafriend 1mo ago
I'm not writing a technical paper and I refuse to write like what you're suggesting. It's just a rhetorical device!
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by askafriend 1mo ago
That's fair and I guess we're about to find out! The thing to appreciate is there's a lot that's unprecedented about all of this. Some of it has to do with Leopold but then there's a whole lot that doesn't. I&#
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by askafriend 1mo ago
Well it's not a random 25 year old. He became valedictorian at Columbia and graduated at 19. He was then briefly a part of OpenAI's superalignment team. After he got fired, he wrote a 165 page thesis on AI in early 2024 that all e
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by askafriend 2mo ago
A nightmare client would be a nightmare client regardless of the technology involved. I can definitely believe that it's way more annoying with the false confidence effect it tends to have for non-experts.
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by askafriend 4mo ago
25 years ago, you were 25 years younger. Maybe it's not the computers that you miss.
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by askafriend 6mo ago
You can see their ego trying to protect itself.
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by askafriend 9mo ago
> The AI makes an indecipherable mess Humans are perfectly capable of this themselves and in fact often do it...
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by askafriend 9mo ago
I think it’s exactly like going from paper spreadsheet to Excel in some very important aspects of engineering (but not all). I really encourage you to update your priors since capabilities are very different than even 6 months ago.
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by askafriend 9mo ago
Why didn't you ask to get the accounts provisioned?
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by askafriend 10mo ago
I bet poor investment planning and low-paying roles despite the years of experience.
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by askafriend 11mo ago
Heavy is the head that wears the crown, I guess. The entire car dealership lobby hates Tesla, for example.
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by askafriend 11mo ago
Why shouldn't the author use LLMs to assist their writing? The issue is how tools are used, not that they are used at all.
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by askafriend 11mo ago
If it conveys the intended information then what's wrong with that? You're fighting a tsunami here. People are going to use LLMs to help their writing now and forever.
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by askafriend 11mo ago
It's because A LOT of people are. I can't imagine doing it any other way now that I've adopted all the tooling. I haven't hand-written more than a dozen lines of code in months. The models are really really good now if y
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by askafriend 1y ago
I'm actually quite familiar with the history of app stores and getting people to pay for software on the internet. I grew up in this timeline so I have first-hand experience too. Before the App Store, the picture was mostly a disaster
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by askafriend 1y ago
Great thought, that seems very likely since so many "founder stories" are heavily spun tales.
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by askafriend 1y ago
Developers want a stable, secure platform where they can reach customers that trust the platform and are willing to transact. Everything is downstream of that, including any philosophy around control. Developers are businesses and the econo
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by askafriend 1y ago
While I understand the author's point, IMO we're unlikely to do anything that results in slowing down first. Especially in a competitive, corporate context that involves building software.
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by askafriend 1y ago
The thing people seem to forget about Jobs is that he really was that good, that obsessive/dedicated and that visionary. It's that simple. His process resulted in some of the most transformative products humanity has ever known.
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by askafriend 1y ago
Exactly this. It's inherent in the process and way of thinking. It's a dangerous path to pursue for entrepreneurs. How can the results be anything but disposable and frivolous when the process treats them as such.
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by askafriend 1y ago
Well also SpongeBob is excellent and one of the greatest shows ever made.
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by askafriend 1y ago
This is even funnier.
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by askafriend 1y ago
Definitely this. A total lack of awareness and tact demonstrated by OP.
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by askafriend 1y ago
Doesn't every city feel mismanaged though? If you asked people from SF, Seattle or NYC - they might all say the same. They'd think they were the most mismanaged in America. I'm genuinely just curious what makes you think LA i
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by askafriend 1y ago
I find joy in the process of surmounting difficult things. I think there's a lot of intrinsic satisfaction in knowing no one can stop you.

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