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New comment by jonfromsf in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

jonfromsf — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:30:24 +0000

This is an amazing frame /reframe.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents"

jonfromsf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:30:07 +0000

Gilfoyle? Is that you?

New comment by jonfromsf in "The Brand Age"

jonfromsf — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:31:46 +0000

Defining your identity to other humans is incredibly useful. It's one of the essential tasks a human faces, and it makes all other tasks easier if done effectively.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Scott Adams has died"

jonfromsf — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:07:31 +0000

The expectation that artists be "good people" always baffles me. Anyone who becomes a great artist has: 1)High levels of narcissism required to think the world needs to hear "your vision. 2) High levels of sociopathy to thrive in a snake pit like the art world or Hollywood. It's even stranger than if someone expected CEOs to be good people (which we don't).

New comment by jonfromsf in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

jonfromsf — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:12:29 +0000

After a decade, "founder of X that I no longer work at" is considered a lame answer. People want to know what you are doing now, not your highest claim to status of your entire life.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

jonfromsf — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:34:40 +0000

I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of Stanford students are anxious or depressed. Isn't everybody, especially young kids who have spent the last decade going through the meat grinder of prepping for elite college admissions?

New comment by jonfromsf in "Sex, aggression, and humour: responses to unicycling (2007)"

jonfromsf — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:21:10 +0000

Fascinating. I wonder what drives the male aggression towards unicyclists. Is it a response to perceived competition (another male doing something attention-getting: must put them down to maintain my place in the male hierarchy)? Is it enforcing male norms of being "serious", conformist, etc?

New comment by jonfromsf in "A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z"

jonfromsf — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:20:38 +0000

Remade was snappy but Fall went on forever.

New comment by jonfromsf in "[dead]"

jonfromsf — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:40:18 +0000

Why does he sweat so much? I prefer my technoligarcs to have a matte finish, not a glossy finish.

New comment by jonfromsf in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

jonfromsf — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:12:36 +0000

Environmentalists are just against progress. A few desert species going extinct is not a big deal. It's an arid wasteland. When we eventually terraform it (with desalinated water from solar / fusion) those species are going to die out anyway.

New comment by jonfromsf in "iPhone dumbphone"

jonfromsf — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:12:20 +0000

He needs uber. He needs google maps. Mostly it's not just about looking up information, it's about functionality.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?"

jonfromsf — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:00:41 +0000

Most people earn money over time. Putting these savings 100% into the stock market as you earn them is pretty reasonable. It’s only a sudden cash windfall that presents problems. The fix for that is to put money in 1, 2, and 3 year treasuries, and invest that money into equities as the treasuries mature.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?"

jonfromsf — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 01:51:30 +0000

They certainly solve the stated problem of concentration in a few tech companies. But I agree, non-tech companies are overvalued. Bonds are terrifying, they’re a bet against inflation and in favor of the US dollar. MLPs and oil companies are a nice place to stash money because they aren’t correlated with tech. MLPs flow about 7% tax free yield which isn’t bad. Bitcoin and Gold are good hedges against inflation.

New comment by jonfromsf in "Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?"

jonfromsf — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:16:35 +0000

Just buy $RSP or a similar equal-weightage ETF.

New comment by jonfromsf in "How to increase your surface area for luck"

jonfromsf — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:19:17 +0000

You might like FailCon. https://thefailcon.com/

New comment by jonfromsf in "What happens when housing prices go down?"

jonfromsf — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:50:04 +0000

And done by professionals, not homeowners. Honestly most people aren't very good at managing home maintenance, so this makes a lot of sense at scale.

New comment by jonfromsf in "AMD's Freshly-Baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect"

jonfromsf — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:44:34 +0000

NVDAs advantage is software, not just hardware. Would be amazing to have a competitive market but better hardware won't be enough to make it happen.

New comment by jonfromsf in "The Gentle Singularity"

jonfromsf — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 01:58:49 +0000

I don't understand this plan. Won't you lose all the money you spent buying the houses and building the quadplexes?

New comment by jonfromsf in "I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic"

jonfromsf — Fri, 30 May 2025 06:08:32 +0000

These were a huge part of the American social fabric in the past. Most of the organizations are still active, although smaller than before. There's Freemasons, The Elks, Rotary International, American Legion, VFW, Knights of Columbus, Loyal order of Moose, Shriners, Lions Club, Kiwanis ...

New comment by jonfromsf in "Wrench Attacks: Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency users (2024) [pdf]"

jonfromsf — Mon, 26 May 2025 01:48:26 +0000

The obvious answer is to invest in ETFs that hold bitcoin, in a traditional brokerage account. Ironic that it comes to that (given that bitcoin was supposed to take down big finance). But it is the most straightforward and safe way for someone to own some amount of bitcoin.