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New comment by pinkyboy in "Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears"

pinkyboy — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:18:43 +0000

Apple is a $5t company that has $45b cash-on-hand.

Your post is "cute", but 3 or 4 months of operating cash isn't a great example of "sitting on piles of gold".

New comment by pinkyboy in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

pinkyboy — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:43:44 +0000

That is a largely incorrect statement that is loosely based on a single incident, not a trend.

The single incident was an individual in Malaysia who added an after-market finger-print based engine immobilizer to his car in 2005. The attackers threatened the individual with machetes, so that he would put his finger on the sensor, and then drove off with him in the car. The attackers later cut off his finger believing it would let them restart it without him present.

New comment by pinkyboy in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts"

pinkyboy — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:38:26 +0000

It's fascinating that you simultaneously argue that margins will expand... while posting about personal behavior all of which points toward commoditization and intense price competition.

New comment by pinkyboy in "Claude Opus 5"

pinkyboy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:35:27 +0000

Great paper, thank you for sharing it.

New comment by pinkyboy in "Claude Opus 5"

pinkyboy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:34:42 +0000

Elon Musk cares that Elon Musk benefits from policies.

He does not give a single solitary fuck about you. If you get lucky and your interests align, great. But Musk talks fairly openly about letting many humans die while a few rich elites thrive. And if you're posting on this website, you are not a rich elite.

New comment by pinkyboy in "Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer"

pinkyboy — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:47:47 +0000

Even if carbon was a complete non-issue, electrification and a greater diversity of energy sources would still have immense value.

New comment by pinkyboy in "Claude Opus 5"

pinkyboy — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:54:42 +0000

This becomes substantially less true when the billionaires transform their money into political power.

New comment by pinkyboy in "Claude Opus 5"

pinkyboy — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:50:21 +0000

Even if you live off of your wealth - what happens when customers of those wealth-generating businesses don't have jobs?