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New comment by xNeil in "Tesla offers mammoth $1T pay package to Musk, sets lofty targets"

xNeil — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:48:48 +0000

>You can't possibly believe Musk's fantasies after a couple decades of hilarious (and occasionally dangerous) lies.

Eh, betting against Musk generally seems to be a losing proposition. Starlink alone would have given me faith in his abilities, what Tesla's done with Models 3 and Y and SpaceX with Falcon 9 gives me all the more reason to believe him. Yes, despite the absurd timelines, which I'm generally okay with. (Not OP)

New comment by xNeil in "Tesla offers mammoth $1T pay package to Musk, sets lofty targets"

xNeil — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:44:51 +0000

>...Tesla is not the winner in electric cars

With all due respect, what in the world are you on about?

New comment by xNeil in "Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire"

xNeil — Sat, 03 May 2025 19:13:11 +0000

Not convinced working for government is the best use of your potential, though considering he owns 5% of all US Treasury Bills, I wouldn't say his impact is any less than being a government employee.

New comment by xNeil in "Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire"

xNeil — Sat, 03 May 2025 19:11:16 +0000

Not by Buffett, but you'll love Poor Charlie's Alamanack, by Charlie Munger, his lifelong business partner.

https://www.stripe.press/poor-charlies-almanack/cover

New comment by xNeil in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

xNeil — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:13:12 +0000

The moral panic is social media being the reason for the suicides going up, not the fact that suicides are going up in itself.

New comment by xNeil in "WordPress Alternatives"

xNeil — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:27:40 +0000

Sharing the Hugo theme is a great move Herman. I'll be starting a Bearblog now, all thanks to this comment.

New comment by xNeil in "Ruby on Rails continues to thrive"

xNeil — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:38:57 +0000

Am I the only one who sees that the entire website is AI generated? Their categories make no sense, neither does their homepage. Weird.

New comment by xNeil in "Twitter shut off API access; users volunteering their own data for an open API"

xNeil — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:34:06 +0000

Yes, and Twitter isn't reacting specially in this regard. See Reddit hiking API prices by an absurd amount.

New comment by xNeil in "Twitter shut off API access; users volunteering their own data for an open API"

xNeil — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:31:32 +0000

I don't think that's fair - getting back the chronological timeline itself made the purchase a good one in my eyes, alongside the For You feed, which seems to work wonderfully (for me). Not to forget you can literally turn off ads if you want. I seem to be a real minority, but I do genuinely believe Musk has done a great job with Twitter (or X).

New comment by xNeil in "Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable"

xNeil — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 05:44:36 +0000

Cable Cowboy, I'm guessing. Great book!

New comment by xNeil in "Nietzsche's Guide to Greatness"

xNeil — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:17:58 +0000

From Theodore Alois Buckley's introduction to Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad:

"When we have read Plato or Xenophon, we think we know something of Socrates; when we have fairly read and examined both, we feel convinced that we are something worse than ignorant."

New comment by xNeil in "So you want to build a browser engine"

xNeil — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 22:17:29 +0000

25% of the Earth's population is younger than 15. Assuming 20% of them use the internet, the TAM (not including the <15 year olds) is 80% of the world's population.

3 out of 4, or 75%, seems like nearly ever human, I'd say (though it is a matter of opinion I guess.)

New comment by xNeil in "Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission"

xNeil — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 04:50:38 +0000

funding secured wasn't a lie so much as a premature declaration, if walter isaacson is to be believed.

New comment by xNeil in "Veo"

xNeil — Wed, 15 May 2024 04:15:15 +0000

>Google and Apple have a somewhat poor software innovation reputation.

I'm assuming you mean reputation as in general opinion among developers? Because Google's probably been the most innovative company of the 21st century so far.

New comment by xNeil in "GPT-4o"

xNeil — Mon, 13 May 2024 19:38:34 +0000

it's rarely wrong when it comes to concepts - it's the facts and numbers that it hallucinates.

New comment by xNeil in "Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus"

xNeil — Thu, 02 May 2024 17:29:36 +0000

$24k per year to get a job?

New comment by xNeil in "Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team"

xNeil — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:41:14 +0000

It actually does seem to be correct, in that Musk doesn't exactly spend his money on homes or cars or yachts or other material possessions - it seems all his money goes to philanthropy and his businesses (hence the 'per se').

New comment by xNeil in "Calculus Made Easy"

xNeil — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:21:23 +0000

Feynman started with Calculus Made Easy, and only did Calculus for the Practical Man after he finished it.

New comment by xNeil in "The Google employees who created transformers"

xNeil — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:46:00 +0000

It's not about just ad revenue though, is it? Many thousands, if not millions of sites rely entirely on Google Search for their revenue. You cannot simply replace all of them with a chatbot - there are massive consequences to such decisions.

New comment by xNeil in "Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]"

xNeil — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:08:14 +0000

It is quite the impactful story. Saw it under a Twitter (X) thread on IQ and orders of thinking - worth the read.