OpenAI is using a page from 2010's Facebook playbook. They know their valuation is hyper inflated, so they are using those crazy valuations to buy stuff with equity (just like Facebook bought WhatsApp with private stock with crazy valuations).
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> My first thought is to lean towards small companies that are not looking to grow. They are hard to find, and usually have no time/energy to "train" me.
If they're not looking to grow themselves then why would they invest in growing you?
also if they are not looking to grow, they are probably not hiring.
jpadkins commented on Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros cnbc.com/2025/12/08/param... · Posted by u/gniting
I think that's over-simplifying it. Some YouTube personality (or whatever we want to call 'online media' that isn't just CNN's website) isn't going to be getting a Whitehouse press pass anytime soon.
A lot of YouTube political influencers have more viewers than CNN.
jpadkins commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84
Is it tho? I think one of the supreme court judges sold out the US for a couple of holidays and a winnebago
Your model of "selling out" is wrong. He did change his values for a holidays or a Winnebago. He has been aligned with a certain set of values for a long time, and has not really changed. He got the position he is in because of those values and other attributes. People give him gifts, do favors, etc not to curry favor with him or attempt to change his rulings. They are saying "thank you for upholding our values in the Supreme Court".
Also, you should be careful of the sources you get info about Justice Thomas, as you are propagating racist coded tropes.
jpadkins commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84
The US crypto lobby has already raised over 240 million for the 2026 election. It’s a cancer attacking our society’s institutions.
240M is small time for US lobbying. Just saying, they are gnats compared to pharma, banking, MIC, Unions, or energy.
jpadkins commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84
How does Jerome Powell decide the price of a dollar? How does an algorithm fix that? What is being fixed?
Jerome Powell sets the future price of the dollar by setting a goal that is achieved by the Fed creating dollars and buying bonds (or selling bonds).
> What is being fixed?
A small group of people decide how much currency is circulated and can be used as debt, which creates inflation or deflation. Also there is no democratic process that can be used to control this small group of people, other than a repeal of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
> How does an algorithm fix that?
As an example, Bitcoin's algorithm has a fixed schedule in which new BTC is created. People can voluntarily use or not use BTC as a currency based on this currency creation schedule (vs. arbitrary creation that comes with fiat currency). This algorithm can only change by actors that take hashing majority on the Bitcoin network.
jpadkins commented on 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads flowtwo.io/post/on-10-yea... · Posted by u/thejoeflow
Related, I think people have stopped.... reacting on the internet? I've been part of the X/Twitter to Bluesky migration and people often mention how 'quiet' Bluesky is.
I think that's not due to algorithmic intervention of product design etc., I think people are just tired. The novelty of shouting at strangers on the internet has worn off - how many internet fights have we gotten into that did nothing in the end except waste time? It's only worse with a coin flip's chance of the other person being an LLM. We're all tired.
Probably more related to progressive culture, people worried about saying the wrong thing. From the outside, it looks exhausting to try and keep up with the latest dogma of the left.
I have worked at many companies over my career. From 10s of thousands, to thousands, to hundreds, to tens of employees. There wasn't a SINGLE ONE that would tolerate someone declining EVERY MEETING when the culture does not align to the ideals this presentation outlines.
Clearly your experience is different and that's absolutely awesome; consider yourself incredibly fortunate.
Intel in the 90s-2000s did. I did customer research on them (worked on powerpoint at the time). I was amazed that the CEO gave a mandate to the company that if an agenda was not posted to a meeting 24H before the meeting, you did not have to attend that meeting. They also had other crazy strict meeting rules that I forgot.
> How would you design FPSs to remove this "bad game design?"
I think we just need to accept that bots will always be better at reaction based KPIs & abusing "knowing" too much game state, we should just remove those conditions.
1) Move most of the application logic to the server, the client should be a fairly dumb terminal that knows how to render and accept inputs, and only receives the state that it needs. No more spying issues.
2) Just give everybody auto aim & immediate/auto controlled firing, etc. No more aim bot issues.
3) Improve the quality of gameplay around the types of interactions which bots are bad at. Decision making, strategy, communication, execution, adaptation.
what if more people want to play an action shooter game, and not a slow strategy game?