It'll lose another half if you spray paint it gold like in the OP photos.
So we are talking 10k ebay price.
Readit Newsrandomtoast commented on Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation a16z.com/building-a16zs-p... · Posted by u/ProofHouse
As someone who knows very little about finance, is there any ETF available which acts as a middle-ground between market-cap weighted and equally-weighted funds? The very high concentration of tech and AI in the S&P 500 at the moment makes me uncomfortable, but equal-weight seems too drastic to me. A fund where the weighting is done by the square root of the market cap feels like it would make sense but I can't find anyone doing this.
I think even a square root cap approach alone is not very balanced.
There are ETFs that consider fundamentals, such as book value, cash flow, and sales. In these fundamental-weighted ETFs, AI companies that burn large amounts of cash are rated much lower compared to their weighting in market cap-based ETFs.
randomtoast commented on Attention is your scarcest resource (2020) benkuhn.net/attention/... · Posted by u/jxmorris12
Attention can be trained through Samatha meditation.
randomtoast commented on LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date caltech.edu/about/news/li... · Posted by u/Eduard
I don’t want to dismiss your memory of the anecdote, but it doesn’t hold up under fact-checking. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bono-of-contention/
I would also like to see linear scaling graphs.
randomtoast commented on LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date caltech.edu/about/news/li... · Posted by u/Eduard
Let’s see — the Tsar Bomba nuclear weapon released the equivalent of converting about 2.3 kg of matter into energy (1).
One solar mass is about 2 x 10^30 kg, so round numbers this event released the same as 10^31 Tsar Bombas, which is … a lot of energy? That number is too big to be a good intuition pump.
Let’s try again: over the course of its entire lifetime of about 10 billion years, the sun will release about 0.034% of its mass as energy (2). So one solar mass of energy is about 3000 solar-lifetime-outputs.
So this event has released about as much energy as 45,000 suns over their entire lifetime. I’m not sure how much of the energy was released in the final few seconds of merger, but probably most of it? So… that’s a lot of energy.
> this event released the same as 10^31 Tsar Bombas, which is … a lot of energy? That number is too big to be a good intuition pump
Let me try:
To match this power with sequentially detonated bombs, one would need to set off about 10^13 Tsar Bombas (or one hydrogen bomb scaled up to 5% the mass of the Moon) every second since the Big Bang to match it. With that amount of energy, you could essentially destroy earth every second since the Big Bang.
randomtoast commented on Google's widespread tracking across the web simpleanalytics.com/blog/... · Posted by u/basquiyacht
It isn't, parent is making stuff up. Browsers do not offer an interface that is exposing that information.
And remote servers are outside of your local network and thus cannot see these values, either.
That's true for browsers, but Google controls both the Android OS and Google Play Services, giving them access to hardware identifiers on Android smartphones. Given the broad adoption of Android devices and the potential to correlate data, this is not a case of "making stuff up." Even if your MAC address is spoofed/randomized, the remaining data points are still sufficient to track you.
randomtoast commented on Google's widespread tracking across the web simpleanalytics.com/blog/... · Posted by u/basquiyacht
Let's face reality: as soon as you browse the internet, you will be tracked and identified. Here are just a few data points used for fingerprinting:
IP address, User-Agent string, Referrer URL, Requested URL, Language, Locale, Screen resolution, Time zone, System time, Installed fonts, Installed plugins, Cookie data, Browser fingerprint, Canvas fingerprint, WebGL fingerprint, AudioContext fingerprint, Mouse movements, Click paths, Keyboard input timing, History sniffing, DNS queries, Destination IP addresses, HTTP traffic content, HTTPS metadata (host, SNI, timing), MAC address, Query parameters, Session ID, Login status, User account info, Geolocation (via IP), Geolocation (via browser API), Page interaction data, Time on page, Scroll behavior, Clicks, Form submissions, Browser type, OS type, Network provider, Client ID (\_ga cookie), Session ID, Timestamp, Pages visited, UTM parameters, Interaction events, Google Ad ID, DoubleClick cookie (IDE), Cross-site behavior, Cross-device behavior, Inferred demographics, Mouse tracking, Scroll depth, Video interactions, Audio interactions, Session replay, Keystroke logging, Facebook login status, Pixel events (Meta, LinkedIn, etc)
If you want to avoid that, you need to make a real effort (not just using DuckDuckGo). The Tails operating system might be a good place to start.
randomtoast commented on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X nytimes.com/2025/07/09/te... · Posted by u/donohoe
I think that no matter how bad the news about Elon and his companies might be, his net worth keeps skyrocketing and is currently around the $400B mark. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years Forbes reports that he's the first to reach one trillion.
In many cases, even investigative journalists cannot obtain details about governance processes and decisions made behind closed doors. The government often cites strict data protection rules and uses them as a shield against disclosure.
Another example: In Germany, you are generally not allowed to film law enforcement. If someone feels they have been treated "unfairly", good luck to prove that in court when two officers present a completely different version of events, especially since body cameras are very rare in germany.