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scoreandmore commented on A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages nytimes.com/2025/07/31/te... · Posted by u/jrwan

SturgeonsLaw · 7 months ago

If it were me, yeah, park it in bonds and live off the interest on a tropical beach. Spend my days spearfishing and drinking beers with the locals. Have no concerns except how even my tan is (and tbh I don't see myself caring too much about that).

I'd forget the word shareholder even exists.

scoreandmore · 7 months ago

I met a youngster on Boca del Toro island in Panama a decade or so ago. I was about to be fired from my FAANG job so I used up years and years of vacation for one big trip before I was let go. We hung out for a few days while I was there (I don’t recommend the place at all btw). He cashed out from early twitter and was setting up surf schools all of the world. All he did was travel, surf, drink, and fuck. I’m still angry that laughed at all the dumb startups in the late 2000s instead of joining them. But this guy did what you’re suggesting, and I think there are many more unknown techbros who did it too.

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safety1st · 7 months ago

> I used to think that once I made it ... stashed away some savings to weather a health crisis or creative drought ... I’d finally feel free to slow down ... Instead, accomplishment—and the sense of “arrival” I imagined would come with it—proved elusive.

I mean, yes? You do indeed need an emergency fund, and the theory, which various retirement vehicles are designed to support, is you set up your affairs to permanently slow down at around 65.

Before that is outside of the reach of most people, but if you want to do it sooner, the way is straightforward: increase your savings rate.

It's math and economics... once you don't need the income anymore, you get to slow down, until then, you manage your stress and anxiety as best as you can.

I am also self employed, fortunate enough to be in the technology profession where we're relatively well paid - I hit the "I could stop at 65" number a few years ago and the way I see it every year I put in at this point, is just bring that number down lower. At some point my age and that number will meet in the middle.

scoreandmore · 7 months ago

I’m near that magic number age with a few million but I also have health issues and I’m terrified all of it will be spent on treatment because of how the USA is being governed into flames by the current corrupt administration. It never ends, when I was young and healthy I saved as hard as a could for my old age and didn’t vacation. Now I’m there and there’s zero guarantee of safety because of the rightward shift of politics in this country. Maybe you just have to say “fuck it” like gen z. Because being a paranoid gen x sure sucks.

scoreandmore commented on Tokens are getting more expensive ethanding.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/admp

mystraline · 7 months ago

From the article:

> consumers hate metered billing. they'd rather overpay for unlimited than get surprised by a bill.

Yes and no.

Take Amazon. You think your costs are known and WHAMMO surprise bill. Why do you get a surprise bill? Because you cannot say 'Turn shit off at X money per month'. Can't do it. Not an option.

All of these 'Surprise Net 30' offerings are the same. You think you're getting a stable price until GOTAHCA.

Now, metered billing can actually be good, when the user knows exactly where they stand on the metering AND can set maximums so their budget doesn't go over.

Taken realistically, as an AI company, you provide a 'used tokens/total tokens' bar graph, tokens per response, and estimated amount of responses before exceeding.

Again, don't surprise the user. But that's an anathema to companies who want to hide tokens to dollars, the same way gambling companies obfuscate 'corporate bux' to USD.

scoreandmore · 7 months ago

You can set billing alerts and write a lambda function to respond and disable resources. Of course they don’t make it easy but if you don’t learn how to use limits what do you expect? This argument amazes me. Cloud services require some degree of responsibility on the users side.

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scoreandmore · 8 months ago

Where do they fit a motor, battery, controls, and transmission on a 4kg bike? I can’t find any online to buy and I would expect it’s a poorly kept secret.

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esseph · 8 months ago

Language is fluid and changes all the time, which is why we are not conversing on this website in Shakespeare's English.

The history of this pattern over the ages continues to repeat itself and shows no sign of going away across languages.

scoreandmore · 8 months ago

We can literally read the original folios, so much for your point.

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scoreandmore · 8 months ago

The first thing I did when I signed up for Claude was have it analyze my website for security holes. But it only recommended superficial changes, like the lifecycle of my JWTs. After reading this, I’m wondering if a prompt asking it to attack the website would be better than asking it where it should be beefed up. But I no longer pay for Claude, and I suspect it won’t give me instructions on how to attack something. How would one get past this?