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RippyDave retweeted
My org is paying api prices for Claude because it’s convinced that we cannot under any circumstances let them train the model on our source code, even though they could put everyone on Claude ultra subs. How do I explain to them that the model can write a better app from scratch
RippyDave retweeted
Cuando ser justo y honrado tenga un precio, páguenlo. Cuando perdonar parezca una derrota, perdonen. Cuando todos les digan que piensen primero en ustedes mismos, no tengan miedo de hacerse los últimos; sean capaces de entregar tiempo, dinero, comodidad y proyectos para servir a los demás. Que quien los mire pueda preguntarse: “¿Por qué vive así? ¿De dónde saca esta libertad? ¿Por qué se aman tanto?”. #ViajeApostólico #Uruguay
RippyDave retweeted
There are efficiency improvements coming that will allow for a 40kWh Cybercab pack. We will make this in liquid silver, so the colors are not too monotonous.
The biggest thing most people fail to understand is that there are a very limited number of smart, dedicated people! They can only do so many things.
If we have to maintain a complex production line, supply chain and allocate engineering for Cybertruck, we can’t use those people or factory space and machinery for scaling Cybercab, which is the vehicle that will PROFOUNDLY transform the world of terrestrial transport!
RippyDave retweeted
They’re calling it the shortest-lived celebration of all time.
Democrats were so happy a few hours ago.
I wonder what changed.
RippyDave retweeted
Self-proclaimed “Anti-Fascists” when it’s time to arrest their political opponents and nationalize industry
RippyDave retweeted
W takim momencie Prezydent musi być w Polsce. Przerywam lot do Senegalu. Wracam 🇵🇱
RippyDave retweeted
You can cancel an election and ban the winner from running (Romania), you can ban your opponents from ever running again (Hungary), you can threaten to ban the main opposition party and subject it to relentless investigations by the secret police (Germany), you can threaten a ban on the leading presidential candidate and make them wear an ankle monitor (France), every member of your circle can be investigated for corruption (Spain), you can try and cancel local elections because you will lose them (Britain), and you can storm the constitutional court with riot police because you want to control it (Poland).
You can just do all these things. The secret is you just have to be on the right side of the European Commission.
RippyDave retweeted
Understand how the narrative works.
Ahead of Brazil’s election, they were gearing up to blame Meta if Lula lost. Now that he’s been declared the winner, we’re hearing about the brilliant use of WhatsApp (Meta) that helped deliver his victory.
When Obama won in 2012, they celebrated his shrewd use of Facebook, voter data and microtargeting. When Brexit happened and Trump won in 2016, we got the Cambridge Analytica moral panic.
When the left wins, it’s brilliant digital campaigning. When the right wins, it’s social media manipulation undermining democracy.
How 'Lula's Army' WhatsApp chat helped turn Brazil election around bbc.in/4zU8c9w
Ironic that all the politicians in the world cry for No Kings as a supposed protest against Trump yet have nothing to say about actual Kings + celebrate the election victory of a 4th term Brazilian incumbent.
It's all a grift.
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RippyDave retweeted
Everyone's chanting "tax the rich" without actually looking at the numbers.
Someone earning $200k pays roughly $42,000 in federal income tax.
Someone earning $30k pays around $1,800.
That means it takes about 23 people earning $30k to match what one person earning $200k contributes.
So why is the policy conversation constantly aimed at pushing high earners out, when they're already carrying the overwhelming majority of the load?
The issue was never how much revenue comes in.
The issue is how much gets wasted once it's collected.
Stop aiming at the earners.
Start aiming at the spending.