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  1. 3 minutes ago, BevoAbyss said:

    And not one media outlet, not one business exec, not one political leader, not one sports figure will call any these fascist f*ucks what they are: fascists!  

    Fascists and fascism are being completely normalized in Texas and America. Right smack in the middle of Austin, no less.

    Let me tell you, fascists fucking HATE being called a fascist

    Just now, fattyflattie said:

    PrincipalSkinnerIt’sthekidsthatarewrong.gif. 

    And their sympathizers love to call everyone else the problem. I remember one time incredulity called me an "antifa fascist" lololol

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  2. 4 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    Probably a myriad of things including the C-suite bonus’ offset by their ability to manage nonessential personnel. 

    Lmao what a nice way to say "layoffs and pay cuts for workers". Did you learn that doublespeak phrase in your finance course work?

  3. Scott Manley has a really good analysis of the hot staging performance and factors that may have caused the booster to fail. He's betting the moment of negative acceleration the booster got from the starship thrust during hot staging caused some water hammer from the liquids sloshing during the flip maneuver

     

     

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  4. 4 minutes ago, hornbri said:

    Nah - it looks like it is just a power struggle over those that want to go fast and make money on AI and those that want to go slow and be careful.

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo

    The last couple paragraphs of that article are the meat:

    OpenAI’s current board consists of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, former GeoSim Systems CEO Tasha McCauley, and Helen Toner, the director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Unlike traditional companies, the board isn’t tasked with maximizing shareholder value, and none of them hold equity in OpenAI. Instead, their stated mission is to ensure the creation of “broadly beneficial” artificial general intelligence, or AGI.

    Sutskever, who also co-founded OpenAI and leads its researchers, was instrumental in the ousting of Altman this week, according to multiple sources. His role in the coup suggests a power struggle between the research and product sides of the company, the sources say.

     

    It's interesting that their BOD is specifically not supposed to maximize shareholder value, it's gonna be interesting to see how it shakes out with the CEO potentially coming back

  5. 7 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    It’s true. And all that money is trickling down where when they die off?  To every Gen Xr on this board.  Will probably even be able to continue to afford those nuggies at these exorbitant prices.  

    Tell me you've never dealt with elder care in this country without telling me. 

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  6. 15 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    If he has an actual machine, he already knew who they were plus, the West Texas BMDs are focused on the House members who wanted Paxton impeached, which probably overlaps with the anti-voucher crowd.

    Edit: There’s going to be a big civil war over the next few months.  Abbott may even try and keep doing special sessions just to hurt their campaigning opportunities, complete with threats to arrest them if they aren’t in Austin.

    edit: they wouldn’t be opposing. Abbott if they didn’t think their constituents backed them, and Abbott forgets that politics are ultimately local.

    It's gonna be a hoot when we get hit with another weather event and ERCOT fails but the lege is going into it's 15th special session seeking to give taxpayer funds to private christian schools

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  7. 18 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    What margins should businesses be allowed to make?  Where should they be capped?  And do you believe they pay enough in taxes?

    There's a difference between earning a profit as a business, and stealing wages from workers to pass onto investors as """record profits""". I appreciate that you can't discuss this in good faith and so need to continually lie and misrepresent my position, so I look forward to explaining this to you again soon, farty. 

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  8. 5 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    I thought I read someplace online that these early practice sessions were free.

    I don't think so - FP1 and FP2 were on the Thursday ticket which started around $200. Plus the cost of being in Vegas during F1 etc etc. Just a bummer for folks who paid a premium to get a subpar product

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  9. 1 hour ago, G650 said:

    That's a water valve box lid. It's amazing they had them run across that.

    I've read there's been 30 some odd boxes that they've had to remediate. I think they're filling in the box with sand and then capping with quick concrete?

    Idk this is such an incredible shit show, I would be PISSED if I shelled out thousands for the privilege of $30 drinks and getting kicked out while holding a ticket

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  10. 5 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    None of it yet- the rise of new car prices over the last several years was enabled by 0-3% interest rates and the dealer margin is built into that number. 

    In a normal new car market car dealers typically make around 3-4% margin on new car sales. They make the real money on factory incentives, flipping trade-ins, service, and ESPECIALLY F&I. Some dealerships even operate the new car sales end as a break even or loss leader business by design and make it back on finance discount (this is especially true with subprime).


    “Market adjustments” by dealers represent the extraordinarily rare circumstance that they have a scarce good- either an exceptionally popular model, or a general supply shortage, and when financing is cheap they have a partner to make high prices more palatable for a buyer. 
     

    so 2021-22 was a perfect storm of 

    1) low rates

    2) low supply 

    3) high demand driven by cheap debt and stimulus

    We’re seeing the opposite now- high rates are making high MSRP new vehicles less attractive, there are few truly new concepts coming in at this moment to drive a premium, the cost of floorplan financing* has risen to dealers can’t afford to let stock sit, and the supply chains are returning to normal. 
    So right now I’m seeing dealer discounts in the 15-20% range on bro-dozers that would have sold for MSRP last year, and financing incentives on vehicles that would have had a 5-10k “market adjustment” last year.

     

    Cars are a fairly high price elastic product on a coat of ownership basis because the the market addressability has underwriting standards dealers can’t do much about other than eat the difference to keep the lights on if they have to.
    For them the market giveth and taketh away. 
     

    When I was at the dealship getting my wife's car serviced a month or so ago, I still saw a shitload of cars on the lot with "market adjustment" markups. Not brodozer trucks, mostly Rav4's and nicer sedans. But the lot had rows and rows of them, so I don't think there's constrained supply anymore

  11. I tuned in just to catch a glimpse of cars coming down the strip - didn't realize I'd see a water valve cover go through the floor of a Ferrari! Holy shit what a close call for that driver though - if the cover had punched the engine instead of empty air that would be a bad time

    Cracked the chassis and broke the suspension!

     

    There was a yellow flag just before the incident, the sky sports people are speculating that the cover had worked its way up and become proud after just a few laps

  12. 7 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

    Imagine constantly shipping $10k-30k IV medications to patients in rural areas where fed ex is the only alternative. 

     

     

    Now imagine it's summer....

     

    Welcome to my nightmare.

    Genuinely curious, I wonder if it would be feasible to use a drone dispatch system to distribute medicine to rural areas. Mark Rober on YouTube did a great video on using a relatively small base site to service hard to reach areas in Rwanda that planes would never be able to land

     

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