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@FinanceLancelot

Why does a new firetruck cost $2.5 MILLION? Hint: private equity

@zerohedge C’mon Jim, you’re just padding the stats now.

🚨 BREAKING: ChatGPT has a feature called Flight Booking mode. You can use it to book cheaper flights anytime. Here are 7 prompts to access it:

I have Liberal boomer family members that retired to the MOST affluent, conservative, Canadiana small town you could ever imagine because "its quiet" and "low crime" and all they do is complain that everyone there are "white supremacists" 😂

Former Montana Tech football coach Bob Green had some of the greatest one liners of all time

🚨 THIS IS GOING TO BREAK THE INTERNET! Elon Musk just dropped Neuralink's craziest bombshell: “In the next 6 to 12 months, we're going to implant the first vision devices. Even if you're 100% blind from birth, we're going to write directly to your visual cortex… and you're going to see.” “And that's just the beginning. In the long term, you'll have ultra-HD resolution and real superpowers: you'll see in infrared, ultraviolet, and even radar. Literally like a superhero.” The future is no longer science fiction. It's Neuralink.

A home theater installer has calibrated over 3,000 TVs in 12 years from $400 budget sets to $15,000 flagship OLEDs in custom media rooms. He walks into people's homes, looks at their TV for 5 seconds, and can tell them exactly what's wrong. He told me: "Almost every TV I see is running in the same mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent showroom lights. The motion smoothing is on. The sharpness is cranked. The eco dimmer is cutting brightness by 30–40%. And the TV is taking a screenshot of the screen every few seconds and selling the viewing data to advertisers. People are watching a $1,500 panel the same way it looked on the store shelf and that's the worst possible way to watch it." He said a properly calibrated TV doesn't look "better." It looks like a completely different television. He changed 9 settings on my TV in 15 minutes. The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. Skin tones stopped looking plastic. Dark scenes became visible. The TV stopped spying on me. And a movie finally looked like a movie instead of a daytime talk show. "TV manufacturers ship every set optimized for a showroom, not a living room. Then they bury the settings that fix it inside 6 menus nobody opens." Here are the 9 things he changed:

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman: «You don't need to write prompts anymore.» In 38 minutes, he explains how to use ChatGPT better than most people do. He gave this lecture for Stanford students. My friend sent me the recording. I watched it last night, realizing I was using maybe 15% of what ChatGPT can actually do. Watch it, then read the guide below on how to build a system that prompts itself.

Nashville agreed to almost 25 miles of tunnel beneath it and is putting in zero capital. The airport authority collects roughly 343 million in fees. Elon Musk's company carries the risk and collects the fares for 50 years. That is what the 20 billion valuation is buying, and it has little to do with digging faster. The bet is that venture capital can replace the municipal bond. Three markets price three different things. A venture valuation says investors believe it will work. A public quote says shareholders will hold it today. Project finance says it can pay for itself. Only the third is a real test, and it has not happened yet. x.com/farzyness/stat…

@dailydirtnap I mean if everyone is welcome why even have the league. Tryout for the NBA.

Fascinating read: The COVID era totally destroyed our way of life. Businesses can no longer run profitably so they close. Inflation is killing everything:

$1.6 million dollars in Bitcoin was drained from my account on July 29th in the Cold Card wallet hack. My Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were on a ColdCard device kept in a safety deposit box that had never been connected to the internet. This part's nerdy, but here's what happened: Hackers discovered a vulnerability in the part of the hardware wallet code used to create seed phrases. This allowed them to use AI to brute force guessing seed phrases. I was at our cottage and heard about the hack today. "No way this affects me." I thought. I logged into Wasabi––software that lets me view my bitcoin wallets online. Right away I saw lines of red transaction–withdrawals–and I knew. From 9:36pm - 9:43pm on July 29th, every wallet I had had been emptied. 18.25245043 btc gone. That's just over $1.6 million dollars CAD. Perhaps the hardest part about this is that I did everything right. I never shared my seed phrase with anybody. My devices never touched the internet. Everything was kept in multiple safes and safety deposit boxes. None of it mattered. All because the hardware that created the seed phrase originally had one line in their code from 2021 that had a vulnerability. I'm filing a police report and a report with the Ontario Securities Commission. But I don't expect to recoup anything. A part of me is trying to make sense of what just happened. Or try to figure out a lesson in it. I'm struggling. $1.6 million is a staggering amount of money to have stolen. I guess all that I can think about right now is that I'm so damn happy that I'm an entrepreneur and that my earning potential is under my control. Mark my damn words. I'll recover.

@MarcNixon24 Rob Ford rolling in his grave

Canada's Payroll employment data for May was released yesterday. Public Administrative jobs rose by 11.7K. Health Care & Social Assistance rose by 6.8k.

Tfw a client asks how you lost billions of dollars

Financial Times @FT

a week ago

Situational Awareness, the $20bn hedge fund founded by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sought to raise fresh capital from investors after suffering heavy losses during the recent rout in AI stocks ft.trib.al/SwCjjE6

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@hennycamenzyn Spit on that thang!

@KirkLubimov And you were called racist for pointing out the obvious.

He finally admits it. Uncontrolled mass immigration led to Canada's housing crisis. They tried to deny it and it resulted in horrible policies such as blanket upzoning. Mark Carney: "The overall level (of immigration) still putting pressure on housing so we still need a few more years of restraint." Cut immigration more and let the housing prices fall with demand more. Why the developers bailout then?

@ThomasSowell Saagar has to part ways with her.